Rust

The Museum für Angewandte Kunst Köln (Museum of Applied Art) is a small and thus easy visit very close to the Funk Haus, the central location of WDR Westdeutsche Rundfunk. I am yet to see their famed big band, but that's another story. The warnings on the rusting entrance were somewhat a reference to the urgency and quality of post-WW2 rebuild and maybe even the state of those eras of design. This is design from ~1900 through to the post-modern. It's amusing and a bundle of memories. Even the young will have seen films of bakelite radios and Bauhaus furniture and record players with plastic lids and telephones with rotating dials and early iMacs and Walkmans. They weren't so long ago; before the era of the mobile phone. There were some items that I knew from ordinary, daily life, not even at student times when you use old tech. So it was a blast from the past and some chuckles and some history to learn of everyday items and rapid change in these decades of new tech. PS, we survived the rusting portico. BTW, on the way we ran into a men's choir singing in the rain.

The Museum of Applied Art is in Koln. The men's choir was Grungurtelrosen Kohler Mannerchor.