Giorgio ARMANI

is opening tonight his grand new hotel in Milano.

ELLE DECOR ITALIA

reveals it all

in it's next issue.

 Good Bye Loulou

Grande Dame

Extraordinaire

 La notte milanese

 Two legends of Italian design

Alberto Alessi,

Alessandro Mendini,

tied up

in Mendini's workshop

in Milano.

 Princess Irina Golitsyna,
1916- 2006

known as Irene Golitzine

had a fashion house

in Rome.

Her portrait 
for the American Vogue 
a few years

before she died,

her story.

"Her most famous design was the evening pants she introduced in Florence about a decade after starting her company, with styles either slim and embroidered or flowing in gauzy fabrics. Diana Vreeland, in Vogue, called them “palazzo pajamas,” after the setting of the shows in the Palazzo Pitti."

 Songs of the river. 

Photo Monica Denevan. 

in La Lettre

 New York, on a rooftop.

Lake Waramaug, Connecticut.

 

 A Swiss train station.

Disregarded photographs,

never selected, never printed,

taken but forgotten,

What happens to them ?

 

The digital ones, we delete.

Negatives piled in boxes

await a better future.

My favorite photos are the ones

I forgot all about.

 Biarritz

Musée de l'Ocean et du Surf

Built by Steven Holl

Inaugurated in June 2011

The architect is a surfer.
It shows.

 Biarritz, October 25, 2011

WHAT ARE YOU DOING 

SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 12, 2011 

?

 100 photographs by Henri Cartier Bresson

Friday, November 11, 2011

 Irving Penn

Saturday, November 12, 2011

and...
my large platinum palladium print of 

Yves Saint Laurent glasses.

Saturday, November 12, 2011

Be not proud of race, face, place, or grace. --Charles Haddon Spurgeon

 October gave a party;
The leaves by hundreds came -
The Chestnuts, Oaks, and Maples,
And leaves of every name.
The Sunshine spread a carpet,
And everything was grand,
Miss Weather led the dancing,
Professor Wind the band.
~George Cooper, "October's Party"

 Olympia Le Tan

Spike Jonze
&
Simon Cahn

With Pierre Le Tan

as the librarian.

A little movie

A jewell

Must see

at once.

 Yves Gastou

published an excellent book

to celebrate 

the 30th anniversary

of his Gallery designed

by Ettore Sottsass.

Back in the early 80's
Gastou was the first antique dealer 

to mix decorative arts

with contemporary design.

 Carol's blog

A lot to catch up

All photos are by Carol Reid Gaillard