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Posted in Architecture, Art, Canada, Design, Germany, Things to do on Nov 18th, 2007
ROM CRYSTAL napkin sketch
On june 2, 2007 The official opening of the ROM extension was celebrated. The what extension? The Michael Lee-Chin Crystal. Who’s Crystal?
Okay okay I’ll try to explain.
The ROM is not Read Only Memory, but the Royal Ontario Museum in Toronto, Canada. The Piano is not Renzo Piano, but a real piano (see [...]
Posted in Coming Soon, Germany, Hoteliers, Luxury, The Making of on Sep 1st, 2007
From the Press Release:
The Rocco Forte Collection is delighted to announce that its Munich property will open on 4 October 2007. It will be called The Charles Hotel, in honor of Sir Rocco Forte’s father, renowned hotelier Lord Charles Forte.
The Charles Hotel is The Rocco Forte Collection’s third German property, joining Hotel de Rome in [...]
Posted in Austria, Belgium, Blogs, Czech Republic, France, Germany, Greece, Italy, Netherlands, Switzerland, Turkey on Apr 13th, 2007
Today I discovered the nicely written Shortcut, A European City Blog with a nice lay out. It writes about 17 European cities.
It used to write about upcoming events, but nowadays in true web 2.0 style it links through to Yahoo’s Upcoming.
A pity Shortcut don’t feature The Hague.
Go enjoy yourself!
Added July 1, 2007
I changed the [...]
Posted in Been There, Germany, History, Hoteliers on Jan 31st, 2007
I am back from the white slopes in Switzerland and time for a tip.
When we drive to Switzerland we frequently make a stopover at Hotel Sonne (the Sun Hotel) in the very center of Offenburg.
Offenburg is next to the Motorway (Autobahn) Frankfurt - Basel, between Baden Baden and Freiburg. It is also easy to reach [...]
It is a bit strange, but this “news” appeared on 22 December on 4 Hoteliers and today at E-Hotelier.com, but is actually a write-up of a press release from Lucite International dated January 2004. Now Who is Lucite? Lucite is the new company name for the Former Dupont-ICI joint venture that inter alia produces perspex.
Sphere: [...]
Posted in Been There, Design, Germany, History, Hoteliers, The Making of on Oct 19th, 2006
Recently, I stayed a couple of days in »Propeller Island City Lodge in Berlin with a bunch (about 20) of babyboomers.
It was a lot of fun having some members of the group remembering their backpacking and youth hostel (youthstel?) days (waaay back!) as the down to earth design of the rooms forced some of us [...]
Posted in Austria, Germany, History, Hong Kong, Luxury, Singapore on Oct 17th, 2006
Frequently Vienna is our travel destination: Be it to visit family or to show Dutch friends around this charming city. Hence my more than average attention for Vienna and now some attention for Andreas Augustin who was born in Vienna in 1956 and recently paid some attention to one of my favourite grand old ladies [...]
Another quirky hotel is the »Propeller Island City Lodge:
It has 45 rooms, all by different artists.
The comment to the photo here is:
A room with a slanted floor which makes grandma’s bed seem to fly. The wardrobe comes out of the wall, but the table has got to stay put! In the rustic bathroom of natural [...]
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