050 Amigurumi
It’s only fitting that we celebrate our 50th post with something rather special. You have seen us making bread and tinkering with that funny little car in the garage, but today we have a look at what Ana Yogui is doing when not being busy with her tasks in the studio.
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049 Sometimes It’s Just Skin Deep
Usually one gets the best inspiration by looking over the hedge. It’s not really a new insight and you probably have heard it before: Yacht designers look at car designers. Car designers look at architects. Architects look at product designers. And everybody is looking at nature…
047 The Dark Side Of Coquine!
Things are not like they used to be. Things change, and it’s up to us to decide if that’s for the better or the worse.
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046 You’re Leaving Fingerprints On My Arm!
We couldn’t just name our latest project after one of our favourite films without sneaking at least one quote in here…
045 Probably, Not Soon
Working on speculative projects always is an amazing experience and a great opportunity to push the boundaries as far as you dare. In the end, there are only a few limits and the main goal is to attract attention. It’s a little bit like the fashion business: The high couture usually stays on the cat walks, but it makes the designer famous.
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044 The Roots
Since we already mentioned it a few times that Christian Leyk’s first steps into design happened many years ago in Brazil, we thought it is really about time to disclose some photographic evidence.
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043 Der Schweinehund*
Actually, its complete name in German is ‘Der innere Schweinehund’ (the inner swine-hound), which probably makes more sense in it’s less literal translation as ‘one’s weaker self’ or ‘the inner temptation’. And no, the picture above shows a long and very lazy cat. Not a hound.
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042 Verde, Amarelo & Azul
You surely noticed that we mentioned Brazil already a couple of times. Because it’s a beautiful, colourful and quite exciting country. Because everywhere we go we somehow run into Brazilians (they are easy to recognise… in a good way of course! And because we have the feeling that it’s an extremely promising market, which has just overtaken the UK as the world’s 5th biggest economy. But most of all, we keep mentioning Brazil because of our strong personal connection to the country and its people.
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041 The Good Life
First of all: Happy New Year! 2012 is up and running. It really was about time that we finished 2011, it seemed like a year that was promising so much, yet it was a bit slow to deliver. We shall see what the new year will bring, how long the resolutions will last and if our optimism is justified (yes, of course!). We will also find out in December if the world will end…
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040 Already In The Mood?
We have been writing Christmas cards and emails early this year. Certainly earlier than you might hear ‘Merry Christmas’ from your friends, but by far not as early as the appearance of chocolate Santa Clauses in the supermarkets. Or George Michael’s inevitable ‘Last Christmas’.
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039 Memories
“I just realised that this will be the second post in a row about music. I wonder if there’s a new direction forming or if the yachts are indeed in a crisis…”
038 Jam Connection
One of the corner stones of coquine![design] is the idea that a business cannot be successful without a successful team behind it. One can bring the brightest heads together, but if they don’t form a strong team, they are bound to fail.
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037 1955-2011
“Here’s to the crazy ones, the misfits, the rebels, the troublemakers, the round pegs in the square holes… the ones who see things differently — they’re not fond of rules… You can quote them, disagree with them, glorify or vilify them, but the only thing you can’t do is ignore them because they change things… they push the human race forward, and while some may see them as the crazy ones, we see genius, because the ones who are crazy enough to think that they can change the world, are the ones who do.” (Steve Jobs) from Jack Kerouac
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036 After Show Party
2011. Done. Well, not the whole year yet, but we survived the Monaco Yacht Show. Before anybody asks… we did enjoy it. No question, we always do (except maybe for last year, when it really was a rushed hit&run) We walked a lot, talked a lot. Met many people, old friends and new faces. Even added faces to some contacts we only knew by email so far, which is always a nice thing.
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034 Happy In Britain
With the summer drawing to a close here in the UK and the weather changing for generally unpleasant to worse (alright, this is a slight exaggeration) there are more of these cold and dark days when we are genuinely wondering what we are still doing on this island. Or, as a matter of fact, why we ever came here.
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033 Searching In The East
“Recently I watched an interesting documentary about Japanese food… about Kaiseki, the importance of the seasons, obviously a lot about traditions and about Wagyu cows.
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032 The Famous Names
… in one’s CV, and why we should mention them! (because after all, don’t we all put our trousers on one leg at a time.)
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