Coloni is a Swedish gardening house founded in 2010. Its seed mixtures are all carefully selected from plant and flower species adapted to desert and arid Mediterranean regions, which is particularly wonderful for indoor gardening. All you have to do is regulate the temperature by watering and/or ventilation. You can also purchase the special Coloni soil which consists of black pumice originating from the Katla volcano on Iceland. Pumice is a rock formed through volcanic eruption. It is porous with a very high percentage of pores and thus weighs very little. It absorbs easily into the water and transports thanks to capillary action. 

The 245 meter long Hindenburg, pride and joy of the Deutsche Zeppelin-Reederei (DZR), was a leviathian of an airship. Holding 200,000 cubic meters of hydrogen gas and four 1050 hp Daimler-Benz 602 diesel motors, it was able to reach speeds of up to 135km/h with a maximum range of 14,000k.

In an effort to generate support for a German-American transatlantic zeppelin service, a 10 ½ hour “millionaire’s flight” was set for October 9, 1936. The fall foliage of New England was the main attraction aboard the air ship bustling with industry leaders from the fields of finance, aviation, government and military.

7000 Oaks was a public art project undertaken in Kassel for the inauguration of Documenta 7 in 1982 and which continued five years after under the auspices of the Free International University. A true amalgamation of Beuys’ concept of the social sculpture, the planting of 7000 Oaks was a sculpture referring to people’s lives, to their everyday work. Beuys intention was to be among social problems and problems of nature and thus regenerate the life of humankind and spiritual consciousness of fellow planetarians. The solid stone base – made of basalt, which one can find in the craters of extinct volcanoes – complements the ever-evolving tree and thus represents a basic concept in Beuys’ philosophy, that these two natural yet oppositional qualities are complementary and coexist harmoniously.

The F-108 Rapier was an actual plane being developed by the North American Aircraft Co. during the late 1950s.  Designed to be a Mach 3 interceptor/escort for the XB-70 Valkyrie, the double-delta-winged Rapier made it to the mockup stage before the project was abruptly cancelled in 1959.

A year later, ITC released its own version of the F-108 -- one strikingly different from the actual plane.  This "Rapier" launched like a rocket – a concept intended to overcome the vulnerability of conventional airfields - and was designed to carry atomic-tipped missiles that could be fired from up to 1,000 miles away from its target.  Although it bore a superficial resemblance to the actual F-108, this design could never be confused with its real-world counterpart.

As early as 1952, engineers at Boeing Aircraft were working on designs for a Super-Sonic Transport (SST) that could ferry passengers coast-to-coast or from Europe and Asia at twice the speed of sound. However, it wasn't until 1963 that President John F. Kennedy formally committed the U.S. government to backing such a venture, this in response to the joint British and French plan to build their own SST, the Concorde.    

Gabrielle Chanel uses a French ombré textile with pattern sources from the Japanese kimono but brings to it the ethos of chaste minimalism. As Western fashion designers discovered from the East that untailored lengths of fabric could constitute modern dress, the cylinder and the textile plane became the new forms for apparel. This coat is from the year 1927.

A gift to the Met Museum by Diana Vreeland and her famous admonition that "the eye has to travel" which she herself exemplified. She searched the world for alternative beauty, in appearances and in apparel. During her years at "Vogue," the magazine featured remarkable visual stories from all parts of the globe. Vreeland's fascination with the veil - part ethnographic, part fashion adventurism - prompted her to find fashion uses for it. She frequently covered the heads of exhibition mannequins with veils, rendering them softer and more enigmatic.

Q: "Now take a fountain pen, twist the top and a highly concentrated mixture of nitric and hydrochloric acid dissolves all metals."

James Bond: "Wonderful for poison pen letters."

Q: “Pay attention 007!”