• chez coco

    Questo è il bellissimo mosaico che ti accoglieva quando entravi al 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, 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 about EDIE SEDGWICK during one of my trips to New York in the early 80’s. I fell in love!
    I loved her androgyn 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, which featured miniskirts, simple striped black and white T-shirts worn over hot black tights, short hair dyed with silver spray, heavy eye make-up, false lashes and chandelier earrings, Edie was the style icon of the sixties.
    Whatever she wore became a trend.
    She was the superstar in many of the underground Andy Warhol’s movies between 1964 and 1966, she was photographed for LIFE Magazine and VOGUE and inspired a number of artists. BOB DYLAN’s Like a Rolling Stone, Just like a Woman, Leopard Skin Pill Box Hat were inspired by Edie, THE VELVET UNDERGROUND composed for Andy Warhol the song Femme Fatale and the English band THE CULT dedicated to Edie the song Ciao Baby.
    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 70’s by two young unknown architects, the Italian RENZO PIANO and the British RICHARD ROGERS it was 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“, “Oil refinery” were some of the nick-names but at the end it was a popular success with more than 200 million visitors since 1977.
    And it was a shock even for me the first time I visited Paris.
    It was at night, the Piazza was deserted and I saw an alien spaceship 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 see-through, I find it so elegant and so sexy!
    Inside I love the bright, open and wide spaces, the feeling of being inside the building but at the same time, still inside the city and I love spending hours in the bookstore looking for a new book.
    Outside I love all these tubes and pipes, I love the bold colours used as symbol, 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, next time I will be 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

  • gertl

    gertruda eisinger

    I think it was in 2013, when I was living in Prague.
    I was invited to the exhibition Fireflies in the dark, drawings of Jewish children from the concentration camp in Theresienstadt. Often next to the drawing you could see a picture of the young artist. GERTRUDA EISINGER was very beautiful.

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  • à paris

    adolf loos tristan tzara

    ADOLF LOOS is one of the few Architekts in my hall of fame.
    I first discovered his great talent during a trip to Prague at the end of the 80’s, then as a young Architecture student in Venezia, I focused all my studies on his work. His love for classical Architecture, his minimalism and his modernism had a strong influence on my culture and my style. I love the clear lines, rigid interior spaces, flat roofs, terraces, absence of any ornament and decoration he used in all of his works.

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  • 10 years

    aerodiario charlie hebdo

    07.01.2015/07.01.2025 JE SUIS toujours CHARLIE HEBDO