+ moments of Paris
In France, forget the beer, it’s not in the culture. But wine does have side effects in Paris: you WILL get philosophical.
+ dj team
Born into music, they have a repertoire of solid music and grooves that they absolutely love. Watch out for this young DJ team yet to be formed.
+ No.2 by ODIN
ODIN creates a masterpiece for their fragrance collection: NO.2 OWARI. This unisex scent in a gleaming black bottle comes packaged within a matte black box. Delish! It has top notes of owari mandarin, bright green bergamot, and grapefruit leaves while the heart consists of the intensely vibrant Cubeb pepper and Tonkin musk. There’s an underlying...
+ retro Paris
It’s been a few days since the last post, but surely a trip to Paris is excusable? Taking a break from work, we met up with Parisian interior decorator Juli Sibiski for a brunch at Rose Bakery. On a rainy depressive drizzly day flooded with black-attired Parisians, Sibiski walks up in a fur hat, a...
+ how to arrive
If you have a copy of the latest Monocle Mag, you might have noticed that this season we’re encouraged to travel in style and comfort with smart accessories, some good luggage and an outfit that will take you all the way. While I always make it a point to travel in style, I do have...
+ history lesson in glass
The history of glass is a long and boring one, you most likely don’t want to read it. So highlights: petrified lighting (lighting-zapped sand) and obsidian (volcanically fused rock/sand) are two forms of natural glass. Then some biped living around 3000 B.C. decided that it’d be rather nice to “harness nature.” So we race up...
+ gropiusstadt
Behold the epic failures of German mid 20th century architecture. The dreams of a prosperous community now relegated to the near-dead, the trashed out, the severely poor, and in general extremely-bitter residents of southern Neukölln. The city proposes that in five years time, Gropiusstadt will be resurrected as a happy-go middle class community…bonne chance. The...
+ warm interior
Being forced to walk around for six hours in the Berlin cold gets you thinking on only one subject: INSIDE. In that honor, here’s some interiors of Wrangelstrasse 5.
