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A friend of mine gave me this newspaper review about a book by an Industrial Designer and Photographer, Leandro Lattes, who took pictures of all these kind of Things in Madrid, the city where I live and where I was born.
It,s TRUE and it is SHAME, these all things are dissapearing, regular every-day stores and shops (and a lot of things, you know...) are starting to look alike all over the world. Maybe it is the price we have to pay. I know we must change things, is in ourselves, but ...

PS: Specially for you Jesus

unknown

That's quite a pity. I love Madrid, went there in February 2000 and would love to return.

I miss the “bocadillo de calamares” from Casa Rua at the Plaza Mayor ;)

unknown

Hey Ignacio, this is a funny coincidence, because Leandro is a very good
friend of mine. We used to work together a few years ago...

He has studio in Madrid, together with designer Brendan McCormick.

Thanks for the post, it brings back good memories.

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> It,s TRUE and it is SHAME

So what are you going to do about it?

hhp

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> So what are you going to do about it?

- First Thing: I just made it posting the review, it is a small one but look, here we are talking about it.
- Second: To buy the book, and now with more reasons since I know the money goes to a Jesus�s friend (too religious?)
- Third: Don�t forget. I don�t know, things are going this way, the more equal is everything the cheaper it is to produce it, let me give you an ordinary example: In Madrid now, if you want to put tiles in your bathroom they have to be so big, so plain, so easy to install, so easy to produce, very few people now know how to install the little ones anymore, most of them curiously (or not so curiously) are from the east, in ten years, when some parts of Krakow will look the same than some parts of Logro�o... I don�t know who is going to be able to install even the big tiles. I think we are loosing details, details are important for me, and in my modest way, I try don�t forget it when I do something. Maybe it is not too much, but it�s what I do.
- Fourth Thing: To have dinner, a �Bocadillo de Calamares� but not in Plaza Mayor Adriano, in La Glorieta de Bilbao, is closer.
- Fifth Thing, drink a beer with the �bocata� Hrant, Cheers!

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Oops!

I just realized that the link is not working.
Here is the right one.

unknown

I always liked the ONO stores!
I used to go a lot to the ONE in Fuencarral, before I had adsl, and I remember very clear that I loved the way the ONO logo was shown from outside, they made a very nice pixel version of the rounded letters.
But ... I am not 100% sure, I think this store is closed now, I�ll check it out.

Coicidencias Jesus, Coincidencias

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