Messe to Zoo: visiting Cologne

The IMM/Passagen in Cologne seems ages away already, although it's only been five days.

We came back late Sunday night, pretty knackered from our lovely long weekend in Germany.

In hindsight, bringing the kids probably wasn't the best idea: it made Saturday and Sunday very much about entertaining them and very little about seeing any design. Well... The Zoo was pretty nice too.

Luckily we had a chance to run over the actual fair on Friday (i took over 23.000 steps that day - thank you Iphone), but we sadly missed most of the Passagen-programme due to lack of interesting stuff for three-year-olds.

Aside from the great weekend away and the lovely reactions in the shop, we received a more tangible token of appreciation from the city of Cologne, or -more specifically- from the 'Kölner Stadtanzeiger', a local newspaper. 

We were pretty happy to be featured in their Weekend-special last week. (Click on the photograph to enlarge it.)

And a few snapshots from the Weekend:

Other things: 30 hours in Geneva

Although Waterworks takes up a lot of our time at the moment, we do have other things to work on as well, things that take us out of our workshop every now and then.

Studio Thol's bathtub needed to be installed last week, for example.

In Geneva.

We were only there for a little over 30 hours: Flying in Friday morning and back Saturday afternoon. The mansion where the installation took place is not finished yet, so after installation we packed the bathtub back up. Sadly no pretty pictures of a finished bathroom.
A few photographs of the work:

Lovely, no? Did you catch the view?
It turned out the whole city of Geneva is lovely.
I guess this cloud pretty much says it all: