L’artiste suisse Nicolas Feldmeyer s’amuse à jouer avec l’architecture pour installer ses oeuvres. Le dernier exemple est ici présenté avec Woven Portico sur le bâtiment central de University of College à Londres. Des bandes viennent ainsi jouer avec les colonnes et donne un aspect visuel des plus réussis.
The new German restaurant sets an elegant table in a former Jewish girls’ school in Berlin
You can’t spit in Berlin without landing on something of historic interest, and the site of Pauly Saal—the new restaurant opened by the team behind the well known Grill Royal—is no different. The former Jüdische Mädchenschule, or Jewish girls’ school, was built in Mitte in 1928 and was taken over by the Nazis as early as 1930.
The courtyard, a charming brick patio where you can eat lunch in the afternoon or sip a cocktail at night, was used for deportations until 1941, after which the school passed through a series of owners, eventually standing vacant for decades until the fourth Berlin Biennale used it in 2006 and, most recently, restauranteurs Stephan Landwehr and Boris Radczun remodeled it for their latest culinary venture, Pauly Saal.
You can’t get to the dining room without walking through the Pauly Bar, which might as well be the set of a 1930s gentlemen’s club with its dark green walls, buttery brown leather chairs and Persian rugs. The dining room, too, is a throwback to a more refined time. Murano chandeliers light the lush green cushioned seats and white tablecloths in golden tones. Against walls covered with locally made ceramic tiles, a life-size, red and white rocket spans the entire width of the room. It’s mounted over windows that separate the dining room from the kitchen, where executive chef Siegfried Danler calmly prepares traditional Weimar cuisine completely from scratch.
Your meal starts with a basket of deliciously chewy graubrot, literally grey bread. Somewhere between a weiss (white) brot and a schwartz (black) brot, graubrot is made using grains with the hull removed, so it retains the softness of white bread with all the richness and nuttiness of a darker loaf. Served alongside slabs of cold, salty butter, it’s a good sign of things to come. Danler cooks with as much from the restaurant’s small garden as he can, and he gets a good hunk of the meat he serves from his father. Given the amount of pork, beef and veal on the menu, Danler’s dad must keep busy. Since its opening in February 2012, Paul Saal has offered suckling pig, braised veal, offal and their signature dish, veal heart. Big parties can even order a large cut of meat and have it sliced by their waiter and served up table side.
When we went for lunch the tasting menu (a starter, main and dessert all for the affordable price of €32) featured asparagus salad (the big white kind was in peak season), haunch of roe buck with mushroom pasta and marinated fennel and strawberry sponge cake with yogurt cream and an elderflower jelly for dessert. We opted for a few staples from the regular menu and started with crayfish consommé and a salad with fried asparagus and marinated roast of organic pork. A whole crayfish, cut lengthwise, bathed in the thin, savory broth, and though the pork was a little on the greasy side, the perfectly roasted paper thin slices melted on your tongue.
We followed that with the crispy-skinned, sinfully buttery perch entree and the bell pepper and lemon-glazed veal shoulder with potato dumplings and spinach.
Here we need to pause and pay homage to the rich, slow roasted hunk of veal so juicy and tender we didn’t even need a knife to cut it. The paprika-spiced sauce made its way down the plate to four perfectly tender, just-made gnocchi.
We finished with the strawberry dessert on our waiter’s recommendation. The small square of layered sponge cake and strawberry yogurt cream made for a light finish to a truly indulgent lunch.
Reservations for the two-hour dinner service are highly recommended. Pauly Saal is open at noon daily.
Summer has kicked into high gear here in the northern hemisphere and this is when I like to retreat from the heat with a proverbial good book — but certainly not a “book” as my great-grandparents would have described one. Today, there are apps and devices that let you curate your summer reading from varied online resources and onto hand-held devices. With a little bit of time, an Internet connection and some free software, you can create your own digital reading experience and bring it to the beach, the hotel or even your favorite quiet corner of home.
Below, I’ve described several services that allow you to save or bookmark online articles for later reading. Once captured with the various apps, the articles are presented beautifully and legibly, as if you’re reading a digital book or magazine. Advertisements are stripped out, as are distracting sidebar ads and colors. You’re left with a great-looking and largely distraction-free reading experience. Best of all, these services are free and work on a variety of platforms, from iPads to Android devices to Nooks and Kindles.
Online: getpocket.com
Cost: Free
Compatibility: iPhone, iPad, iPod touch, some Android devices, Amazon Kindle Fire, various web browsers
The web service Read It Later was recently re-branded as Pocket. Once you’ve created a free account online, you can add a special bookmarklet to your web browser. Then, when you come across an article you’d like to read later, simply click the bookmarklet. A small window will appear confirming that the story has been saved to your Pocket account. You can further organize things with tags at that point. For example, “beach reading,” “research” or “kids.”
When you’re out with your mobile device, launch Pocket and you’ll find all of the articles you’ve saved. Some of Pocket’s useful features let you browse articles by tag, add a star to favorites and view videos and images you’ve saved in addition to articles.
Online: readability.com
Cost: Free
Compatibility: iPhone, iPad, some Android devices, Amazon Kindle, Nook Tablet, various web browsers
Readability works much like Pocket. Create a free account, install the bookmarklet in your browser and send articles to your mobile device. There are important differences, though. For starters, Readability’s bookmarklet is much more robust. You can opt to read an article right then if you like, and Readability with present it in a beautiful, distraction-free layout. You can also send it to your Kindle or Nook Tablet with a click. Once you’ve synced your devices, you can access your reading list when offline.
Online: instapaper.com
Cost: Free with optional subscription plan
Compatibility: iPhone, iPad, iPod touch, some Android devices, Amazon Kindle and Fire, Nook Color and Nook Tablet, various web browsers
Instapaper is among the first of these distraction-free reading services. Today it’s available on a huge number of devices and supported by a passionate developer and legions of fans. The iPhone and iPad version has some unique features, like tilt scrolling. This lets you scroll through a long article simply by tipping your device back and forth. There’s no need to swipe with a finger.
You’ll also find lots of layout customization options, like font size, several color schemes, spacing and brightness. After a minute or so of fiddling, you can get Instapaper’s articles to look just how you’d like.
Online: flipboard.com
Cost: Free
Compatibility: iPad, iPhone, iPod touch and Android
Flipboard is unique in that you don’t add content to it. Instead, you tell Flipboard what to find for you. It will search the web for stories, photos and videos across several categories, including sports, technology, travel, photography, news, music, film and so much more. It will even pull content (articles your friends have linked to) from your Twitter and Facebook accounts, presenting all of it in a beautiful layout that’s reminiscent of a high-end design magazine. You can even add local news and your favorite RSS feeds. It’s such a great-looking app and has become my favorite way to browse Facebook.
There you have four services that will let you curate your summer reading, across several devices. Now start collecting, get reading, and enjoy these lovely, lazy days.
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Stockholm-based designer Patrik Svensson has created a set of 20 illustrated signs for a branch of Jashanmal, a chain of bookshops in the United Arab Emirates…
“Each sign is 2 x 1 metres and is used to simply communicate to customers which genre of book or product type is situated in a particular area of the store,” explains Svensson who designs under the moniker Prince Hat.
The signs have just been installed in Jashanmal’s Mall of the Emirates branch in Dubai, which re-opened this week after a shop refit. The plan is to roll them out to the chain’s other shops across the United Arab Emirates. Here’s a selection – note the playful elements such as the rocket taking off in the Technology sign, below – or the zip made of aeroplanes on the Travel bag…
See more of Svensson’s work at princehat.se.
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A hole in this toothbrush directs water from the tap upwards like a drinking fountain for easy rinsing (+movie).
New York Studio Amron Experimental designed the brush to avoid cluttering the bathroom with cups or having to lean right into the sink to get under the tap.
The removable head allows the user to replace the bristles without buying a new toothbrush.
Female readers, I’m not sure there’s an equivalent experience to this for you. But male readers, remember the first time you walked into a bathroom at a restaurant where their policy was to fill the urinals with ice? What did you think of that?
At one point in human history, ice was precious. Few of us reading this were alive back then, but back in the day you had an “ice box” that wasn’t plugged into anything, and in places like Japan, some dude on a bicycle-like contraption rolled up on your house with a massive block of ice. (Check out the Japanese movie Always if you get a chance.) You paid the guy and he chipped off a bunch of ice for you to throw in your box, and we called that guy the Ice Man.
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Imagine telling someone from back then: “We now have so much ice we’re literally peeing on it.”
People are doing more interesting things with ice, however, using common molding techniques familiar to the industrial designer. If you go into certain bars in Japan, or the excellent B-Flat Tokyo-style speakeasy in Manhattan, and order a Scotch on the rocks you’ll find a large, single sphere of ice in the glass. The thinking goes that with less surface area than a bunch of little cubes, there’s less melted ice adulterating the flavor of your booze. We’ve showed you the contraption used to make it before.
More recently, companies like Williams-Sonoma have been selling molds in both bottle-chilling size and in a large ice cube size, the latter made from silicone. I imagine that with the flexible silicone on the latter, you can both get the mold off of the steel tool and create cubes that have no draft angle, for all of the 0-degree delight that will provide you production methods geeks.
Les architectes de Avanto ont été commissionnés par Kekkilä, une entreprise spécialisée dans le structures pour le jardinage, afin de créer une chambre en plein jardin. La designer Linda Bergroth a installée l’ensemble sur une île finlandaise. Plus d’images de ce projet incroyable dans la suite de l’article.
Like Hannes Harms, Mimi Zou just completed her MA/MSc at RCA’s Innovation Design Engineering program. Her project, “IRIS,” is “a biometrics enabled camera controlled by your eye [that] understands who you are by looking at your iris signature, and lets you capture exactly what you see by tracking your eye.” Thus, it has far more in common with, say, the “Nest” learning thermostat—to which it bears a curious resemblance— than IKEA’s atavistic novelty point-and-shoot: Zou writes that “with this project, I hoped to bring about a refreshing new product experience, and challenge the existing interaction, typology and capabilities of cameras.”
On one hand, the project can be construed as an exercise in biometrics, or “the sets of unique characteristics and traits possessed by every human being,” which “could be utilized to positively identify individuals, and reflect their degrees of wellbeing over time. ”
This project explores the immense impact of biometrics, as it becomes instilled as capability in consumer electronic products. By creating more intuitive user experiences, powerful profile management networks and next-generation content-sharing possibilities, biometric technologies create significant advantages for their enabled products. Together they create a future where everything—except identity—can be shared.
Alternately, it’s a new approach to photography, an investigation into the very premise of photography (short of theory-laden discourse on subject/object dualism, authorship, etc.):
Iris derived from a personal interest in photography, and the observation that photo-taking is a ritual that celebrates the photographer’s unique point of view. By recognizing who we are, Iris is able to characterize itself to fit the user. And by having experienced multiple users, it is able to learn about behavior and make intelligent functional decisions over time. I’ve designed this camera to pick up on the sophisticated cues given naturally by our bodies in the process of “seeing,” with the hopes of creating an intuitive and delightful user experience that is at the same time uncompromising in performance.
Must-see video after the jump:
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Iris Rietbergen is the person who created this warm board on pinterest called ‘a touch of brown’.
Dreamy, romanitc and pure is how I would decsribe these images and I totally understand why Iris choose these pics for her board. Iris is an interior and food-stylist known for her excellent colour coordination and eye for details by bringing the oddest items together but making it work. Want to know more about her go and check out Iris’s Blog.
..a touch of brown on Pinterest
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