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Michael Wolf - Bastard Chairs (2002)
“What Wolf calls The Bastard Chairs of China challenge the notion of our standard definition of a chair. Cobbled together from whatever debris and flotsam is available, there is something to be learned here—that a chair is a chair is a chair. And while we can appreciate the beauty and art of what we call ‘designer’ chairs throughout history and today, when all is said and done, what matters is that we have a place to rest our bones.”
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*The “Telebomba Crocca,” a radio-controlled flying drone bomb, preserved in the mansion of the poet Gabriele D’Annunzio. Straight from the Italian R&D lab in 1919
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“She is confident, colorful, charismatic, sassy, kind and generous. She loves to love and she loves to laugh.” As Anna Coroneo describes her clients, the friendly designer just so happens to fit this description perfectly. When you meet Anna, her bubbly, warm-hearted nature is genuine and actually, quite contagious. A designer for fashion, interior textiles and stationary, she is best known for her unique, vivid prints featuring nature-inspired elements.
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“By highlighting trends as well as the solutions that already exist to capitalise on them, The Sustainia 100 aims to create an army of world-changing ideas.” —A new sustainability award promises to highlight transformative ideas that already exist, rather than focusing on obscure ideas that have yet to materialise.
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NightSeeing Berlin 2013, hosted by Theatrum Mundi took place on May 23. Around 60-participants joined the educational, illuminated stroll through Hansaviertal “city of tomorrow”.
For those of you who attended, this is an invitation to comment on the NightSeeing™, Navigate Your Luminous City feedback and guestbook.
If you have not attended a NightSeeing™, Navigate Your Luminous City event, view the website for a chronicle and information to learn about the next LightWalk or to book a Talk, Walk and Community Workshop, here.
Photos by Eckbert Schulz-Schomburgk, Andrés Sánchez Alonso and Leni Schwendinger
Berlin by night light.
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ZXX
A font designed to be unable to be read via OCR (Optical Character Recognition):
The name ZXX comes from the Library of Congress’ Alpha-3 ISO 639-2 — codes for the representation of names of languages. ZXX is used to declare No linguistic content; Not applicable.
Free Open Type Font to open up governments.You can find out more (and download the font yourself) at the project’s page here
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