Its highly sought after the world over. Tropical display the amazon rain forest is brought to the german city of hanover. And winter delights we get a taste of curly kale at the Christmas Market embodiment. Well its exactly one hundred years ago on december sixth one thousand nine hundred seventeen that finland gained its independence from forrest russia from eight hundred nine until then it had been an autonomous grand duchy in the russian empire before that it had spent centuries under swedish rule of the centenary is not only cause for Widespread National celebration but also for some introspection key to the Finnish National identity our of course its vast Natural Landscapes with forests and lakes but also its so in a culture and the melancholy of finnish tango and all of these things find a unique expression in the clarity of finnish design. Minimal and functional the finnish way of life finds expression in the architecture of the capital helsinki. And in the local design scene objects should be practical and timeless have clean lines and be made from robust materials. Cost us is a designer and has a shop in helsinkis Design District here design newcomers and the classics are both represented combining the old with the new is what this designer does too in addition to her own collection she makes customized pelts for design label. The design in finland. Its very democratic so its you can say that almost every household has a classic design piece so you actually grow up with it. The classics are something that im sure that youre bare throughout your whole life. And many of these design classics have been produced without variation for decades designed for every day they combine with one another. This is especially true of ceramics manufacture a ravioli and glass producer. To celebrate the one hundredth anniversary of finlands independence theyve released collections in the typically finished believe but the designs them sounds remain unchanged because they mirror the finished mindset. We are very near nature. We like simple things our nature is quite clean and and poor and simple and that maybe affects their zion and also our desire for how the design should be so its its functionality but still. A beauty with simplicity maybe the countrys pioneering designer also drew heavily on nature as early as the one nine hundred thirty s. Also laid the groundwork for the worldwide success of finnish design. In the nineteen fortys and fiftys revolutionized Industrial Design with his icy Looking Glass where. Func did the same with his robust timeless drinking glasses high quality craftsmanship and a nod to nature arche even in the sixtys when Synthetic Materials became popular. More than a billion pairs of the iconic fiske r. s orange scissors have been sold to date and who are left his mark on the swinging sixtys with these round bubble chairs. These mock lamps made a name for hardy koskinen in the one nine hundred ninety s. Building on the success of his famous prita sesar story. But finished design isnt only found in museums such pieces exist in ordinary homes where theyre handed down from generation to generation its something children grow up with. Been has been independent country only for one hundred years now so we need to find something be some things that are common to everyone and design was one thing that kind of bond whole nation together because it was this democratic idea that we should have good design for everybody and a better everyday life where everybody and design was used to cue people and the ingredient of that so i think thats why hes honest become so important for for all fairness if you say that for the french for example its a bottle of wine that symbolizes french french people are friends and total for friends is that his because his theres. A Fashion Designer. Sees herself as part of this tradition and shes been selling her colorful collections made from sheep and reindeer pelts under the owner label since twenty fourteen and she holds. To create the fashion classics up to morrow. I really wish and i hope that the Fashion Design and the fashion as an industry will become more recognizable in finland and there would be more understanding towards the fashion industry and the Fashion Design us well because i really badly about we have a really strong design heritage and now its the time for a fresh and absolutely. International customers who flocked to her store gives rise to hope fresh design talents from finland adding extra color to the countrys design landscape and making sure the next one hundred years will be as successful as the last. And we continue in minimalist finish blue with another nod to the centenary celebrations that and more in todays express. Finland marks one hundred years of independence with a spectacular light display the art project luminous sunnah sees the famous film sun a mountain bathed in light its part of the finland one hundred project which celebrates the countrys centenary with a variety of events. The stars came out for the Fashion Awards in london on monday britains ad was about was named model of the year. And design a Stella Mccartney seen in the middle on the special Recognition Award for innovation for her use of ethical and sustainable fabrics. You know for me the future of fashion is about innovation about the different but i mean fashion supposed to be about moving on and being a bit more modern in your approach that we all need to get the festivals. Allstream crystal producer also set great store on sustainability i really hope that there will be greater mindfulness within the fashion industry but it will entail Research Development and certainly dedication of the companies to invest money and time in order to create more sustainable products british celebrities like Supermodel Naomi Campbell and singers rita ora and sam smith well or so on hand for the celebrations. Maybe the enthusiasm wasnt mutual but frances first lady blaze was all smiles when she christened this baby panda with the name you on mango translated it means a dream come true that could also be taken as a reflection of franco chinese relations the panda cub was born in august that france has both zoo in sun in your home in the water valley its parents are here on loan from china until the year twenty twenty two. Germany. And italy trained to be an architect he then went on to study painting and wound up combining the two to become a panorama artist and that means that he creates huge three hundred sixty degree panorama pictures most often of historical or natural scenes and he displays them such a viewer can literally get lost in them a kind of art experience if you will and most recently his pictures of the berlin wall or new for in bag have drawn large crowds and now hes gone back to the challenge of nature and created an amazon jungle in hanover. Gigantic trees that seem to touch the sky and the chirping of exotic birds its the amazon rain forest and its in the german city of hanover. This three hundred sixty degree panorama is the latest project by artist the attic r. C. C. He spent three years preparing this tropical illusion. Assisi traveled to the Amazon Region four times in search of the most beautiful scenes. Then he sketched the beginnings of this natural panorama the worlds largest. User complex it is assured i knew that i would never be able to fully capture this beauty and complexity you can do better than nature but perhaps i thought i would get some aspect of it something which gives you an idea of its beauty for sure and i thank you. He took more than thirty thousand photos for the artwork and made plenty of sketches and drawings. Then followed the most difficult part of the work piecing the puzzle together in the computer thousands of images were combined to form a collage its not a car ccs own vision of the rain forest. The completed design was then printed on. Enormous panels which were mounted to form a circular pattern rama the visitor should have the feeling they are within the picture right in the middle of the rain forest again im very spatially oriented so i always react to spaces even as a child i was very conscious of space. Assisi began as a young pantomime artist interpret ng space in his own way. He grew up in the former east germany but was later deported to the west his Four Brothers and sisters became doctors or engineers. Assisi wanted to dedicate himself to the arts among other things he studied painting in berlin in. The family back then migrant families all dreamt of their children becoming doctors the next best was engineer and after that not much so being an artist wasnt considered an option my mother always said start doing something respectable in two thousand and three assisi took a giant step and produced his first panorama in leipzig Mount Everest i began not really knowing what i was doing i didnt have a cent my pocket but i went to the Public Utility Company in leipzig and said we have to do this. Since then hes produced twelve large scale pattern ramas in berlin hes recreated the wall. Another panorama shows what it was like to live in britain bag during Martin Luthers time. The cylindrical rain forest in hanover is his latest three thousand five hundred square meters create the illusion of nature thirty two meters high and one hundred ten meters long. Its come through and a meditative element is becoming part of it people walk around in it and that way theyre in charge of what they see theres no one to tell them look this way or look that way or for how long. Day turns into night every fifteen minutes magic weather conditions and dazzling sunrises theyre all there to see in the worlds biggest nature panorama. Well its a funny tic of human nature but very often when guests take leave of their hotel their suitcases are fuller than when they arrived and the souvenirs they make off with are not necessarily ones that theyve paid for all top of the list of most common hotel theft items are things like towels and of course bathrobe but according to one survey of a thousand hotel use of four and five star establishment many guests have no qualms over lifting much bigger booty so here are. Five surprising things you can steal from home towns. In five star Hotels Management is not so bad but about disappearing soap. Or even contrary. Theyre more concerned about holding on to them and rightly so then number five on our list of surprising things that hotel guests take with them around thirty percent of the five star hotels have reported this kind of that its. Not over guests manage to snaffle away in their suitcases number four on our list of strange things that disappear from hotels bedspreads and do banks. Which makes us wonder how big does your suitcase have to be to hide it or do they end it without anyone noticing to imagine about fifteen percent of the hoteliers interviewed said they had experienced a theft of this kind. For many a relaxing a little snowy including chilling out in front of the t. V. But some days it is getting so attached to that television they take it home with them thats number three on our list their crazy hotel souvenirs it particularly affects launch hotels with lots of guests five percent of those polled said they come across this sort of crime. A good mattress can not only provide an excellent night sleep it may also be worth several thousand euros number two in the stakes poker is hotel facts this rarely affects low budget accommodation five percent of all Luxury Hotels say theyve lost mattresses they probably get taken out during the night someone is clearly asleep on the job and it isnt the thieves. Playing the piano is often the last one to turn up the night buddy mine ill be the last person at the piano number one on a list of unusual things that disappear from hotels grand piano one such prized instrument disappeared from the lobby of a luxury hotel and its. Thought to be the only thing left of its kind to this day no one can quite explain how the robbers got away with it. Is the japanese word for comics of any kind but outside of japan we use it for the particular style of Japanese Comic drawing typically uses cutesy even childlike figures often with oversized eyes and very cool facial expressions a german doll designer Evelyn Hunter has adopted and adopted this style in her work and her sophisticated dolls have found a following all over the world. They were extremely flexible and very popular in asia dolls made by evan hunter their popularity is largely due to their lifelike appearance these dolls look like they walk straight out of among the Japanese Comics this is nonie this is an andy and this is shea. Hunter has been making these ball joint adult since two thousand and eight a lot of thought goes into their creation. Through the mud how should she be painted and what should her hair be like what clothes does she wear what environment does she live in whats her story whats her backstory. They dont make her assembles everything herself inside rubber bands create the necessary tension each donor is one of a comment thats what makes them so valuable. Doesnt mean that this was my first all while putting her together i made a mistake right at the start because i couldnt gauge how they were assembled and. So i put the head on the first and right away a metal part flew out. The whole doll literally went to pieces. But that doesnt happen any more. Hunting no designs her own cards. The drawings are fairly complicated. She loves the design process. And done the work and then i make a wax casting to see if the head will work because sometimes you cant see that on the model i see if the shape of the head is ok this one looks like this. And thats how i havent hunted won the hearts of dawn lovers everywhere a south korean manufacturer is no using her design as a model ball joint and dolls all respect. Popular they are. And things just kept on developing i started getting orders from every country imaginable some dolls live in south korea now some in finland or the us its great. Most of her dolls also contain parts from other designers but the things thats important its a way for those in the scene to share ideas. Worth several hundred euros so theyre not meant as toys. To i play with them as an reenacting story. But i do use them a lot for photo shoots i take them outside for instance. And also makes dawns on commission the only condition is that she retains the artistic freedom to paint them as she chooses. As there arent many people doing this kind of thing so you can do lots of experimenting without anyone telling you something cant be done. The one thing Evelyn Hansen hasnt managed to do is travel to south korea its home to many professional dont make those like herself and naturally her favorite creations. Come along for the ride. In this weeks series were visiting Christmas Markets all across germany and anyone who is into food will know that this is the most delectable time of year with many cities even boasting their own christmas time specialty be it sweet or hearty and savory while the latter rules in but a man in northern germany where kale is a popular seasonal dish curly kale is of course considered by many to be a super food jam packed as it is with vitamins and fighter nutrients but in northern germany its cooked in a way that would truly horrify most champions of clean eating and trust me thats exactly why its so delicious. Its the advent season in but iman time to visit the Christmas Markets surrounding the but im in a hole and the attics it is man mark and its more than six hundred year old town hall. Together theyve been listed as a masco well heritage site since two thousand and four i wrote hundred sixty stand set against the historic backdrop draw more visitors every year many try the typical braman speciality is like curly kale i meant style. I think its part of the Holiday Season when people eat hard here dishes. Is the quintessential claim and when today its meant packed vegetable grows in the region for instance on horse farm the cabbage originated in the Eastern Mediterranean region where it was grown some two thousand years ago in germany its a favorite mainly in the north its also popular in Central Europe north america and africa. Doesnt like to experiment when it comes to preparing it. With cooked or smoked sausage cured pork. But when they start making kale and candy im not so sure i get it that its important that kale be exposed to frost because that turns the starch and the sugar. This is typical of a man winter there can be found at the Christmas Market beside the river basin. And head chef prepares the kale for the stand just across the way in his restaurant kitchen he agrees with a farmer about the role of frost lost both of whom frost is better for the kale theyve always said that kale tastes best once its got a really good frost and thats when it should be harvested when the bitter compounds are at a minimum. The kale has to be washed and the stems removed why. Comes next differs from region to region in northern germany. But in time on goes like this. Saturday the onions in oil and add the kale and then pour on some such as cured pork cook it for an hour and add the local sausages called and. Season it with salt sugar a little pepper some nutmeg and finally a little mustard and then for. Then the whole thing has to simmer for two hours. Is a smoked fatty sausage with oats and barley groats it used to be made and smoked at home. Braman turn brown kale for the green calories from when it was cooked over an open fire to smoke colored it brown. From fifteen forty five there are records of the city of blame and holding an official kale feast as a kind of banquet held every february in the town hall its an important social event in the region. Primus history is closely tied to the hands and shipping with its medieval famed stalls the Christmas Market on the banks of the visa river relives theres gold and. Based all holders dressed like hands. You know all about the traditional kale dishes. Well the first thing id recommend would be all spice which is a very typical ingredient for the brain. After a stroll around the historical old town on the market stalls the stock to warm up is just the thing. But a. Stand off as genuine human. To go. In with a group called you can take the cable box and walk around the Christmas Market but it will warm your hands and you can eat it on the go without spoiling anything might come out of the one click of. Kale and others with fresh smoked pork chops boiled sausage potato chips. But how does it taste from a counter god box. Its utterly delicious dont you think so. My brain is always worth a try it on the Christmas Market is just fantastic here the river bank is wonderful and the downtown has some charm. Party food and a festive atmosphere but northern german city of my money when time is definitely worth a trip. Well glancing at my watch here i realize that our time is almost already up and before we go i will let you in on an opportunity to win this very watch now in on or of this week series on christmas goodies we want to know which treats get you into the holiday spirit is that gingerbread or fruit cake a perhaps even roast turkey whatever it may be send us a picture of your favorite treats and you can find details of how to do that on our website as usual so be sure to get in on the action because one of you will get this watching with that it is really time for us to sign off until next time to send off a dove in. Next time a hero max finding inspiration on the streets of berlin designer emma uses Manhole Covers to create unusual textile prints she also discovers new designs on the streets of madrid paris in vienna the hidden potential of Manhole Covers next time on your own max. Think youre smart t. V. Smarter. Or smart. What you want. To do extraordinary. To decide what song. More. 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