New York report
Back in Lucerne with a wealth of impressions, encounters with fascinating people and plenty of inspiration. Here’s a report on NYC, a place that’s so wonderfully patinated and post industrial it seems ochs und junior was made for it – or is it the other way around? :-).
Greenwich Village was where we met Ben Clymer from Hodinkee and gave him a taste of the ochs und junior concepts…
Anne-Cecile tried out the selene pink on her wrist; meanwhile the Cafe Minerva is both organic and wonderful…
We took over the Ace Hotel‘s loft room on Saturday morning – sadly just for a few hours – and distributed the eight moon prototypes, a few tinta watches, an anno cinquanta, a settimana junior and the three idea watches around it. We put up a few diagrams of the concepts around the place…
This was a family holiday with a work dimension tacked on – the two kids were in the hotel lobby greeting our guests… most of them, anyway ;-)…
Felipe’s wonderful report at timezone put a spring in my blogging step… thanks, Felipe!
Being creative with a tinta…
Simplicity redefined…
Five parts and incredibly accurate (3478.27 years) – assembling selene tinta parts and discovering its functions.
Explaining new ways of displaying information…
Depicting minimalism in graphics…
Stumptown‘s heavyweight yet great croissants kept us going…
Ludwig’s original selene calculations, in case anyone wanted to check them…
… while down on Broadway at street level the 2011 Broadway Bomb was getting underway in Central Park – subversive and not all that legal… Just 14 minutes later the first longboarders had reached 29th Street…
Jérôme watched them, fascinated, while Bea snapped away in their midst… 1000 longboards with people of all ages, perfect warm weather – while I was upstairs in the loft room clearing stuff away and looking forward to being amonst them next time… :-))
New York had lots to show us…
On occasion peace and quiet, away from the traffic…
And always with the best espresso…
We’ll be back there at some point, that’s for sure…