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The Scent Of A Human: Eau De Schwinn?

Are we ready for the teeming masses yearning to be free? If we begin to dress well and ride astride in bicycling bliss, might we also pick up some *other* Continental character traits?

The Scent Of A Human: Eau De Schwinn?

The Scent Of A Human: Eau De Schwinn?

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Love At First Sight

Maybe it’s been a while ago that you fell in love, or maybe it was just yesterday. But childhood loves bear a special significance to many of us. They shaped who we are looking for in the opposite sex, what we want to be “when we grow up”, or which food we like.

First Loves

First Loves in Polaroids on ourfirstloves.com

The site ourfirstloves.com has collected many such stories, from falling in love with spaghetti to memories of first pets. They’re funny, heart-warming, and sure to make you laugh. There’s also someone who shares my first love. His name is Frank and he is 80 years old, but I think I have to visit him someday because he has what I want: an own library.

By Jessica Binsch

Capturing the Soul of the City

Opening today at Berlin’s world renowned Bauhaus Archive “Andreas Feininger – New York in the Forties,” an exhibition which includes many of the artists own favorite shots. Having given his main body of work to the CCP in Tucson Arizona, Feininger held those few personal favorites back and finally gave them to the later founded Andreas Feininger Archive in Tübingen. Now they are on display in Berlin.

Andreas Feininger  Midtown Manhattan von New Jersey aus gesehen, 1942  © AndreasFeiningerArchive.com [Read more]

ICFF 2008 in New York City

Today I went to the International Contemporary Furniture Fair (ICFF) in the Javits Center in New York. I expected an insight in latest developments in design but in the end it was (not surprisingly) just a furniture fair. Anyway, I saw a few interesting things. If you want to go and see for yourself, tomorrow the fair will be open for the public.

International Contemporary Furniture Fair

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