Places
Herb garden
As if Marrakech didn’t offer enough to justify a trip there, the lifestyle brand LRNCE (with the most beautiful living pieces ever) gives us one more reason. His mother, the Belgian designer Laurence Leenaert, has created a mecca in the middle of the medina that design lovers can no more resist than mosquitoes can resist naked tourist legs. As is usual for a riad, the Rosemary also offers only a few rooms, just five – each of them minimalist and yet furnished with the usual LRNCE gimmicks. During the conceptualization process, the Moroccan traditions, the walls that contain life and the idea of making what already exists even better were always in mind. Custom-made furniture, colorful glass doors, hand-laid tiled floors and chairs carved by hand from sandstone are just some of the details that give an idea of why it took three years from the initial idea to the actual opening to create this design oasis just around the corner from the Bahia Palace.
Rosemary Marrakech, 25, Rue de la Bahia, Marrakech, Morocco, double room with breakfast from approx. 250(rosemarymarrakech.com)
Unfuck the World
Melting Pot
The glaciers are melting. That’s bad, that’s a fact, and it should give us all pause for thought. Meltwater accounts for up to three percent of the rise in global sea levels, as confirmed by a research team from the University of Zurich in 2021. And because people only understand what they see, photographer Jürg Kaufmann documents the retreat of Piz Palü and its Pers Glacier in his project “Glaciers.Today” as an example of global glacier retreat. At Glaciers.Today, he publishes another picture every 30 minutes in real time, raising awareness of climate change around the world – if it’s not already too late.
Click here to watch the live broadcast.
Book
At the end of the world
No human footprints, no cell phone network. Where all-inclusive only causes frowns, we are exactly right. David De Vleeschauwer and Debbie Pappyn take us to places that you won’t find in any Marco Polo travel guide. In “Remote Experiences”, we walk along untouched paths from the Himalayas across the eternal ice to the Italian pampas and bow to nature, which still holds the sceptre in its hands.
David De Vleeschauwer & Debbie Pappyn, “Remote Experiences”, Taschen, ca. 50.-(taschen.com)
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