Month: September 2013
Deutsches Uhrenmuseum, Furtwangen – part 2
Continuing with the Deutsches Uhrenmuseum at Furtwangen … from ancient time keeping devices to clocks and watches … This museum is not to be confused with the Deutsches Uhrenmuseum Glashütte which was opened in 2008 at Glashütte near Dresden. Glashütte is the watchmaking capital of the former East Germany while Furtwangen is in the traditional clockmaking area of…
Random photos #1 – #5
These are the photos I (Chris) took and posted on Facebook. The postings started in March of 2013. There is no theme – just something random and visually interesting. We gave each a title and noted where it was taken (to the extent we could remember the city). #1 – the history of cool –…
Deutsches Uhrenmuseum, Furtwangen – part 1
During Easter, we drove up to the Black Forest area of Germany. We visited the German Clock Museum (Deutsches Uhrenmuseum) on our way back from Baden-Baden. The museum is in Furtwangen, a small town just off the Black Forest high road (Schwarzwaldhochstraße, see our post here). The museum is housed in a very humble-looking modern building.…
Les Grands Magasins, Paris
Les Grands Magasins (“the big/grand department stores”) of Paris really deserve a post. They are retailers who want to sell luxury but cannot ignore the mass-market, and they want to be chic and at the same time appeal to tourists. Two of the “grand department stores” Magasin du Printemps and Galeries Lafayette stand right next to each other…