The pick of the bunch

Julian Beever in Montevideo!

2008-10-09T19:54:00.005+01:00

Yesterday I was coming back from work in a hurry. I got down at the Punta Carretas Shopping bus stop when I saw, over the explanade of the entrance, a clustered group of people surrounding a tent. In the middle of the tent, and carefully watched over by a guard, a nice man with a foreigner air painted on the floor, checking from time to time his work through a camera's lense. I checked out the banner: Julian Beever leaves its trace on the city. One of the better known street artists in the world -the one with the PowerPoints of 3D holes- was beginning to work, brought here by Ballentine's. It seems it ends on Friday, so don't miss it.

PS: Last night, on Film&Arts, I bumped into a special programme on Julian Beever. And they say Montevideo is not a cosmpolite city...

One splendid night

2008-08-21T00:56:00.000+01:00

Last Saturday I celebrated my birthday at the Splendido Hotel, a very centric but practically unknown corner for people in Montevideo, with the exception of fashion productions, with its rather recognisable old style wallpapers.

It is an old mansion, known before as Solis Hotel and transformed into a cool hostel for the utmost international travellers. It mostly owes its charm to the great taste of Inara Ruglio, decorator and owner of that paradise of cute objects called Tiempo Funky. Though Neca, her mother and the hotel’s manager, doesn’t lack charm, either.

Splendido Hotel is the perfect way of travelling, whereas through time or style, without leaving Montevideo. Its enormous windows look right at the Teatro Solis. Saturday night, right after the union problems were solved, we were privileged enough to see it completely lit, and witness the exit of the opera, as if we lived in any of the great capitals of the world.

If you want to find out more about the hotel, please visit its web site.

Manifest

2008-08-20T23:30:00.000+01:00

This is a style blog. Here you will find little messages on the most diverse topics, but with a common axis: the search for beauty. But it is beauty in a very ample sense. Fashion and art, architecture and cooking, design and literature, music and urban corners will find themselves meeting continously. My goal is to show the prettiest face of Montevideo, Uruguay, among other wordly choices. Welcome on board.

A little note: I will try to update this blog on a trilingual basis. Spanish is my native tongue, so I don’t think it will be so easy to do so. Please excuse me if it takes more time, and acknowledge the fact that I will make plenty of mistakes. Feel free to write to me anytime and correct me!