Simonett & Baer Catalogue 2018

Simonett & Baer Simonett & Baer Catalogue 2018 Formerly known as The Name Books and Edition Dino Simonett* SimonettSophisticated Art Books in Splendid Beauty®

Impressum:& Concept, Editorial and PhotosBaer Dino Simonett, Production Martina Baer Graphic Design Dino Simonett with Martina Meier of Bureau Mia Zürich Typeface: Times LT Std Proof reading Samuel Penn Printed at Offizin Scheufele Stuttgart Paper Stock is Munken Print White 1.5 150 gsm Bound at Grossbuchbinderei Spinner Ottersweier Edition of 5000 ISBN 978-3-906313-17-7 Basel, September 2017 ©Simonett&Baer

Please Support Us! Contents 1 Cover Iouri Podladtchikov on Lake Zürich 2 Inside Cover Art Basel at Schöneck Brunnen 3 Impressum, Contents and Publisher’s Note Buy one of the only 100 4–7 Valerio Olgiati, Projects 2009–2017 hardcover-bound Collector’s Editions of 8–9 Franz Kafka, Die Mäuse this marvellous catalogue for € / CHF 100 10 –11 Iouri Podladtchikov, True Love is Hard to Find or more. Thank you for supporting newness and cultural relevance! 12–13 Luca Zanetti, E-Bike Diaries [email protected] 14 –15 Dino Simonett, White Elephant 16 Four Commissioned Architecture Books 18 –24 Backlist The Name Books / Edition Dino Simonett 25–27 Dino Simonett Bookbags, Bagladies & Fancy Leather Goods 28–31 Collaborators & About Us 32 Back Cover Valerio Olgiati at Pero Cuco, Alentejo

Simonett & Baer St. Alban–Vorstadt 68 4052 Basel Switzerland 061 271 31 95 [email protected] simonettbaer.com Please send your orders to: [email protected]

*In 2017 The Name Books and Edition Dino Simonett merged into Simonett & Baer AG – a logical transformation into the right thing at the right time & place. Bruno Margreth left us as co-publisher – he has now established his own label with the name “About Books” – but is staying with us as an indispensable book designer and friend. Cover: Iouri Podladtchikov, Zürichsee, June 2017. Photo David Hürlimann 2 Inside Cover: This can-installation by artist Sophie Nys was part of the Art Parcours at Schöneck Brunnen near our studio – where we take a cooling bath on hot summer days, see page 30. Valerio Olgiati Projects 2009 – 2017 Valerio Olgiati

Valerio Olgiati is regarded Valerio Olgiati Track List Top Five: by many – especially by younger generations – as the most 1 Tannhäuser, Wagner influential architect of our time. 2 Apassionata, Beethoven The visionary tractatus 3 Sodade, Cesaria Evora Non-Referential Archtecture – 4 Push-Push, Rockers Hi-Fi ideated by Valerio Olgaiti, written by 5 Hey Joe, Willy de Ville Markus Breitschmid – will be published by Walther Koenig later on this year.

26.5 x 24 cm, 276 pages, 200 photos, plan drawings and renderings, Text by Jacques Lucan Project descriptions by Valerio Olgiati, Book Design Dino Simonett with Bruno Margreth English Edition: ISBN 978–3–906313–11–5 Deutsche Ausgabe: ISBN 978–3–906313–14–6 Price € 135 / CHF 145

The most fascinating architect of our times seduces us into his world of wonders. Nineteen amazing and very unique projects are featured, most of them unseen. The photographs, plan-drawings and renderings are all created in the same aesthetic language – Shahrazad opens the book of 1001 nights and tells you her tales. →

Photo left: Valerio Olgiati is photographing the Laax House in Summer 2016. Any possible connection between the pullover of Mr. Olgiati and the linen book cloth we chose for the new monograph is purely coincidential. Valerio Olgiati Projects 2009 – 2017 Valerio Olgiati

The most beautiful book we ever created is ready for the marble tables of the queens and the sheiks, the crowded workshops of the architecture schools and the bureaus and ateliers of architects around the globe. Featured are a.o. “House for a Priest” in Abensberg (above), the “Office Building for Baloise Headquarters” in Basel, the “Cassons Cableway” in Flims, the “CELINE Flagship Store” in Miami and the “Pearling Site” in Muharraq in the Kingdom of Bahrain.

Pictured left you can see a stunning view of Villa Além, the home of the architect in Alentejo / Portugal. The building is surrounded by cork oak trees of all sizes and ages – and suddenly you don’t know anymore if you are in a Maya temple or in a Science Fiction film setting. Franz Kafka Die Mäuse Pilotband zur Walbaum-Edition Franz Kafka

Franz Kafka Track List Top Five: 1 Germany – Hoch, Hoch der Kaiser! Franz Kafka wurde 1889 Whit Cunliffe, June 1913 in Prag geboren und starb mit 2 Aldega: Domine Salvum, einundvierzig Jahren an Tuberkulose. Alessandro Moreschi, Er gilt als einer der wichtigsten The Last Castrato, 1903 Schriftsteller des zwanzigsten 3 Nach meine Beene ist janz Berlin Jahrhunderts. Seine Texte sind verrückt, Claire Waldorff visionär und hochaktuell 4 My Lucky Star, Paul Whiteman und werden weltweit übersetzt, 5 Das Rothschildlied, Paul Morgan zitiert und diskutiert.

15.3 x 23.8 cm, 64 Seiten, Auszüge aus Briefen an Felix Weltsch, Max Brod, Oskar Baum und Milena Jesenskà Buchgestaltung Dino Simonett mit Bruno Margreth Limitierte Auflage von 1001 Exemplaren ISBN 978–3–906313–12–2 € 32 / CHF 36

Jeder Satz von Franz Kafka ist klar und scharf wie ein frisch geschliffener Diamant. Wenn man den Diamant unter dem Vergrösserungsglas betrachtet, versinkt man in Kafkas ewiggültigen Mysterien und Wunderwelten. Die Lupe ist in unserem Fall die übergrosse Walbaum-Schrift in 16 Punkt. Kafka hat diese selber bei zwei seiner Bücher gewünscht – wir legen nun alle zu Lebzeiten veröffentlichten Werke in loser Folge neu vor – alle in 16 Punkt. “Die Mäuse” ist der Pilotband.

Das Portrait von Franz Kafka ist ein Ausschnitt aus dem berühmten Verlobungsbild mit Felice Bauer, Budapest Juli 1917. Es ist mein Lieblings- portrait von Kafka, sein Blick ist klar und tief, warm und fast schon “normal” – alles schien noch möglich. ©Sammlung Klaus Wagenbach Iouri Podladtchikov True Love is Hard to Find Polaroids from the early 21st century Iouri Pod- ladtchikov

Iouri Podladtchikov (*1988) is photographing since the age Iouri Podladtchikov Track List Top Five: of sixteen, he is building up studios in Zürich and in Williamsburg NYC. 1 Lady/Drive, Chromatics He is a professional snowboarder 2 Irgendwo uff me Schtai hockt worldwide known for his olympic en Chäfer, Igor Podladtchikov gold medal in Sotchi 2014. 3 Chi Mai, Le Professionel, Ennio Morricone Currently he is focusing like a samurai 4 Wild Horses, Rolling Stones on the next games in Korea. 5 My Gypsy Son, Vladimir Vysotsky But there is still some space left to work on his second book “Winter Dreams”.

16.5 x 24 cm, 64 pages, fifty-five polaroid photographs Printed in five colours HD-UV* at Robstolk Amsterdam Book Design Dino Simonett with Martina Meier Limited edition of 2000 numbered books, Collector’s Edition on request ISBN 978–3–906313–07–8 € 32 / CHF 36

Iouri Podladtchikov (*1988) is in love with photography since he was sixteen. He works and plays with every possible camera and tool – but Polaroid is a special fascination for him. We selected fifty-five personal pictures from thousands – and transformed them into this very personal album of his friends and loves. A stunning debut!

Pictured left: Vivi and Louisa, Bar 3000, Zürich, 2016. “True Love Is Hard To Find” as a title for the book immediately came to my mind when I saw into the hearts and souls of these young and beautiful people. *The printed sheets are dried with High-Density Ultra-Violet light. Luca Zanetti E-Bike Diaries 11’150 Kilometres on a Electric Bicycle Through Latin America Luca Zanetti

Luca Zanetti (*1971) is a Swiss photographer based in Zürich and Luca Zanetti Track List Top Five: Colombia. His main focus is on Latin 1 Stairway to Heaven, Led Zeppelin American themes, a continent that deeply 2 Harlem Samba, Dizzy Gillespie fascinates him since the mid-eighties. 3 Cafe Atlantico, Cesaria Evora He publishes his thrilling reportages and 4 Amoroso, Joao Gilberto commissioned work worldwide – always 5 Hells Bells, AC/DC with a personal and authentic view concerned with human beings and the environment they live in.

16.5 x 24 cm, 64 pages, 55 colour photographs Text by Luca Zanetti, Editor’s Note by Dino Simonett Book Design Dino Simonett with Bruno Margreth Limited edition of 1000 books, Collector’s Edition on request ISBN 978–3–906313–08–5 € 32 / CHF 36

“When you travel by bike you are much closer to people and this reflects in your pictures”, Luca Zanetti told me when I asked him why he didn't take a car. Highly developed E-Bikes make it possible that you travel “eco friendly” within reasonable time and come home with outstanding photomaterial and very authentic views you have never seen before.

Luca Zanetti – riding on the Flyer E-Bike – above the Sacred Valley near Maras, a fertile region which formed the heart of the Inca Empire. Region of Cuzco, Peru. Photo Alex Kornhuber Dino Simonett White Elephant One week in Tokyo Probably the last photo book printed on Chromolux 800 paper White Elephant

Our book creator and publisher Dino Dino Simonett Track List Top Five: Simonett (*1963) is in love with 1 Magnets ft. Lorde, Disclosure photography since ever but he is not a 2 Che Strano Amore Questo Amore, photographer. Nevertheless he makes Pino D’Angio a photo book now and then and spends 3 Strong Relax, Ryuichi Sakamoto endless months on dozens of layouts 4 Na Cadência do Samba, Cassia Eller and dummies until he is satisfied 5 Kiss Me Goodnight, Jack Hilton with the result.

12.5 x 17 cm, 78 pages, 35 colour photographs With an illustration by Anonymus, printed on Chromolux 800 Book Design Dino Simonett with Martina Meier ISBN 978–3–906313–16–0 Limited Edition of 500 Books € 45 / CHF 50

His third Japan-Photobook of a trip to the Toyko Art Book Fair in September 2015 Dino Simonett printed on a leftover Chromolux 800 stock, a legendary mirror-glossy paper (Irving Penn loved to use it) that is not being produced anymore. The thirty-five photographs in this “Bonsai-Photobook” once more show us Simonett’s neverending fascination for almost everything and everybody in Tokyo, some of the photographs have the so-called Eggleston-Twist, some are just photographs.

Left: There was this famous composer driving his Unimog in crawling gears through downtown Toyko – listening to Wagner Operas at maximum volume on the most expensive and best quality stereo sound system possible. Unfortunately we haven’t met him, but with this Toyota Crown we could drive to heaven as well – with the mysterious music of Tōru Takemitsu! Simonett & Baer Four Commissioned Architecture Books Haratori, REHAB, Baswa, 4d

Haratori Office Mathon Nahoko Hara and Zeno Vogel The conversion of an old hay barn in Graubünden into an interrelated alpine loft, 18 x 20 cm, 192 pages, more than 100 photographs, all plan drawings, Text by Nahoko Hara & Zeno Vogel Book Design Dino Simonett with Martina Meier, Limited edition of 1000 Books ISBN 978–3–906313–10–8 € 39 / CHF 48

15 years REHAB Basel by Herzog & de Meuron Jubilée Edition, photographs by Katalin Deér Book Design Dino Simonett with André Freiermuth 11.5 x 16 cm, 24 Postcards in a natural cotton sleeve ISBN 978–3–906313–13–9 € 19.90 / CHF 24

BASWA Acoustic Enjoy Ambience and Silence 17 x 24.5 cm, 192 pages 100 colour photographs Texts by Eric Sulzer, Yves Enderli Book Design Dino Simonett with Martina Meier Limited edition of 2000 Books ISBN 978–3–906313–15–3 € 39 / CHF 48

4d Landschaftsarchitekten Maurus Schifferli, Simon Schöni 21 x 21.5 cm, 336 Seiten, 100 Photos von Milo Keller, Texte von Christoph Schläppi Book Design Dino Simonett mit Bruno Margreth 1000 nummerierte Exemplare ISBN 978–3–905562–66–9 € 75 / CHF 80

Page right: The Publishers Martina Baer and Dino Simonett. We live and work in Basel since summer 2016, a very beautiful city with many hidden charms. For lunch meetings we love to go to Restaurants like Mägd and Bistro Kunstmuseum, pictured right. You can have a decent meal right next to art by Dan Flavin – that’s the way we like it. Photo Beat Rubitschung Martina Baer Track List Top Five: 1 Systemagic, Goldfrapp 2 Ancora Tu, Lucio Battisti 3 Seu Jorge, Dois Beijinhos 4 Legends Op. 59-6, Antonin Dvorak 5 Boom Clap, Charli XCX Simonett & Baer Backlist The Name Books From 2014–2016 we created five great books, three collector’s editions and two catalogues.

The Images of Architects Masayoshi Nakajo, 36 Views of Mount Fuji Villa Além, Valerio Olgiati Edited by Valerio Olgiati Flatbook by BuBu, 24.5 x 34.5 cm Foreword V. Olgiati, Text Tom Schoper 12 x 16.2 cm, 432 pages 78 pages, 37 art works in deep black ink 25 x 35 cm, 72 pages, hardcover bound linen ISBN 978-3-906313-00-9 € 29 / CHF 36 ISBN 978-3-906313-01-6 € 145 / CHF 150 ISBN 978-3-906313-02-3 € 54 / CHF 58

Anna Luif Thomas Gamma Mónica Naranjo Uribe Anna Luif Thomas Gamma Mónica Naranjo Uribe Giacometti Giacometti und der Fuchs and The Fox

The Name Books The Name Books

Giacometti und der Fuchs, Monica Naranjo Uribe Giacometti and The Fox, Monica Naranjo Uribe François Halard, Polaroids Text von Thomas Gamma und Anna Luif Text by Thomas Gamma and Anna Luif 24 x 32 cm, 64 pages, hardcover bound 17.5 x 24 cm, 56 pages, Deutsche Ausgabe 17.5 x 24 cm, 56 pages, English Edition ISBN 978-3-906313-05-4 € 39 / CHF 44 ISBN 978-3-906313-04-7 € 19.90 / CHF 24 ISBN 978-3-906313-03-0 € 19.90 / CHF 24

The Images of Architects Collector’s Edition Masayoshi Nakajo Collector’s Edition François Halard Collector’s Edition in slipcase, limited edition of one hundred books Edition of twenty books with one Original Polaroid from the book signed by Valerio Olgiati € 145 / CHF 150 signed by M. Nakajo € 280 / CHF 300 signed by F. Halard € 500 / CHF 550

Pictured left: Letterbox at the entrance of Kaufmann Desert House by Richard Neutra in Palm Springs, California. I’m still surprised by the fact that this house was built in 1947, but with this letterbox I’m not 100% sure, maybe it was built later. This photograph is from our best selling title “François Halard – Polaroids” – see above. Simonett & Baer Backlist Edition Dino Simonett All titles are out of print. We offer you here La Réserve du Patron. All books are true collector’s items – in mint condition.

René Burri, 77 Strange Sensations René Burri, Berner Blitz René Burri, Nous Sommes Treize à Table ISBN 978-3-9521375-3-7 € 110 / CHF 120 ISBN 978-3905562-10-3 € 110 / CHF 120 ISBN 978-3-905562-99-5 € 110 / CHF 120

René Burri, Trois Fois Chez Nous Daniel Schmid, A Smuggler’s Life Daniel Schmid, Excitation Bizarre The Three Books signed € 750 / CHF 800 ISBN 978-3-9521375-4-5 € 90 / CHF 100 ISBN 978-3-905562-15-4 € 70 / CHF 80

Tilda Swinton, Sorry To Make You Throw Up Tilda Swinton, Sorry To Make You Throw Up Raymond Meier, Louis Kahn Dhaka ISBN 978-3-905562-01- 4 € 180 / CHF 200 Paperback Edition € 140 / CHF 150 ISBN 978-3-905562-18-9 € 280 / CHF 300

Page left: René Burri photographed the annual reports for Rank Xerox for many years – almost unknow to the public or even to his fans (why don’t we make a book on Burri’s Xerox Years?!). This image is from the book “Berner Blitz” – a rhapsody in colours, see above. Some say that this is the best book in colour by René Burri. I agree 200%! Simonett & Baer Backlist Edition Dino Simonett All titles are out of print. We offer you here La Réserve du Patron. All books are true collector’s items – in mint condition.

Alexis Saile, Doppelgänger Alexis Saile, Schabernack Cristina Golland, Wanderlust ISBN 978-3-905562-12-X € 140 / CHF 150 ISBN 978-3-905562-48-0 € 180 / CHF 200 ISBN 978-3-905562-00-6 € 70 / CHF 75

Martin Frank, Ein kleines Totenbuch / Dino Simonett, To The Happy Few François Berthoud, Facsimile Little Book of Death ISBN 978-3-905562-55-3 € 110 / CHF 120 ISBN 978-3-9521375-6-1 € 80 / CHF 90 ISBN 978-3-9521375-8-8 € 70 / CHF 75

Valerio Olgiati, PLAN 1:100 Valerio Olgiati, Paspels Valerio Olgiati, House For A Musician ISBN 978-3-905562-13-8 € 450 / CHF 500 ISBN 978-3-9521375-5- 3 € 180 / CHF 200 ISBN 978-3-905562-54-5 € 70 / CHF 75

Martin Simonett, Zilliser Lausbubengeschichten Dino Simonett, Yuki Yuki Dino Simonett, Lonpari ISBN 978-3-905562-53-7 € 70 / CHF 75 ISBN 978-3-905562-06-5 € 180 / CHF 200 € 180 / CHF 200

Page left: I’m happy I found this marvellous vintage illustration “Super Moschino” by François Berthoud from 1986 again. My five years old son loves it too! It is from the timeless classic FACSIMILE, published in 2000 – see above. Simonett & Baer × Edition Dino Simonett × The Name Books: Sixteen Career Defining Publisher’s Catalogues

Catalogue Raisonné 1983–1994 Catalogue #1 / 1998 “Siblings” Catalogue #2 / 1999 “Daniel” Catalogue #3 / 2000 “Stina” sold out sold out sold out € 45 / CHF 50

Catalogue #4 / 2001 “Alexis” Catalogue #5 / 2002 “Aki” Catalogue #6 / 2003 “Lady Bird” Catalogue #7 / 2004 “Samest” € 45 / CHF 50 sold out € 45 / CHF 50 € 65 / CHF 70

Catalogue #8 / 2005 “Barbara” Catalogue #9 / 2006 “Anja” Catalogue #10 / 2007 “Samest” Catalogue #11 / 2008 “Porsche” € 45 / CHF 50 € 65 / CHF 70 € 45 / CHF 50 € 45 / CHF 50

Catalogue #12 / 2009 “Martina” Dino Simonett, 2016/17 “Asimo” The Name Books, 2016/17 “Valerio” Simonett & Baer, 2018 “Iouri” € 65 / CHF 70 free copy: [email protected] free copy: [email protected] free copy: [email protected]

Page right: A dream came true! This bag in the most beautiful Barenia/Novonappa leather looks like it comes freshly from the Hermès Ateliers in Pantin. Wrong! It comes from the atelier of Ms. Hélène Balle who was a collaborator for Hermès for five years. The price for this Dino Simonett Bookbag® and all the other bags is upon request: [email protected] More Bookbags® → Dino Simonett Bookbags® Dino Simonett Bookbags® Sophisticated Bagladies, Bookbags and Fancy Leather Goods Sophisticated Bagladies, Bookbags, Fancy Leather Goods and Wonderful Hour Glasses “Clessidra”

Muriel Stillhard with her goatskin bag My all time favorite Bookbag in Mr and Mrs Einstein Studio from Tokyo with Christina Bally, the good soul of Hotel Trois The Yellow Submarine Summer Bookbag and From Zürichberg with Love the one and only at Miux office in Chur. Crocodile is with me since the beginning. their goatskin bag at I Never Read bookfair. Rois with her Bookbag in cattle leather. Hour Glasses with white and anthracite sand. Loe Guyer with her Bullbag “salt and pepper”.

”Döt ena am Bergli, döt schtoht a wiissi Gaiss. Patricia da Silva – our lovely architect lady in Dino Simonett Beauty Case Etui in This iPhone-Etui you can use for your Poping in from NYC: Michael Maharam with a A vintage python skin from the fleamarket was I han si wella melcha, do haut si miar ais.“ Lisbon – with her Bookbag in cattle leather. velours leather – What Women Want! Phone, your passport, all the banking Bookbag in leather and one in salmon skin. transformed into this wonderful Snakeskin Bag. Bookbag in natural goat skin from Gerberei Chur. and business cards and plenty of cash!

The one and only Christine Kilcher of REHAB Dino Simonett Mac Book Pro Case in The one and only partner in crime We all live in a yellow submarine! Christine Bins- The most beautiful Black Bookbag ever made Graphic Designer Martina Meier* is as happy with a bag for herself and one for her sister. deerskin leather – best sleeve for your laptop. Bruno Margreth with his Laptop Sleeve wanger with her Endless Summer Stromboli Bag. – we are playing in the Hermès league now. as a girl can be. Why? Guess three times! and a marvellous Cedro from Sicily.

All Dino Simonett Bookbags® are handmade by excellent craftsmen. We produce in very small quantities and we sell (with Plus: Since a few years we decided to avoid all lables, names and other brandings on our products. All prices on request: [email protected] little exceptions) only directly in personal meetings at our showroom in Basel. Or we ship your bag or etui worldwide. All animal skins *Martina Meier Track List Top Five: 1 I put a spell on you, Screamin Jay Hawkins 2 Mondo di Uomini, Lucio Dalla are certified from authorized dealers, all leathers are vegetable tanned. We conceive as well bespoke Bookbags® after your ideas. 3 Loraine, Linton Kwesi Johnson 4 Le Pas Du Chat Noir, Anouar Brahem 5 In my spaceship, Jan Turkenburg Simonett & Baer Collaborator’s Pages Artists, Graphic Designers, Printers, Bookbinders, Handwerker and Interns we love to work with.

Manfred and Hans-Jörg Spinner from Spinner Tobias and Christian Spinner from Spinner The one and only Peter Meyer represents Bookbinder with the freshly bound Halard books. Bookbinder with Iouri Podladtchikov and his Spinner Bookbinder in Switzerland – a man with Best Bookbinder ever! Ottersweier, Germany book True Love is Hard to Find. an elephant’s brain, here with an old VO-Dummy.

Photographer Luca Zanetti is telling phantastic With Martina Meier we currently work on five Oldies but Goldies! Bruno Margreth and Yours stories from his E-Bike Diaries to our kids. book projects – at her Bureau Mia in Zürich. Truly conquering Basel. Track List Bruno*

Klaus Golderer represents our favourite Our favourite carpenters Ilan and his boss Felix Adie! Our new intern Vanessa Grünig printer Offizin Scheufele in Stuttgart. Flury installing new bookshelfs at our showroom. has arrived. Here is her Track List** Page left: Like everybody else we like to leave town now and then. Then we go to our mountain office / hideaway in the Grisons – though it is not so easy to hide with three small “working” kids. When the weather is good we take breakfast, lunch and dinner under the walnut tree in the small garden behind the former shoemakers house. In the shoemakers workshop we installed our office – The Manolo Lounge! *Bruno: 1 Voodoo Child, Jimi Hendrix 2 Der Halbwilde, Helmut Qualtinger 3 Can I Kick It? A Tribe Called Quest 4 Reflektor, Arcade Fire 5 A New Error, Moderat ** Vanessa: 1 Home, LCD Soundsystem 2 Provider, Frank Ocean 3 Over the Garden Wall, The Highwayman 4 Separator, Radiohead 5 Zahnluecke, Hauschka Simonett & Baer About Us, Happy Family, Friends of the House and… Landlords!

Bye Bye Chur! After two important but mostly Gemütlichkeit: Gondini Simonett at the balcony My brother in law Fabian Baer is a man for all trapped years we moved down the Rhine of our new Basel appartment reading seasons, this spring we renovated our mountain to Basel – mit Pauken und Trompeten! the catalogues. house – five tons of trash was removed.

We are curators too: Curating childrens’ birthdays at This is the beloved “Vogelbeedli” (bath for A Bigger Splash at Schöneck Brunnen before our new studio in Basel, St. Alban-Vorstadt 68. birds) of our beloved landlord M.U.F. of our the True Love Party: Alba, Martina, Iouri, wonderful studio, atelier & gallery. Dino and Martina.

Play it again, Sebi! Sebastian Karrer – our Some times on sundays we join our landlord Happy Birthday to you! Amore Martina Baer at Hauspianist – performing under the walnut tree Marco Zünd and his kids to Segelflugplatz her last “thirty-something” birthday at our studio – in Central Park in Donath. Dittingen – with it’s Feuerstelle and splendid view. With Many Happy Returns of the Day!

Page right: And when Switzerland is getting too tight and too narrow we think and dream about the Alentejo region in Portugal. There we bought a small piece of land called “Pero Cuco” – only five hectars – for a very small house with a rather big patio garden and an incredible view. Photo Patricia da Silva, January 2017. About two kilometers away we have the best neighbours you can imagine: The Olgiatis! On the picture of the back cover you can see architect Valerio Olgiati standing on our land demonstrating where the entrance of the building will be. Photo Bruno Margreth, May 2017. Simonett & Baer