• rip

    sandro-munari-mario-mannucci-lancia-fulvia-coupe-hf-at-the-1972-rally-montecarlo

    “Partivo a tutta e finivo a tutta” – SANDRO MUNARI

    Passavo i pomeriggi a fare correre la mia Lancia Fulvia Coupé HF rossa con il cofano nero, avanti e indietro sul muretto fuori in giardino. I miei pomeriggi preferiti erano il rally di Sanremo, il Mille Laghi e l’Acropoli.
    Ma d’inverno i pomeriggi bui ed innevati erano tutti il Montecarlo!

    Adesso che vivo a Nizza la salita al Col de Turini è la mia preferita.
    Salgo da Sospel e scendo a Lantosque oppure viceversa. E fin da subito ho avuto la piacevole sensazione di conoscere la salita a memoria, metro per metro, curva per curva, tornante per tornante, anche se d’inverno e al buio il panorama deve essere stato sicuramente differente.

    Chissà come sarà la prima volta questa estate, chissà se, chiudendo gli occhi, sentirò e soprattutto vedrò, guardando in giù, la mia Lancia Fulvia Coupé HF rossa con il cofano nero salire a tutta, sempre di traverso!

  • impostazione

    Aerodiario Impostazione

    LETTERE – CARTOLINE – BIGLIETTI POSTALI / STAMPE – CAMPIONI – MANOSCRITTI / ESPRESSI – POSTA AEREA. Firenze, Santa Maria Novella railway station.

    If anyone needs me, I will be in Firenze until tomorrow evening!

  • éternelle

    Totalement, tendrement, tragiquement. BRIGITTE BARDOT.

  • chez coco

    Questo è il bellissimo mosaico che ti accoglieva quando entravi al ristorante COCO BEACH a Nizza. Un vero peccato calpestarlo!

    Aperto nel 1936 dal signor COCO sulle roccie a strapiombo sul mare, con una sala a forma di prua e una terrazza con una vista mozzafiato sul porto di Nizza, sulla Promenade des Anglais e giù fino ad Antibes e Cap d’Antibes, COCO BEACH divenne famoso per le strepitose grigliate di pesce appena pescato direttamente dal signor COCO.

    JEAN COCTEAU, PICASSO, ALAIN DELON, ROMY SCHNEIDER, ROBERT DE NIRO, SEAN CONNERY(aveva una bellissima villa a due passi dal Coco beach) e persino FAUSTO COPPI erano clienti abituali del signor Coco.

    Nel 2017, passato di proprietà, una notte di luglio, prese misteriosamente fuoco.

    Si dice e si racconta che BRIGITTE BARDOT andasse matta invece per le linguine al pesto fatto con il basilico selvatico che cresce nascosto tra le roccie lungo le sentier des Douaniers.

    Ci ho impiegato due ore, un caldo assassino, una fatica tremenda su e giù per le roccie con il costante pericolo di finire di sotto, ma alla fine sono riuscito a trovarlo! Poi la sera ho capito subito perché venire a cena, da Saint-Tropez al COCO BEACH!
    Photo: Antonello Tabarelli de Fatis

  • happy birthday

    Happy birthday to my queen of punk!
    DEBBIE HARRY posing for the poster for Blondie’s debut album Blondie, december 1976

  • ciao baby

    Edie Sedgwick

    I first discovered the story of EDIE SEDGWICK during one of my trips to New York City in the early 80’s and I immediately fell in love!

    I loved her androgynous beauty, her great talent and her minimal style.

    EDIE SEDGWICK was the darling muse of ANDY WARHOL and soon became the queen of The Factory, the creative studio for artists and celebrities in Manhattan founded by ANDY WARHOL in 1964.

    With her great talent and her distinctive style, featuring miniskirts, simple black and white striped T-shirts worn over black tights, short hair dyed with silver spray, heavy eye make-up, false lashes and chandelier earrings, Edie becama a true style icon of the sixties. Whatever she wore quickly turned into a trend.

    She was the superstar in many underground films by ANDY WARHOL between 1964 and 1966. She was photographed for LIFE Magazine and VOGUE and inspired numerous artists. Songs like Like a Rolling Stone, Just Like a Woman, and Leopard-Skin Pill-Box Hat by BOB DYLAN were inspired by her. The VELVET UNDERGROUND recorded Femme Fatale and the English band THE CULT dedicated the song Ciao Baby to her.

    She was the most beautiful, the most charismatic, but also the most fragile, an explosive mix of beauty, innocence, sensuality, suffering and mystery.

    Happy birthday Baby!

     

  • buona pasqua!

    Lora Lamm Buona Pasqua

    Best way to wish you Buona Pasqua?
    With this big huge yellow chick designed by LORA LAMM the famous Swiss graphic star in 1958 when she was in-house graphic designer and creative at the LA RINASCENTE, the iconic Italian department store in Piazza del Duomo in Milano.
    Buona Pasqua Buona Pasqua Buona Pasqua

  • à bientôt

    Paris Centre Pompidou

    Today is the last day to visit the Centre Pompidou before it closes for five years for renovations. Designed in the 1970s by two young, unknown architects — the Italian Renzo Piano and the British Richard Rogers — it officially opened on 31 January 1977.

    And it was a shock! “Paris has its own monster, just like the one in Loch Ness,” said the French magazine Le Figaro. “Notre Dame des Tuyaux,” “Centre Mochebourg,” and “oil refinery” were some of the nicknames, but in the end it became a popular success, with more than 200 million visitors since 1977.

    And it was a shock for me too, the first time I visited Paris.
It was night, the piazza was deserted, and I saw what looked like an alien spaceship that had landed in the heart of the city. Was I living in a sci-fi movie?

    Today I still love this radical and futuristic architecture.
    I love the lightness, the transparency, the sense of seeing through it — I find it so elegant and so sexy!

    Inside, I love the bright, open, expansive spaces, the feeling of being inside the building but, at the same time, still within the city. And I love spending hours in the bookstore looking for a new book.

    Outside, I love all those tubes and pipes. I love the bold colours used as symbols: blue for air conditioning, yellow for electricity, green for water, and red for pedestrian circulation.
    I love the periscope-like giant air vents of an imaginary transatlantic space liner. I love the red zigzag, and I love the unique view of Paris from the 5th floor.

    I am sure that the next time I am in Paris, I will miss you!

    Photo: Antonello Tabarelli de Fatis


    


  • 1970-2025

    1970 Anti Nazi League

    ANTI-NAZI LEAGUE leaflet – London – 1970
    OH SO PRETTY – PUNK IN PRINT 1976/80 – PHAIDON 2016