[000:00:00;00] the it's time to give her up for some spectacular landscapes as we are off to a well kept secret in iceland. also we'll look into the high end business of handmade chandeliers, a manufacturer in vienna. shares its story, and buddhist architecture. are these 19 fifties buildings, things of beauty, or rather massive monstrosities. this in more coming up to date on your role max. the

but 1st it's off to bosnia herzegovina, to see how one sculptor transforms a typical every day writing instrument into a masterful work of art. a pencil is so much more than a writing implement. it can also be carved into delicate master pieces like these crafted by buzz me and pencil artist. yes, include georgia beach let's see people. um it must, it got obviously volume score to it as opposed to ad phones. i like sculpture based on the because it's 3 dimensional to it on and of course, creating one on a pencil that is very complicated that the nibble clean, that it takes you to a higher level. and that's precisely what fascinating this meal about, this kind of odd with the artist has already produced. more than 200 pencil

sculptures. his motives include the world's tallest building, device board, calissa tower, and an interpretation of edified monks. the screen through his work hole pencils become trains passing through tunnels. yeah, it should be on the likely. so normally i choose things that are right around the item that i the sometimes i also work on objects that come from pop culture article to it. but in most cases, i choose my teeth from my immediate surround thinking with even this i, or cause in his whole city of to is that he's already immortalized numerous tourist attractions. in graphite, like the statute of king for code, the 1st of bosnia, or the former gate of a dresser, dating from the 17th century and the public fountain built in moorish style. yes and cold joy tibbetts has already found his next motif always on

us, yet applicant. what's behind us? as a replica of the old salt? well, how is that? we used to mine salt lake, but there is nothing for it sold 5, it's a, it's a name to us. the self derives from to the to contribute for sold. does not you. so, george of each miniature pencil sculptures has been attracting attention for a decade now. he's presented his art is more than 30 exhibitions around the world. and recently, at a gallery in paris, georgia beach cannot live from his art. the price is for his pencil sculptures. start at $400.00 euros and depend on their complexity the t needs between 5 and 10 hours to reflect the design. but it can take days to refine it for his miniature tower, he uses numerous scuffle blades as well as needles of election audit. nicky with

dave at the but it just got to just easier to with on subjects like the human body of the way you can correct the shape of a few things while you were working these of it to the good where is buildings have strictly straight line i'm assuming that must be followed precisely about the lean nicholas symbol. what are you supposed to look at? yes, angle george of age puts the finishing touches on right in front of his subject. here it's the tower stretch that make for the most interested work. it requires has full concentration and dexterity to ensure the graph doesn't break before the artwork finished log in with the total it. and that's because any of the many of the size of the test now has already been kept to take in photographs and painting the talk with them. i want to use my skill and this kind of out for you to still to present these motifs. and then you were able to split, posted the day with the of for causing that could do after several hours,

his work is completed, two's less. southwell tower has been cut down to size and fits on the tip of a pen. so the west fjords in iceland are a true natural paradise and a well kept secret. the remote peninsula lies in the north west of the country and just sparsely populated, even by iceland x standards. perhaps that's why it's worth discovering. the fascinating landscape has also caught the eye of nature, photographer, eisley royce, the secluded beaches towering water falls and spectacular landscapes for all found in the west fjords ice limbs remote natural splendor. just look at the view, you can see how beautiful it is,

the west towards our amazing and there's no place on earth blankets and all around you have touched beauty and land. finally, royce has lived here for almost 5 years. she draws inspiration from it for her photography, and her enthusiasm is by no means hers alone. the australian lonely planet travel guide lifted the west fjords among its best in travel areas for 2020 to $1.00 of isley royce. favorite spots is a thing. yeah. and they waterfall the most challenging things for me. i think as a photographer, are the weather here and the elements because the weather and the elements can both be unforgiving. they can be not so kind to you at times. and it's always good to be prepared for all situations here. the west fjords are a vast maze of fjords and peninsulas. distances are long. the best way to get around it by car, but in winter,

many of the roads stay closed. we have on this abundance of nature and there's no one around. and so you can go hiking driving and there won't be anyone around and you'll have it pretty much it all to yourself. in some ways, i would say the west fjords makes me feel like i'm in another planet, or it's just somewhere so far, like i'm at the edge of the earth or something. only about 10 percent device lens tourists ever see the west fjords where summer's are short and winter's long. the land kind of shows do you like who's in charge here and the weather because in the end, like the conditions are so harsh in the winter and, and just gives you much appreciation for it. the german american is not only a photographer, but also a filmmaker. on her travels around the island,

she observes for coast arctic foxes, surfers breathing extreme conditions and much more stretching 10 kilometers along the west fjords. south western edge is literally the sun towed for red sands, the color of this and is a rare exception to iceland normally pitch black volcanic sand beaches. eisley royce likes to go jogging here. i really enjoy this beach here in the us yards because the remoteness and the uniqueness of it specifically if i were to go to the north sea in germany or beach and southern california, it'd be crowded with people. but here i can just enjoy that nature as it is just to the west rises to allow traviata, prominent tory, the clips tower up to 450 meters high. i really can spend hours here just watching the birds listening to the waves,

photographing the birds even taking it off and just relaxing. it's really beautiful and peaceful lounge sort of the out because also well known as one of the world's largest bird clips making it a popular photo subject. during the summer, millions of sea birds nest on it, including puffins. you can get up close and personal with them here. i found it very easy for me living here in iceland and i think the challenges weren't so negative in my opinion. um the remoteness, i like the remoteness, i don't mind being by myself can be lonely. you have a lot of darkness, but if you have a close group of friends in the community to be with them, i find it okay. just over 200 kilometers, ne lies east fiesta, the largest town in the west fjords with a population of 2700. it started as a few wooden houses built by fishmonger and the 18th and 19th centuries. now eisley

royce, to lives here, i really can't at the moment see myself living anywhere else in the world. i mean, look at this place. where else can you find a view like this and beautiful nature and think so secluded and so far away from all the stress of the big cities in life. and here is just perfect for me. ice lens, west fjords, a beautiful region still waiting to be discovered the time now the shed some light on the business of handmade chandeliers. today, most of them are produced by machines because making them the traditional ways too expensive. only a handful of companies still dedicate themselves to the craft,

and one can be found in austria's capital vienna. the just a few finishing touches, then it's complete. the starbucks chan delay is load myers most famous item all over the world. this renowned v and these companies, chandeliers transform ordinary rooms into bold rooms. the manufacturer has a reputation for its extraordinary lights and designs, $200.00 of which are sold in more than 40 countries. every year. the company has been hand crafting chandeliers, since 1850. so beautiful, the team is united by a passion for croft. this one is perfect, least up to me. okay. i've always been fascinated by like we use traditional craft techniques and then we have the light. so there's a lot of variety to our staff. it affects them to buy. ready to use high shot to build the frame for the chandelier,

and then makes the pipe fittings swastikas distorted pieces of pipeline causing a useful addition to the think that with the beams and also to the pipe over the illumination waterford. they also like the. ready top to be cut to size the pieces of family touch together. for example, in this step called appraising, then the surfaces are finished elsewhere. ringback afterwards they go to eric mandel, he is responsible for the assembly and the electrical parts all the table connections are discreetly hidden in the chandelier. once the frame is finished, the work begins on for this particular piece consists of 16 lamps and about 500 gloss stein's telescope

vehicle shed leo way 16 kilograms tend to be shipped to the united states. so that's also a challenge for us to see the home because we export a lot, we always have to meet this specific electrical requirements for that country. and with the integrating the elect click for the items, it says that means that writing sockets for that contract and then the wiring problem, everything has to feed the regulations of that country for, for the big thing with this is playing along this. it will definitely be a lot easier if we could just put wex candles on each one. they would work every with the full dish and uh it goes out to the customer. the boss has one last look. we'll do the safety test for the usa tomorrow. uh, this one has really turned down while i definitely, yeah, sure. and where do i get on? of the company has high profile customers all over the world. scott interior, designer fair is roughly what are the custom size style the chandelier. for canadian rapids, drake, he supervisor the installation at drake's luxury mansion in toronto along with the

team from lo, my, a dental stuff for the vision to leah. we made for drake. was this model but considerably larger at 3.8 when he does fire kind of and it is the 2nd largest gym to layer that's kind of next to the original at the metropolitan opera in new york in the middle part of that will buy in new york, the original was designed in vienna in the 19 sixty's for the metropolitan opera house in the 19th century load. my decorated king lunatic. the seconds has in teams a causal in southern germany. load maya chandel is also decorate one of the small ball rooms in vienna's imperial palace. the hospital as well as the auditorium of the v in a state opera, and the athens constant hold the dilutes the east fit into the option to leah is a grand object forever and

a very dominant part of the architecture is even all the design. it is just that one detail needed to complete the overall assemblage. i can see that one detail comes at a price. the cost of, of the chandelier starts in the $5.00 digit range, and from the, the sky's the limit, fine craftsmanship for an exclusive clientele. the it's, it's aggressive and people are divided over its beauty, brutal list architecture. it's a style that developed in the 1950s but last popularity in the 1980s because people viewed it as too cold. many examples, however, still exist and have developed a cult following, especially in the u. k, where the movement began clean

lines, plenty of concrete and monumental b, this the architectural style known as brutal, isn't polarizes like no other. some see the heavy weight buildings as oppressive. others say they are daring ventures in architecture that deserve to be seen and protected. a personalized architecture for me is such an exciting fold and i'm vicious project. it's really also squeezed into very few days in the 20th century. but in those days, we managed to build some of the most fantastic and bows and adventurous buildings that the country's ever seen. conservator, henrietta billing says, put her fascination with brutal ism to paper. she's created a map of 50 buildings in this style around london. one of her favorites can be found in west london, the 98 meter high traffic tower. it was designed as social housing by the british

on gary and architect and new gold thinker and completed in 1972. back then, it was the you case, thomas residential, high rise and nickname, the tower of terror because of the areas, fi crime rate. but these days it's a popular residential area. and the iconic building is even available as a souvenir clinic tower. it is a real landmark of london, not only because of its app. so the monumental architecture. it's really striking silhouette, but it's also really recognizable from anywhere. um and it's probably one of the reasons why it's being so successful in terms of merchandising. back to the center, the capital's biggest on some of the brutalized architecture is located in the city, london's financial district. here we find the barbican designed by the british architecture firm chamberlain, powell and font, when it was opened in 1982 queen elizabeth the 2nd describes it as a modern wonder of the world. visitors can learn about its unique concept in guided

tours to using this, the massive concrete is would be impossible today. it would just be far too energy intensive, in fact, too expensive. but not only that is the technique with which they used to create the surface and it is using a drill essentially welcoming drilling this surface to create this really on even texture. the barbican includes a performing arts center, an art gallery and residential complexes. architect melanie issue that has renovated some 2000 of the plats for clients. she's lived in one of them herself for a while and knows that many of her former neighbors are banned. so brutally some personal isn't well, i really like it. but i think if you come with know troy and knowledge of fruit to live in order baba can or the modern architecture, i think it's, it's but difficult. intermittent green areas form a waste seats in the urban deserts. the 3 residential towers reaching 123 meters

high number among london's thomas building, also unique for the fireworks reserved for pedestrians while road traffic past has been a. henrietta buildings also appreciates the bar begins shifting perspectives and simplicity. we're just looking at stat k 2 into one of the blogs, but it's just 3 simple materials, concrete stealing plus. what i love about is just the simplicity of it, of 3, that simplicity you get designs like this and, and 3 because you see the concrete steps. and again, you see the still finest is to even 3. the class. you see the same repetition of materials. i love it. on the south bank of the thames between westminster palace and tower bridge stands london's most prominent, brutally structure, the royal national theatre designed by english architect. so dennis, less than and completed in 1976. prince charles once compared it to a nuclear power plant. the complex was renovated for some 100000000 years,

and while the theater is protected, other brutal, the structures are in danger of demolition. what we need to be careful of is diminishing these buildings because we think that they have less funny because we think that that more than, than they do any protecting. but actually, it's exactly why we do need to make sure that the best examples of protected a brutal isn't an architectural style that divides opinion which is definitely worth seeing. the more your ups, the rich culture on facebook discover stunning landscape. enjoy our fine cuisine with your own that's bringing you a wealth of,

of in europe and traditions taking action. so be sure to check out our facebook page. many called list delicacy, black gold, truffles, shavings from black. truffles are added to dishes, to give them a richer flavor, these mushrooms ro, seasonally in the south of france, where you can take part in the search for them. it helps, though, to have a nose your companion along in the hunt. this is not an ordinary walk for a dog. molly here is specially trained to find so called black diamonds in france, highboy and i'm making leave from your own french delicacy. black truffles and i have a 4 legged friend here to help me out with the climate and soil here make for ideal conditions without health, from a well trained nose finding these delicacies wouldn't be difficult. alexis is omar,

and his family have been specializing in, travels for 3 generations very, very strong night. good job. my good. yeah. so alex is tell me how do truffles grow in the ground? don't let him. so a truffle is a mushroom that lives and cindy uses with a tree. without the presence of a tree, the travel cannot develop. so this black travel costs around 35 years. why is it so expensive? i don't see c, c, shop it expensive because it doesn't sprout like white mushrooms, but the trouble doesn't grow so easily in the fields in a compost. there are several parameters for developing the trouble of culture. so that with those parameters include a soil that is rich in limestone, and at the same time, soft and moist. the truffles here develop at the base of oak trees. the weather plays an important role. truffles also need plenty of water,

but even with the ideal conditions in place, there is no guarantee of finding a trustful, even the keenest of knows it's might, there's nothing here. she ate the trouble, so i guess that was her treat for finding which also affects the price. currently one kilo or about 25 black truffles can fetch between 701000 years. during the harvest season, visual mar, family organizes groups to go trustful, hunting. once gathered, the truffles are carefully washed and the impurities are removed. but how do you determine if the truffle is good and wait? a good traveler must be firm a good black color, and it must be fragrant until it gets much aside from producing truffles, there's your mar family also runs a bed and breakfast where functional mar, seen here on the right, is in charge of cooking for the guest. i mean well, so what are we making today? it looks like it's simple,

scrambled eggs are on the menu the . what does the trussel give to the a very, to give a lump of eggs or a fatty substance like cream, oil and butter. he definitive fuses quite well, the sense of the trouble, which on the pleasant year, that's what we're going to put in the eggs is complement of the recipe is easy enough to follow. all you need are fresh x and then shavings from a trustful black. truffles don't respond well to high heat, they can quickly lose their properties so their best added quickly to a dish for flavor. this delicious taste very earthy like

a hint of woods in my mouth. you can also add truffles to a mild coming bear which absorbs the aroma through this experience, i learned that the search for these black diamonds is a very delicate business. but after having them in my eggs, i can't honestly say, i don't think that i can have them any other way. another day's work has gone to the dogs. but when working with marley here in france, that's a good thing. and that wraps up today's show. be sure to check us out on social media for more from the world of culture and lifestyle. thanks for tuning in and be sure to join us again next week,

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