Cure for wrinkles

Some­times, wha­tever the trigger may have been, a hidden oppor­tunity, a long overdue necessity sud­denly decides to make its way out of perfect hiding and back into the light.

For me, it was — many years ago — a long-dormant wish. A won­derful, but also an all too long che­rished, old wish. So old that it was covered in a thick layer of dust and had foo­lishly for­gotten that dusty wishes cause wrinkles on the forehead.

But then, a picture popped up before my eyes, first on the outside, then before my inner eye. The image started to move, became a mental slide show, a movie, and out of the blue — with all the impli­ca­tions and tur­bu­lences, the beau­tiful as well as the chal­lenging ones — my everyday life no longer unfolded in a German metro­polis, but sur­rounded by the shim­mering light of the south. And it does ever since.

A picture can turn a whole life upside down.
That is, when it cap­tures just the one subtle colour, the one mood of light and shade or a house’s wall with exactly that kind of patina we were longing for. No more excuses: A good picture makes you brave! And those wrinkles on the forehead will magi­cally dis­appear.

I still have that picture very clearly in my head. Since then, other inspiring images have come along and poked me or whispered some­thing in my ear. Like the one of the Neu­endorf House in Mal­lorca, cap­tured by pho­to­grapher Patricia Pari­nejad. This magni­fi­cently simple, mas­terfully con­tem­plative house cele­brates the present moment. And I? I take this silent pre­sence with me into my day.

— Britta Krämer, Com­munity Manager of HOLIDAYARCHITECTURE

Much of HOLIDAYARCHITECTURE’s work involves dealing with visual material. Some­times there is a picture that par­ti­cu­larly appeals to us – a photo that sur­prises us, fasci­nates us, or simply forces us to pay even more attention to a house or look at it from a dif­ferent per­spective. This gave rise to our — inten­tio­nally sub­jective and more per­sonal — new series “One Picture”.

The house