I was in Antwerp last Saturday for the twice-yearly Contemporary Fashion Days – simply put, this is when Antwerp’s top designers such as Dries Van Noten, Ann Demeulemeester, Haider Ackermann and Stephan Schneider clear their stock from past collections at heavily discounted prices. The stock sales are held for just a few days and at various…
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I bought a few CDs after work today. This included two jazz albums: All Our Reasons featuring Billy Hart, together with Ethan Iverson, Mark Turner and Ben Street; Imaginary Sketches featuring Chad McCullough with Bram Weijters Quartet. While listening to them this evening, I was reminded of the North Sea Jazz Festival in Rotterdam, which AB…
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This weekend, I finally got down to reviewing and processing all the photos that I took in Antwerp during a weekend getaway in April. Here are some photos taken around the city’s waterfront, from both sides, starting first with Sint-Annatunnel. Built underneath the river Schelde from 1931 to 1933, the St. Anna tunnel connects the…
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Someone should suggest to tell the folks at the Barbican Centre to bring on a third-party to manage their kitchen at the Barbican Food Hall. We had brunch last month before heading to the Marcel Duchamp exhibition. The interiors of the Barbican Food Hall is gorgeous, just like the building that houses it. Very contemporary chic:…
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I only learnt about Paris’ historic “passages couverts” (covered shopping arcades) after I had moved to Brussels. I was wandering around Paris, enjoying some time on my own and away from the computer, when I suddenly found myself at a cast iron gate that seemed to lead into a long corridor. This “corridor” was none…
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I spent a few hours today editing a press release and reading about Art Nouveau / Jugendstil / Seccession styles. Before I moved to Europe, I barely knew or even heard of these art movements. In Singapore, I grew up surrounded mostly by buildings of the Brutalist or Post-Modernist styles, with a few in colonial…
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