The Modern Reference is a Women's Private Circle based in Luxembourg and reaching beyond,
where art de vivre comes first, and wellness is lived, never performed.
A place for honest conversations and curated experiences: intimate evenings, ideas, art and beauty, all chosen with an editorial and artistic eye.
Where women take each other seriously.
A NOTE FROM
THE FOUNDER
I spent years as a lawyer in Luxembourg's fund industry, in rooms full of brilliant people, building a life that looked complete.
And yet I kept looking for a place that did not exist: where a conversation can move from ambition to what actually makes a life good, where beauty is not a detail, and where a city starts to feel personal.
Places like that are rare, and places like that built by women, for the way women meet, talk and open doors for one another, are rarer still.
I never found mine.
So I built it.
The Modern Reference is exactly what its name promises: a reference, for the way we live, and for the women we choose to live it with.
Lise Bacca Ivanov
Founder, The Modern Reference
THE GATHERINGS
The Circle meets in intimate settings, by intention. Some conversations only happen in small company, and everything here is built around them. What begins at the table carries on in the Circle's online space.
Once a month, the Circle takes over a place we love. A guest sits down with us, a theme opens the evening, and the women around the table do the rest. This is where members meet, and where the Circle becomes real. Reserved for members.
A day given to one theme, between wellbeing, art and modern life. Each edition finds its own shape, and its own place.
And this is only the beginning. The Circle's calendar will grow with it, in time.
Special Editions
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The Letter
The Circle also lives in writing. Twice a month, The Letter brings what we are reading, testing, questioning and loving: interviews, addresses, ideas, and news from the Circle first.
FREE, AND OPEN TO ALL.
The Circle also lives in writing. Twice a month, The Letter brings what we are reading, testing, questioning and loving: interviews, addresses, ideas, and news from the Circle first.
FREE, AND OPEN TO ALL.