Up early, wondering where the cell phone is.
Drove with Gord to Ital Design first thing yesterday to meet with Giugiaro. Franco Bay, their PR guy who speaks very good English, met us in their mirrored offices. Sitting in a square room looking out onto a Japanese garden, on quintessential Italian design couches, Giugiaro spoke Italian and Franco translated. We talked about art and design and all the projects around Turino which Ital Design has created, not the least of which are the two Olympic buildings in the center of Torino.
Then a tour of the plant, the highlight of which was the showroom of cars: every kind of luxury hot rod and ordinary cars like the Volkswagen Golf, which is still being manufactured in South Africa. Fabrizio, the son and heir to the business which employs 1,200 people met us next to a prototype Alpha Romeo; discussing what was intended design-wise with this car and that car. Although Giugiaro and his firm have designed many automobiles now in use, most of the cars in the showroom were made only for design shows, never manufactured. Fabrizio had seen Pitture Sotto Zero @ Fenestrelle in the snow; he treated Gord like a buddy from design school.
They took us through their gallery, a gracious building reminiscent of the Musee D’Orsay in Paris. Then lunch with Franco: a gold-star, delectable gem of a lunch. They pressed gifts into our arms including a cd with photos of the inauguration and we set out for the Fortezza and our meeting with CBC TV.
Mark Kelly was instantly recognizable. He hadn’t seen the paintings yet, they were saving it for an on-camera moment. It was late in the day when they began shooting and the five of us were alone in the church, surrounded by all that color and cold against the darkness. Dripping ice under some of the paintings, it's been warm in the church; the clear ice behind some has melted into the stone walls. Autostrada back to Turin. At Soddu’s, Jaz seemed better for the first time in two weeks. We ate in together, the three of us over take out Chinese, each of us a different shade of tired. I'm still coughing
Drove with Gord to Ital Design first thing yesterday to meet with Giugiaro. Franco Bay, their PR guy who speaks very good English, met us in their mirrored offices. Sitting in a square room looking out onto a Japanese garden, on quintessential Italian design couches, Giugiaro spoke Italian and Franco translated. We talked about art and design and all the projects around Turino which Ital Design has created, not the least of which are the two Olympic buildings in the center of Torino.
Then a tour of the plant, the highlight of which was the showroom of cars: every kind of luxury hot rod and ordinary cars like the Volkswagen Golf, which is still being manufactured in South Africa. Fabrizio, the son and heir to the business which employs 1,200 people met us next to a prototype Alpha Romeo; discussing what was intended design-wise with this car and that car. Although Giugiaro and his firm have designed many automobiles now in use, most of the cars in the showroom were made only for design shows, never manufactured. Fabrizio had seen Pitture Sotto Zero @ Fenestrelle in the snow; he treated Gord like a buddy from design school.
They took us through their gallery, a gracious building reminiscent of the Musee D’Orsay in Paris. Then lunch with Franco: a gold-star, delectable gem of a lunch. They pressed gifts into our arms including a cd with photos of the inauguration and we set out for the Fortezza and our meeting with CBC TV.
Mark Kelly was instantly recognizable. He hadn’t seen the paintings yet, they were saving it for an on-camera moment. It was late in the day when they began shooting and the five of us were alone in the church, surrounded by all that color and cold against the darkness. Dripping ice under some of the paintings, it's been warm in the church; the clear ice behind some has melted into the stone walls. Autostrada back to Turin. At Soddu’s, Jaz seemed better for the first time in two weeks. We ate in together, the three of us over take out Chinese, each of us a different shade of tired. I'm still coughing
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