INSPIRATION FROM AROUND THE WORLD FOR AN AESTHETIC AND MEANINGFUL LIFESTYLE
Hansel and Gretel
Perfection is fleeting, so we need to see the beauty in the imperfect – that’s how the Japanese live with their philosophy of wabi-sabi, according to which all things are charming, even those with flaws. But it hasn’t been possible to carry this idea over to people, because in the land of the rising sun, it’s still business as usual: pressure, perfectionism, success ...
Glashütte Comploj
Robert Comploj is a master of glass art. He learned the craft of glassblowing from the glass masters of Murano. Each of his glass objects, which can be purchased in the GLASHÜTTE COMPLOJ studio in Vienna, is a handmade unique piece ...
picked by Klingsbihel
With Celinde, a range of coffee tables with cross-shaped legs and an integrated serving tray, Lukas Klingsbichel celebrates urban coffee culture and becomes part of the World Wide Things Collection, a selection of design objects taken from the UNESCO Creative Cities Network. Here, the designer talks about his favourite pieces in the collection ...
Einstein
Is a fact still true even if it is not yet recognised as being true? Most people think so. After all, the planets were orbiting around the sun long before Copernicus came along, not orbiting the Earth, as they had believed in the Middle Ages. There was also gravity before anything fell out of the hand of the first humans. But do facts always remain the same? Or do they evolve ...
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