It's monday, January 28th 2008, and the Berlin Fashion Week 2008 has just started..

Just like in the previous years the programme is quite comprehensive - here's two links to two websites that might help getting a good first overview:

www.berlin-fashionweek.de
here you'll find the Fashion Week's programme (January 25th - February 3rd), compiled in a downloadable large size pdf-document as well as in a compact table which will open in a popup-window..

www.fashion-week-berlin.com
you'll find the programme also on this website - a bit more detailled, listing also the links and addresses for all related designers and labels etc..  

..enjoy the shows! t..

the exhibition "Eero-Aarnio-Retrospective" just ended (January 4th, 2008) and I take the oppotunity to publish some of the images I took already last year when visiting the exhibition at the Felleshus of the Nordic Embassies Berlin. I am sorry that it took me so long to get them uploaded - I 'just' had to work on them 'a little bit' - and that can take time..:]

The exhibition began already on the November 8th, 2007 - and some of the most famous and mabe even moste spectacular works of Eero Aarnio were shown..

Ball Chair, 1963

Pastil Chair (yellow, red), 1968
Mushroom Chair (white), 1961

Mushroom series: stool, chair, lounge chair
original title: Juttu
1961/1962

left: Polaris, 1966
right: UPO-023, 1972

Copacabana electric guitar, 2006

Puppy seat / furniture / toy 2005

left: table Parabel, 2002
right: chair Focus, 2002

..further information about Eero Aarnio and many of his works can also be found from the following websites:
-> www.eeroaarnio.com (official Homepage)
-> www.eero-aarnio.com (Aarnio-page of the company Adelta Ltd.)
-> web page about the exhibition at www.nordicembassies.org

..looking for an oportunity to go for a design related stroll across Berlin's destrict Mitte..? This Saturday (November 24th, 16h-20h) might be a very good option: almost fifty shops, galleries, show rooms, workshops and studios are open for the design interested shopper.

The 'Berlin Design Tour' is organized by the Berlin design network berlindesign.net - a list of all participants as well as a map of Mitte is available as a PDF-Download from their website..

The title "Designers' Flea Market" might be a bit misleading - but that's actually what it says on this flyer I just found on my desktop:

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Designers' Flea Market
(Sample Sale)
at Apartment
Memhard Str. 8
Berlin Mitte
(www.apartmentberlin.de)

with:
Cheap Monday, Penkov, Fiona Bennett, Reality Studio, von Wedel & Tiedeken, MIROÏKE, blush, klein corpse, Ellen Allien, Ilse, Pulver, Vladimir Karaleev, c-neeon, Penelope's Sphere, "jewelry by susanne" and Maiami.

the "Flea Market" is only open on Sunday, 21st of October between 2pm and 8pm.

..happy Sunday-Shopping..:] t..