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#8 Place, not place
When we travel, some of us seek out the reassurance of familiar surroundings, whereas others wish to plunge into the unknown. The hotel is a touchstone in both cases. The meticulous way in which our needs as travellers are met by the staff at an important hotel chain is the subject of our interview with Marjan Libeer, marketing vice-president at Hi...
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Feb 02, 2010 | Categories: Experiences | Tags: atmosphere, benefit, brand, breakfast, chain, events, familiar, feel, guests, hilton, homes, hotel, local, look, luxury | Leave A Comment »
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#27 The Culture of Listening
Silence creates room for the mind, and the mind can create visions. Yoko Ono described how the hypnotic effect of a flame would help to do this: “You could tell someone to look into the fire for 10 days just to create a vision in someone’s mind” she write in her first, epic work, a book of instructions for performances entitled Grapefruit (a ...
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Dec 13, 2009 | Categories: Experiences | Tags: the other rooms, yoko ono, 1952, 1964, 2003, artist, biennale, birds, bodies, east, emotion, emptiness, feel, forever, grapefruit | Leave A Comment »
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#20 Home Made
Your work shows your clear preference for the “manual” dimension, which we could express with the term “home made” – is this the result of a strong desire to rediscover your roots?
It is part of our background, connected to the place where we were born. We have never abandoned our roots. Although we work in São Paulo, Humberto and I ha...
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Dec 03, 2009 | Categories: Experiences | Tags: background, brazil, children, communicating, community, creativity, designs, desire, dialogue, dimension, experiences, feel, fernando campana, firms, hand made | Leave A Comment »
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#24 Self Portrait
Describing Luis Sepúlveda is no easy matter. Here’s a man who in his lifetime has been a novelist, poet, playwright, both for the stage and radio; a man who was one of Salvador Allende’s personal bodyguards; a man who has been a guerrilla fighter in many conflicts in different South American countries; a man who has travelled the world as UNES...
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Sep 18, 2009 | Categories: Experiences | Tags: activists, chile, cigars, cliches, conflicts, cuba, der spiegel, dreamer, environment, fair, feel, forests, galileo, greenpeace, guerrilla | Leave A Comment »
The meaning of colour evolves in parallel with culture.