The 15th Anniversary of "Green Diamond SJD"

November of this year is very peculiar month for my family. Fifteen years ago my husband and I merged our businesses working before independently. And today looking back the way we had come, I’m thinking – every business has a story. This is ours…

My business was flora and home design, while I was continuing an education in Moscow, upgrading the skills.

Our first joint effort was: opening the art & jeweler gallery in our hometown. We have named it “Green Diamond”.

It was an unusual combination - “The Green Diamond”. It designated our activity: the name of my business The Flower House “Rene” got a word “Green” and the word “Diamond” indicated the my husband’s business.

We would like to make up our own style of new gallery. It was experiment, and at first, even journalists wrote that we united incompatible things before: “Who have told – there is no green diamond in the world?” Actually, green diamonds are found but they are rare quite enough, and we knew about.

It is a true history of our brainchild the “Green Diamond”.

And now I’ve got the photos from my archive the fifteen year’s prescription when we represented gallery “Green Diamond”. I have only few photos and in present I would take everything in another way and other subjects, but just these photos are very dear to me. I look at them and think of these years when I began a new stage of my life, which lead me forward up to this date.





Kurpark Baden

Like many spas, Baden has some attractive parks and today we will visit Baden the last time this year and I’ll tell about Kurpark. The name Kurpark speaks for itself, “kur” means in German, “cure” so the name Kurpark can be translated Resort Park. I would like to tell about structure of Kurparks a little.

The Kurpark it is an internal City Park, which is classical informal Landscape Park with pieces of garden’s architecture on the one hand, but also is a part of the medical structure at the same time. You remember, that Baden, it is a spa town and so all Baden’s structures have attention to recovery of a human body and soul. Kurpark is one of the important “players” of this complex.

Kurpark is as well the major park of the city of Baden. Park is rather spacious one; you can lead here all day long. You will find everything here: a nature in “designed variant”, various steep paths and hiking routs, cafés, lawns for relaxing with magnificent views from the hill, a summer stage where since “living” music sounds from May up to October and certainly the Casino.

Kurpark is very picturesque at any time, but in fall, it has and peculiar air. I visited Baden close to mid of October and it wasn’t the time of nature’s attire in flamboyant yet that usually appears at the end of October, but nevertheless takes a look at Kurpark with me and leave Kurpark of Baden in your memory. And, when you will have an occasion to visit Vienna I advice to take a train and go to Baden for one-day relax from big city here.

Baden in October

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Today we once again will visit vicinities of Baden. We stroll along the Schwechat River. Many already have heard this name. Schwechat, the Vienna International Airport often call by this name. Schwechat, where the airport and headquarters of Austrian Airlines are situates, is named after the river Schwechat, which flows through the center of town. By the way, this small river flows through Baden too, but Imperial Spa Resort Baden is famous for its warm mineral baths therefore is named Baden (from bad – bath).  

So, two weeks have passed and we again stroll on comfortable paths along Schwechat River.

All time I postpone excursion through a town but still were fine and silent October days and I would return to Israel in few days therefore I had enjoyed by autumn paints and fresh air and was saying goodbye to Baden till next spring.