14. The World Upside Down

The photo topic this week is The World Upside Down. It sounds quite easy and predictable but try looking through your photo collections and see if you will find something even slightly close to this topic... Well, I was lucky enough to have exactly what I wanted to find :) I talked about my trip to Prague in previous posts but this one will show you my favorite place of all - Restaurant Luka Lu.

Half of the interior in this beautiful venue was hanging from the ceiling, as you can see yourselves! A wooden cat is creepy and weird enough, you might think. But once you take a closer look you will notice the skillful arrangement of every single element in these hanging suitcases. There are lamps (with electricity!), wine glasses, books, a vintage scarf, an old alarm clock, a whole table, aaaand a couple of more wooden cats. Lovely! The only thing they were missing was a ladder which I could climb up to investigate even better what the owners of the place had put in these treasure chests!

In my traditional research phase of the topic for this post, I found numerous website or other blog entries about the world upside down and its forms. There a couple of things, though, that I cannot keep from sharing! It's absolutely stunning to what extremest people go these days... And what I mean precisely is a new trend in house design. Yes, inverted house design! Please, take a look at all these images that the generous Mr. Google is showing me! It's insane! Even though these are most often art installations, some people dare to live in them.. Tell me, how does this happen exactly?! How do you sleep in your bed hanging from the ceiling, or even worse - how do you flush the toilet?! Actually, I don't want to know!!

"Fortune cookies", Martin Tremblay

Something a bit more undisturbing to look at is the upside-down trend in fashion photo shoots. Gravity is not an issue in fashion, and here is one more proof - Martin Tremblay's photos for the 23rd issue of Schön! Magazine (December 2013). The photos show a model taking "a walk" in Chinatown and featured fashion pieces by designer brands like Dolce&Gabbana and Givenchy.

NB! If there are any design-interested bar-visitors among my readers who are living or visiting Berlin any time soon, this might be a place you'd like to check out - Madame Claude. An upside-down bar!