Eastward II – Spreewald and Weimar

September 16, 2017 by nadel&gabel

There it is: an isolated wooden house painted red, in the garden chard, tomatoes and thyme are growing besides flowers, happy sheep are jumping around in their enclosure while the chicken doesn’t let disturb herself in her picking routine. The evening sun brings the adjoining field to glow  .. and bsssh … a mosquito’s bite again. And in the sun room of the little, cozy furnished cabin lightened by a chain of lights  we sit in this Bullerbü-like scene, sip […]

Categories: Behind the camera, Germany, nature, objects & places, On the road, travel • Tags: architecture, Bauhaus, boat, Brandenburg, cafe, canoe, classic, culture, design, dragonfly, Germany, gherkins, Goethe, hideaway, history, literature, nature, park, remote, reserve, river, rural, sorbs, Spreewald, travel, weimar

…and even more Bauhaus

April 1, 2013 by nadel&gabel

After years of planing to do this, we finally visited the Weissenhofsiedlung and museum in Stuttgart this Easter weekend. Definitely worth a visit! It was developed as a showcase of a “new living” (Neues Wohnen) in the 1920s by the “Deutscher Werkbund” (remember the similar project of the Austrian “Werkbund”?) and the city of Stuttgart. The initiative came from no other than Ludwig Mies van der Rohe – yes, the one who designed the German pavillon on the 1929 World […]

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I ♥ Bauhaus

March 15, 2013 by nadel&gabel

Categories: Behind the camera, Germany, objects & places, On the road • Tags: 1930, Alb, architecture, Bauhaus, building, landscape, modern, photography, Schneck