Category: design
VitraHaus, Weil am Rhein
VitraHaus is Vitra’s flagship store on the Campus. One can see, touch, compare, test, and buy all of Vitra’s home and office furniture offerings here. We visited the Campus last year and this is the second of four posts. See the Campus overview here. Most of what is written below came from their web site…
Objection! Protest by Design at Vitra Design Museum, Weil am Rhein
IT and I visited the Vitra Design Museum at Weil am Rhein in April 2016. It is a beautiful, well-designed (duh), starchitect-built campus – more about this place in future posts. From 26.02 – 29.05.2016, in a free-standing gallery next to the museum, the exhibition titled “Objection! Protest by Design” was held. The exhibition presented a…
T-Site, Daikanyama 代官山, Tokyo
We spent almost half a day in Daikanyama 代官山, most of the time in the Tsutaya bookstore蔦屋書店. For Chris who has been photographing bookstores (for example, Livraria Cultura in Sao Paulo, Alexandra in Budapest etc.), this Tsutaya branch is a temple for worshipping. In a perfect world, all bookshops near me would be like this. Opened in…
Designmuseum, Copenhagen
This is likely our last post on our visit to Copenhagen. Scandinavian design is very well respected, especially furniture, think Swedish Ikea – and at the high end, see our post on Illums Boligus. Designmuseum Danmark is Denmark’s largest museum for Danish and international design and a central exhibition forum for industrial design and applied…
Apartment on Corso Giacomo Matteotti, Siracusa (Ortigia), Sicily
Continuing with our trip to Sicily … the apartment we rented is situated on the island of Ortigia and overlooks one of the newer and straighter main street on the island – Corso Giacomo Matteotti. The apartment is located on the top floor of a relatively new, mixed-use building. There is a Zara on street…
My third pair of ic! berlin – Harmonic Oscillator
My (Chris’s) eyesight is not getting better and as a result, I have to change the prescription on my lens – it is getting thicker but not quite coke-bottle thick. I changed my glasses about six months ago. I wrote about my loyalty to the ic! berlin brand of eyeglass here – click to see the other…