IBR GOES TO MILAN

"I Saloni 2008: Excellence to the Fore

The Saloni are now into the home straight, preparing to take Milan by storm as always in April – from 16th to 21st this year – at the Milan Fairgrounds at Rho, with a huge range of superlative exhibits. There will be five exhibitions altogether, as always in even years, along with two extraordinary city events.

Every April, every year, the home/contract furnishing sector is caught up with an event quite unlike any other, anywhere in the world. This unique experience is the Saloni – not just the leading event in the sector at global level, but also a matchless occasion for an international meeting of minds – not to mention business, image and communication. This year, the colossus will again spread its wings from 16th to 21st April, at the Milan Fairgrounds, Rho.

The success of the previous edition with its 270,000 visitors, of whom 165,000 came from 145 foreign countries, together with the tremendous satisfaction of nigh on 2,000 exhibiting companies, provides us with our launch pad. Renewed enthusiasm will fuel the work in progress for the Saloni, which will encompass over 220,000 square metres in a tight-knit team effort that will include the Salone Internazionale del Mobile, Eurocucina, the new SaloneUfficio, International Biennial Workspace Exhibition (formerly EIMU) - the new name that says it all, bringing it into line with the other events and giving it greater prominence, the International Bathroom Furniture Exhibition, the International Furnishing Accessories Exhibition and SaloneSatellite."

Next week I will have some Exclusive Pictures

BEAUTY

Voici ce qu'a écrit Audrey Hepburn,
quand on lui a demandé de révéler
ses «trucs» pour être belle...

" 1. Pour avoir des lèvres attirantes,
prononcez des paroles de bonté.

2. Pour avoir de beaux yeux, regardez
ce que les gens ont de beau en eux.

3. Pour rester mince, partagez vos
repas avec ceux qui ont faim.

4. Pour avoir de beaux cheveux, faites
qu'un enfant y passe sa main chaque jour.

5. Pour avoir un beau maintien, marchez
en sachant que vous n'êtes jamais seule.

6. Vous le faites pour les choses, mais
les gens en ont eux aussi besoin :
réparez-les, bichonnez-les, redonnez-
leur vie, sauvez-les; ne les jetez jamais.

7. Pensez-y : si un jour vous avez
besoin d'une main secourable,
vous en trouverez une à chaque bout de vos bras.
En vieillissant vous
vous rendrez compte que vous avez 2 mains,
l'une pour vous aider vous-même,
l'autre pour aider ceux
qui en ont besoin.

8. La beauté d'une femme n'est pas dans les vêtements qu'elle porte,
son visage ou sa façon d'arranger ses cheveux.
La beauté d'une femme se voit dans ses yeux,
car c'est la porte ouverte sur son coeur,
la source de son amour.

9. La beauté d'une femme n'est pas dans son maquillage,
mais dans la vraie beauté de son âme.
C'est la tendresse qu'elle donne, l'amour, la passion
qu'elle exprime.

10. La beauté d'une femme se développe avec les années."

MOMENTS

This blog has to start with one phrase of the last post about London I wrote. “I am a traveler no matter what that trip may be”. I love them all. All the trips with no regret just learning. Well it is tough to see it that way, or better, to manage to see it that way. I’m making my efforts towards it. But not so much efforts. I have learned to stop and reflect more after each trip. And when I talk about “trip”, I talk about trips in the bathroom, long distance plane trips, trips by boat, trips in the living room, trips on the sofa, trips by train…trips in my interior….all of kind of trips! I can manage to reflect over it with some courage so … no more big efforts are necessary. I already catch my insecure buttons to throw them away as much as possible. So I had a great week, a met great people and even someone that I usually say that can be a sibling of me ...”to late for siblings”. I just love to feel butterflies in my stomach or ants over the feet that make me jump my legs over and over again, and give those laughs that throw me on the floor asking for more! Living at a running stage doesn’t bring me anything else than living in a calm situation. I need both, I need the adrenaline, I need air, I need my melancholia to create music and words, I need to run away and to love everything. I am in love! In love for life, for world and everything that come in the package, even sadness or disappointment. I want this life package now at this present moment. And then I can rest at the beach when I am older with my memories with a margarita... Now I just want to live. And this week I felt especially alive, more than ever! In love again for life, again and again and again. After all this… and at the mid way from the disgrace to happiness we find people that are a bit like us, bit crazy and impulsive and Alive! Alive for having thirst for experiences, those maybe want to jump from a plane or get lost in the middle of the jungle. Sometimes to hear an extremely small band at the main concert hall of a city escape. Sometimes just to laugh like crazy and appreciate what’s around. I am amazed… Makes me cry for joy! There are still people like these around! Today has passed 4 months since the last revolution of my life! Enough of war crumbles…Enough!I had it! I am starting over again tomorrow morning! Once more! Start again.

Foam Bath - MADRID

Today I am in Madrid… at least the day I am writing.I am in the middle of a foam bath at the Calle Atocha! That feels good and relaxing. Time with myself for reflexion in a hot tube with lot lots of foam! I am going again to my protocol classes about Asia at the International School of Protocol. The theme is going to be China and Japan. One “dive” more to pass to others the experience I had last year in Asia plus the continuously research for peoples different cultures and the “whys” of some reactions. It’s true that the months are passing by but those discoveries are not for sure going into the box of the forgetters. Every day they are more alive and define who I am: The true relation with others and at the same time this solitaire comfort that surround me all the time, like a complex HiFi that can communicate even the notes of the background flute in the middle of a 100 instruments concert. 25 degrees and a lot of light!

BLU

Just arrived from London where I truly saw the essence of transformation. The essence of inventing myself even at the hardest situations. It is absolutely fantastic when we start moving on. Moving moving moving moving moving moving. I am a bit of extremes, sometimes I just want to stay in my corner without any noise from the “outside”world and same times I just want to share with world how fantastic that world really is. People tend to forget that the rainy days are from the same world as the sunny day… and everything is a bit impermanent but still …forever. We get our experiences to paint our life and become someone who really appreciate the delicacies of life. Even if the came from one crazy impulse from the heart! I am hell impulsive person! So what? I just do it and talk about it, its better than take it and repress it! So London this last weekend was a vision. A vision of reflection and another proof that I am an ideas inventor and a traveler no matter what that trip may be.