Month: October 2016
21st century Pop Art @ Villars-sur-Ollons
At a business meeting where we stayed for several days, the hotel put up these painting in its lobby area. The artist is Léon represented by Samhart gallery and the hotel is Chalet Royalp Hôtel at Villars-sur-Ollons. Hope they sell well, this is fun. We could use some Pop Art to lighten up – 21st…
Exploring Libelle mit H&B, Buchantiquariat, Basel
Continuing with our posts on the bookstores we come across …, Libelle mit H&B is a high-end, well-curated second hand bookstore (antique bookseller) in the old town of Basel, Switzerland. Click here to see their website in English. It has a perfect location – Alstadt, a block from the city’s main thoroughfare – and situated at…
Rizzoli Galleria, Milano
Continuing our tour of the world’s bookstores, we found a Rizzoli inside the Galleria Vittorio Emmanuelle II in Milano. It is affiliated with the one in New York. The Rizzoli Galleria are on three floors, it is not huge but carries quite a variety of Italian and international books. According to the publicity material, the store…
Random photos #246 – 255
These are the photos I (Chris) took and posted on Facebook. The series was 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). random photo #246 – B餐俯首做白羊 –…