Everyone and welcome to todays edition of euro max im max merrill thanks for joining me on my first show today weve got plenty to look forward to heres a selection of whats coming up in the next half hour. Dream cuisine how tade took no has stirred up butlins restaurant scene. Now an austrian culture bakes chairs in this forest and. Coasting along tripping by bike along slovenias mediterranean shore. Now germanys capital berlin is known for its wide range of restaurants setting up color in every day lights from all over the world for the last twenty years the organization. Has been crowning the best cooks in the region among twenty seven teams whenas know who came to the city as a refugee from vietnam when he was just five years old now hes the proud owner of eleven restaurants in the city and given his appetite for Cross Cultural christine its unlikely hell stop there. The berlin master chef scaler dinner the most exciting names in the german capitals restaurant scene are honored here. Among this years winners is sebastian from berlins master chef twenty seventeen hes garnered two michelin stars for his restaurant to. Know is still working on his first michelin star he said no formal training as a chef yet he runs some of berlins most popular restaurants and for that hes been named the citys coloring innovator. One of the. And my restaurants always add something new in the way we conceive and style them. All from these nights where i see myself as a colon area innovator its a go to war to hit suits me for. His latest innovation is funky fish a portuguese fish restaurant with a japanese twist its a typical no restaurant with a clear concept in both cuisine and design. Yet when planning a new restaurant the concept isnt always set in stone. Often hes inspired by the space itself. Unfitness lots of most of us the first march first funky fish was supposed to be a chicken and beer place. But when we started cleaning the walls we discovered that we had a really nice room here. And suddenly the paneled ceiling stood out and this glass came at the forefront. We looked almost like an aquarium sitting inside here. So we said ok chicken and beer is out and we need to get a bit more minor together and make it into a nice fish restaurant. Was born in vietnam in one thousand nine hundred eighty four five years later his family fled to germany after finishing school he worked in a sushi restaurant and found his calling he opened his own sushi bar in one thousand nine hundred nine after that he created one three rio tape which serves up japanese peruvian fusion food and a french vietnamese establishment specializing in fold the traditional noodle soup of his homeland. Doesnt like to restrict himself to a single type of cuisine. You know. Im not really a trained chef but. I didnt do an apprenticeship. But i think that gives you more ambition because if you dont have such a sound education or training you can get really creative and i think there are many selftaught people who are always really far ahead in different professions around the world precisely because theyre so ambitious. His creativity and ambition helped him win the master chef colin arie innovator award but theres another ingredient to. God i know. He has a talent that few others have. He can bring things to dishes that cant be explained. And which you simply cant learn to do either. But with all his talent for innovation to do no says there is still one restaurant he hasnt tried yet. When i was a big fan of german cuisine of down to earth german food i grew up with because i experienced all that in daycare when i came here. As a vietnamese immigrant its always been my dream to give the berliners back good true berlin restaurant. Joining me patty is and knuckle of pork into. If anyone can do it its a duke no. Well if i got you hungry for more we have plenty more color nori tips for you on our website series fifty kitchens one city takes a look at some of the most exciting restaurants and belin. Now lets see whats making the news around europe and or express featuring man arist out in rome and modest fashion in london but first a collaboration between michelangelo and the musician sting. Michelangelos last judgment is set to get a modern make over as a multimedia musical experience the show will be set to music by sting who took his inspiration from the artists masterpiece in the vaticans Sistine Chapel the high tech live show with acrobatics and Laser Technology is called universal judgment michelangelo in the secrets of the Sistine Chapel it debuts march fifteenth at the auditorium did a consulate sione in rome near st peters square. This weeks modest fashion festival in london showcased collections for women who prefer to cover up rather than reveal whether for cultural or religious reasons it included. The first tee job wearing top model on the new york and milan runways. The event was conceived by a london based muslim doctor and a human rights lawyer it aims to present luxurious contemporary modest fashion brands from around the world. Some of the most significant works of Giuseppe Bodo are currently on display in rome twenty paintings of sketches and autographs have been compiled from all over the world the late renaissance artist is best known for his almost surreal portraits made of flowers fruits and animals the exhibition continues at the National Gallery of ancient art in but not so bob any until february eleventh twenty. The saying goes that money doesnt grow on trees but ben Howard Schmidt from austria challenges that idea with that he grows on trees the austrian artist has been harvesting his designs for about ten years now and he invited us to take a look at his factory well i say factory and actual fact its a forest. These chairs are each unique and they werent built by a carpenter they grew up in a forest in the austrian state of styria. He evicts this is the worlds first ever growing rocking chair he said ive never met anyone whos grown a rocking chair and. Its one of a kind. In the cot death of aches theyve been growing for around twelve years and itll need another two years before its finally ready to go in fifty fifty its been hard schmidt came up with the idea of growing these unusual tree creations in one thousand nine hundred six there and more than fifty seats growing here in this chair tree park at different stages of maturity the artist controls the shape using old chair frames that he hangs from the branches. The branches get banned in the shade when theyre still fans and then theyre held there until they get there be seen. Schmidt also intervenes in the biorhythm of the treat depending on the design. The chairs are mainly harvested in spring because thats the best time to remove the bark. Then they need another two years to dry out schmidt experimented for years to perfect the shapes. Of any good soft off because ive discovered if you do things for example how to regulate the flow of sound and how to specifically control how thick the branches grow. This x. Redirects the cep so the branches form a heart i only buy me not all trees cooperate there are some that just dont want to like well known elm i found all this stuff out. There a few suitable types i use maple and hazelnut hornbeam is good to know certain trees are my friends the ones that are blind to find that the. Chairs also grow on trees here in derbyshire he english countryside. Gavin munro has been running a furniture farm for about ten years it requires a lot of patients expect his first major chair harvest in twenty eighteen. And trained furniture designer he uses wire and plastic frames to get the trees mostly willows into shape. Also makes wall mirrors and lamp shades. Customers from all over the world by his furniture if you order now youll get a chair in about seven years. Its really starting to become an actual manufacturing process and system that is repeatable in the sky level so its. You know its all of these things this kind of. All mixed into one. Wants to expand his tree park in austria and bring new ideas to life. Where they might like to grow bigger sculptures are made from lots of trees once you can even go inside and sculptures you can climb. Growing furniture a game of creativity where the payoff only comes with patients. Now for many musicians writing an album is a labor of love it takes time and inspiration to get the twelve or so tracks done but the front man of finished rock band Sunrise Avenue took extraordinary measure. Finalize his bands fifty or album some will have a road over one hundred songs and shows the twelve best to form heartbreak century lets see if it was worth all that trouble. There back melodic dynamic and guaranteed to get stuck in your head sunrise havent you the pop rock stars from finland. Singer sam harbor is especially proud of the new album heartbreak century he wrote more than one hundred songs and the best ones made the cut. It takes time its not like easy just like take a guitar and write a song that you call the guys this record is and then its there you really need to yeah put your heart into it and you can do it in like over a week and it will be great like release the next album in december but doesnt work like that. The old gang feeling has returned to the studio explains. Everyones having a lot of fun theyve left the new tracks a little rough now too overproduced like this but you know about the mistakes its not mistakes its like youre leaving the human touch in the songs because you can do anything you want with music you can like fix every little detail. You know afterwards but i didnt want to we didnt want to do that. Its not easy to create good music says the finnish front man who shot to fame in two thousand and six with a hit fairytale gone bad the pressure got to him and he needed a break with guitar in hand he traveled the world writing songs in the band worked on heartbreak century for a year. Fighting and producing the album its a. Really lonely thing you have to stay in your little bubble and you dont want to i dont know listen to any other like mainstream stuff. Despite the stress of producing the forty one year old managed to quit smoking hes thrilled and likes to think hes setting a good example. Always tried quitting like for a really long time actually i always knew that its bad for me and its actually really bad for you. You dont need it and im really happy that it just happened that i like i dont do this any more and just worked. His music is enjoying the same success when it entered the german charts sunrise aves album shot straight to number one. Well here at euro max we show you talented people all the time whether thats artists coax or like in that Previous Report musicians but now wed like to hear about your talents but its no what you do best and you could win a euro max wristwatch. Well if photography is one of your fortes look no further than both gun tillmans the renowned photographer has had his work displayed all over the world but now the german is going back to where it all began we joined him on his trip to hamburg where he had his first exhibition in one nine hundred eighty eight. Months is photographing something close to his heart his own solo exhibition. The exhibition is constantly changing under the varying a light will focus on right now the sunlight is creating a new kind of stage for. The construction in hamburg is hosting the retrospective of the german photographer with a selection of works from the past thirty years. But one piece is new a glass display case with stones next to it the same stones but photographed. At first it seems amazingly simple or easy and. I had this idea that it could be disarming placed alongside each other in such a haphazard way. Because it suddenly makes the photography same cell flat. Even a quarter it shows how little photography has to do with true reality photography is just an interpretation of reality. The exhibition attests to the scope of tillmans subjects and styles. The show encompasses not only photos but also videos sounds objects and light and dark rooms. As uses space creatively to with an unexpected dimension time. Its all about the moment which in an instant has already become the past. Can time really be grasped at all. The other momentous go on and place every moment is a sum of infinite experiences taking place around the globe and these are not just infinite forwards and backwards in time. Because now is seen and experienced so differently by so many people that there is neither a starting point nor completeness. And in the exhibition i think ive tried to capture a feeling for time. And then go through. In that composed a sound loop with his own vocals combined with the pictures it strikes a meditative almost sacred chord. The. The Elemental Force of the sea. And his signature conceptual style presented as a giant photo print unframed in simply to the wall. By me or its more about the tension between fragility and awesome power on. The large image is there in front of you and coughed but its actually orly fragile. Its actually only fixed to the wall with five small tags. And you realize its nothing more than a thin skinned i dont know how. To use you stillmans painted made clothes and composed music then he discovered photography is all encompassing understanding of the art form breaks ponderous and is sensitive inside reveals the beauty in small things. Like fire tomatoes. Best i feel for the king standing. By. Objects just sitting there so crudely like this come on its hard. You cant really want that they wanted that often or i was open to them. And the whole thing is held together with this diagonal cross. On. Personally im really pleased and grateful for the picture because its not obvious that im still interested in things. The moment voice. If i were only caught in my own world and i didnt notice how things really are. Or if i didnt open myself up to things on the outside. And i couldnt take interesting pictures anymore. Now and i know youre a mac series extras who you view is send us out to explore destinations on your behalf today its a viewer from uruguay who got in touch with us bella lives there and he wants to know more about slovenia the country is an increasingly popular destination love for its picturesque villages and untouched countryside its landlocked but for a small portion on the mediterranean which features a bike path right along the shore. So we sent our reporters out on a cycling tour to cruise along the coast. Of. The river. With a warm welcome to coper tour guide. Greets her group for the start of their bike tour along the coast. The medieval town center of coper is certainly worth taking a stroll through or in this case a ride. The narrow alleyways old houses and splendid palaces bear witness to the towns past under venetian rule. The longest section of the route runs along a former railway line its known as the part and santa for the path of health and friendship. The one hundred sixteen kilometer trail connex be a talian city of tryst with slovenia and croatia first stop. We are now in a. As you can see its an old fishing town. In the sea and fishing have always dominated life in this town meant traveled out to sea and brought fish and other foods back to. Their wives stated helm to preserve and sell the fish. The tour continues. Even on hot days there is usually a pleasant sea breeze blowing across the cycle route. The town of pier on slowly comes into view many consider it the crown jewel of the slovenian coast. Its also the setting of a popular love story when a wealthy venetian fell for a poor local beauty the locals gossiped about the disparity in their social standings this upset the young woman and so the venetian romeo. Built his juliet a mansion like those in his hometown engraved with the words lost so dear let them talk. And so the story found its happy ending. Impede on the locals have always lived from fishing but there is another source of income. That is computed there just like good things or as a coastal town of a town is lively right now but it wasnt always like that even in the last century the town was always deserted in summer. Thats because of the nearby salt. On the season there started at the end of april around st georges day the patron saint of put on. Entire families packed up and moved to their houses on the salt bands for the summer and for six months they performed the arduous task of salt mine before returning to pan out in full on. The salt pan still stretch along the coast today slovenians are just as proud of their sea salt as they are of their olive oil. So the last stop on the bike tour is the farm run by nina for god and her family theyve prepared something for their visitors. Time to sample the delights as im about this close look at but i mean that with that were going to enjoy the olive oil from proper tasting license. With that heres how you do it but i mean with that you know hold the glass in your hand to warm the oil. And swill it gently on as a bit of. Something living with the cold the smell itll put your whole nose into the glass its melts. Like freshly cut grass on the tip of course. If its meals like that we can taste it. I say the two oclock i think the totally gone call what did you taste when did you get all bitterness and exactly thats the antioxidants theyre good for the body and these antioxidants have that bitter taste. Like typical slovenian treats served to welcome guests olive oil trouble salt and bread. A simple yet delicious. The day is drawing to a close the cycling tourists raise their glasses in a toast to the end of their tour. Well my cycle ride home certainly contemplate with that thats all from us today thanks for watching and please do join us again for tomorrows show. On the next edition of the euro max is it a cloud a spaceship or Something Else entirely this of on guard building near the austrian city of linz is a sight to behold it houses the pineal austrias first museum of bread the building was designed by architects from the world famous practice coop him a blow for the wonder of bread next time on your own next. Make your store t. V. Smarter with food you dont. What you watch. Today extraordinary. To decide what songs find out more. Dot com smart. What does a football loving country need to which its goals. Will tell you how to german soccer made it back to the top. In our web special. Football made in germany. Forty Million Euros a year in search of a partner. And thirty percent of them now find their partner on line. 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