The first volume of Travelogue: Greek everyday solutions to common problems came with a great surprise: what papairlines initially thought was a personal design project turned out to have a wider reach, an ethnographic and cultural angle that made it relatable to a non-design oriented audience.

Furthermore, the publishers kept sharing stories of the reactions from clients of their bookshop in Athens, and papairlines followed the book travelling to a number of bookshops from the US to Korea. With all this positive feedback, it was only natural to move forward with this follow-up volume, presenting even more images of ingenious solutions found across Greece.

In a world that is becoming more controlled by algorithms and less by personal human curiosity, the objects in Travelogue Vol. 2: Greek everyday solutions to common problems occupy the liminal space between uniformity and uniqueness, timelessness and trend, planet and production, access and availability, need and materials. In the end, these objects may hold the key to understanding what luxury, craftsmanship, knowledge and ingenuity can mean at the dawning of a new world.

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