Category: design
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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…
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Corso Giacomo Matteotti, Siracusa (Ortigia), Sicily
Continuing with our trip to Siracusa, 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…
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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…
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Siebter Himmel, Köln
I visited two very different bookstores in Cologne. Located in the Belgian Quarter (Belgisches Viertel), see our earlier post about the area here. Siebter Himmel means Seventh Heaven. It was quite a surprising discovery since I had no idea of what it was supposed to be when I first walked in. Is it a bookstore,…
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Highlights of the Salone Internazionale del Mobile 2014
This is my last post on the Salone. I am sure many of you had seen enough of my furniture pictures on this blog. Just in case you want to start from the beginning, click here. Before I put up pictures of my trip in Kòln, Germany, here are some more stuff that I saw…
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The classic section of the Salone Internazionale del Mobile
This is the penultimate blog post in this series on the Salone. The exhibition halls at the Salone that show furniture were divided into 3 sections: design, moderno and classico. The classico section occupied Hall 1 to 4. The distinction between the designer and modern sections were less clear cut, although the latter only occupied…