La collection de jouets Minimals imaginée par Sebastian Burga se base sur des couleurs primaires et des formes épurées. Gagnante de l’A’ Design Award pour la catégorie Design de Jouets, Jeu et Hobby 2012 – 2013, ses créations, à la fois ludiques et minimalistes, sont à découvrir dans la suite.
L’artiste allemand Johannes Schulz a réalisé ce superbe packaging d’une bouteille de vodka en y intégrant une colonne vertébrale dorée de façon à donner à celle-ci une identité forte, autant sur un plan symbolique que visuel. Un projet très réussi à découvrir en images et détails dans la suite de l’article.
Focus sur les clichés de cet artiste allemand, à l’origine biologiste, Ralph Graef. Un univers fort et des clichés splendides comme les séries « Broken Train », « Visiting the Factory » ou « Master of Containers » à découvrir sur son portfolio en ligne et en images dans la suite de l’article.
by Stephen Pulvirent Last night saw two compelling openings at NYC’s Neue Galerie, a museum dedicated to German and Austrian art and design from the early 20 century. Highlights from collector Harry C. Sigman’s recent gift to Neue—which total more than 100 works representing the very best of the Jugendstil…
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Cheeky, artisan-made grooming tools from Berlin’s Institute for the Blind
The Institute for the Blind in Berlin workshop produces a line of grooming brushes demonstrative of both their rich heritage and sense of humor, using the same materials and techniques passed down for the last 120 years. Housed in the former Home for the Blind in Berlin, the factory…
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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.
Hardy Seiler nous propose de découvrir son projet d’animation “Where Things come from”. Le jeune artiste allemand utilise avec talent des formes simples pour raconter la transmission du savoir et la nécessité de rester curieux. A découvrir en vidéo dans la suite.
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Le studio de design allemand Korefe a eu l’excellente idée de penser un livre de cuisine comestible. The Real Cookbook permet de cuisiner des lasagnes, en suivant les instructions joliment dessinées directement sur la pâte. Plus d’images dans la suite de l’article.
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A hotel pops up in Tulum
Touching down in the peninsular town of Tulum in southern Mexico, a collaboration of creative European service-industry innovators have launched Papaya Playa Project, a temporary hotel concept born from the pop-up retail model. The collection of 99 beach cabanas maintains a certain level of comfort while retaining the look and feel of primitive, eco-friendly lodgings in a community setting. More of a camp than a hotel, the cabanas will stand for five months on a beachfront formerly owned by a set of luxury hotels that were abandoned in the financial crisis.
The project is led by Claus Sendlinger of Design Hotels, who recently left the buzz of Berlin for the seaside splendor of Tulum. Copenhagen’s 42ºRaw is providing on-the-go sustenance to visitors while KaterHolzig—offspring of Berlin’s Bar 25—handles the main dining experience. To complete the 1960s-commune vibe, Mamapapacola Company has prepared an event series based around Mayan full moon rituals. While we’d like to avoid thinking of Mayans in the lead-up to 2012, this sprinkling of local flavor is undoubtedly entertaining.
The idea of a pop-up is new to the world luxury resorts, and will hopefully serve to bolster the struggling town’s economic situation. Last minute vacation-goers can book their reservations here.
Kaweco fuses heritage and modern convenience in an ultra-portable fountain pen
Named for the diminutive island dwellers of Gulliver’s Travels, Liliput is a petite new pen from heritage German pen-maker Kaweco. True to its name, the pen measures only 3.8 inches when closed, expanding to five when posed for writing. At first glance, the cylindrical capsule could be anything from an EpiPen to an elongated pillbox, but don’t let its austerity fool you. Made from solid aluminum, it takes refillable cartridges and at only eight grams, weighs next to nothing.
The kind of pen James Bond would use to gloss dossiers, the company culled their own archives for the 1930s design on which they based this present model. Those afraid of the mess, maintenance, and pretentiousness of a fountain pen can rest easy. Kaweco’s standard refills work with all their models, are a breeze to install and ink flows instantly from the stainless steel nib. And because of Liliput’s spartan figure, nobody will call you a fuddy-duddy for using a fountain pen. Still not sold? Kaweco also makes a ballpoint version of the Liliput.
At only $50, Liliput is a perfect introductory fountain pen, making a great gift for epistolary pals. Find it online through Jet Pens.
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