Milano: Entertaining - Rosita's Birthday Party

Milan: Entertaining - Rosita’s birthday party. Rosita Missoni celebrated her seventy-seventh birthday with an intimate birthday party in the Missoni Milan apartment. The birthday cake was made with two big number seven shaped cakes made with berries and fresh fruit, complete with seventy-seven candles, the border was held together by lots of tiny cannoncini, placed up-side down and filled with custard.

Entertaining: Rosita’s birthday party. The legendary French editor in chief, Claude Brouet and Tai Missoni.
Note: her necklace is made out of lots of bangles.

Entertaining: Rosita’s birthday party. Laura Casalis and Franco Maria Ricci. Franco is building a gigantic labyrinth on his estate in Parma complete with a museum and a convention hall, ready in 2010.

Entertaining: Rosita’s birthday party – decoration. Besides the orchids that were hanging from the light fixtures, Rosita scattered lots of polka dotted purple and white candles.




Entertaining: Rosita’s birthday party. Beppe Modenese, Daniela Morera and Fabio Bellotti.

Entertaining: Rosita’s birthday party – the flowers. Hung all over the apartment were orchids, Rosita’s favorite flowers. Rosita often hangs orchids on light fixtures, picture etc.

Entertaining: Rosita’s birthday party – the newlyweds. Mr. and Mrs. Michael Nobili.


Entertaining: Rosita’s birthday party. Two colorful ladies, publisher, Inge Feltrinelli and Italian Vogue editor, Anna Piaggi.

Entertaining: Rosita’s birthday party – a detail. Anna found this Playboy bunny necklace on a stall on the banks of Lake Garda.


Entertaining: Rosita’s birthday party - Father and daughter. Marco Maccapani and Margherita Missoni Maccapani.

Entertaining: Rosita’s birthday party. Amateur florist, Carla Alvera and artist, Laura Panno.

Entertaining: Rosita’s birthday party. Original artwork for Missoni advertising campaign by Antonio Lopez are hung on the walls of the Milan apartment.

Note: the Rose the model is holding, a tribute to Rosita.

Entertaining: Rosita’s birthday party. Bruno Ragazzi and Angela Missoni enjoy a tete a tete.

Entertaining: Rosita’s birthday party. Maurizia Missoni and Italian showgirl, Mara Vernier.

Entertaining: Rosita’s birthday party – deserts. Very thin apple pies and castagnaccio, an Italian cake made from chestnut flour sit besides these very pretty and colorful flower plates designed by Rosita for Missoni Home.

Entertaining: Rosita’s birthday party – deserts. The gigantic sbrisolona cake is like a crumble and is typical from Mantua.



Entertaining: Rosita’s birthday party. Luca Missoni chats to Venetian artist, Federica Manargoni.





Entertaining: Rosita’s birthday party. Photographer, Maria Mulas, looks very comfortable in the Missoni Home 60s inspired polka dotted flower chair.

Entertaining: Rosita’s birthday party. Even the salami looked good, and tasted even better, just like a flower laid out in circles on a wooden cutting board.




Entertaining: Rosita’s birthday party. Cousins; Teresa Maccapani Missoni and Ottavio Missoni.





Entertaining: Rosita’s birthday party. Orchids are Rosita’s favorite flowers; a big seventy-seven composition adorns the center wall of the sitting room.
Note: the Frank Gehry cardboard chairs and the striped sideboards.




Entertaining: Rosita’s birthday party. We all gathered around the piano to sing the song after which Rosita was named, Chuidi Gli Occhi Rosita (Close Your Eyes Little Rose).

Entertaining: Rosita’s birthday party – the song. Rosita gets her name from her grandmother Rosa, and also from this song, Chuidi Gli Occhi Rosita (Close Your Eyes Little Rose), which was in vogue when she was born.

Entertaining: Rosita’s birthday party. Rossana Orlandi.

Entertaining: Rosita’s birthday party - crudite. It is always so nice to have fresh vegetables to munch on. Radiccio from Treviso, carrots and fennel looked great in these white glasses next to them is a big wooden bowl filled with more of these crudités.

Entertaining: Rosita’s birthday party. Rosita’s brother, Gianpiero and his son, Angelo Jelmini.



Entertaining: Rosita’s birthday party. Rosita’s right hand design assistant, Eva Gundersen.

Entertaining: Rosita’s birthday party. Among the presents, Rosita an AC Milan supporter, received this T-shirt from her grandchildren, inscribed with Nonna, the Italian for grandmother and her 77 years.

Entertaining: Rosita’s birthday party. Rosita’s brother, Giancarlo Jelmini and her son, Vittorio Missoni.





Entertaining: Rosita’s birthday party. Before – the coffee table looked great with all the gold leaf ashtrays and objects on it.
Note: the two polka dot 1960s inspired chairs in the background.






After - the coffee table after the deserts. Note the Missoni Home plates designed by Rosita, big bold flowers in black and white or colored with gold leaf and the striped carpet.





Entertaining: Rosita’s birthday party. Rosita and her grandchildren; Teresa, Giacomo, Ottavio, Francesco, Marco and Margherita.

Pin It

HAPPY EASTER

HAPPY EASTER

Designer, Rosita Missoni collects vases, and here is an appropriate egg shape, polka dotted pottery vase, made by the Italian company, Rometti. It’s a collector’s piece from the 1950’s. Rosita also likes to go for long walks and to pick flowers like these Yasminum Primulinum or Chinese Jasmine and the snow drops. She also picks anything edible on her way.

photograph by Rosita Missoni

A pottery vase from Rosita’s vast collection. It depicts springtime and Easter, at the same time. It was made by the Austrian pottery company Keramos.

Pin It

PARIS - Rosita Missoni's Cocktail Dinatoire

Seen at Rosita’s Cocktail Dinatoire. At home in Paris, Rosita Missoni very happily poses, by a crystal Eiffel Tower (the real one can been seen from the balcony), with Maison et Objet’s president, Etienne Cochet. Maison et Objet voted her Best Designer of the Year for the MissoniHome Collection. Rosita’s motto is, “Feeling at home everywhere. Because the home moves with you, greets your friends and expresses your dreams, creative furniture should open the doors to an imaginary journey “at home.” It’s a philosophy based on two principles: daily life and openness to the world of the art of living; or how the interaction between interior/exterior envelops the entire house. And, it was “at home” in her eclectic and colorful Parisian apartment, that her friends celebrated the Italian designer. Brava Rosita.

Seen at Rosita’s Cocktail Dinatoire. They could be mother and daughter, the lady painted on the 1940’s screen and the charming and chic, Pamela Golbin. Pamela is curator of twentieth-century and contemporary fashion at the Musee de la Mode et du Textile. She has organized various exhibitions, the latest, Balenciaga Paris, and has written the accompanying publications. She is wearing a blouse by Chanel and black velvet trousers by Jean-Paul Gaultier. Rosita found the sceen at the Marche aux Puces and she thinks that it originally belonged to an atelier de mode or was used as a back-drop in a photographic studio.

Seen at Rosita’s Cocktail Dinatoire. Beautiful and elegant fashion entrepreneur, Joyce Ma was chatting to interior and jewelry designer, Chahan Minassian.

Seen at Rosita’s Cocktail Dinatoire. Vittorio and Tai Missoni give a double thumbs up to Rosita for being awarded Best Designer of the Year by Maison et Objet, for the MissoniHome Collection.

Seen at Rosita’s Cocktail Dinatoire. Famous Canadian theatre and opera director, Robert Carsen stopped by the Missoni's Parisian apartment to toast Rosita for being elected the Best Designer of the Year. Carsen was on his way to Japan to direct Wagner’s Tannhauser, conducted by Seiji Ozawa. He is wearing an Etro suit with a Dries Van Norten scarf and a Muji T-shirt.

Pin It