David Bowie Is Victoria and Albert Museum Cromwell Road, London, England. March 23-July 28. www.vam.ac.uk Space oddity: Striped bodysuit for Aladdin Sane tour, 1973. Design by Kansai Yamamoto. Photograph by Masayoshi Sukita David Bowie and William Burroughs, 1974. Photograph by Terry O’Neill. Hand-colouring by David Bowie COURTESY OF THE THIEF 20 FEBRUARY 2013 SCANORAMA
THE HIT LIST © SUKITA/THE DAVID BOWIE ARCHIVE 2012, PAW GISSEL 3 Lapping it up TEAROOMS Hermès has made quite a splash with its latest boutique, a beautiful art-deco bathhouse on Paris’s Left Bank. But before you dive into the iconic scarves, leatherwork, cashmere blankets and Christophe Lemaire ready-to-wear, we suggest you test the water with a cup of Darjeeling Puttabong Clonal Queen tea at Le Plongeoir. Ladies come here to lunch on tarte fine de cabillaud et févettes à la tomate (cod cakes with fava beans and tomato) or homard rôti à la verveine artichaut poivrade et abricot moelleux (roasted lobster à la Verveine with artichokes and sweet apricot). But if you’re anything like us, you’ll go for the cart with pastries and cakes. The pistachio and raspberry financier is to die for, and there’s a cake with a croissant-like base topped with lemon crème flavored with basil and meringue. Should you get the urge to take home your bone china teacup, it costs €170. KARINA ERICSSON WÄRN Le Plongeoir Chez Hermès 17 Rue de Sevrès, 6ème, Paris, France. Tel: +33 1 42 22 05 39. Métro: Sèvres-Babylone. GO TO PARIS SAS takes you to Paris. Book your trip at www.flysas.com. Round-trips to Paris start at 30,000 EuroBonus points from airports in Scandinavia and Finland. Taxes and fees apply, from €48. A life on Mars EXHIBITIONS When David Bowie performed Starman from the album The Rise and Fall of Ziggy Stardust and the Spiders from Mars on the BBC chart show Top of The Pops on July 6, 1972, he changed the face of rock forever. With his flame-red mullet, jumpsuit and space boots, he gave the recession-weary country a massive jolt, as if this androgynous being had indeed beamed down from another planet. Bowie was to become the defining style icon of the 1970s, changing his image with each new album – a neat trick later picked up by Madonna and Lady Gaga. He never stood still, nor did he throw anything away it seems. Now the Victoria and Albert Museum has been given unprecedented access to the David Bowie Archive – the singer’s own 60,000-strong collection of glam rock memorabilia – for next month’s first-ever retrospective of one of British rock’s most stellar careers. Among the finds unearthed for the David INNS Ask any Dane and they will have heard of Hvidsten Kro, an old coaching inn midway between Århus and Aalborg. During World War II, the pub was the center of operations for the Hvidsten Gruppen, the Danish Resistance movement led by the grandparents of the current owner, Søren Fiil, whose story was recently made into a film. But that’s not the only reason. People come here from far and wide for the bacon and chive omelet with homemade mustard and rye bread that has been in the family for generations. (We have a feeling the secret may be in the mustard.) The omelet is not the only thing that’s stayed the same Bowie Is exhibition by co-curator Geoffrey Marsh is a collage of the lyrics for Blackout from the album Heroes (1977), which Bowie wrote using William Burroughs’ cut-up technique. There’s also a great portrait of the singer with the Beatnik. “Bowie is a phenomenal archivist,” Marsh says. “Every item, be it a stage costume or sheet of lyrics, is catalogued and kept in museum-like conditions.” Altogether there will be 300 objects on display, including stage costumes, cover art, photographs and films. The perfect refresher course given his latest album, The Next Day – his first for a decade – is set to come out the same month. Admission: €17. MICHAEL DEE 4Centuries-old omelet GO TO LONDON SAS takes you to London. Book your trip at www.flysas.com. Round-trips to London start at 30,000 EuroBonus points from airports in Scandinavia and Finland. Taxes and fees apply, from €69. since the Fiils took over almost 150 years ago. The walls are lined with hunting trophies and other curios collected by Søren’s grandfather, Marius, and the waitstaff wear folk dress just like they did in the old days. €13.50. MIA LJUNGBERG NEVADO Hvidsten Kro Mariagervej 450, Spentrup, Denmark. Tel: + 45 86 47 70 22. Rooms from €65. www.hvidstenkro.dk GO TO ÅRHUS SAS takes you to Århus. Book your trip at www.flysas.com. Use money or your Euro- Bonus points, or both. SCANORAMA FEBRUARY 2013 21
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