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PRINCI - Milan

17/6/2014

I'm not normally a fan of chain businesses, but when you have created perfection why not keep it going? Princi is a chic bakery dedicated to high-quality fresh bread using traditional recipes, made with organic wholemeal flour and baked throughout the day in a beech-fired oven, artisan pastries, pastas and salads. The founder, Rocco Princi, launched Princi in 1986 and has since expanded to five stores in Milan plus one in London.

Princi outlets are striking in their minimalism, designed by the architect Claudio Silvestrin, with lots of straight lines, designer stools and diffused lighting warmly reflecting off wood, bronze and stone. It is sleek and modern.

Here’s how it works. First, decide on which mouth-watering choice you'd like to make. Choose from focaccia, a square slice of pizza topped with juicy tomato or some more substantial meals like pasta, lasagna or salad. Get in line to pay, then get in another to collect your choice. Sounds straight forward right? Well it was a little crazy right on lunch time. People flooded in and jostled for position at the register, in line for collection, and then to grab a spot at the communal tables. Slightly spooked I spotted an area with waiter service downstairs, so headed down there for a seat and more time to Google translate the menu! As the lunch rush continued animated exchanges continued as guests tried to convince waiters that they should be able to sit a the tables downstairs. Very entertaining!

Princi doesn't only serve lunch, it's actually a 24hr a day enterprise so whether you're after breakfast, lunch, appertivo or dinner you can find something really fresh and delicious, all with the added lure of the energetic and passionate staff and guests!

PRINCI / Piazza XXV Aprile, 5 / Via Ponte Vetero, 10 / Via Speronari, 6 / Largo la Foppa, 2 / Corso Venezia, 21/ www.princi.it
Images: ℅ Google images

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PEGASO

14/6/2014

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Ok this is a real treasure. It's called Pegaso.

Pegaso specialise in Italian design and the decorative and fine arts of the twentieth century. Walking in there literally took my breath away. Every piece is art. The collection includes work by Gio Ponti, Lucio Fontana, Gino Sarfatti, Piero Fornasetti, Carlo Bugatti, Ico Parisi, Franco Albini, Angelo Mangiarotti, Ignazio Gardella, Fausto Melotti, William Ulrich, Fontana Arte, Arredoluce, Stilnovo and the list goes on.

The "gallery" is well known in Italy and has participated in several exhibitions including the Biennale of Milan, Florence Biennale, the XXe siècle du Carrousel du Louvre in Paris and the Pavillon des Arts et du Design Paris.

Contact them if you would like to view their catalogue, even viewing these pieces will put a smile to your face.

PEGASO / Viale Monte Grappa, 18 - 20124 Milano / pegaso.82@fastwebnet.it / www.pegaso82.com
Images: ℅ Google images

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STICK HOUSE

12/6/2014

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What do you do when you arrive into Milan and it's 35 degrees by day and almost the same by night? Think about and look for something cold. I didn't only find something cold, I found something delicious, and just a little bit nutritious - Stick House. They make icrecreams and sorbets "on a stick." They are made with milk, cream and seasonal fruit (in the case of sorbets), and free of preservatives, dyes, artificial flavourings, hydrenerated vegetable fats, and synethic emulsifiers. The range includes double flavour combos and a large sugar free range so take a good look at the choices and grab your favourite.

Just real, refreshing food.

Now for the flavours…
Sorbet:
Pineapple, orange, fig, strawberry, lemon, fruit salad, tangerine, mango, melon, peach and grapefruit. All gluten free, lactose free and great for vegans.
Gelato:
Banana, coffee, coconut, chocolate, fior di panna, gianduia, liquorice, almond, mint, hazelnut, pistachio, vanilla, yoghurt probioti

STICK HOUSE / Via Vigevano ang. Via Corsico Milano / www.stickhouse.it
Images: ℅ website & Pinterest

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LUCIE'S AMSTERDAM

11/6/2014

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Ok time for one more post in Amsterdam before I head to Milan. So how about a cute shop which sells jewellery and colourful homewares…and also holds regular jewellery making workshops so you can custom make your own bracelet? Ok then…Lucie's Amsterdam is what you're after. Even without any mad need or desire for jewellery or homewares I really enjoyed being in the space. It's bright , quirky and colourful just like the staff.

The workshops teach you how to create your own jewellery, it costs 25 Euros per person (unless you're under 11 years old in which case it only costs 17.50 Euros). It includes all materials plus drinks and snacks. There is no minimum amount of participants and it's possible to book any time of the week during business hours. Sounds like a great way to spend time with friends to me!

LUCIE'S AMSTERDAM / St. Luciensteeg 22, Amsterdam, Netherlands / www.luciesamsterdam.nl
Images: ℅ Lucie's Amsterdam website / Facebook page / Pinterest

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KUNST RAI (Dutch Art Fair)

9/6/2014

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The KunstRAI is a national art fair for modern and contemporary art from both Dutch and foreign artists. A one-audience fair with 60 high class galleries who reflect the diversity, quality and pluralism of the historic rich offer of Dutch art. I can't say I loved it but I do have a few favourites I'd like to share…

Oh by the way the catering was great, possibly the best meal I've had in Amsterdam so far. Superbly cooked roast potatoes with succulent seared chicken skewers with some kind of tomato chemoula. Sounds simple but it was delicious, and accompanied with a glass of red? Perfect.

BILLY & HELLS - Portrait Photography

PRESS RELEASE - THE FAHEY / KLEIN GALLERY
Billy & Hells’ photographs exist in a world of in-betweens. Their deceptively simple, straightforward portraits convey a certain complexity. The archetypal characters depicted in their photographs—mothers, soldiers, cowboys, nurses, and teachers— possess an underlying sense of mystery, hinting at the duality of the sitter as well as the fictional world they inhabit. Although Billy & Hells’ images call upon historical and art historical references, their portraits are not burdened by the stipulations of historical recreations. Instead, seamlessly blending past and present, reality and fantasy, their photographs become a nostalgic diary, purposefully left open for interpretation.

The duo discovered what has become their signature visual style via a typical lab-accident story— by forgetting to take a black and white negative out of the developer, they inadvertently produced an intense image with colors that appear simultaneously rich and muted. Their portraits combine elaborate, hand-painted backgrounds and draw inspiration from countless samples of fabrics, color compositions, and clothing that generate the distinct mood for each portrait.

www.billyundhells.de

MARJAN TEEUWEN - Architectural Art Installations

ABOUT MARJAN TEEUWEN (by Saatchi Art)
Crammed spaces is the dominant theme in the work of Marjan Teeuwen. She explores this theme through various media (photography and film) bound by a consistency of approach.

The rooms piled up to the ceiling with an inestimable quantity of objects. Too much for the eye to take in at once. The objects are combined according to function, texture and colour, and ordered in a ramshackle architecture of rows and columns. The balanced arrangement of the elements gives clarity and structure to the whole.

The ceilings, floors and walls are no longer recognisable as such, thus removing the certainty of perspective. Spaciousness and dynamism find their opposites in oppression and confinement. Perspective and flatness battle for our attention, influencing the orientation of the viewer, who is, as it were, sucked into the work. The works are characterised by their obsessive nature and their sense of claustrophobia.

The installations provide the material for the final photographs. The installations are build in a museam, an artist space or in the studio. In the recently finished Archief-series the materials are all from destroyed houses and furniture. The polarity between destruction (decay) and construction (creation) is on focus. Everything is broken and orderly arranged in small pieces in an archive. Here the colours are black and white, many ranges white or many ranges black. The diversity of the materials brings the paintings of the Dutch seventeenth century in memory.

The obsessive character of Marjan Teeuwens work places it outside the real world and within the tradition of art (history). Her themes are related to painting the still life, the interior and the self-portrait. Although the human figure is absent, its presence is nonetheless strongly tangible. The visible void is in fact crammed with life.

http://www.saatchiart.com/teeuwen
View this 44 minute documentary of her work - http://vimeo.com/30978617

ROBBERT de GOEDE - Architectural Visual Artist

ARTIST STATEMENT
It starts with coincidence and intution. Arbitrarily drawing and combing geometrical shapes and figures, without judgement. From there on the search for connections and meaning starts, looking for a space where there is no room for distraction. The compositions are build anatomicaly where the rules of physics are ignored.

The goal is to find emptiness, a place in the psyche where creativy, revelation and happiness are found. I use rage and logic in an existential framework to make life more orderly and bearable. Concentration and meditation are inseparably connected with the making process and are a requirement to intensely experience the work. It is the physical experience that completes this. A mere aesthetic verdict doesn't do justice to my projects.

The viewer is pulled into a vacuum, an unsetteling puzzle. My installations are made to touch the viewer, pull you in and bring an intesifying spatial experience.

www.robbertdegoede.nl

Images: ℅ artist website / Google images

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