An oasis of tranquility in the bustling heart of the metropolis. A place of contemplation and retreat, serving as a counterpoint to the bustling activities of the urban surroundings. The historically preserved ensemble, consisting of a former courthouse and a women’s prison, has been redesigned, expanded, and repurposed by the architects Grüntuch Ernst. It now houses the Hotel Wilmina, the Lovis Restaurant, and an art and cultural space called Amtsalon.
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Snow-covered peaks, the sun on your face, wearing just the right outfit – in the popular Austrian winter resort of Bad Gastein, the right look is also required off the piste …
Interview with Deborah Sengl, one of Austria’s leading artists about her newest work “Escape!” at MuseumsQuartier Wien in Vienna …
This is the title of the upcoming Berlin Travel Festival. Event founder Bernd Neff spoke to us about the search for paradise, what locations will be drawing visitors in the coming years and how travel is getting “better”…
Berlin has long been seen as Germany’s creative centre and has established an international reputation as a fashion capital. THE Stylemate knows where to find the city’s hippest concept stores …
Even star architects have a penchant for playfulness. In his breathtaking design for the new Axel Springer building in the middle of Berlin, the renowned Dutch architect Rem Koolhaas took up the old border between East and West as one of the central design elements and aligned the essential planning with it …
There are many Berlin Bars all over the world. But there is none like the one designed for Moscow by architect Thilo Reich. The design concept connects the two cities…
This edition is also about lines – about borders and boundaries. Inspiration for this theme came from the 30th anniversary of the fall of the Berlin Wall …
Felix Muhrhofer is an interior designer and artist working on projects around the world, and for him, terrazzo is more than simply a material. The stones he uses shape his work and turn each piece into a one-of-a-kind article. They also leave a trace of a memory in the finished items that is retrievable with merely a glance …
A border marks the edge of an area and is therefore a dividing line or delimitation. Borders separate people, countries and thoughts. Yet even if they restrict us, we need them. Not least so that we recognise freedom …
Louis Vuitton has the perfect side-kicks for a trip to Berlin. The German capital is celebrating reunification with a whole host of exhibitions and events…
Borderline amazing eating and drinking experiences in Austria and Germany – with concepts that could not be more different…
“Hey Vienna, At least one concept from Berlin made it to the neighbourhood” could be read on the red backlit notice board at the opening of the new Shiso location. The burgers with an Asian twist are now also available in Vienna. But it’s not just the culinary side of things that’s best of both worlds here. Thanks to the renowned architecture studio Tzou Lubroth the interior is very stylish – including a pinch of Viennese style.
The Lovis restaurant with adjoining bar is already shining in Berlin’s gourmet sky. And it continues to sparkle at the Wilmina…
The Beauty of Diversity moves in the field of tension between an established understanding of art and its renewal. The exhibition unfolds its persuasive power in the juxtaposition of renowned artists who have always wanted to strain the canon and yet have become canonised, and new discoveries as well as those who irritate viewing habits, swim against the tide, shake the foundations of high culture, break the norm and thus establish the aesthetics of diversity.
Lech/ Munich, November 16, 2023 – The upcoming winter season is starting with culinary highlights for the pepper-collection. The hotels and chalets under the management of experienced hotelier Axel Pfefferkorn have won several awards in recent days for their outstanding culinary achievements.
Cyrill Lachauer’s works are the result of long journeys that take him on freight trains through the outback of the USA. He immerses himself in his surroundings and their landscapes and reproduces his experiences as fragmentary stories in photography, film and text…
Alvisi Kirimoto designs the setting of the great exhibition “Rivoluzione Vedova”, devised and designed by the Fondazione Emilio e Annabianca Vedova and co-produced with the M9-Museum of the 20th Century. Curated by Gabriella Belli, it will be open to the public from 5 May to 26 November 2023 on the third floor of the Mestre Museum (Venice)…