Echo
In the city of Elche, in Spain, there is a large grove of palm trees that’s the only one of its kind in Europe, and one of the largest palm groves in the world. Elche has more palm trees than people. According to some estimates, there are between 200,000 and 300,000 trees here distributed across hundreds of orchards.
The Einstein Tower is an astrophysical observatory by Erich Mendelsohn. According to lore, Mendelsohn took Einstein on a long tour of the completed structure, waiting for some sign of approval. The design, while logical and perfectly sufficient to its purpose, stood out like an "ungainly spaceship" in the suburbs of Potsdam. Einstein said nothing until hours later, during a meeting with the building committee, when he whispered his one-word judgment: "Organic".
The Edsor Kronen tie factory, founded in 1909, is located in the Kreuzberg District of Berlin. Italian silk and cashmere are used to create all Edsor Kronen collections which comprise ties, ascots, scarves, cummerbunds and made-to-measure dressing gowns.
Earthships are built to utilize the available local resources, especially energy from the sun. For example, windows on the sunny side admit light and heat, and the buildings are often horseshoe-shaped to maximize southern sunlight and warmth in the colder months.
Elgin Marbles are a collection of classical Greek marble sculptures, inscriptions and architectural members that originally were part of the Parthenon and other buildings on the Acropolis of Athens.
Édouard Boubat was a French photographer.
E. Virgil Neal was a cosmetics baron. He had gigs as a hypnotist and personal magnetism guru, and hucksterer of health nostrums in Syracuse, NY, and in the USSR.
Escorial wool is so rare there are only three remaining flocks in the world that directly descend from the original Royal Escorial flock. Two in Australia and one in New Zealand.
El Croquis is one of the most prestigious architectural magazines in the world
Even though his cameras were ever-present, van der Elsken’s photos didn’t contain the least tinge of solipsism. It didn’t explore his personal identity - he was far more concerned with using his camera for documenting the social culture around him, especially the counterculture. His lenses captured the reckless, drug-taking bohemians in postwar Paris, the gruesome slaughter of hunted elephants in Africa, the demolition of Amsterdam’s looted and destroyed Jewish Quarter, segregation in South Africa under apartheid, jazz musicians onstage, and all forms of love - gender-bending, interracial and otherwise. He’s most famous for pictures shot in grainy, high-contrast black and white.