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classic an iconic home storage unit turns fifty. pounds of the banks to germany the piano and electronic make over. and oriental flavors dine out person style in the german capital. and in industry lines out of design people always keen to see the next big thing a long jetty is a rare feat but there are of course some exceptions some places a born to stand the test of time and this year is the italian bronze cartel the celebrating fifty years of their perpetual best seller company betty let's take a look at this iconic collection of the decades. this plastic barrel is celebrating its fiftieth birthday this classic of italian

design has held its own in living rooms and office spaces around the world for half a century. milan based architect and designer ana. marie who died in two thousand and six design the much loved storage unit in the one nine hundred sixty s. with a different generation what happened during this period. our perception of space and time changed just as it has today. people wanted functional but flexible furniture. the round container became more popular than its four sided predecessor. his granddaughter. works for the italian brand cartel. that's where her grandmother was creative director when she designed the company. my grandmother unaccustomed in february was a strong confident woman. she was the first woman to graduate in architecture at

her university in milan. she said you can do anything you just have to be confident in your ideas and have the desire to implement them. company billy means modular the large units are made up of small individual elements which can be taken apart at will. the company allows you to divide rooms up in a new way. in the one nine hundred sixty s. the company billy was something totally new a real innovation. but living spaces were getting smaller and more people were living alone. the company believe were very easy to rearrange to suit any atmosphere. that explains the success they enjoy right up to the present day.

cartel has a flagship store in london. to celebrate the fiftieth anniversary the company invited twenty one renowned designers from all over the world to develop their unique take on the original. here's what fran hickman came up with. very much driven by my clients. and came from my house the way i try to express the spirit of the house it's just a. white. boy sixty. design was inspired by the american expressionist painter jackson pollock. is delighted by the multitude of ideas for the anniversary exhibition. spanish

designer portraits is featured as well. this is a true work of. the little company practically explodes in a very modern and contemporary interpretation. we have a very eclectic collection which will then come to me. here is another dazzling version of the company. the object from phillips is very exceptional he uses gnomes as the pedestal and turns it into a little table it's really fun. one of the company believes seems to smile. this creation of. the company billy's smile was the starting point for the into. an exhibition with all the beautiful variations. it's the only one that will go into production and will be available to the public after christmas.

a design classic that's made for our time. and see why that would be so popular now if you want to know what else is going on around europe well i'm sure that's why you're watching our express round up which will for you and three other bits of european life. fashion label. just creations at milan fashion week on thursday according to the tropical shake. up the sea and sand all the trends for the next spring and summer.

the collection was created by karl lagerfeld he's been head designer fulfill these women collection for over fifty years. madrid is hosting a flamenco festival as a showcase for young dancers guitarists and singers. in the condo cultural center young performers are being supported by a stablished artists flamenco derives from the folklore musical traditions of southern spain and you nasco named it a piece of intangible cultural heritage in two thousand and ten the festival in madrid runs until saturday. the exhibition because so between cubism and classes and nine hundred fifteen to

nine hundred twenty five opened in rome on friday this show at the school career museum is being held to mark the one hundredth anniversary of public because those trip to italy. here he created the sets where the ballet rose and met his first wife older he was a dancer. because so between cuba's and classes and runs until january. first so much pressure on artists of all kinds to stand out from the crowd nowadays and do something new when it comes to music we've seen several electronic artists pair up with classical musicians to produce a modern day interpretation of classical music the ground brothers are one of these bands who put our modern slant on the piano by polling it to pieces quite literally . the grand brothers go to the very heart of their instruments

they open up the piano as if they're about to perform surgery on it they attach iron bars and belts and add little hammers they've made themselves to strike in places where piano hemis were never intended to. be in on the plants what produces the beat in our songs that sound that you might compare to a snare drum in an electronic musical beat music. it just provides a beat or percussive beat purpose construct. it was plays the piano well look as full the regulates and digitally distorts the analog sounds created by the special hamis. that seems fitting at a time when the piano is enjoying a renaissance in electronic music. is what i want to leave the lying under the piano and knocking on it or plucking at strings those are naturally

things that others have already done and we try to do the same in our own way with our own techniques we use the piano is a huge construction kit a kind of play toy we do treat it with respect but yet somehow with too much reverence. it's not so much off with those of us or. whether the pianos boundaries the grand brothers are determined to push them at the same time they've placed restrictions on themselves every sound in their music must be produced by the piano somehow. but which is about them isn't it because this whole range of possibilities i see before me sometimes just leaves me feeling helpless. today computers allow you to do simply everything. so for me it's a kind of inspiration to really concentrate on one thing and see what i can get out

of it. sometimes the grand brothers just play the piano like everyone else. almost. now how many times do you walk past statues in your home cities and not even see them quite frequently i imagine well a belter artist's latest project is designed to make people look at the statue once again he does this with the help of some kind of full flower and i think this coming image will explain things a little bit. classical statues are getting a modern update a crown of colorful flowers to decorate a normally band stone head. all around brass or stone and bronze figures or sporting bouquets of beautiful blooms around their heads.

belgium's former king leopold the second even got a bright new bed. the project is the brainchild of belgian flora. some find it funny that i put flowers on someone else's work others downright disrespectful but my interest stems from a romantic inclination to hide the statue and allow it to be rediscovered at the same time. even brussels most famous statue the mannequin pierce has been given a flowering. figure was created by sculptor. in sixteen nineteen. tourists seem to like the new look. the first time i came here i found the statue a bit small i expected it to be bigger so i was a bit disappointed. but now that i'm seeing it for the second time it's very cute.

with these new decorations made by the artist i have to say it's very pretty. by finding an appropriate statue before he begins any work he needs permission from the local authorities. he uses wire mesh to create a mold which he will then attach the flowers to. in his studio helps the mash to hold it. and it's time to get really creative he arranges his chosen flowers to create made to measure the each statue. it's a slow process each flower takes ten hours. a complete. farm ottar hopes his works will breathe new life into the serious often forgotten statues in the city's parks and make people smile when they see them. because every day even some friends came to visit me from abroad from france and vietnam and they wanted to know who

the statues were of and i didn't know what to say. that's when i started to take an interest in them and eventually to engage with them and make them more colorful through my flowers because mr martin you have a different path it's not only for the tourists locals appreciate the change and begin to see these familiar monuments in a new light. everything by very much appreciate this initiative mainly because it draws attention to statues that have been a bit forgotten in the parts of brussels to give them a new color that we've never seen. they remind people of their presence. i find that sculpture over there particularly lively. each unique. place on the statue until the blossoms went. back in the fifty's and sixty's before the invention of low cost airlines londoners

used to holiday on the south east coast of britain margate was one of the many thriving seaside towns but with the eighty's recession as well the town took an even bigger hit and in a bid to improve things a big brand shopping outlet opened up but only three people away from the town and made the quaint little high street feel even more like a ghost town a few years on and the increasing house prices in london have helped make it an attractive coastal town once again. a sunny day out in margate for any florio and the freedman every day is like a holiday but you recently joined the fifty eight thousand residents of this coastal resort in southeast england they've opened an outlet of their fashion and furniture business here. i think it's really easy going place i find as i get a little bit older becomes very stressful. it takes me half an hour to drive into

work whereas here take me five minutes to walk to work people are just more relaxed it's just becoming so expensive i mean the business was doing well but i just couldn't afford to make ends meet. the end of the month i had no spare money to go out with my friends and really enjoy london has to offer. as london becomes a victim of its own success small towns reap the benefits since the turner gallery opened in in margate. twenty eleven it's become a destination for artists and other creative types we have really been the catalyst for the regeneration of market but there are a whole raft of other. i think staycation spritz in spending more time on holiday in the u.k. hopefully europeans are still coming to the u.k. . back in two thousand and eight was far from being a people magnet the financial crisis struck the seaside resort particularly hard

business is closed the mood was grim since then property agents have been counting their blessings in the past few years the prices for houses have gone up by twenty five percent on average and they're still selling like hotcakes. there's been a massive increase in young professional people coming down from london purchasing properties because of their prices which are getting on for half the price that they would expect to pay. me for leo could finally buy her own home here even down here in london's changed my life is just so lovely having my no sanctuary and so close that town center and to the seaside what more could you wish. and if she does get home sick london is just ninety minutes away by train. fish and chips is the most traditional british they signed for. and at the moment we're running a series it explores the diverse authentic cuisine that you can find in the series

started with the release of a book called fifty kitchens one city and today we visit a poser restaurant run by one of the six thousand a rainy and who live in the german capital. the time. to leave your home and go abroad means to lose something. if you leave behind your family relatives and friends in the hope of returning one day. on them and then if because of circumstances and events that happen later on you can't go back you miss it for the rest of your life. and. not poor was born the eldest of three children in southern iran in one nine hundred fifty seven he grew up in the capital tehran in the late one nine hundred seventy s. he came to berlin to study at the same time the islamic revolution began in iran.

while at university saeed started to work in catering and two thousand and four he opened his own restaurant. and old persian word meaning a house where you feel at home. he wants his guests not just to come and eat but also to experience the culture of his homeland. even. the idea was to make the people who come to my restaurant feel like they're entering another world. perhaps the world of one thousand and one nights. when you enter a restaurant you pass through different the parks. yes the middle room where i am now has the golden ceilings the glaring sun of iran. and from there you enter another room that we call the oriental lounge. the

decoration is from the seventeenth to eighteenth century. persian cuisine is known for its dude and grill dishes. saeed leaves the cooking up to his chefs but he knows precisely how it's supposed to taste. in the. weird year this war get normally they give me a taste of every studio they make and i sample it and tell them what might be missing for video on medication all included my mother cooked this way. and when i was invited to eat with someone else they had so much the same thing. but of course it was never as good as my mother's that's obvious. the iranians they specially the man very close to their mothers. and everything mamma makes is best i let my mom is the best. guy made by them john

is a lamb dish with eggplant and yellow peas. any ron it's served on many different occasions . it's all the more appealing because it's so easy to prepare. persian cuisine is known to be very mild but have intense flavors the recipes develop their full flavor during their long cooking times. dried limes are an essential part of every student they can be found in iranian or asian food shops. guy may bottom john is always served with rice the line i'm so give it an unmistakable flavor of its own. iran the dried limes are called limo money or limo. and the limes that grow in iran have

a very thin peel. they're different from the ones here in germany. when they're dried they turn dark brown or black inside and stay brown outside. and we use them in. only in astute dishes. the serai restaurant is located in the berlin district of film a story saeed and his wife meta live close by. they like being close to a feast and. with its many exclusive shops it's one of the capital's best known shopping bill of ours and tourist attractions in the western part of berlin. beilin is sean bell and is a piece of home from berlin may well be the only city in germany where i would live it's the first city i came to back that. i got to know the berliners i know them very well. that part of my life i'm sure i wouldn't get along with

a variant as well as i do with a ballin. and bill you know. poor has been living in germany nearly forty years now he's even got both nationalities but he wearily thinks about returning to his native homeland. and who's about to dream about them to tell you. john it's a question. now whilst we like to explore different coaches here on your marks we do love any chance to revel in german traditions when the time of first on the moment that is very easy to millions of people of flock to munich for the annual festival and those wanting a bit of fun away from the bear tents a trying out the bargain the attraction has been there for more than eighty years and it's very popular whilst in reality it is just

a helter skelter song at the firm lies just as much in the house and in the. the toboggan it's a longstanding favorites at the october past and a good place to enjoy along with all the people's expense. the only way to reach the top of the town and this line is on a treacherous combat about the first rule is to keep your hands off the radio. well shouldn't be too hard for me and i want to show them how to do it with my sportiness and elegance sportiness and elegance don't really have that high a priority.

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