greenish grey

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green tends out to be my most loved colour
want to paint the turqouis wall in the living very dark green
found finally a fitting fabric for the yellow couch
wanted to have sage, but it's more grey
a 70ies cushion cover
the book about Agnes Martin I found via the book/shop
the collection of scandinavian glass
and the most beautiful placemat from the 50ies with linnen napkins

owls

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it started with the movie
then I got the beautiful owl from M. for my birthday
she guards the table
from then on
I met them everywhere
mostly in the Brockenhaus
the towle I will give to M.
she already has a pillowcase
and the pictures in black and white are from a childrens book
taken with a Leica
it's a Waldohreule
how the lunar phases influence owls and other creatures, you can read here

the same but different

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going through images
I found these two
a book cover
a page from Japan
the same colours


I'm lately often checking these new (for me) sites:

hippie and green - bohemian homes

nice stationary - Present&Correct

because I liked there interview on Freunde von Freunden - Association

also from Freunde von Freunden - Bonjour Johanna

for inspiration in shape and colour - mineralia
more minerals - luminous woods

mid-century and plants - modern findings - but never ever with a source, I hate that, I want to know more about the things on the photo as well from whom it is

food an nice pictures - local milk

garden tools and co. for people with money and style - the garden edit

Rezepte und Wissen aus den österreichischen Alpen - wild find

vegetarian food and nice pictures - krautkopf

nature, hippie, plants, tatoos - mintox

wood, concrete, black and white

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If I wouldn't have become a fashion designer
I would like to be a carpenter
or an architect
or a photographer
or a farmer

that's maybe why I never buy books or magazins about fashion anymore
my wishlist on books is all in the same field
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Charlotte Perriand - Scheidegger & Spiess
what a strong and emanzipated artist and she had two opuntia cacti in her atelier in Paris in 1927 :-)

Carlo Scarpa - Phaidon

Francois Hallard - Rizzoli
very diverse interiors all by famous people of course

Junya Ishigami - How small? How vast? How architecture grows

Minka 1955 Japanese traditional houses
beautiful black and white photos

Emmet Gowin
so intimate portraits of his wife over decades, reminds me of Sally Mann and Dorothea Lange

Gaston Bachelard - The poetics of space
It is about the architecture of imagination-how beautiful is that!
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The Japanese Joinery book I bought in the nice shop in Williamsburgh with the same name
The work-place Studio Mumbai book in Antwerp but it's from a swiss publisher

secret zurich

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take since a while pictures from fountains in Zurich, and there are many, 1200!
once I will have a serie to show
till then it stays with the shadow of this

Helmhaus
with a little but good used bookstore
bought one book "The family of man"
other from the Brocki "Moderne Kirchen"

christmas

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black & white

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it's a while ago that I was so happy with a found in the second hand-blouse from the 80ies
puff and art piece from the "Brockenhaus"
I'm learning to play chess
really the thing for me and I have a very patient teacher :-)

kids play

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a beautiful wooden bird for a kid
a nice illustrated book with poems
published 1960 in Antwerp
illustrations by Fred Garrels

abtrünnig

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I go through all the german books in the library and come across a treasure

Reinhard Jirgl "Abtrünnig"

Denn was den-Menschen im Leben verloren, das ist das Wissen vom Schmerz. Im Schmerz besteht das Risiko zum Leben..... Doch weil selbst=Zweifel von Millionen Nagelfeilen der Rechthaberei glattgetrieben werden, ist Dem Schmerz der Auftritt versagt; die Arena bleibt ohne Löwen. In deren Fell nähen sich die Chargen ein: Pfaffen der Wissenschaft & Hygiene; Profeten des Stoffwechsels; Veget-Arier & Sonnen-Bänkler; Börsen-Alberiche & Konjunktur-Sörfer; Domptöre für den Unterleib; Fakire mit Nagel&bett zur Beziehungskiste -: Denn Menschen wissen sich immer zu trösten und sind voller Hoffnung & anderer Gifte. So ist das Leben tödlich geworden & Tod ironisch. Menschen suchen !die Sprache die auch alle=übrigen sprechen. Und geben eigenes Unwissen weiter wie die eigene Zerstörung. Sie sind gesund..... Ihre Welt ein Lazarett & jeder des anderen humaner Kranken-Pfleger. Übrig bleibt für Menschen vom Leben das-Leben.

some people are out of order at the moment
of many different reasons 

Annemarie Schwarzenbach III

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Ich bin nicht so wie ihr mich haben wollt.

Ange dévasté

"Annemarie Schwarzenbach ou le mal d'Europe- biographie
Dominique Laure Miermont

 

Annemarie Schwarzenbach II

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Sie war von Kontinent zu Kontinent gewandert, und doch war ihr rastloses Unterwegssein mehr ein Schweben, ein Tanz, ein Versuch diesem Erdball zu entfliehen. 

 Ernst Merz

Immer sehen wir in unserer Erinnerung sie auf der Schwelle unserer Redaktionsräume erscheinen als eine Wiederkehrende von grosser Reise oder als Abschiednehmende vor einem Weitergehen. (...). Wir unterschätzten ihr Fernweh. Sie liess sich nicht halten. Kaum abgesessen, flog sie wieder auf wie ein ruheloser Vogel, so, als berge die Ferne den grossen Fund ihres Lebens.

Arnold Kübler

books:

"Unsterbliches Blau- Reisen nach Afghanistan "
Annemarie Schwarzenbach, Ella Maillart, Nicolas Bouvier

"wo ich mich leichter fühle als anderswo-Annemarie Schwarzenbach und ihre Zeit in Graubünden
Kurt Wanner/ Marianne Breslauer

"Annemarie Schwarzenbach- Der unbekannte Zwilling im Spiegel der Fotografie
Bettina Augustin

 

Annemarie Schwarzenbach

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The similarity on photo is amazing
the fashion shoot in the 01 magazine let me think about her once again
5 years ago, Annemarie Schwarzenbach was one of my woman inspiration for my graduation collection
her way of living and dressing always fascinated me
ihre ungestillte Sehnsucht in der Sucht nach mehr Leben
the S/S 12 collection from Céline was also inspired by her

photo credits: 01magazine, Marianne Feilchenfeldt Breslauer

from stockings to colour

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it's getting warmer and the time of the fleamarket is back without nose which freez to dead
some nice things I found yesterday

enamel plate - hugh enough to carry a cake
cake wire - I have now 4 so I can open a bakkery!
a table mirror - for the girls who visit me to put on their make-up
wooden object - to put on the wall
and
5 forms for knitted stockings - from baby to grown-up women
I can definitly open a shop :-)

went also to see this exhibition
Per Kirkeby
nice colours and a beautiful film, his process of painting one big canvas
I dislike the fact that photos are nearly never permitted in exhibitions
the prints in the book are not good qualitiy, completely different colours

and this book would be very interesting: about colours by Wittgenstein

Conor Donlon

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Interesting to know about people who graduated in fashion
but don't really work in the fashion industrie
what they do now

like Conor Donlon
great bookshop he has
it's true that research has sometimes more in it then the final collection
it's such a hugh field
and I agree with him by saying

it’s a funny one, the fashion industry. But then I find the art world isn’t all that different, they operate in a very similar way on many levels. It’s because I don’t really feel completely affiliated to the art world, nor to fashion or photography worlds that I am free to mix things together in a way that other people may probably think is wrong, high brow alongside the outwardly trashy. For me that’s what makes it fun, being able to dip into different areas without having to be tied down.

maybe that's why I like to work for theater
I did for the first time a costume for a dance solo
a lot of research, a kind of "small" costume
but I hope a lot of references
will show you when it's out

photos and interview via

eigen haard naar eigen aard

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a book from 1961
illustrations by Peter Eggendorfer
how to style a modern home where you feel comfortable?
a lot of classic mid-century designs
the texts are hillarious
but it's still modern today