Minutes.fi http://www.minutes.fi Wed, 25 Apr 2018 06:48:57 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=5.7.2 http://www.minutes.fi/wp-content/uploads/2016/10/cropped-minutes_favi-32x32.png Minutes.fi http://www.minutes.fi 32 32 Atelier Brancusi http://www.minutes.fi/themes/something-beautiful/atelier-brancusi/ Fri, 20 Apr 2018 09:56:21 +0000 http://www.minutes.fi/?p=4273 Constantin Brancusi (1876-1957) was a Romanian artist who made his career in Paris. Considered a pioneer of modernism, Brancusi is best known for his abstract sculptures which he himself did not like to described as abstract. Instead, he thought that what is real is the essence of things, not the external form, and it is […]

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]]> Hot Blue http://www.minutes.fi/themes/intuitive/hot-blue/ Fri, 13 Oct 2017 04:59:22 +0000 http://www.minutes.fi/?p=4269 The last days of September were sunny and warm in Paris. Twenty five degrees in the shade. Wearing our sunglasses, we ate ripe tomato salad with smoked ricotta, and some burrata with beetroot and figs for lunch on the terrace at Clown Bar. The sky was hot blue. Though the light is already so much […]

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]]> Les Roches Rouges http://www.minutes.fi/themes/until-next-time/les-roches-rouges/ Wed, 02 Aug 2017 23:59:05 +0000 http://www.minutes.fi/?p=3915 Waves. That’s the sound and spirit of Hôtel Les Roches Rouges. Set just outside the town of Saint-Raphaël, on the glorious coast between St. Tropez and Cannes, Les Roches Rouges owes a lot of its charm to the stunning natural environment. You wake up to the sound of waves, and fall asleep with it, and […]

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]]> Eze http://www.minutes.fi/themes/sending-postcards/eze/ Thu, 01 Jun 2017 04:56:02 +0000 http://www.minutes.fi/?p=3783 “To gain perspective, lunch stop in Eze. With a good distance, there is structure and clarity in everything. The words I could not find when trying to write this morning, suddenly pouring out.”

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]]> Costes http://www.minutes.fi/themes/warming-up/costes/ Thu, 23 Mar 2017 04:55:55 +0000 http://www.minutes.fi/?p=3453 Hotel Costes feels like romance. For a Scandinavian accustomed to light and functional designs, the pompous interior is on the edge of being too much. Yet it is not. After all, this is a hotel. You visit it for experience, not to move in permanently. The red hallways, deep red velvet chairs and sofas, floral […]

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]]> La Colombe d’Or http://www.minutes.fi/themes/until-next-time/la-colombe-dor/ Thu, 09 Feb 2017 00:00:52 +0000 http://www.minutes.fi/?p=2740 La Colombe d’Or is a small hotel located at the threshold of the village of Saint-Paul de Vence in Provence. It is run by Danièle Noël Roux and her husband, François, whose grandfather Paul set it up in the 1920’s. The place started as a café called Chez Robinson. As it quickly became popular among […]

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]]> The boots http://www.minutes.fi/themes/of-comfort/the-boots/ http://www.minutes.fi/themes/of-comfort/the-boots/#comments Thu, 13 Oct 2016 19:54:58 +0000 http://www.minutes.fi/?p=2507 Suddenly green. One day you wake up and realize there is a hole in your closet that black boots just cannot fill. Flat pull on style means stability and ease, yes please.

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]]> http://www.minutes.fi/themes/of-comfort/the-boots/feed/ 24 Granny Smith http://www.minutes.fi/themes/in-green/granny-smith/ http://www.minutes.fi/themes/in-green/granny-smith/#comments Wed, 28 Sep 2016 21:55:55 +0000 http://minutes.fi/?p=1494 Ceramic apple sculpture by Hans Hedberg, 1994, resting poolside at La Colombe d’Or.

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