Herbs & The Beauty To Have Them Grow.

Sou uma apaixonada por Urban Gardens e agora que tenho um apartamento com muita luz e varanda, tenho aumentado os pequeninos jardins cá em casa (pequeninos jardins = vasos).

Tenho sucesso com árvores (tenho uma oliveira na varanda muito pequena que promete vir a dar muitas azeitonas para os meus Martinis) e tenho sucesso com plantas.

No que toca a ervas aromáticas já percebi que para mim, a dificuldade em tê-las à mão se semear para as saladas e pastas favoritas é muito alta. Tenho até consciente que pode ser sem duvida um problema energético, mas não vou desistir enquanto não explorar as técnicas todas.
Já tentei (quase) tudo: muita luz, pouca luz; muita água, pouca água; sol, sem sol; no alto, em baixo; muita terra, pouca terra. Até já comprei aqueles kits do IKEA (vasos, terra, sementes e instruções?), mas não consigo mantê-las.

A semana passada vi este produto no Design Museum em Londres e voltou a dar-me vontade de tentar o cultivo destas especies. Já o conhecia, mas não lhe dei a importância que realmente pode ter. Sendo que a função mais importante do design é resolver necessidades, voltei a acreditar que há uma grande chance ter ervas aromáticas frescas cá em casa.

Alguém com boas dicas e/ou segredos nesta arete para partilhar?

Projecto herbs/spices do françês Pascal Charmolu para a sueca sagaform

(Estes vasos são mesmo bonitos, não são? Achoq ue vale a pena comprá-lo nem que seja para dar-lhe outra função.)

David Chipperfield @ Design Museum.

“With a style that is restrained, quiet and thoughtful, David Chipperfield is of one of Britain’s leading architects. He has a huge international reputation and completed buildings in China, Japan, Italy, USA, Spain and Germany. Chipperfield produces subtle and sophisticated buildings, from museums to homes, with an acute sensitivity for materials and a powerful awareness of their environment.” – Design Museum

As I said before, I’m a big fan of the Design Museum.
“David Chipperfield – Form Matters” is amazingly well interpreted. The space is so perfectly curated that I ask myself if it was David himself who designed the exhibition.

It’s very challenging to design a gallery space. More than technical issues such as light or enough space to walk around the art or design work, there are little details that really matter. It's important to understand the potential of every surface in a gallery, weather vertical or horizontal. And again, I was extremely amazed with how Design Museum satisfied my curiosity. The idea to design on the clean white walls the buildings perspective was genial. We can admire David’s precise architecture through models and a different perspective drawing at the same time – it’s total engagement.

The exhibition inclues homeware David Chipperfiled designed to Alessi.

Museum of Modern Literature
Marbach am Neckar, Germany, 2002 – 2006
Winner RIBA Stirling Prize 2007

The following photographs were taken when I went to Berlin last March.
Building extension by DC
Am Kupfergraben 10
Berlin, Germany, 2002 – 2007

Architectural details.

"All my life I have sought the simplicity of a single line." - Antoine Watteau

You can read “Perfect Weekend by David Chipperfield” at How To Spend It, the magazine by Financial Times.

This exhibition made me pick up my last university project and develop it further, which I plan to publish soon: “Challenge the common practice of art display”.

Javier Mariscal @ Design Museum.

When it comes to exhibition design, Design Museum in London is one of the best. The space is always engaging, communicative and very inspiring.
“Mariscal - Drawing Life” is another perfect example. This exhibition is on for another week, until the 1st of November.

“I don’t think that it’s good idea to explain what is behind the drawings, to analyse them or try to justify them with theories. Nor do I think there is anything to understand; they can simply be looked at and enjoyed. Interpret them in the most personal way possible.” – Javier Mariscal

“Mariscal - Drawing Life consists of thirteen installations that explore the way in which Mariscal sees the world, and the ways in which he uses drawing.” – Design Museum

Shower Tunnel - An installation of 640 illustrated ideas that represent Mariscal's visual language from 1970 to 2009.

Editorial Curtains - Composition made using the instalments published by Editorial Salvat of the 'Diseño con Mariscal' encyclopaedia, designed and directed by Estudio Mariscal.

Letters Wall - A typographic composition built using original pypefaces by Mariscal.

Visual Identities - A collage made from deconstructing the visual identities for post-production and FX company, Framestore; the bank, Bancaja and the America's Cup sporting event.
Editorial Curtains - Composition made using The New Yorker, El País Semanal and Apo magazines published between 1990 and 2004 with covers designed by Mariscal.

Interiors & Other Interventions - A video-collage made using images of the Gran Hotel Domine Bilbao, the Metropole cafeteria and the Splash & Crash bar, the Ikea restaurant, the H&M shop and artistic interventions.

Interiors & Other Interventions.

Interiors & Other Interventions.

Joie de Vivre - A visual allegory of the joy of living (Barcelona, 2009) represented as an installation of fragments from the Mediterranean coastline.

(My note: the rug was designed by Mariscal to Nanimarquina , my very favorite rug company)

Señor Mundo 'Chapel' - An installation with 225 illustrated messages from Sr. Mundo that were published in El País newspaper, 1994.

Photographs by Eliana Tomás.