London’s Docklands are one example, Hamburg’s Hafencity, another: Large cities redevelop unused harbor areas, turn them into new districts and try to fill these with life. The planners of the Victoria & Alfred Waterfront in Cape Town have done an excellent job of harmonizing old and new, for instance at the exquisite Cape Grace Hotel with its Signal Restaurant where guests are treated to traditional Cape Malay dishes.
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A lucky charm for Buddhists, for this Stella McCartney bag, a stylish goldfish.
Talismanic: a metal dragon pendant on a chain of ribbed beads by Hermès.
A 100-percent merino wool sweater by Moschino with a good-luck troll on the front.
20 I 20 by J.F. Schwarzlose Berlin is a feel-good scent for a brand-new decade.
Edward Hopper, Railroad Sunset, 1932-1942, oil on canvas, 112 x 103 cm
©Edward Hopper (1882–1967) is a master of American Realism. Some 60 pieces of his are showing at the Fondation Beyeler art museum in Basel, Switzerland.
My favorite photo I met these schoolboys in Childara, a mountain village 200 kilometers or so east of Dushanbe, the capital of Tajikistan. When I held up my camera questioningly, the international way of saying “May I take your picture?” they agreed, although shyly at first.
