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Let’s dive into Part Three of the adventurous life of 20th century design trailblazer Charlotte Perriand.
Missed the first two episodes? Start at the beginning or jump into Part Two to get caught up.
After narrowly escaping arrest during a house raid by Viet Minh partisans, Charlotte and her daughter manage to leave Vietnam aboard a repatriation ship in early 1946.
Continue reading “Who is Charlotte Perriand? (Part 3)”
Welcome back to Part Two of our journey through the remarkable life of 20th-century design trailblazer Charlotte Perriand.
If you missed the beginning of her story, you can catch up here.
Charlotte is by now an independent young woman at the beginning of her 30s, looking for more than just sexual freedom. Next to shift is her professional relationship with modernist architect Le Corbusier. And the devastating consequences of the Second World War are looming on the horizon.
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I really don’t know any more how it happened. We were sitting in the car and suddenly there was this bright light and some unbearable noise.
I had rubbed some dirt off a chopped tomato tin from our grocery shopping at Aldi and all of a sudden this impeccably dressed guy in a 1930s cocktail tuxedo outfit was sitting next to me in the car.
Continue reading “A Genie in a (chopped) Tomato Tin”
It was a perfect summer. I was staying at an extraordinary abode in South France, at the holiday-house-slash-mansion of a friend.
We had met at work. She used to be my boss when I was working at a London based software company. It was a girls-only weekend away and we discussed every little bit of our lives. What we admitted to be uncovered, that was.
Continue reading “The Age of Vulnerability”
My eyes firmly fixated on the buildings around me, I am usually walking through London ready to discover this fascinating city’s quirks along the way. On one of those days, I ended up in Primrose Hill, in a 1920s villa housing a cultural temple for English Folk Dance.
Continue reading “A Love Story ❤️”
I quit my corporate job in London in March 2020.
Corona hit. I bought an old camper van together with a friend. We started our journey from Berlin to Southern Europe in search for inspirational places to live and to work remotely. And to maybe start a business hosting digital nomads. All was open and in the air. Exciting times!
Continue reading “Satsang & Surfing”
Did you see what Brad Pitt did with his perfect home-slash-villa in the Southern part of France at Saint-Jean-Cap-Ferrat? Yes, exactly that spot where the pink coloured serene and arty Villa “Ephrussi de Rothschild” and its lush gardens are located. Extraordinarily beautiful!
What an amazing home, isn’t it?
Continue reading “What makes you feel at home?”
Who hasn’t dreamt of living a different life? Having a break from the same old same old. Living other daily experiences. More adventure. Or just dipping a toe into a parallel world. I think about it all the time. That’s why I started my initiative I have called “SWAP YOUR LIFE”.
Continue reading “What happened on my Life Swap in Lisbon”
What a strange question to begin with: Is my home performing?
I think a serious question everyone needs to ask themselves, underpinned by Covid-19. Over half of the world’s population are living in urban settings and we have learnt by now how to spend most of our time at home. To not only live at home. To work from home. To pursue our interests at home. To arrange our social life from or in our home.
So the ultimate question in our high-performance-measurement-world is: How’s your home doing on a scale from 1-10?
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Our humble roots are in hunting and gathering, and we need to re-program ourselves to respond to our rapid adoption of technology and automation. Linked is the relationship between women and men. The Marriage Concept is broken.
Continue reading “A New Glue for Society”