restructuring. but it's still turning out films today. for germany's biggest an elitist film company. assume a magic history from the german empire to the present one hundred or so. starting february eighteenth g.w. . carver want to welcome to another edition of euro max i'm your host meghan li from i see music to spicy food we have a mixed bag on the show today here's a look at what's coming off. bright ideas the czech designer and her award winning like technology. cool sounds a norwegian musician plays instruments made of ice. cream

glossy history germany's according to world heritage site all presented in a new coffee table book. where you start off by shouting a little light on a lighting designer. called dove she combines the traditional glass blowing techniques with modern technology while her creations have earned her a number of accolades including designer of the year in the czech republic or wanted to hear more about what inspires this artist so we visit her in her studio in prague. lucio called over plays with light and the energy it radiates glass is her favorite material. the designer works with it to make objects that are both translucent and colorful like here with her lamp cups were. told of also combines different materials here and onyx stone divides the fragile glass hemispheres of this land called. earth light is

a phenomenon it's something that you cannot fully understand i mean it's it's very emotional it's a strong source of energy. so this is the main thing what fascinates me and together with glass and the transparencies the translucency the color the gloss and this is me i believe. after completing her studies at the academy of art architecture and design in the czech capital prague told of a move to paris that was back in two thousand and nine. in the meantime she's returned to prague where she has her studio. for her creativity involves teamwork designing a lamp is a complex task it takes time she says sometimes more than a year. the source is essential for lights and when i start designing i always keep

in mind what kind of source i need and i i build up the concepts based on the source you have. filament involves so many different kinds of source sources that you can play with. your cold over was a special guest of the i am cologne furniture trade fair. she was invited to design does house and you will installation that present selected designers ideas about living space. it comes as no surprise that in color of his interior lights plays the main role some of her lighting fixtures were created especially for the i am and. i wanted to show people what light can do in the interior in terms of atmospheres i think that if you are at home. the ideal case you should recover you should. say you should be able to

recharge your batteries and lights shoots should. provide you this this conference. call of as lamps are manufactured one hundred fifty kilometers southeast of prague and young stein in the broker's company's glass factory. when it was founded in the early nineteenth century it made every day glass objects. in one nine hundred ninety seven younger a bill but the factory modernized it and developed a new product line. he's been working with lucy it called of us since two thousand and ten. richard we're taking glasses very old. is very. classic bought to the mains demand seeing us seeing the glass blowers one tool more to simplify the seeing to do logon to invent something mule and apply the cern technique to. bind different

techniques to our eye for tool to pull us through these problems. told of his creations often challenge the glass blowers the shapes and sizes are unusual and require great skill. the pieces are entirely handmade mufon the first lamp that the designer created for broca's was her international breakthrough. now she's the company's art director. i follow my instincts and basically i try to express what i have inside and this is this like creator stealing that you think that you have something to say and i'm trying to express by objects and by lights. and then if the younger the other people if they understand

what i have to say and they cherish the work and the objects that it's like an added value. in her search for something new to called of often pushes the limits of what's possible and in doing so she creates timeless and poetic shapes of like. the british royals a william and kate captured the headlines this week with their whirlwind tour of scandinavia now it's prince harry's turn he and his bride to be meghan markle made a public appearance in london more on that at the top of today's express. on thursday prince harry and his fiance meghan markle attended the endeavor funded words in london that honors the achievements of ailing and injured military personnel. anticipation had been running high as it was the first awards ceremony the couple has taken part in together. that there is such

a way to make. thank you so much and good evening i'm truly privileged to be here. maybe markel charmingly glossed over a minor glitch when a co presenter had trouble with a list of nominees so. thank you prince harry himself a former military man has long actively supported disabled veterans. on thursday the funeral cortege museum in lisbon opens an exhibition of portuguese street artist villains his works normally murals on the sides of buildings are displayed here as prints the thirty one year old artist whose real name is alexander farto is known for his original techniques he grinds chisels or even blasts his images into building walls. strength is too old for to represent spain. at this year's euro vision song contest

the singers will travel to lisbon for the euro vision finals on may twelfth to perform their ballad to come soon or your song. strange is one of the big five contributors to the european broadcasting union which produces the song contest. have already secured a place in the fine. they are among the rarest instruments in the world and when the temperature starts to rise they will simply melt i'm talking about ice instruments now they are so delicate that even the players breath can put them out of tune well there are only a few musicians worldwide who can play on ice and target is song set is one of them and he's a jazz musician who has been playing on ice instruments for some twenty years and he's about to embark on

a world tour we caught up with him in munich. it's like music from a dream world. terry is song set plays instruments crafted from ice they're almost too cold for his lips but produce a curiously warm sound kind of warm and gentle and some low frequent bass sounds that it's amazing. to see which is frasier to go in through our universe or other souls. or three or use that. cheery easten safe hails from norway. the well known jazz musician and composer also plays more conventional music but he loves to experiment. if his ice instruments begin to melt his tour would end. the musician will only play on

natural ice no artificial substitute will do he says. it has no sustain no soul it's just. not like this this is going to take. he tunes his instruments using a knife and new instruments are exclusively sourced from scandinavian lakes during the deepest of winter even though i go through the same leg there's no guarantee i have a good sound the best sound i ever had all from north of sweden two thousand and three that's a really good year on very interested in buying that office. it takes about an hour to tune each and every frozen instrument and after each song the instruments go straight back into the freezer. he discovered his passion for ice music in one thousand nine hundred nine when he was asked to perform by a half frozen waterfall in little hammer norway.

stole the sounds from the whole thing water even some pieces of ice so that's where it's all started. to release and set records the c d's in an igloo inside his instruments would melt as quickly the sound of his special instruments changes once they're surface temperature rises we have to watch the ice carefully though with a shake when it starts melting we might need to finish this on something that's why is concerts don't last for more than an hour even with the heating turned off but inches don't seem to mind there mesmerized by the dreamy sounds. only the most outstanding testimonies of human in natural history carry the title you nest go world heritage site one thousand and seventy three sites worldwide are

protected under this designation in forty two of them are in germany well to visit them all would take quite a while but thanks to this new weighty coffee book you don't have to go visit them so let's take a look inside. germany currently has forty two sites on unesco's world heritage list they include the pilgrimage church of venus in stein cognitive area. national park under reagan with its chalk cliffs in beach forests. cologne cathedral. and the caves in ice age art in this way be enjoyed some of the world's oldest figurative art a statuette of a woman. and a lion man figurine were found here near there some forty thousand years old stripped on from for control this is simply the beginning of our culture yes. they're the first known artworks to have been produced in europe. and it is one of

the main researchers whose name has come out and says he's always searching elsewhere to find something older one of them already never finds anything so maybe at some point you just have to accept the fact that they're the oldest of the distance. korean hina visited all of germany's world heritage sites and wrote the texts for the coffee table book which weighs in at five kilos. bombay's photographer going to a bio took the pictures the two men spent three years travelling around germany for the project. the if i mean should you get tired of taking photos of nice weather and blue skies a cloudy day can also be very interesting and the central sun inside the prehistoric piled welling's near unto olding and on lake constance in southern germany this is how people lived here seven thousand years ago the houses are reconstructions only fragments of the original buildings remain the limes roman

border fortifications once ran through present day germany from the rhine to the danube. we decided to do this really has some cultural significance or but you look at it and you just see all standing there. but in this case i look at the background at night you know a picture that makes the wall seem to glow against the landscape. the wall was originally five hundred fifty kilometers long punctuated by nine hundred towers and one hundred twenty roman forts it was the largest european structure of its time thousands of soldiers were stationed along its. border they were well paid for their families along they were tradesmen and lived in villages nearby the stations were all well supplied with prostitutes innkeepers then everything or other is thinking. back to the future one nine hundred twenty four another world cultural heritage site is the bauhaus school indes out guided by me finder always motto less

is more and the buildings by modern architecture pioneer look who's credo was a house is a machine to live in. austin has that sold for an industrial complex one of the biggest and most just thetic coal mines ever built it was shut down in one thousand nine hundred six now it's an architectural monument. from cooking oil it's from destroying you know most of the coal preparation plant everything came from the same fans and there is strange and but very tasteful and of course it was also the most important. starting in two thousand and one the industrial complex was converted into an art and cultural complex it receives one and a half million visitors annually. the most part lies in germany and poland prince pichler conceived as a vast blooming and blossoming landscape covering eight hundred thirty hectares he

planted eight hundred thousand trees and in the process went bankrupt. in the seventeenth century prince charles of hesychast so had the barrack part for him sooner or later out in cost it was a status symbol for rulers competing with one another for beautiful palaces and gardens to hide from the absolute highlight was a fountain go through the fourteen third one and best sign that shot water twenty seven meters into the air so charles it has to go on that shot fifty meters into the air. the going forward would have had a field day with that one ops magician pushed into important. world heritage sites can tell us things about human vanity and the fashions of various era's. they also relate the richness of the natural world which is why ancient and primeval beach forests have a place on the world heritage list to. the architecture of entire towns like mom there is also inscribed on you know stones list but there's one thing all these sites have in common the world would be

a much poorer place without them. and just as you don't have to travel very far to see all of those wonderful you know sco world heritage sites you don't have to travel very far here in berlin to experience international cuisine today for ongoing series fifty kitchens one city we are featuring indian food from a british chef enjoy. i've been in ten years and i have to say i feel increasingly less connected to. feel much more strongly european than i do british but of course you know if a country behind it's always it's always there and there would be someone. karlen grinstead is head chef at berlin's news a restaurant for her cooking used to be a hobby now almost by coincidence it's become her profession when she moved to

berlin in two thousand and nine with her german partner to be a stellar they didn't know anyone. and both missed sharing meals with friends. so they started what they called the supper club. you know that's what a supper club is when you you cook for people whom you don't know in your home and typically they make a voluntary contribution towards the costs at the end of the night but it's not something that is for a for profit it's not a i think a lot of people do start supper clubs as a bit of a test to see if they want to run a restaurant but for us that was not the case we were really just love to cook and entertain people and we wanted to get to new people. the software club idea originally invented in cuba here in earth soon there was even a waiting list with diners eager to sample their food their small flat head space for just twenty guests so when the premises of

a family restaurant became available in the neighborhood they jumped at the chance . they spent four weeks renovating building much of the furniture and interior decorator themselves. they opened in august twenty third ninety guests came on opening night. i have never trained as a chef professionally my mother is actually very good but i did not learn from her when i was a child. i was more interested in eating i guess than that and cooking but then i moved away when i went to university and it was to be honest a bit of a shock to realise that get fit doesn't appear automatically on the table at the end of every day so i started cooking because i wanted to feed myself but i found that i really enjoyed. trigon tikka masala is one of the most popular dishes in britain today. many even consider it their new national

dish prefer it to the famous fish and chips. chicken tikka masala is a popular dish with indian roots but ordering the dish in a restaurant in india would be met with bafflement really or was invented in britain. after world war two indians and bangladeshis opened restaurants in britain serving up specialties from their home countries. i think what makes chicken tikka masala so british is that it's an adaptation of a food culture that has been brought to us by immigrants what we've always done

there in britain is we've adapted things that have arrived in our country from other cultures and we've made them into our so this dish was created in an indian restaurant by indian chair who took british citizenship and became his citizens and their their own third culture for the tastes of the native british people. her restaurant news is located in the east. berlin district of plains lower back it's a laidback area with many young families the restaurants cozy flair is perfectly suited to this district. carolyn was born in the english city of bristol in one nine hundred seventy eight she grew up with two older sisters and a younger brother. as a child she dreamed of becoming a veterinarian later she studied philosophy at cambridge university. then she worked as an event manager in london and now she's running a restaurant in berlin. i sometimes feel like i'm

a bit of an ambassador for british food i can't tell you how many people have postponed a face when they told when they walk in the british and you can see that they're expecting something all for lesser itself so i hope very much that i fall it's a new perception of british food and modern british culture to. carolyn and to be as served up in international british cuisine and their supper club lives on to once a month for food lovers gather in their restaurant for this unique culture every tradition. today i prepared to can take him if you want to britain's new national basis i hope you enjoy it when you. fashion is cyclical even for socks socks that your bunch up and combined with high heeled shoes are back in fashion it's a throwback to the style of the nineteen eighties well as you can see i'm not

exactly sure if it's my cup of tea but you know what we ladies try to just about anything. catherine white tennis socks are back to the roar of gents and this is how their sport in this day and age there combined with a casual look as jared leto does here. longer versions are back to pop star justin bieber done such a pair as a good. musician and t.v. host russell brand seems to like the new look as well tennis socks have definitely made a comeback. would you wear them home why not it's not my style so comfortable i always wear tennis so. they made me think of squares i can't imagine wearing them. if i can combine them with. the charm of them and that style they're so retro and such a modern look when you're older. these retro socks can be

purchased on the net or in stores you can even get to a tennis socks for a measly ninety euros for a single pair that is. so maybe a more down to earth sock will have to do what explains this tennis sock hype anyway. so i'm going to i think tennis socks are an easy way of getting attention on via mainstream crowd prefers wearing the latest socks with dark side was blown for is so tender socks are a good way to make a statement with a look at me i'm different statements that's been done to us meanwhile tennis socks are just as popular with the ladies influencer chiara fed on you and pop star katy perry for them. and social media starlet car adele or even combines them with high heels maybe that makes the shoes more comfortable either way tennis socks are back in style. all right we'll see how long that lasts before we go we want to announce

the winner of this week's quiz now in the spirit of carnival in venice we wanted to know what your favorite carnival costume is and thank you to all of you who sent in photos but there can be only one winner and that is j.m. oropeza from caracas in venezuela so congratulations jim you have one yourself and your own max watch we will get that off to you right away and with that we are out of time but join us again tomorrow for our highlights edition and the best picks of the week thanks for tuning in. the next time on your own max all the highlights of the week out for jog or for on our coalmine illuminates holy places. because. ours was fairly relives a bygone era every winter bad song the best response on the greek island of crete

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