Perspectives and details on the food world, refined plating ideas, local ingredients in the foreground, original settings and decorations and sophisticated ambiences framing a worthy culinary experience are more and more the protagonists of images, spreading virally on media and social media.
The jewelry, carefully selected for the occasion, the fine make ups, the details of the suits, the manicure of the ladies, the infinite shades of colors of dresses and matched accessorizes, the smiles, the glances, the curiosity waiting for the bride, the tenderness, the emotions and the expressions on the faces of the participants during the ceremony, the explosion of joy when the married couple exit the church … an unlimited universe of details for the benefit of the lens of the camera.
“A beautiful photograph tells a story, reveals a place, an event, a state of mind, is more powerful than pages and pages written” – Isabel Allende
The attention of the team focused in a meticulous mise en place, the care of the housekeeper watering the flowers on the balcony, the sharing of the staff during the daily morning briefing in the meeting room, the relaxing music of the water sounds in a spa, the precision of the chef’s hands preparing one of the courses on the menu, the silence of soft lights in the hall late at night … they are just some of the situations and atmospheres that describe the life of the hotel and that tells its story.
I met him the first time in Lipari, in the Aeolian Islands, a bunch of volcanic islands in the Mediterranean Sea, to the north east of Sicily. He already visited and lived in different islands at that time and among all of them the Aeolian archipelago was the one driving the strongest attraction and becoming a second home for long time.