Paulo Mariotti

Seen from the old port, the bonne mère overlooks the sailboats, pointy and other boats that cross its waters. Marseilles reveals itself in all its splendor, under the pen of Paolo Mariotti, with the magnificent pink and yellow facades of the new quay, and the tangle of heterogeneous buildings, as far as Notre Dame de la Garde. From the top of her hill, she watches over the bay. For centuries, the survivors of storms or shipwrecks have covered it with ex-votos for its gracious protection.

Paulo Mariotti takes us to Rio de Janeiro, with the enigmatic panorama of Guanabara Bay where buildings and rocks seem to compete for access to the open sea. Between swarming piles and confrontation of reliefs, the Brazilian illustrator lets our gaze float on this vertiginous coastline nibbled by urbanization. The composition even comes to tame the Sugar Loaf, this giant granite block both resisting the onslaught of the city and perched to contemplate the horizon. A landscape of sensations between suffocation and breath of air, not to forget to go up there, if you go to Rio.

Lisbon, "white city", displays all its colors under the pen of Paolo Mariotti. Dominated by the Monastery of St. Vincent de Fora, facades and roofs are multiplied in a maze to the Tagus. The Cathedral of Santa Maria Maior, one of the oldest buildings in the city, emerges with its emblematic rose window and clock. The saffron yellow of the buildings of the Avenida Infante Dom Henrique, on the quays of the Doca da Marinha, borders the river where the white sails pass.

The Singleton House was designed and built by Architect Richard Neutra, disciple of Frank Lloyd Wright. It is located on the mythical Mulholland Drive, in the chic neighborhood of Bel Air, in Los Angeles. Paulo Mariotti pays homage to its bay windows, all in length, and its mythical opening on the vegetation and the ponds.