segunda-feira, 18 de março de 2013

LOUIS AT WORK


The Atmosphere at Louis Armstrong,s home in NYC Corona,  working and living


"Yet in 1943, he and his wife, Lucille, settled in a modest house in Corona, Queens, where they lived for the remainder of their lives. No one has lived in the house since the Armstrongs, and the house and its furnishings remain very much as they were during Louis and Lucille’s lifetime..."

                                                     

     

         I say to myself What a Wonderfull World...



domingo, 17 de março de 2013

STILL SAN GIORGIO HOTEL, MYKONOS


Still the Atmosphere at the bohemian chic SAN GIOGIO HOTEL in Mykonos island, Greece





                



                       




... San Giorgio Mykonos started its humble beginnings in the ’90s thanks to a successful local fisherman who laid claim to a piece of Paradise Beach. Step into 2012 and the 34-room property has changed hands to the neighboring Paradise Club. Long-time friends of Design Hotels™, proprietors Thomas Heyne and Mario Hertel together with the owner Markos Daktilidis approached the brand to design a new hospitality experience....

sábado, 16 de março de 2013

BERNARD SHAW AT WORK


The Atmosphere at the irish playwhrit George Bernard Shaw's writing hut 


The movable hut in the garden of Shaw's Corner, where Shaw wrote most of his works after 1906, including Pygmalion.





Photos via net unknown
                                                BERNARD SHAW at Shaw´s Corner is home till 1950

"A life spent making mistakes is not only more honorable, but more useful than a life spent doing nothing."
 

sexta-feira, 15 de março de 2013

terça-feira, 12 de março de 2013

THE FACTORY


The Atmosphere at THE FACTORY by Ricardo Bofill





 Via Archidaily
"In 1973 Ricardo Bofill found a disused cement factory, an industrial complex from the turn of the century consisting of over 30 silos, subterranean galleries and huge machine rooms, and he decided to transform it into the head office of Taller de Arquitectura. Remodelling work lasted two years. The factory, abandoned and partially in ruins, was a compendium of surrealist elements: stairs that climbed up to nowhere, mighty reinforced concrete structures that sustained nothing, pieces of iron hanging in the air, huge empty spaces filled nonetheless with magic."

segunda-feira, 11 de março de 2013

domingo, 10 de março de 2013

PENSÃO FAVORITA



The Atmosphere in  PENSÂO FAVORITA, Oporto, Portugal






The Atmosphere of  PENSÂO FAVORITA, Oporto, Portugal



YSL AT WORK

    "Fashion dies, but style remains."



"Yves Saint Laurent was a European fashion designer born on August 1, 1936 in Oran, Algeria. As a teen, he left for Paris to work for designer Christian Dior and gained acclaim for his dress designs. In 1966, he launched his own fashion labels, where his adaptations of tuxedos for women garnered him fame. He was the first living designer to receive a solo exhibition in New York’s Metropolitan Museum of Art in 1983.  read more in ..



                                                                  L´AMOUR FOU
             
                 " La rencontre  le plus important de la vie c´est la rencontre avec soi même..."