Stefano Mortari's house has a breath taking view over 
the Isola Tavolara

which one can hardly see
the way the story is published.
It was once 
the smallest kingdom 
in the world.

The island changes aspect 
dramatically as the sun and the clouds 
move through the day.

It reminded me

of

Bali Hai

 ELLE DECOR ITALIA

July August 2012

The minimalistic house

of the fashion designer

Stefano Mortari

in Sardinia

 et voila !

the two eggs have become

two pretty turtle doves.

They seems to grow by the minute

already trying their wings,

about to fly away

soon.

Montauban 

Le "Yakacem"

sur la Garonne

Merci a Boris et a sa compagne

 The Queen

 Hotel d'Este

Milano

Billet.

 Olbia

Sardinia

 AD France June 2012

Isola Galli

In 1917, Leonid Massine, Stravinsky and Picasso came to Positano

to visit their eccentric friend Misha Semenov who lived naked in a old mill.

Seven years later, Massine bought the archipelago facing his friend's house,

built a house and a chapel, restored the old tower and carried on with Le corbusier's design

of a magnificent pool dug in the rock and facing Capri.

Rudolph Nureev already sick, bought the property in 1989, 

turned the tower into a dancing studio,

dying shortly after in 1993.

It is today the property of Giovanni Russo.

 

It's poppy craze in the garden today. 

Poppies and busy buzzing bees.





Nilla Pizzi
Papaveri e papere

"Lo sai che i papaveri son alti, alti, alti,
e tu sei piccolina, e tu sei piccolina,
lo sai che i papaveri son alti, alti, alti,
sei nata paperina, che cosa ci vuoi far..."

 In the evening.

 

The family is growing.

 

 Nesting.

Oriental turtle dove 

 The garden today.

Something I've learned from the great

gardeners Alain Richert and Catherine Willis

is to plant amidst what already grows naturally.

Alain Richert (left)