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“The Year of Living Danishly”
I came across a presentation of Helen Russel a couple of years ago while I was browsing in youtube about the life in Scandinavia. She is a British journalist who moved for a year in Denmark after her husband received an offer at Lego. Thus her first book is born: The Year of Living Danishly. I have suspected for a long time that my husband a I have something Scandinavian (minimalism, aesthetics, love for a simple and modern design, respect of the aesthetics in the public environment too, which unfortunately is a lost cause in Bulgaria, instinctive attainment of the now popular hygga – the home-made coziness with several candles and…
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“Genius: Picasso”
I knew that the second season of Genius would be inspiration, contemplation and very much needed context, as if a long time ago you had started putting together a puzzle of somebody’s live, but you missed pieces and reasons. A few things keep resonating in me after the ten episodes for this extraordinary, whimsical, driven innovator which some would call a prick, a rake, an egoist and they might be right depending on their viewpoint: his purposefulness and outright refusal to compromise his fierce desire to surpass a colleague by whom he felt awed (Matisse) and thus to surpass himself his hectic search for the new, the different, the radical using…
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Zaha Hadid
Zaha Hadid’s buildings speak louder of her than any words. If the protagonist of Ayn Raind’s “The Fountainhead” was a woman, it would be Zaha Hadid. It is so sad that a talent so great such as hers left us so early, but nevertheless, what a legacy and what an inspiration! zaha-hadid.com
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“Bjarke Ingels Interview: Different Angles”
another post dedicated to great contemporary architects and their spectacular creations: an interview with the young and quite amazing Danish Bjarke Ingels.photo: Bjarke Ingels Group
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“Frank Gehry: Jump into the Unknown”
Creating on a large scale is starting to fascinate me more and more lately, so I decided to share some documentaries and interviews with the great architects of our time.I was so inspired by Frank Gehry, that I might read Ayn Rand’s novel “The Fountainhead” again.
