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POLITICAL THEATER: PROTOKOLL BY CHRISTIAN LUTZ
Over the course of three years, Geneva based photographer, Christian Lutz travelled with the Swiss diplomatic corp in an official capacity. His own ambiguous relationship to power (“part attraction, part repulsion”) reflected through the camera lens captured a dimension of diplomacy he calls “political theater”. The result is PROTOKOLL, a handsome pictorial study of authority, power and hierarchal systems…
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RE-PRESENTING TOM KUNDIG
We’re pleased to announce that Tom Kundig, who we profiled here several months ago, is the winner of the 2008 Cooper-Hewitt National Design Award for Architecture. Facing off with formidable future-forward talents of Weiss/Manfredi and the industrial chic of Lo-Tek, Kundig’s graceful mechanics set in nature won out. As Mark Robbins, Dean of the Syracuse University School of Architecture […]
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Nina Egli: Family Values
Helvetica Bold talks with Designer Nina Egli about the inspirations and process behind her Toujours Toi Family Affairs Winter Collection–Moon River.
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HOME COMING QUEENS: HEIMWEH BY SWISS MISS
Heimweh, the new album, by Swiss Miss, may be the concept album to end all concept albums. Created by New York based Swiss musician Eliane, the album brings together a dazzling variety of Swiss female vocalists performing renditions of traditional Swiss folk songs representing many geographic regions and dialects of Switzerland on a backdrop of […]
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ERIKA STUCKY: SUICIDAL YODELS
Much can be said about the life, travels and career path of Erika Stucky, but one can learn a great deal about the identity of this woman by simply listening to her album Suicidal Yodels. In the opening seconds of the first track the artist reveals herself to be a complex and well informed interpretive musician, incorporating […]
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CLOSER THAN FAR: SERENA JOST
For the opening track of her debut solo album, Closer Than Far , Swiss-American singer/multi-instrumentalist/songwriter Serena Jost performs a cover, Our Town by Iris DeMent. The juxtaposition of the driving rhythm and Serena’s lilting, melodic vocal delivery sets the tone for a collection of material filled with contrast, whilst referencing a theme which becomes recurrent […]
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THE YEAR IN MOMENTS
If you click on the “Links” menu item of the Swiss Institute (New York) website, you’ll find yourself at once thrust into the curatorial sensibilities of Gianni Jetzer. The links are formatted along the lines of “Top Ten Lists” and toy with the often baffling correspondences of expression found on the internet. These top ten […]
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THE NEW FACE OF SWITZERLAND
Thabo Sefolosha, NBA rising star is not your typical NBA rising star. He’s part Swiss and part South African: born on Lake Geneva, raised in Montreux; lived in five countries, fluent in three languages, plays a mean shooting guard for the NBA, reads Paul Auster, listens to Method Man… He’s 23 and for Switzerland, a […]
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NOTHING LIKE THE SUN
Last year Martin Vosseler and a crew of four other Swiss adventurers made a historic crossing of the Atlantic aboard Sun21—a solar powered catamaran. This year Vosseler, a doctor by vocation, decided to take his message of solar power and energy renewal—on foot.