Category Archives: DESIGN

7.7.13

All the other graves are covered in flowers for the day of the dead celebrations. This cement grave keeps its beauty in its simplicity.
Photographed November 2009, in St.Cristobal, Mexico.

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Wassily Chair

4.3.13

Marcel Breuer's Wassilly chair is perhaps my favorite piece of bent steel furniture. When seen at an angle, which is most of the time, it has this spiderweb built by a german engineer look.
Collection Bruno Bischofberger Zurich

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Alvar Aalto Chair

16.7.12

Classic Design by Alvar Aalto. Most of his similar designs have metal legs but I like this all wood one especially.
Collection Bruno Bischofberger

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St.martin in zillis

23.1.12

You would never imagine the humble church would have such an astounding ceiling. It just makes me think what Romanesque Europe would have been like, before the wars and fires consumed most art.
Photographed February 2011 in Zillis and Andeer, Switzerland.

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Jantar Mantar

5.8.11

Mughal emperor Muhammad Shah gave Maharaja Jai Singh II of Jaipur the task of revising the calendar and astronomical tables.  So starting in 1724 Jai Singh built the Jantar Mantar,  architectural astronomy instruments.  Of the five Jantar Mantar built the one most missing from this photostory is the one in Jaipur. But unlike the one in Delhi that is filled with families and lovers, the Jaipur one is overloaded with bus tourists seeing another site on their checklist itinerary. But these are special places. Science conducted with what look like 20th century abstract architectural sculptures. I have always found that instruments at the pinnacle of contemporary science to be as beautiful as any piece of art.
Photographed march 2010 in New Delhi and Varanasi, India

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Carlo Mollino Chair

29.7.11

This chair was in our living room while I was growing up. I loved it's crazy weird look, the ivory colored leather made me uncomfortable. The pervy look is still there. It feels like chic Italian S&M.
Collection Bruno Bischofberger

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Zig Zag Chair

1.7.11

The classic chair by Gerrit Rietveld. It spends most of its time in the foyer of my parent's house in Zurich.
Collection Bruno Bischofberger.

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Heilig Kreuz

1.7.11

Heilig Kreuz is on the way from Zurich to the Engadin, a journey I made hundreds of times. I am not sure the first time I went to visit, but I remember how much sense I thought the place made. I love concrete and find it such a sensual material, but most brutalist buidlings feel like second tier 70's furniture, interesing style, but the corners are all wrong. Förderer seems to have magical touch. It all seems so right, so soft, so perfectly channeling the idea of the time.
Photographed January 2011 in Chur, Swtizerland.

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