Venice – lifestyle: A private lunch party for Italian film director Ermanno Olmi. Tai and
Rosita Missoni hosted a lunch party during the
Venice Film Festival, for friends on board their barge
Timoteo in honor of the Italian film director,
Ermanno Olmi who received the
Lifetime Achievement Award, twenty years after his film,
The Legend of the Holy Drinker won the
Leone d’Oro prize there.
Lifestyle: Missoni party for Ermanno Olmi - getting there. We took the
vaporetto number 2 to the island of
San Giorgio from
Piazza San Marco, where the
Missoni barge
Timoteo was anchored.
Lifestyle: Missoni party for Ermanno Olmi - the Boat. The Timoteo was anchored on the
Island of San Giorgio. The boat was built in 1904 and is the last surviving Venetian transport barge. It was found in the 1980s by
Tai and
Rosita Missoni and it took various renovations to restore it to it’s former splendor.
Lifestyle: Missoni party for Ermanno Olmi - a detail. Guests on deck enjoy an apertivo.
Contessanally tip: click on any image to enlarge it.
Lifestyle: Missoni party for Ermanno Olmi - shoes. Shoes are left on the quayside on a bright colorful striped carpet before boarding the barge.
Lifestyle: Missoni party for Ermanno Olmi - the Captain. Ennio Casson has been the captain of the
Timoteo barge for two decades.
Lifestyle: Missoni party for Ermanno Olmi. Venetian artist and designer
Federica Marangoni arrives on board the
Timoteo.
Lifestyle: Missoni party for Ermanno Olmi - a detail. Bright Indian bangles set the mood.
Lifestyle: Missoni party for Ermanno Olmi - mother and daughter. Cristina and
Giannola Nonino.
Lifestyle: Missoni party for Ermanno Olmi. Antonella Nonino.
Lifestyle: Missoni party for Ermanno Olmi - a detail. The back of
Antonella Nonino’s
Prada dress.
Lifestyle: Missoni party for Ermanno Olmi - the host – Tai and his friends. Tai Missoni chats with psychoanalyst,
Fulvio Scaparro and the guest of honor, the famous Italian film director,
Ermanno Olmi.
Lifestyle: Missoni party for Ermanno Olmi - the aperitivo table: 1. Delicious nibbles are laid out on the drinks table: figs,
salame,
bacala mantecato (dried salted cod) on white
polenta squares and radishes.
Note: the colorful flower printed tablecloth.
Lifestyle: Missoni party for Ermanno Olmi – a detail of the aperitivo table: 2. A close up of some
pepperoncini and mint wrapped in a
Missoni Home Collection napkin sit on the drinks table.
Note: the colorful plastic glasses de rigueur on a boat.
Lifestyle: Missoni party for Ermanno Olmi - l’aperitivo: 3. Aged
Parmiggiano Reggiano is great to nibble on while you sip your apperitivo.
Lifestyle: Missoni party for Ermanno Olmi - the star chef and the hostess. Star owner/chef
Ruggero of the
Trattoria Gatto Nero, better known as
Da Ruggero, on the island of
Burano, chats with our hostess
Rosita Missoni. Il Gatto Nero is one of Venice’s best seafood restaurants.
Lifestyle: Missoni party for Ermanno Olmi - a detail.
Rosita Missoni always has the perfect accessories, note the sailing boat earings found at the Paris,
Marche Aux Puces.
Lifestyle: Missoni party for Ermanno Olmi - the author and journalist. The day after the lunch for
Ermanno Olmi, journalist and author,
Salvatore Giannella presented his latest book
Voglia di Cambiare (The wish for Change) at the
Festival di Letteratura di Mantova.
Lifestyle: Missoni party for Ermanno Olmi - the hotelier.
Camillo Guerra owns the
Relais & Chateaux Hotel Il Melograno in Puglia where
Ermano Olmi wrote probably his most important film “
L’Abero degli Zoccoli” which translates as
The tree of wooden Clogs. The film won fourteen awards incuding the
Palme d’Or at
Cannes and the
Cesar Award for
Best Foreign Film. Il Melograno is a 17th century
masseria or fortified farmhouse built originally as a defense against S
aracen and
Byzantine invaders.
Lifestyle: Missoni party for Ermanno Olmi - lunch - the centerpiece. Rosita Missoni made the centerpiece for the buffet table. The designer of the
Missoni Home Collection is a master in “instant” decoration, in the early morning Rosita went to the
Rialto food market to pick out the most attractive herbs, chili peppers and
zucchini flowers to arrange on board the
Timoteo.
Lifestyle: Missoni party for Ermanno Olmi - lunch. A buffet lunch was served below deck. The delicious home-style food was prepared by
Ruggero, owner/chef of the
Trattoria Gatto Nero on the nearby Island of Burano. Locally know as
Da Ruggero, the trattoria is famous for it’s seafood.
Lifestyle: Missoni party for Ermanno Olmi - a detail of the table. A detail of the food on the table; grilled
aubergines,
pepperonata,
sarde in saor, the popular Venetian,
baccala mantecato (dried salted cod) and typical tiny brown shrimps called
schie.
Contessanally tip: click on any photo for a better view.
Lifestyle: Missoni party for Ermanno Olmi - a plate full. A selection of the delicious food from the
Gatto Nero in Burano.
Polenta,
grilled zucchine and
cuttlefish, cherry tomatoes and
sarde in saor; sardines marinated in organic onions, a classic Venetian appetizer.
Lifestyle: Missoni party for Ermanno Olmi - a detail. On one of the small table below deck, the catalogue of the exhibition,
George Barbier (1882-1932): La Nascita del Deco which just opened at
Palazzo Fortuny, until January 5th, 2009.
Lifestyle: Missoni party for Ermanno Olmi - behind the scenes. Nadia and
Rossana help out in the galley kitchen.
Lifestyle: Missoni party for Ermanno Olmi – a watercolor. Below deck a charming watercolor of the
Missoni barge,
Timoteo was painted by American guests.
Note: the trophies and the sailboat memorabilia.
Lifestyle: Missoni party for Ermanno Olmi. Fashion designer,
Paolo Negrato is enjoying a sabbatical break from fashion.
Lifestyle: Missoni party for Ermanno Olmi. Alvise and
Carla Alvera.
Lifestyle: Missoni party for Ermanno Olmi - Mother and Daughter. Ermanno Olmi’s daughter and wife,
Elisabetta and
Loredana.
Lifestyle: Missoni party for Ermanno Olmi - the Sbrisolona cake – 1. Missoni PR, the delightful,
Maddalena Aspes brings the
Sbrisolona cake up on deck.
Lifestyle: Missoni party for Ermanno Olmi - the Sbrisolona cake - 2 The
Sbrisolona cake didn’t last very long and was enjoyed by all the guests. The Sbrisolona cake is like a piece of crumble with almonds and pistachio nuts in this case and was made by
Peck in Milan. This dry cake must not be cut but broken with the hands. It is a specialty of Mantova and similar to the rustic cakes of Veneto and Trentino.
Lifestyle: Missoni party for Ermanno Olmi - special Venetian biscuits. These Typical biscuits called
Esse, from “S” shape, are a specialty of the Island of
Burano.
Lifestyle: Missoni party for Ermanno Olmi. Chiara and
Antonella Nonino relax on the
Missoni boat.
Lifestyle: Missoni party for Ermanno Olmi. Luca Cendali is an architect and designer. Every year, Luca designs, at the
Venini glassworks in
Murano, a special decanter for the
Nonino UE Cru Monovitigno Picolit collection for the Distillerie
Nonino. Since 1998 he has been secretary of the
Nonino Award, whose prestigious jury is presided by
Ermanno Olmi.
Lifestyle: Missoni party for Ermanno Olmi - the Grappa. No Italian meal is complete without a glass of grappa served after coffee. Naturally the grappa was provided by
Giannola Nonino, who runs the family business.
Nonino is the most famous Italian producers of grappa.
Lifestyle: Missoni party for Ermanno Olmi - the fruit salad. Simple sliced peaches with mint, perfect in hot weather.
Lifestyle: Missoni party for Ermanno Olmi - the ice cream. The ginger ice cream with chocolate chips comes from the best chocolate boutique in Venice called,
VizioVirtu. Mariangela also makes delicious chocolate and fruit sorbets, as well as, unusual ice cream flavors like saffron and amaretto or Sicilian orange with bergamot.
Lifestyle: Missoni party for Ermanno Olmi. Don’t forget your shoes.
Fulvio Scaparro is retrieving his shoes and socks before going home.
Contessanally tip: click on any photos to get a better view.
Lifestyle: Missoni party for Ermanno Olmi - the party is over 1. Going home by water taxi. The Nonino and the Olmi families share a water taxi back to the Lido.
Lifestyle: Missoni party for Ermanno Olmi - the party is over 2. Going home by vaporetto. The breathtaking view of
Palazzo Ducale and
Piazza San Marco taken from the
vaporetto.
“NUTRITION” # 3 - The Czech and Slovak Republic Pavilion. The Sideways, Parallel Ways and Worlds, installation in the Czech and Slovak Pavilion, created by Zerozero Untd, shows a row of identical fridges that contain various foods based on the social identity of the inhabitants of the apartment or houses. “In the last months, we have looked into the homes of our friends, their friends, and friends of their friends…finally reaching those totally unknown to us. We have been interested in the social, economic, and urban context of their lives, their customs, favorite foods, culinary recipes, etc. We have searched for the everyday and authentic. This survey probes into the lives of the people living around us, and contains information on diversity/similarity of lifestyle and attitudes, contexts and situations by introducing questions of local (Czech and Slovak) specificities in a global context as well as questions of tenability of such topics and the world as we know it today.” A statement by Zerozero Untd.
A detail. The inside of one of the refrigerators.
