Dutch design duo Usuals created this pretty set of espresso cups. The gold seems ‘spilled’ but is non removable.
€85.00 per two
Golden Dirt by Usuals
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Golden dirt porcelain espresso cups by Usuals.nl
Posted in Design, designers and online finds
Tagged Dutch Design, espresso cups, Gold, porcelain, Usuals
Claire Danes’ NYC loft for sale
Gotta love her style in both fashion and interior design. Brainy Claire Danes has put her 3500 plus square feet loft on the market for a little under $6.000.000. I love the boho chic design but am not sure I like the kitchen. And I guess I find the floor plan a bit too much sitting/living and too little spare rooms. And for this kind of money I’d expect a balcony at least!
Posted in Homes of the rich and famous, See how others live
Tagged celebrities, Claire Danes, famous, for sale, Loft, NYC
China cloned entire Austrian town
In China, an exact copy of the Unesco World Heritage listed village of Hallstatt in Austria opened to visitors last week.
The clone, situated in the province of Guangdong, cost £600 million to build and occupies about a million square metres. It is an exact replica of the original town, located on the shores of the Hallstätter See.
Hallstatt Austria
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Hallstatt Guangdong Austria
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Posted in Famous buildings and movie locations, Unusual homes
Tagged Austria, Austrian, China, clone, exact copy, Hallstatt, replica, town, unesco world heritage
China’s abandoned Magic Kingdom; Wonderland
I love abandoned sites. A few years back we took a trip to California and visited Bombay Beach on the coast of the Salton Sea. Sounds dreamy right? Well, it’s not. This is Bombay Beach.
Bombay Beach California
High salt levels and floods made Bombay Beach, once coined the Riviera of California, uninhabitable. Well, for most that is, as some die-hard residents still call it home.
California is also home to Disneyland. Anything but deserted. The Magic Kingdom draws in about 15.000.000 people each year. That’s close to the population of The Netherlands! Wonderland Theme Park in China, about a 45 minute drive from Downtown Beijing, is not so lucky. What was going to be the largest amusement park in Asia and Asia’s answer to Disney Magic Kingdom, is now probably competing with Tjernobyl as the largest abandoned site in the East. Disagreements with local government and farmers over property prices forced the project developers to stop construction in 1998. It now sits abandoned between fields of corn and houses along the highway to the Great Wall. I have tried to find aerial images of in on Google Earth but have not had any luck yet. But these pictures already show its marvel and make me want to book a flight to China to see it myself.
Photographs by David Grey (Reuters). For more from this series check this article on theatlantic.com
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