Tag: design

  • 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


    


  • 1970-2025

    1970 Anti Nazi League

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

  • 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 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.

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  • 10 years

    aerodiario charlie hebdo

    07.01.2015/07.01.2025 JE SUIS toujours CHARLIE HEBDO!

  • ci vediamo a san remo

    Nice-San Remo-Nice

    If anyone needs me, I’ll be in San Remo in two hours!

  • new shoulder-bags

    I love shoulder-bags!
    Animation for the new shoulder-bags T90 designed for SUPERLEGGERO. The new collection of shoulder-bags is available here . . .

  • happy me!

    LETRASET EUROSTILE BOLD EXTENDED

    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!

  • r.i.p

    Marcello Gandini Lancia Stratos

    “La macchina da rally non ha bisogno di essere bella, ma se non avesse vinto sarebbe rimasto almeno il bello.” [cit.] MARCELLO GANDINI

    Marcello Gandini was one the most famous, talented and visionary car designers. He was known for the masterpieces he created for Lamborghini, Alfa Romeo and Lancia.

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