ARMANI HOTEL MILANO

ELLE DECOR ITALIA

1st world exclusivity 

DEC. 2011

A rare occasion to photograph Giorgio Armani 
whom very seldom sits for a portrait.

 THE WORLD OF INTERIORS

celebrating 30 years of existence

selected a 100 photos for a Best of

including one of mine,

Pierre et Gilles's kitchen in 1995

 ELLE DECOR ITALIA 

NOV 2011

TRICOLORE

A bakery and cooking school

in Rome

 The ALESSI factory

in the outskirts of Milano.

The maestro was in residence.

 Short days won't stop the brave

For Tenn

 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.