From: Deutsche Welle on Fri, Apr 15 2011 5:21 PM

A novel delivery service in Hamburg is geared to people who want to cook tasty, healthy meals at home but don’t have time for shopping. The KommtEssen service founded by Swedish-born Lisa Rentrop brings customers ingredients for five meals for four people, along with the corresponding recipes.

From: Deutsche Welle on Fri, Apr 15 2011 5:21 PM

The Turner Contemporary Gallery in Margate in southeast England was designed by acclaimed British architect David Chipperfield. It’s hoped the exhibition hall will help revive the fortunes of the seaside resort where 19th century artist Joseph Mallord William Turner painted some of his famous lan...

From: Deutsche Welle on Fri, Apr 08 2011 3:16 PM

Munich-based illustrator Jasmin Khezri invented the Irma character back in the early nineties while she was working as an art director for the Süddeutsche Zeitung and Jetzt magazine. Nowadays Irma has a successful blog, appears in international publications, has her own merchandising and is in ...

From: Deutsche Welle on Wed, Apr 06 2011 6:46 PM

Wir stellen zwei große Designer vor, die Möbel und Lampenkreationen in den 90ern in Europa maßgeblich geprägt haben.Der Brite Ron Arad zählt zu den wichtigsten Vertretern der zeitgenössischen Design-Szene. In den 90er Jahren experimentierte er viel mit Kunststoff. Ein Material, das lange verpön...

From: Deutsche Welle on Wed, Apr 06 2011 6:46 PM

"An erster Stelle kommt immer das Produkt, erst an zweiter Stelle kommt der Koch" - so lautet das Credo des Südtiroler Zwei-Sterne-Kochs Norbert Niederkofler. Fisch oder Fleisch, eine Beilage und eine passende Sauce, das wars auch schon. Für unsere Rubrik euromaxx à la carte zeigt uns Niederkofl...

From: Deutsche Welle on Wed, Apr 06 2011 6:46 PM

We continue our series marking 50 years of European design, this time focusing on the 1970s. In this report we focus firstly on the innovative work of Joe Colombo and secondly on some more familiar design icons made famous by IKEA. Some of Colombo’s creations are TVs that retract into ...

From: Deutsche Welle on Mon, Apr 04 2011 3:54 PM

We go decade-by-decade looking at the most important designs created. We start with the 1960s and examine the works of Dieter Rams and Verner Panton. Rams from Germany made his name designing products for the electronics company Braun. Panton made his name as a furniture designer and interior dec...

From: Deutsche Welle on Sat, Apr 02 2011 9:02 PM

These spiffy automobiles are around 20 years old and are becoming very popular with collectors. Sometimes called youngtimers these modern classics include the Ford Granada/Taunus and the Fiat 500. Their market value has increased by about 20 per cent in just five years. We meet modern classic car...

From: Deutsche Welle on Fri, Apr 01 2011 12:19 AM

For the first time ever a German-Swiss restaurant has received three Michelin stars which makes Andreas Caminada - at age 33 - the youngest 3-star chef in all of Europe. Caminada has had a sky-rocketing career since getting his first Michelin star in 2007. His restaurant is located in Schauenstei...

From: Deutsche Welle on Wed, Mar 30 2011 6:40 PM

We visit the Cologne restaurant "Vintage" for a true local delicacy: Rutabaga soup. After chef Anthony Ramos cooks the rutabaga, he adds some foam from a local "Kölsch" beer. This is a popular meal for local vegetarians as most of the specialties in this part of Germany include meat.

From: Deutsche Welle on Tue, Mar 29 2011 5:22 PM

Gisela Getty and Jutta Winkelmann first gained reknown as counterculture icons. In the 1970s and '80s, the German twin sisters met international stars like Bob Dylan, Sean Penn, Dennis Hopper, and Roman Polanski. They were soon celebrities themselves.

From: Deutsche Welle on Mon, Mar 28 2011 12:53 PM

An art museum in Wolfsburg asks the question can art be fashion. Many examples of Haute Couture fashion are seen more as works of art. Most people would consider them unwearable. A new exhibition looks at the boundaries between art and fashion.

From: Deutsche Welle on Sun, Mar 27 2011 10:43 AM

Heute in den euromaxx highlights: Das Automuseum in Turin feiert seine Wiedereröffnung mit einer vielseitigen Ausstellung. Der Panoramakünstler Yadegar Asisi präsentiert eine Fotomontage über die Stadt Pergamon. Außerdem: Spezielle Berliner Feinschmeckerlokale setzen auf Rohkost-Menüs. Der briti...

From: Deutsche Welle on Wed, Mar 23 2011 11:35 PM

This recipe is actually for a very special fish that can only be found in a few Austrian lakes. But the method of preparation can be applied to similar fish like a small trout for instance. The recipe comes from the Salzkammergut Lake District in Austria, way above sea level up in the mountains ...

From: Deutsche Welle on Wed, Mar 23 2011 11:35 PM

British lighting designer and installation artist Bruce Munro makes spectacular illuminated sculptures using light-emitting diodes, fibre glass and water bottles. One of his latest works lit up Salisbury Cathedral.

From: Deutsche Welle on Wed, Mar 23 2011 11:34 PM

Rund 200 Kilometer nördlich von der norwegischen Hauptstadt Oslo liegt der Ort Trysil mit etwa 7000 Einwohnern. Hier hat sich Cato Haugen mit seiner Lebensgefährtin seinen Traum vom Wohnen erfüllt: Die beiden haben ein 150 Jahre altes Holzhaus vom Grundstück der Eltern abgebaut und ein paar Kilom...

From: Deutsche Welle on Tue, Mar 22 2011 5:46 PM

Der Komponist und Pianist Franz Liszt wurde im ungarischen Teil des österreichischen Kaiserreiches geboren. Ab 1869 hielt er sich regelmäßig in Budapest auf. Zu seinem 200. Geburtstagsjahr steht das Budapester Frühlingsfest ganz im Zeichen des berühmten Komponisten.Im Auftrag des Festivals hat de...

From: Deutsche Welle on Tue, Mar 22 2011 5:46 PM

Jewelry as an artform is only about fifty years old but it‘s already found its way into a museum. As well as its permanent jewelry art display the Pinakothek der Moderne in Munich also honours one particular artist each year in March. In March 2011 it‘s the turn of Austrian artist Peter Skubic.

From: Deutsche Welle on Mon, Mar 21 2011 4:17 PM

Italy’s national automobile museum in Turin has reopened following expansion and a new layout. The noted Swiss interior designer Francois Confino was put in charge of revamping the exhibition to tell the story of world-changing invention.

From: Deutsche Welle on Mon, Mar 21 2011 4:17 PM

Seit dem 19. März ist das "Museo Nazionale dell’Automobile di Turino" nach Umbauarbeiten wieder eröffnet. Aus diesem Anlass erzählt der Schweizer Ausstellungsdesigner Francois Confino erzählt eine alte Geschichte neu: die des Automobils. Autos werden nicht nur ausgestellt, sondern inszeniert und...