K108 Hotel and Yum Yum Restaurant

Located in the middle of old Doha you will find one of the best kept secret places in Doha...a very different Hotel.... The K108...

Photo: K108 Courtesy

The K108 Boutique Hotel is a place I highly recommend for several reasons, but the most important one is because 100% of it's profit goes to charity!!!! Yes, I said 100% to Charity!!!  I could end up here, because for me, this is more then a enough reason to go, but no...there are more and I will tell you a bit of this great Hotel ...

Though its location, a bit far for the fancy spots of Doha's 5 star Hotel, K108 is a real pearl. On it's 10th floor you will find the Yum Yum restaurant with a perfect view of the city.

Yum Yum by Hugo Coudurier is one of my favorite restaurants for lunch, though the majority of their customers prefer to go for dinner to see the lights of Doha's stunning skyline.

Hugo Coudurier a young talented French- Canadian Chef that worked in many famous kitchens in Europe and United States and for the famous Michelin Starred Guy Savoy (Paris), accepted the challenge to open he's own kitchen and dinning concept at the Yum Yum.

What I love about Yum Yum is the fact they have a market style menu. Chef Hugo Coudurier explained me that the menu changes depends on the food market availability and freshness of the products, so you will always find new dishes in the menu.

He's cuisine is simple, uncomplicated with a mix of Asian and European flavors with the use of the best quality products you can find in town, the result is absolutely divine, delicious and unique.

With a excellent service, the staff is always friendly, attentive and professional making you fell at home and the best off all with incredible affordable prices for the quality you get.

This boutique hotel and restaurant was designed by Olivier Meynard Architects and has a very clean and modern decor white white, green, brown colors giving a very cosy environment.

K108 is definitely a place to go and recommend to friends coming to Doha...and most importantly because they donate 100% of their profit under Al Kamal foundation to charity and important causes.

And why not now that Ramadam is coming, go there and help to make a difference in this world while you enjoy a great experience in Yum Yum.

My Blue World #2

Around China.....

Super Heavy Light scarfs by Lines Lab

Super Heavy Light "is a group of delicate silk accessories that combine the light weight of a fabric with sophisticated printed graphics based on zoomed images of concrete."

I love, love, love scarfs...and just fall in love by Lines Lab new scarf creations, so light, delicate and different...and with blue....

Lines Lab is not only a brand, but also a contemporary venture based in Macau. "A creative agency on the global Lusophone Top 20 ranking by Monocle Magazine & A Must See according to the New York Times" created and headed by Manuel CS (Industrial & Urban designer) and Clara Brito (Contemporary fashion & product designer) with the vision to integrate objects, people and events.

Photo: the blue chic

The Super Heavy Light Scarfs idea, started as an experimental project to test and create new products and began with the design of a bag in Tyvek that was transformed into a mould for a line of products based in concrete surface images.

These beautiful silk scarfs have patterns based on "photo details from those 3D products where forms and textures made by Tyvek molds on the cement surface were photographed and printed on silk".

The result is stunning and different, giving a poetic soul to concrete images translated into beautiful scarfs. Exactly like Carlos José Morais says :"Concrete's dream is to reach the sky" and "I think on the clouds but I walk on concrete". 

Available in four beautiful different designs at Macau Fashion Link Pop Up Shop and here or at Facebook page here.

Photo: the blue chic

Photos: Lines Lab Courtesy

Fashion Style @ Macau Fashion Link Pop Up Shop

Pop Up Shop by Macau Fashion Link

Yesterday Macau Fashion Link in partnership with the Albergue SCM open a Pop Up Shop in the beautiful Albergue just in the heart of Macau.

The Pop Up Shop that will be open until 30 of June has the aim to help and promote renowened Portguese Fashion designers and new emerging local talented designers. 

Macau Fashion Link besides giving the opportunity to these local designers to show and promote their talent and work to the end consumer also help's in their internationalization among Asian Markets and Portuguese speaking countries the Lusophone markets, creating an interchange between them and designers from from countries like Portugal, Angola and Brazil.

In this June edition besides local designers you will find pieces by the internationally renowned Portuguese designer "Dino Alves" and also a sports causal wear from "A Forest Design".

During the days that this shop will be open there will be a Designer's Room day, dedicated to each designer where you wil be able to buy  their artworks with 25% discount!
How great don't you think? 

If you are in Macau or traveling there it's a great opportunity to buy different and unique artwork designed pieces...


POP UP SHOP - Macau Fashion Link
Albergue SCM
From 12 am to 10 pm

i carry your heart with me - E. E. Cummings

E.E. Cummings is one of my favorite poets, he has a unique visual style while using a simple language that I personally find enchanting.

This poem that looks like a sonnet "i carry your heart with me," is deeply profound and touching. The simple language that he uses makes it easy to understand and read,  he talks about deep and profound love, a love able to keep the stars apart and that can transcend the soul or the mind.

How beautiful....

i carry your heart with me 

i carry your heart with me (i carry it in
my heart) i am never without it (anywhere

i go you go, my dear; and whatever is done

by only me is your doing, my darling)

i fear

no fate (for you are my fate, my sweet) i want

no world (for beautiful you are my world, my true)

and it's you are whatever a moon has always meant

and whatever a sun will always sing is you

here is the deepest secret nobody knows

(here is the root of the root and the bud of the bud

and the sky of the sky of a tree called life; which grows

higher than soul can hope or mind can hide)

and this is the wonder that's keeping the stars apart

i carry your heart (i carry it in my heart)

The Secret Garden 2 - Dior's Fall 2013 video campaign

The Parisian Dior house since ever reveled a clear passion for gardens and flowers. Christian Dior loved is garden and flowers from his childhood house in Granville.

Raf Simons, Dior's creative director has also shown this same passion in the presentation of his high couture collections, and for the presentation of new 2013 F/W season Dior just released a new short film the Secret Garden 2- Versaillestakes as an extension of last years film Secret Garden - Versailles.

This short film was shoot in the Versailles Palace and  again directed by Inez van Lamsweerde & Vinoodh Matadin. Presenting the super model Daria Strokous, she leads the enchanted film has a reincarnation of Marie Antoniette running trough the Palace and exploring the site's grounds and park, ending herself in a enchanted forest surrounded by fairies while beautifully dressed in sophisticated, luscious Dior creations for the next pre fall season.

I'm a huge fan of Depeche Mode so i just loved the music in the film background! Just perfect to embrace the mystical scenario while the girl is running the endless corridors and gardens with stunning statement jewelry, neon bags and breathtaking dreamy dresses.

"The heart of the royal land conceals an extraordinary world of poetry and color: in the depth of its mysterious woods a secret garden blooms out of sight, inhabited by flower-women."

The inspiration also has a deep root in art with one of the scenes inspired in the famed painting 'Luncheon on the Grass' by Édouard Manet, painted between 1862-1863.

The result is amazing...a great recreation trough the mix of different art eras.

The World Press Photo 13 Exhibition @ Katara

The famous World Press Photo exhibition is still showcasing at Katara in Doha until the 15 of this month.

This is the third time that The World Press Photo exhibits in Qatar in a annual show held in 100 venues all over the world for a year-long tour with stops in places like Lagos (Nigeria), Lima (Peru), Riga (Latvia) and Oude Kerk (Amsterdam).

Katara Cultural Village Foundation together with the Qatar Photographic Society and in collaboration with the World Press Photo Organization put together this great exhibition.

No need to talk about the quality of the photos, but have to say that it is really worthy to go, it really shows off the best of contemporary press photography in a exhibition very well paced.

I'm sure just like me, you will feel that some of the images leave a mark on your memory, some for its provocative, emotional or even tender content other by its shocking wake up call to world wide realities.

You will find some interesting photographs of sports men and women many of them taken in last year's Olympic Games also animals in the wild, animals in captivity in Chinese Zoos and a striking sport related image showing a Pacu Jawi race, a 400 year-old tradition in western Sumatra where a competitor is driving two bulls through a muddy road.

The winning photograph of the swedish photographer Paul Hansen 'Gaza Burial' is one of the most shocking, a photo where you could read on the faces of two men, a mix of despair and anger while carrying the small bodies of two murdered children to a mosque for their funeral.

If you love photography its a great opportunity to see some stunning photographs taken around the world.

Until 15 Jun 2013

10:00:am - 10:00:pm

Katara Gallery - Bldg 18

This Doha of Mine # 5

Photos: the blue chic