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!
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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!
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à bientôt
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
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1970-2025
ANTI-NAZI LEAGUE leaflet – London – 1970
OH SO PRETTY – PUNK IN PRINT 1976/80 – PHAIDON 2016 -
gertl
I think it was in 2013, when I was living in Prague.
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I was invited to the exhibition Fireflies in the dark, featuring drawings by Jewish children from the concentration camp of Theresienstadt. Often next to each drawing you could see a photograph of the young artist. GERTRUDA EISINGER was very beautiful. -
à paris
ADOLF LOOS is one of the few Architekts in my hall of fame.
I first discovered his great talent during a trip to Prague in the late 80’s, then as a young architecture student in Venezia, I focused all my studies on his work. His love for classical architecture, together with his minimalism and modernism, had a strong influence on my cultural background and my personal style. I love the clear lines, rigid interior spaces, flat roofs terraces and the absence of any ornament and decoration that characterize all of his works. -
stay festive!
Natale 2024. Stay festive!
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happy me!
Happy me!
Last week I found a trunk full of LETRASET EUROSTILE BOLD EXTENDED and MEDIUM EXTENDED.This clean and futuristic typeface was designed by ALDO NOVARESE in 1962 and was largely used in the 70’s sci-fi movies and tv shows. In the original STAR TREK tv series and movies, the font appears on the exterior of all Starfleet vessels and insignias worn by the crew.
The right type for intergalactic communications!
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brainstorming in marseille
If anyone needs me I’ll be on the rooftop of the Unité d’Habitation in Marseille. Photo Antonello Tabarelli de Fatis
