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design it's 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 in bahaman. well it's 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 in the top of its 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 are of course it's vast natural landscapes with forests and lakes but also it's 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 helsinki's 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. it's very democratic so it's you can say that it's almost every household has a classic design piece so you actually grow up with it. the

classics are something that i'm sure that you're 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 ravi and glass producer. to celebrate the one hundredth anniversary of finland's independence they've released collections in the typically finnish believe but the designs them sounds remain unchanged because they mirror the finnish 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 it's its functionality but

still. plessy a beauty with simplicity maybe the country's 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 finish design. in the 1940's and fifty's revolutionized industrial design with his icy looking glass where. frank did the same with his robust timeless drinking glasses high quality craftsmanship and a nod to nature arche even in the sixty's 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 sixty's 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 isn't

only found in museums such pieces exist in ordinary homes where they're handed down from generation to generation it's 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 for everybody and design wish to stick you. in the ingredient of that so i think that's why the news is on it's become so important for for all fairness if you say that for the french for example it's a bottle wind up for symbolizes french french people are friends in total for friends it's of his because his there's. a fashion designer you dana constance sees herself as part of this tradition she's been selling her colorful collections made from sheep and reindeer pelts under the owner label since twenty fourteen and she

hoped. to create the fashion class except to morrow. i really wish and i hope that the fashion design on the fashion that's an industry will call more recognizable in finland and there would be more understanding towards the fashion industry in the fashion design us well because i really badly about we have a really strong design heritage and now it's the time for a fresh and absolutely. international customers who flock to her store to fry's to . fresh design talent from finland adding extra color to the country's 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 today's express.

finland marks one hundred years of independence with a spectacular light display the art project luminous sun sees the famous film sun a mountain bathed in light it's part of the finland one hundred project which celebrates the country's centenary with a variety of events. the stars came out for the fashion awards in london on monday britain's agwai about was named model of the year. and designer 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 innovations that are different but i think fashion supposed to be about moving on and a bit more modern in your approach that we all need to get the festival's. allstream crystal produces photo of ski 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. celebrities like supermodel naomi campbell and singers rita ora and sam smith well or so on hand for the celebrations. maybe the enthusiasm wasn't mutual but france's first lady. 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 as the 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 well now he's 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 it's the amazon rain forest and it's in the german city of hanover. this three hundred sixty degree panorama is the latest project by artist yogic 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 world's largest. user complex 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 think if. 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 it's not a car cc's 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 i'm 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 what assisi took a giant step and produced his first panorama in life stg mount everest i began not really knowing what i was doing i didn't have a cent my pocket but i went to the public utility company in leipzig and said we have to do this. since then he's produced twelve large scale pattern rama's in

berlin he's recreated the wall. another panorama shows what it was like to live in vietnam bag during martin luther's 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. it's come through and a meditative element is becoming part of it people walk around in it and that way they're in charge of what they see there's no one to tell them look this way or look that way or for how long. a day turns into night every fifteen minutes to magic weather conditions and dazzling sunrises they're all there to see in the world's biggest nature panorama. well it's 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 they've 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 establishments many guests have no qualms over lifting much bigger booty so here are. five surprising things people steal from her talents. in a five star hotels management is not so bad what about disappearing soap. or even contrary . they're more concerned about holding on to them on works and rightly so then number five on our list of surprising things that hotel guests take with them around thirty percent of five star hotels have reported this kind of fact.

it's not all the guests manage to snaffle away in their suitcases number four on our list of strange things that disappear from hotels bedspreads and do bags. 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 visitors get so attached to that television they take it home with them that's number three on our list of crazy hotel souvenirs it particularly of thanks launch hotels with lots of guests five percent of those polled said they'd come across this sort of crime. a good mattress can not only provide an excellent night's sleep it may also be worth several thousand euros number two in

the stakes for bizarre hotel facts this rarely affects low budget accommodation five percent of luxury hotels say they've lost mattresses they probably get taken out during the night someone is clearly asleep on the job and it isn't the thieves . playing the piano is often the last one to turn out the light body mind or be the last person at the piano number one on a list of unusual things that disappeared from hotels grand piano one such prized instrument disappeared from the lobby of a luxury hotel and. it's thought to be the only fact 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 comic this is nani 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 about how should she be painted and what should her hair be like what clothes does she wear what environment does she live in what's her story what's her back story.

the filmmaker assembles everything herself inside rubberbands create the necessary tension each donor is one of a kind that's what makes them so valuable. this was my first all while putting her together i made a mistake right at the start because i couldn't 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 doesn't happen any more. hunting no designs her own parts. 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 can't see that on

the model i see if the shape of the head is ok this one looks like this. and that's how evelyn hunted won the hearts of don't 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 it's great. most of her dolls also contain parts from other designers and thinks that's important it's a way for those in the scene to share ideas. worth several hundred euros so they're not meant as toys. to i play with them as in reenacting stories but i do use them a lot for photo shoots i take them outside for instance. and also makes guns on

commission the only condition is that she retains the artistic freedom to paint them as she chooses. as there aren't many people doing this kind of thing so you can do lots of experimenting without anyone telling you something can't be done. the one thing evelyn hansen hasn't managed to do is travel to south korea it's home to many professional don't make those like yourself and naturally her favorite creations. come along for the ride. in this week's series we're visiting christmas markets all across germany and anyone who is into food well 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 even 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 it's cooked in a way that would truly horrify most champions of clean eating and trust me that's exactly why it's so delicious. it's the advent season in but iman time to visit the christmas markets surrounding deployment of all and land sciatic citizens and mark and it's more than six hundred year old town hall. together they've been listed as a masco well heritage site since two thousand and four program hundred sixty stands set against the historic backdrop drawing more visitors every year many try the typical blame and speciality is like curly kale i meant style. i was fond of it's part of the holiday season when people eat heart here dishes. is the quintessential claim and when today they demand 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 it's a favorite mainly in the north it's also popular in central europe north america and africa. doesn't like to experiment when it comes to preparing it. with cooked or smoked sausage cured pork. but when they start making kale and candy i'm not so sure i get it that it's 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

they've always said that kale tastes best once it's got a really good frost that's when it should be harvested when the bitter compounds are at a minimum. the kale has to be washed and the stems removed one. 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. 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 footstool. then the whole thing has to simmer for two hours. being pill is a smoked fatty sausage with oats and barley grogs it used to be made and smoked at home. braman term 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 is a kind of banquet held every february in a prime in town hall it's an important social event in the region. primus history is closely tied to the hands and shipping with its medieval fame stalls the christmas market on the banks of the visa river relives those golden age. based on holders dressed like cans. and i warn about the traditional kale dishes. well the first thing i'd recommend would be all spice which is a very typical ingredient for the braman kale and. 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 a monroe county cal. got. in with a group called you can take the cable box and walk around the christmas market but that warms your hands and you can eat it on the go without spoiling anything might come out of it that's one click of. kale gathers with fresh smoked pork chops boiled sausage potatoes. but how does it taste from a counter go box. it's not really delicious don't you think so i want to begin with the my brain is always worth a try out on the christmas market it's just fantastic here the river bank is wonderful and the downtown has some charm. party

food and a festive atmosphere and northern german city of by many 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 our of this week's 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 up until next time to send off a dove in. next time on your own max finding inspiration on the streets of berlin designer emma often uses manhole covers to read unusual textile prints she also

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