“…But I love your feet only because they walked upon the earth and upon the wind and upon the waters, until they found me.” Tracing this poem by the great Chilean poet Pablo Neruda on our front hall stairs was one of the first things I did when we moved into our home in the Beaches. Everybody from the couriers to kids at Hallowe’en like to stand in the hallway and read it out loud. One of my best anniversary gifts to my (gorgeous) husband.
One evening walking downtown Rio de Janeiro with the after-work crowd, I found these bubble shoes in the Melissa store. Every year, Melissa commissions architects such as Zaha Hadid to design a line of shoes. These ones are by the Italian architect Gaetano Pesce, famous for his organic, bubble-inspired architecture and furniture. They’re made of recycled plastic and smell like bubble gum. They’re my new amphibian friends. You can pop out bubbles to customize the shoes to your foot. I haven’t take out any bubbles yet. They fit me like a glove, or friendly reptile. I love them ! Sorry, they’re not available in North America.
Baroque architects knew how to make great, seductive curves in architecture. These ones festooned with pantaloon-like curtains at Cafe Florian, Piazza San Marco. Discovered one cold evening in November. Before the annual flooding of Venice.
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