ILLUM is a department store smack dab in the middle of Strøget, one of the longest pedestrianised shopping streets in Europe. I’ve been to a fair few fancy department stores (hello, South Korea) and ILLUM strikes a good balance – it’s not intimidatingly big (it’s almost cosy!) and there’s a decent selection of stuff to […]
ILLUM, Copenhagen — Life in Copenhagen
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If walking around for a good few hours admiring European art sounds like your idea of a good time, SMK may just be the place for you. It’s not necessarily my favourite museum, or the most impressive collection I’ve seen – but the way this place was designed to be experienced has something of a […]
Stadens Museum for Kunst (SMK), Copenhagen — Life in Copenhagen
French Neoclassical painter Jean Auguste Dominique Ingres was born, August 29, 1780 in Montauban, in southern France ❦ A man profoundly respectful of the past, he assumed the role of a guardian of academic orthodoxy against the ascendant Romantic style represented by his nemesis Eugene Delacroix. His exemplars, he once explained, were “the great masters […]
Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres [1780-1867] — Marina Kanavaki
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If you missed the first post I made on ARKEN, make sure you check that out alongside this one 🙂 In this post I’ll share with you some snaps of ARKEN’s outdoor sculpture park/garden! It was a beautiful walk on a sunny day. Oh, and the cafe in ARKEN overlooking the sculpture park was pretty […]
ARKEN Museum for Moderne Kunst, Ishøj (Part 2) — Life in Copenhagen
It’s almost a year since we visited Prague in Czechia, one of our favourite cities.
I am quite sure, like virtually everywhere, it has been affected by the 2020 crises, but it remains one of the most beautiful places in Europe and the world.
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