Köln – January 18, 2023

First, a couple of more obligatory pictures of the cathedral.

kölner dom
dom closeup

makk

The makk (Museum für Angewandte Kunst Köln—Museum of Applied Arts, Cologne) is a short distnace from the Dom. On the way there, I saw these statues of Ferdinand Wallraf and Johann Richartz, whose names are on a museum of art by old masters. I didn’t go into that one.

statue of wallraf
statue of richartz

Here are pictures of items in the makk collection:

bakelite radios
coffee cups with disk shaped handles

These look like they would be difficult to hold.

chair with bird painted on back
dishware with abstract designs
door pull handle

Walter Gropius and Adolf Meyer, 1922

chairs and lamps
chairs and tables
colored fruit bowls
wooden lounge chairs
radios chair and large radio
art deco phone radio and tray
table with attached chair

Designed by Frank Lloyd Wright, 1904

lounge chair with black seat and red back
stained glass with abstract geometric forms
display case with many radios
bottoms of pots and pans

Accumulation, Arman, 1960

display case with telephones
white record player
modernist chairs
spherical metal wire sculpture
large red old style record player with speakers
tea service

Tea Service, Walter Gropius, 1968-1970

various objets d art
bakelite objects
angled shelves and lamp
Two standard chairs and one made from a shopping cart.
table lamp with circular swivel for bulb
Phone that looks as if it is made of Lego blocks

Super Blocks by Tyco Electronics, 1968

mac classic and red imac

Seeing these in a museum makes me feel really old.

black and white chair
red and yellow chairs
steel frame chair

This looks like a hideously uncomfortable chair.

Chair One, Konstantin Grcic, 2004

stairway railings

Not sure what these things on the stairway railings are.

curtain with painted blue arch
round mirror on floor
model of building
stairway with red carpeting

Miscellanea

teufel

The name of this store means “devil” in English.

signage marc o polo

Sure ’n begorrah I’m off to China.

origami animals

Vielfalt in German means “diversity,” viel Falt means “many folds”

giant ice cream cone

Dropped Cone, Coosje van Bruggen and Claes Oldenburg, 2001

church roof with strange perspective

I could not figure out the perspective on this church roof.

puppet theater box office puppets
candy bananas

I think these are made of some sort of very sugary compound.

candy macarons