Zig Zag Chair

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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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City Palace Museum Udaipur

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The old palace of the Maharani. Dusty sandstone on the outside, beautiful painted rooms on the inside. The collection of miniature paintings is fantastic, and much better than what you can see in this story.
Photographed February 2010 in Udaipur, India.

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Heilig Kreuz

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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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Xalapa Museum of Anthropology

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It was my second trip around Mexico, and my father insisted that we go to Xalapa to see the museum, that it was worth a trip to mexico all by itself. Of course he was right, the average quality of the work on display is ridiculously good. Being a huge fan of pre-Columbian art has made this one of my favorite museums in the world.
Photographed October 2009 in Xalapa, Mexico.

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Frog Juice

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A few years ago while visiting Lima I was taken to the weird and spooky alternative medicine market. The place is full of trinkets, spells, healing soaps, jaguar skins, san pedro cacti, replica money, and of course tubs of frogs. Unfortunately its another case of a supposed aphrodisiac leading to the endangering of a species. You can read more here.
Photographed in December 2008 in Lima, Peru.

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