If you ever go to Paris
I had the pleasure of spending this weekend with my girlfriend and some friends in Paris and on Saturday we had dinner reservations on Derriére.
A hyped up restaurant that seems like a giant apartment. The downstairs for example has a ping pong table that guests can play on between courses, an office where you struggle to eat between stacks of paper, a living room perfect for a TV dinner and so on. You really get the feeling of being in someone’s home and it gets even cosier when you go upstairs. Here you can be seated in the bedroom or in the dressing room. We got the seated in the bedroom, so 3 of us had to sit in the bed with a nicely done mirror ceiling above us.
But that’s not all. Because the French has a non smoking policy in public areas the Derriére has created a secret space for the smokers in the restaurant. You are told that if you want to smoke, go through the closet (above). Through the closet a big cosy secret smoking area would be found as you can see n the following pictures.
As the evening progressed it seemed more and more like a big house party and every single room had it’s own stereo so the guests in the room could decide how loud they wanted to party – our party ended with jumping in the bed and loud music. Just to wrap it up, the food is good, the price is reasonable, the atmosphere is superb and you should definitely go if you’re looking for something extraordinary in Paris. More pictures after the jump.
Kululu rebranding
South Africa’s Kulula airlines recently received the rebranding treatment from their in house creative team when they applied this 101 guide to the various parts of the airplane. Now every traveler can even learn where the black box is. Does this make you feel safe when travelling with this airline? Continue reading …
Bouroullec brothers restaurant in Berlin
I just had the pleasure of spending some time in Berlin, celebrating the New Year. I found this sweet little restaurant in mitte, designed by Ronan and Erwan Bouroullec. Unfortunately the restaurant opens in mid January 2010, so I didn’t get to eat there. But it looks like a place you would want to go if you’re in Berlin. Oh, it also helps that the chef is Albert Raurich, elBulli’s former chef.
More after the jump.
Google Street View Photographer
Now the inhabitants of Paris can find themselves in Michael Wolf’s artistic take on the Google mapping project. And he’s retrieved some lovely moments of people and things caught for a single arbitrary moment on a particular day in the city.
By way of an explantion of his intentions with the Paris Street View project, thingsmagazine offers this quote from Wolf: “The problem is that compared to Asia, Paris is a stagnant city – very little has changed architecturally since Atget’s times, and the cliches are a nightmare to get out from under of. Strangely enough, it was Google Street View which enabled me to take any photos at all of Paris.
“I spent weeks going through the city on my monitor, street by street, looking into windows, discovering reflections, searching out interesting juxtapositions, topologies, trying various crops/styles (Frank, Doisneau, Ruscha, and so on). The lack of a third dimension wore me down at times, but it was quite an interesting journey.”
Check out some more of his beautiful pictures after the jump.
Why not
This is Kevin Costners wet dream in Waterworld. With an amazing 3400 square metre and witdh of 38m i don’t think you can get a bigger boat. The witdh makes for perfect big living areas, instead of long narrow cabins. If you want to travel and never leave home check out more on WHY
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Google Alphabet
This guy, Rhett Dashwood spends a lot of time cruising Australia on Google maps, looking for letters in buildings, roads and nature. Kind of interesting that it’s actually possible to find a whole alphabet in just one country. Who’s up for the challenge in Denmark?
The Puerto America
So I’m back from a short break in Madrid. Weather wasn’t too good, but luckily we stayed at The Puerto America which had lots to offer. 14 floors with a rooftop pool/spa each designed by different designers and architects. And not just anybody, were talking Zaha Hadid, Norman Foster, Jean Nouvel, Ron Arad and Marc Newson – pretty cool. We had the pleasure of staying at Marc Newson’s sleek, red light district floor. Even though I rather would have spend my time in one of Zaha Hadid’s organic rooms it still was a good experience.
More pictures in the post.
