Technology is changing the way we would stay with us. Now welcome to sophie visionaries. Improving our lives with every day objects the design of todays about comfort and function and today my guest is one of the most prolific designers iconic designers of our times karim rashid. Artists do all the owner hi great to have you with us today you look wonderful thank you so do you agree moscow day of the year old pink and serious side of ray of sunshine well in the winter moscow gets a bit crazy but you know most cities around the world get quite great so then they have you talking with. Us all right so i want to start over with one of your motos which is you should grasp the luxury of freedom. Instead of luxury of the physical world but then i know that you are super famous and super in demand and you do all kinds of designs for high end 5 star hotels. Where does that fit and i think thats luxury frederic all you need you made a mistake there most of the hotels i do are 2 star 3 star and
For many years we always saw design as an elite subject or a high art but its actually not a high art at all design is should be like the dust revolution taught us for the mass market its for accessibility so wants to do stuff that you do if its not for hotels but like designer pieces how much would it cost because yes youre absolutely right anything that is a designer piece of furniture anything is like having a piece of art you know the latest thing you cannot be democratic and for everybody but thats changed now look at look at a good comparison of whats going on now in the design world is whats already happened in the fashion world the very high in. Fashion brands Luxury Brands are a lot of them are having trouble. Meaning financial trouble but also just trouble in the sense of vision a lot of dont really even know where to go anymore and there was a time when if you went back 3040 years that every fashion house had a very differ. And sensibility vision style right so it was and th
Addison. Addison. Thanks, dawn. One minute past thanks, dawn. One minute past midday. Heres our top story. The met office is warning of possible danger to life as storm anthony hits parts of the uk. Theyve issued an amber warning for southwestern parts of england and wales until 7 pm. This evening. Strong winds could cause flying debris , power cuts cause flying debris, power cuts and travel disruption. And travel disruption. Meanwhile, a yellow weather warning for rain is in place for Northern Ireland with flooding possible where the journalist nathan rao told us what to expect at wind speeds of this storm. Storm anthony are expected to be around 75 mile per hour gusts on the coasts and 55 mile per hour inland. Its not the strong storm that weve seen, but because of the time of year, the leaves, the trees are all in full leaf and its holiday season. The schools are off. And where its going to be hitting the this storm hitting the impact of this storm hitting today is likely to be grea
It was in constant jeopardy of losing it matters. And i think in part that has something to do with how the town began. It began as an idea on a piece of paper. There were not People Living here when it was actually proposed that it would become the state capital. First the territorial capital and the state capital and it was this guy, he was a land speculator and he had invested in this land. The only people that were really living here or those around the lake shores and there were for traders that occasionally set up shop. But on the whole no one was living here. He comes through and he sees this land and says i think this can be a great town. So he hired someone to draw the boundaries of the town and presented it to the Territorial Legislature and said that this is it, this should be the capital of the New Territory and he really had to convince a lot of people because theres nobody living here at this time. So i think that has a lot to do with how he grew and hang on to his status
Yet the showers coming down even light showers to the picture email it at kron 4 doc on breaking news at kron 4 doc. Reporter weather is in progress today we of the day brokendown here on the Storm Tracker 4 day park forecast Morning Hours upper 30s in the 40s. With some clouds out there and saw that picture by noontime warming up to the upper 50s and bring in the chance of maybe a few showers. The targeted area around the bay likely see some showers mainly the east bay and the south bay. It will focus on those heavily in the morning broadcast. I thing the afternoon shower stay with us warmup pool 60s and looks like that chardins dissipates and a spate by three. The south bay by 9 00 tonight. A full forecast coming up more radar and should show you and what you do some tracker for future tests and how long rain will develop over the course of the day today. Stick around for that, reporter updated on the latest with traffic. Reporter we are following a similar on the pension path origin