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Baccarat Gallery Museum, Paris, France
Saturday, 1 Aug, 2009 – 15:55
Baccarat Gallery Museum, Paris, France

Dazzling special commissions, sets of glasses of exceptional craftsmanship, vases and decorative objects demonstrating matchless technical and stylistic skills which reflect the evolution of the different movements of the Decorative Arts.
Maison Baccarat is situated in a unique …

Holocaust Memorial Berlin by Peter Eisenman, Berlin
Monday, 20 Jul, 2009 – 14:44
Holocaust Memorial Berlin by Peter Eisenman, Berlin

The Memorial to the Murdered Jews of Europe in the centre of Berlin is Germany’s central Holocaust memorial site, a place for remembrance and commemoration of six million victims.
The Memorial consists of the Field of …

Esma Sultan Palace, Istanbul by Gokhan Avcioglu
Monday, 1 Jun, 2009 – 9:54
Esma Sultan Palace, Istanbul by Gokhan Avcioglu

Esma Sultan Palace was built approximately 200 years ago for Esma Sultan, an Ottoman Sultan’s wife as a summer palace. Destroyed by fire over a century ago, the exterior brick walls are all that remain of …

Österreicher im MAK , Vienna, Austria
Friday, 27 Feb, 2009 – 16:59
Österreicher im MAK , Vienna, Austria

Österreicher im MAK is the new interpretation of Viennese ‘Gasthaus’.. It is inside Museum of Applied Arts (MAK) and run by the star chef Helmut Österreicher since 2006. With modern architecture from “Eichinger oder Knechtl” …

Casa Malaparte, Capri
Tuesday, 17 Feb, 2009 – 8:56
Casa Malaparte, Capri

Casa Malaparte is one of the most beautiful houses in the world and is on Punta Massullo, on the eastern side of the Capri Island, Italy.
The house was designed around 1937 by Italian Rationalist architect …

Santral Istanbul, Istanbul
Saturday, 31 Jan, 2009 – 8:57
Santral Istanbul, Istanbul

An old power plant, built in 1911 were restored and turned into a Museum in 2007. It was the first urban scale power plant of Ottoman Empire. Founded in the Golden Horn district, the old …

Peggy Guggenheim Collection, Venice, Italy
Thursday, 29 Jan, 2009 – 16:47
Peggy Guggenheim Collection, Venice, Italy

Although The Peggy Guggenheim Collection is a small museum located in Peggy Guggenheim’s former home, Palazzo Venier dei Leoni on the Grand Canal in Venice, it is the most important collection in Italy for European and American …