amsterdam

the museum square

van gogh museum

the first walk


hotel

amsterdam school

the welcome lunch


the reitveld academy


the boat ride

irma boom books


the streets

arcam

nemo



the thonik presentation

starters on the wall

the making of pasta to lullaby music

main course - every circle is marked by a distance from the restaurant and has food that comes from that far away - from the backyard through to stardust via finland and australia. the mound of hard salt is to be broken with a hammer to unearth two potatoes.

proef- the restaurant

dessert- to share half a plate

eidenhoven

design academy eidenhoven

the white table for lunch


color exhibition at designhuis

mvrdv at eidenhoven

the amsterdam school?

hotel room

red light walk

red light drink


traveling theater festival at nai

picasso on the streets

kunsthal


the pathe square

waiting at rotterdam station

the farewell song

the farewell

last night bar - sonalee

rembrandtplein

got back last night from a trip for 5 days in amsterdam. we were there as guests of the dutch dfa looking at developing possible networks and collaborations between dutch design fasion and architecture and indian ones. buy also it was fabulous weather in amsterdam and we spent a lot of time walking those uniformly pretty streets in the day and hopping from bar to bar at night. with me were anand, shantanu and srivatsan completing the architects circle. the designers were represented by bhaskar, hridayash, raggu, sonali; while for fasion there was amit, harmeet and the colonel. the first day we spent at the van gogh museum- and no matter what you may see in reproductions in reality the paintings are visceral, bursting with an internal energy that can tire you out. the next days were spent visiting various dutch design organizations including some design schools, the state sponsored design support institutions including the nai in rotterdam.other highlights- the food design restaurant where each course came along with a story, the irma boom book exhibition and the presentation by thonik.