Catalina Landseaire Boat Yachts

Posted on 02/05/2017 by Mimi Berlin Amsterdam

Catalina Landseaire Boat Yachts

This image caught our eye the other day. The airplane turned out to be a Catalina ‘Landseaire’ Boat Yacht from the 1950s. When you click the link you’ll find out that airplanes were used and promoted in a very different way than today. Make sure to clickety click! (vintagewings.ca) Catalina Landseaire Boat Yachts One of the finest selling features of the Convair PBY Landseaire was no doubt the observation blisters. Not since the airship Hindenburg did passengers enjoy such a remarkable view of the world around them. Photo: Loomis Dean, LIFE Magazine

About airplanes and women in the 1940s on this blog

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fashion Fall 2014: White Swan

Posted on 28/02/2014 by Mimi Berlin Amsterdam

Fairy Tales on the runway for f/w 2014: Dolce and Gabanna and the white Swan

Dolce and Gabanna/ Runway F/W 2014 photo by Allesandro Garofalo (image via style.com)

Overgrown swan ride at the abandoned Spreepark in Berlin (via alter43.tumblr)

Earlier we noticed that birds, all kinds, is the animal du jour on the runway for the Fall 2014 season. Well we do love swans so above another example of what a fashion designer can do with that bird…..

See more birds on this blog (for fall/winter 2014 at the ready to wear shows for women)

White Details

Posted on 10/04/2013 by Mimi Berlin Amsterdam

Details on board of a ferryboat

Why is a yacht?

Posted on 08/11/2012 by Mimi Berlin Amsterdam

WHY Wally-Hermès Yachts is the new company created by french luxury brand Hermès and Monaco based yacht maker Wally, dedicated to a new lifestyle of living on the sea.

“Why is a revolutionary concept of the moving island, developed with the latest and most advanced sustainable technologies, recycling thermal energy, as well as any organic and inorganic waste.” ~Luca Bassani Antivari (president and CEO of Wally)
The concept was developed by president and CEO of Wally Luca Bassani Antivari, artistic director of Hermès, Pierre-Alexis Dumas and design director of Hermès Gabriele Pezzini.

For more pictures and info: via parisworkingforart

Jeff Koons and Prada Dazzle

Posted on 04/06/2011 by Mimi Berlin Amsterdam

Real fantasies, The Project. SS 2011 By Prada and OMA

The “Guilty” Jeff Koons‘s dazzle design for collector Dakis Joannou’s personal yacht, 2009 (more)

Prada Runway SS 2010, Milan

GT2 class M3 500 horse V8, designed by Jeff Koons for BMW motorsport

Prada Campaign SS 2011

Dazzle

Posted on 17/07/2010 by Mimi Berlin Amsterdam

“Dazzle painting,” devised in Britain during WWI, was based on the theory that its complex optical patterns would confuse enemy naval rangefinders by disguising a ship’s speed and direction. The concept was supposedly invented by marine painter (and wartime camoufleur) Norman L. Wilkinson.