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Christopher Haatuft, the Punk-Chef Godfather of Neo-Fjordic Cuisine

root — Wed, 24 Aug 2016 21:49:48 +0000

His minimalist fine-dining restaurant, Lysverket, together with a bar and nightclub, is set in the KODE 4 art gallery in the center of Bergen. And whilst it is easy to conflate his position in global gastronomy with the rise of Scandinavian contemporaries, like Magnus Nilsson and René Redzepi, of Sweden’s Fäviken and Noma in Denmark,

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In Good Company: Claesson, Koivisto and Rune on architecture, design and productive partnership

root — Thu, 09 Jun 2016 20:27:27 +0000

Despite their strikingly different personalities, the three soon became close friends. Two years later, while still in college, they launched an architecture and design firm, Claesson Koivisto Rune; now, two decades down the road, they haven’t looked back. Though many have been quick to label their aesthetic as Scandinavian, the designers rather it be thought

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The not so secret life of Berlin’s honeybees

root — Wed, 25 May 2016 20:56:32 +0000

Bees have long been entwined with literature. From Tennyson and Tolstoy, who narrates the discordant disorder of a queenless hive in War and Peace, to Sylvia Plath’s series of bee poems written after she took up beekeeping in the summer of 1962. But for all their literary mentions and romanticized descriptions of spiritous buzzing in

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Cultivating a city: How inventive urban production is gaining ground in Vienna

root — Thu, 14 Apr 2016 20:21:17 +0000

Our tour of urban production in the city begins here in Brigittenau, the 20th district. Manuel Bornbaum and Florian Hofer cultivate oyster mushrooms in a rather unusual way—using coffee grounds as soil. Originally from Upper Austria, the two students have established a zero-waste project—soon to celebrate its first anniversary—in the city’s center. Vienna’s urban area,

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Anthony & Phoebe Dann

root — Tue, 15 Sep 2015 22:30:28 +0000

The cabin is built around an old derelict structure which formed the starting point of the project. But only the supporting posts, a few parts of the roof and the bearers remain, along with the black pot-bellied stove that provides ample warmth. Anthony Dann, architect and product designer, and his wife Phoebe, graphic designer, have

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Anna Pearson

root — Tue, 08 Sep 2015 22:30:21 +0000

Since the summer of 2014, the Swiss cookbook author has lived together with her sister, Catherine, in Gutshaus Wellenberg, a heritage building in the uplands that lie a 30-minute drive away from the city of Zurich. The trained designer, chef and food editor focuses on sustainable cuisine, and with her home, she has fulfilled a

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Markus & Daniel Freitag

root — Sun, 29 Mar 2015 23:30:12 +0000

Made from used truck tarpaulins, car seat belts and bicycle inner tubes, they develop luggage and accessories for people on the go. On the northern outskirts of Zurich the two tinker on the implementation of new ideas in the Freitag Lab – like, for example, the first line of textiles, F-abric, which has been five years

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Vijendra Chhipa

root — Fri, 13 Mar 2015 00:24:13 +0000

A house to the left, draped in fluttering skeins of butter yellow. A cow with purple ears ambles past, and you catch yourself wondering if Bagru is where rainbows come when they need a coat of fresh paint. Humming to himself on the way home from a temple, Vijendra Chhipa beams as he spots visitors.

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Elin Larsson

root — Thu, 12 Mar 2015 00:55:48 +0000

If you ask Elin Larsson, the resemblance between nature and business isn’t far fetched. She believes that nature gives us cues on how to live our lives, and how to create sustainable fashion for the future. What started as a serendipitous encounter at a Christmas party 16 years ago, where Elin Larsson was offered to

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Diving into the Sustainable Surfing Movement

root — Mon, 23 Feb 2015 00:59:17 +0000

Surfing is often likened to a spiritual experience. It’s no surprise, then, that some surfers characterize the traditional approach of building surfboards as more of a religion, rather than an industry. However, this religion is undeniably ruining the environment that surfers cherish most—Mother Nature—and many are ready to convert to a more sustainable alternative. Conventionally,

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