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02 Autumn/Winter 2015

Street Art

inspirations from the street

Gifts from the kitchen apple-cinnamon syrup and other great ideas

Favourite items

WE LOVE! wallets and bags

Xmas

grea t re idea cipes an s festi for the d ve se ason

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Street Art snapshots

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Delicious recipes

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Adventures in Sweden

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DIY Advent calendar

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Tips for a relaxed Christmas party

CONTENT INSPIRATIONS AND TRENDS

FOR THE SEASON

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Street Art snapshot

12 A mulled wine seldom stays on its own

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Inspirations from the ARTEBENE showroom

18 DIY Advent calendar

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Travel tip for “snow bunnies”

and “cold lovers”

CULINARY PLEASURES 14

Gifts from the kitchen

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Sweet temptations

GET INTO A GOOD MOOD 24

Ask “Siri”

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ARTEBENE Christmas encyclopaedia

WE LOVE! 10

Home Story

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STREET ART

I N S P I R AT I O N F R O M T H E S T R E E T

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“Unlimited Shoes” seen in Berlin, Germany

GOOD TO KNOW: Streetart (also street art, used less frequently because it could be understood as street entertainment) describes various non-commercial forms of art in public areas, which the initiator intends to remain there permanently.

[1] We took a look around and gathered lots of great inspiration...

Chill-out corner in Bremen, Germany

For cat lovers, Berlin, Germany [1] Ulrich Blanché: Konsumkunst - Kultur und Kommerz bei Banksy und Damien Hirst. Bielefeld 2012. S. 79f.

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Passion for colour? Colourful city highlight in Leipzig, Germany (top) and Oporto, Portugal (right).

A clear message in Göttingen, Germany.

TIP Those who wander the streets with their eyes open can find large and small works of art in many places. So open your eyes – it’s worth it!

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I N S P I R AT I O N S FROM THE ARTEBENE SH OWROOM In need for good ideas for product presentation?

Try this:

S te p 1 : Use your old Euro pallets. A brush and a little paint will add new lustre to them. Let them dry, then stack to the desired height. Done!

S te p 2 : Wrap various boxes in ARTEBENE gift paper and use them to build a tower. Now decorate the ARTEBENE theme world on the pallets.

This is how great looking decoration tables in a totally new look can be created at reasonable cost.

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B eau tifully wra pped

Beautifully wrapped: You will find lots of suggestions here for a product presentation that attracts attention. These articles are true eye-catchers!

Sparkling gift boxes in different sizes

Gift bags for all occasions

Sophisticated packaging for champagne or wine

Elegant gift paper

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WE LOVE!

Home Story When it’s cold outside and the wind is whistling, one really enjoys a cosy evening at home. Put these cuddly cushions from ARTEBENE on your sofa and you have something to look even more forward to when you come home.

Christmas celebrations C E L E B R AT I O N T I P S F O R F RIENDS

For most of us, Christmas time is pure stress. Buying gifts – preferably at the last minute – wrapping them, making biscuits, writing cards for relatives and friends... Give our anti-stress tip a try. We’ll show you how to organize a relaxed spontaneous Christmas celebration for friends and family.

How you do it: Just invite your best friends to a cosy gettogether right before Christmas. Together with the invitation, give your guests an empty cookie tin, which you ask them to return that evening, filled with tasty biscuits, of course. This will provide you with a diverse selection of biscuits to spoil your guests with.

To beat the cold weather, it’s best to serve a hot winter punch or mulled wine. Serve the drink in scooped-out halved oranges or apples, decorated with cinnamon sticks and pieces of fruit. THE eye-catcher of the evening.

Physical well-being is taken care of quickly, too: Light the grill, throw the sausages on, done!

Can you feel your stress reducing already?!

Matching Christmas cards from ARTEBENE

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Another tip: To spare you from a time-consuming search for a good mulled wine recipe, we have compiled a short list of ingredients for you: 1 litre organic mulled wine 2 organic oranges 1 sachet anise stars 2 tablespoons Cointreau Heat the mulled wine (don’t allow it to boil). Wash the oranges and grate the peel to thin stripes. Juice the oranges. Add juice, peel, anise stars and Cointreau to the mulled wine. Keep the mulled wine hot and enjoy.

A great idea and a real eye-catcher: Mulled wine in “apple cups”

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GIFTS FROM THE KITCHEN At Christmas, we all want to give our loved ones something with a personal character that they will enjoy.

For example, homemade apple-cinnamon syrup – a highlight in every kitchen. With this simple recipe, you will create an unforgettable gift that is not just limited to the Christmas season.

What you need:

How you do it :

Ingredients:

Peel the apples and and remove cores. Cover the apples,

2.5 kg apples

cinnamon sticks and sugar with 300 ml water and boil

2 cinnamon sticks

covered for 20 minutes until soft. To get the juice, put the

150 g sugar

applesauce in a fine sieve and pour it over a bowl to drip,

300 ml water

preferably overnight.

2 tablespoons maple syrup 300 ml apple juice

Top up the juice with apple juice until you have 750 ml.

Pour juice and maple syrup in a pot and reduce to approx.

500 ml. While hot, fill into bottles and seal.

The remaining apple mass doesn’t have to end up on the compost heap: boil shortly with a shot of apple juice and fill the applesauce into jars.

A small tip in conclusion: Add a shot of syrup to hot apple juice – this is a tasty apple punch for Christmas-time.

It also tastes good when mixed with sparkling wine or water.

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S W E E T T E M P TAT I O N S Cookies are the most popular Christmas sweets that nobody should do without. The first small treats in the form of gingerbread and small biscuits already came about in the time before Christ – primarily during festive seasons. Today, it’s hard to imagine a kitchen without this sweet snack, no matter what time of year it is.

Here are the most popular recipes from Grandma’s collection

Cinnamon stars:

How you do it :

3 egg whites

For the cinnamon stars, beat the egg white until stiff and

250 g powdered sugar

stir in the powdered sugar bit by bit. Put approx. 80 g of

300 g ground almonds

the egg white mixture aside for the sugar icing. Mix 300 g

2 teaspoons cinnamon

ground almonds into the rest of the egg white mixture and

100 g ground almonds

spice with cinnamon. The amount of almonds depends on the size of the eggs. The dough should be firm enough to be rolled out. Sprinkle the rest of the ground almonds on the worktop. Roll the dough until approx. 1 cm thick.

Cut out the cinnamon stars and place them on a baking tray covered with baking parchment. Brush the cinnamon stars with the remaining egg white mixture. Let them dry overnight, then bake them in a preheated oven at 160°C on the middle rack for approx. 8 minutes.

Important when nibbling on biscuits: Festive ARTEBENE napkins for the appropriate atmosphere

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Vanilla crescents:

The biscuits will keep for several weeks when stored in an attractive ARTEBENE tin.

250 g flour 1 pinch baking powder 100 g sugar 1 sachet vanilla sugar 1 egg (medium size) 125 g soft butter 100 g ground almonds

How you do it : Mix flour with baking powder in a mixing bowl. Add all other ingredients and first mix at the lowest speed (with a hook), then work into a dough at highest speed. Knead the dough on a lightly floured surface until it’s smooth.

Form pencil-thick rolls of dough, cut into 4-5 cm long pieces, roll the ends slightly thinner and form into a crescent. Place on baking tray.

Baking time: approx. 10 min (upper/lower heat, approx.

180°C) Sprinkling Pull the baking parchment with the crescents off the tray and put the crescents side by side. Sieve the powdered sugar, mix it with vanilla sugar and sprinkle onto the crescents immediately after baking. Allow the crescents to cool and then sprinkle again.

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DIY

ADVENT CALENDAR Attractive advent calendars bring a welcome change to December to shorten the wait until Christmas season.

More and more of us opt for Do-It-Yourself calendars.

Creativity knows no boundaries here.

Use the attractive Advent calendar bags from ARTEBENE. There are pretty cords to close the small bags, number tags and stickers, design tape, small flags – you can really have a fling creatively – just give it a try!

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What would the nicest Advent calendar be without the right contents?

Ideas for small gifts that people will enjoy

Star keychains

Magnets with gold foil

Fancy pens

Glittery sticky tape

Table scatter

Various music boxes

Sticker pads

Christmassy badges

Also nice as gifts: Lottery scratch cards (maybe it’s the jackpot?), fragrance samples, tea or something homemade from your kitchen? How about some tasty apple-cinnamon syrup or delicate cinnamon stars? You will find suitable recipes in this magazine on pages 14 / 16.

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Favourite items for Christmas

Are you already familiar with our new WE LOVE! collection? We offer you fine leather wallets and canvas bags as individual shopping companions with a stylish look. As a gift or – better yet – to keep for yourself.

The appealing wallet guarantees sophisticated charm combined with practical features. The fine Morocco embossing gives the item that certain something while also providing it with durable protection. On the inside, coins, bills and cards won’t get lost – the well-organized compartments offer lots of space for keeping things tidy.

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Matching in colour: The perfect companion for shopping and the like: The ARTEBENE canvas bags in two different shapes and sizes. The casual shape with leather details, the sturdy canvas material, the practical organisation and lots of space make this multi-talent a must-have in for your everyday needs and is also perfect as a Christmas present.

Still in need for gift ideas?

You will find a large selection of ARTEBENE products in stores.

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Travel tip

FOR SNOW BUNNIES AND COLD LOVERS Discover the fantastically beautiful landscape of Sweden in the winter: A guided dogsled tour is the ideal adventure for all active holiday-makers.

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(1) Getting to lead your own team of dogs is an exciting experience in the snowy winter world of the north. And the dogs are totally in their element! A ride through the never-ending white means pure pleasure and is a unique experience that you will talk about for a long time. Along with the equipment, food and luggage are distributed amongst the sleds first. Then the dogs are attached and off they go! At first they’re nervous and pull on the reins.

But as soon as the musher starts with his pack leader, the rest follow him quietly. Up to the treeless Fjäll the ride continues through snowed-in forests. For several days you fly across the carpet of snow on the Fjäll, experiencing Sweden’s unspoiled nature up close.

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After arriving at the camp, the dogs are untied and taken care of. Then the participants prepare dinner together.

But before the oven can offer some cosy heat: Time to cut some wood.

Getting water from small creeks or clear wells under the snow is also part of the evening work each day.

On the last day of the tour, it’s back to the valley, where the husky farm is. A last evening together in camp brings the tour to a sociable close.

The length of the tour is flexible and spans from day trips to tours lasting 10 days. Overnights on the tour

1. Metre-high snow covers the high plateau of the

are spent in simple mountain huts, without electricity or

Fulufjälls

running water.

2. Following the instructions of the musher, everyone takes care of their own sled of up to 6 dogs.

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GET INTO A GOOD MOOD AND NOW FOR SOMETHI NG FUNNY

Christmas encyclopaedia Advent season

For iP hone

The advent season used to be a fasting period.

users:

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Advent wreath THE accessory for the month of December! Made of plastic or real wood, multi-functional decoration with a pine tree flair. Usable as a headpiece, spare tire, home training device or flammable table object.

Food and drink

Gifts

A total of 46,000 tons of goose meat are eaten during

In order to hand out all gifts in time, Santa Claus would have

the holidays. In comparison: The Christmas tree at the

to move at a speed of approximately 1,040 km per second.

Dortmund Christmas Market weighs about 30 tons.

For braking to drop gifts as well as for accelerating, he would have to withstand 20.6 million Newtons – not even Santa Claus could survive this. In comparison: a conventional reindeer reaches a maximum speed of 24 per hour.

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Christmas tree The average Nordmann fir on Christmas has 178,333 needles and is 1.64 m tall. People used to hang Christmas trees from their ceilings. The advantage: They didn’t take up much space and couldn’t accidentally be tipped over.

Maybe that could be a new decoration idea for this year...

Santa’s reindeers Santa Claus originally had eight reindeers in front of his sleigh. Their names: Dasher, Dancer, Prancer, Vixen, Comet, Cupid, Donner, Blitzen. Red-nosed Rudolph didn’t turn up until later – the first time was in a colouring book.

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