Category: day off

  • 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

  • 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


    


  • natale 2023

    4-3-2-1 Buon Natale

    4-3-2-1…Buon Natale 2023!

  • pesce fresco

    Civitanova Marche

    Quando voglio mangiare il miglior pesce al mondo appena pescato, vado da Tommaso a Civitanova Marche! Photo Antonello Tabarelli de Fatis

  • 8xbasquiat

    Fondation Beyeler – Basquiat The Modena paintings

    If anyone needs me I’ll be in Basel.
    Fondation Beyeler – Basquiat The Modena paintings. Not to be missed!

  • fresh fish daily

    Fresh fish daily

    Best Fish & Chips in London? Here . . .

  • il mare d’inverno

    Civitanova beach in winter

    If anyone needs me I will be in Civitanova Marche the full week!
    Photo Antonello Tabarelli de Fatis

  • l’object magique

    Centre Pompidou Paris

    If anyone needs me I’ll be at the Centre Pompidou this afternoon.
    Ettore Sottsass, l’Object Magique, until January 3rd.

  • 9/11

    9/11

    I do not forgive! I do not forget! Take a moment and remember!