FLORENCE HOW OLD R U?

FLORENCE ROLANDO - PIROUETTE blog  how is your bed? and your cradle when you were baby? My bed is super king size because I kick at night and I have rather long legs. In my memories I never had a cradle, I always slept in my parent's bed. Pure fantasy of course...

which kind of meal you do not like? which is your favourite dish that your mom prepare to you? I love everything, especially when it's prepared by top Michelin Stars chefs. My favorite dish is "puree-jambon" (mashed and ham).

your favorite book to read? The Little Prince by Antoine de St Exupery. My dad read it to me thousands of times. I still read it occasionally.

have you got an imaginary friend? Yes, her name is Illy and she can do all sorts of fun things : draw on the walls, watch videos all night long, jump on the sofas...

which clothes do you remember first? I remember a winter red wool coat that I love so much I insist to wear it all the time, even at the beach, in the middle of the summer!

 

 

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JENNY HOW OLD R U?

JENNY LACEY - LMNOP - editor in chief 

how is your bed? and your cradle when you were baby? I sleep in a wooden cot. It has a sweet baby lamb illustration on the headboard.

which kind of meal you do not like? which is your favourite dish that your mom prepare to you? I don't like! My favourite dish is macaroni and cheese.

your favorite book to read? Cindy Bakes a Funny Cake by Dean Walley. A Hallmark Pop-up book about a girl named Cindy who decides to bake a cake while home alone, except for her big sister who's upstairs on the phone. You can imagine what happens next!

have you got an imaginary friend? No. But I have plenty of dolls I use to like to boss around!

which magazine did you read first? Seventeen magazine.

 

A FUNNY STORAGE TOWER

ALERCE stackable toy boxes by NONAH!, they can be used to pack away cars, teddies, dollies, shoes, or to turn over to sit on it, or as a little table or a mini house... They can be stacked up like a totem!

BRUNO HOW OLD R U?

BRUNO SAVOLDELLI - NONAH!, designer 

How was your cot when you were a Baby? How was your bed when you were a child? When I arrived, third child and last but I didn't know that yet, my mum used our family cradle for me. It was made of dark wood, with a very traditional design.  Now, I am using a little family bed (again !) made of rattan, and the way the canes were crossed  structured little windows I love to peep through.

Which was your favorite dish your mum used to cook for you? What meal didn’t you like at all? My mum uses to cook quite regularly a French baked potato dish called “gratin Dauphinois”. Simply delicious. But she sometimes finds some salsify vegetables on the market. Unbearable !

What was your favourite book “The wonderful adventures of Nils Holgersson” by Selma Lagerlof. I love the adventures of this child on the back of a wild goose and the large Swedish spaces he discovers during his travelling.

Did you have an imaginary friend? No, I already have 1 brother and 1 sister, and that was plenty enough company !

 

ALICE'S BAKING

delicious puffed rice coockies...by il cucchiaino di alice

Ingredients

white flour 150 gr , puffed rice 1 cup, 1 egg, butter 50 gr, brown or white sugar 50 gr, organic lemon peel, milk 2 spoon, baking powder 1 little spoon.

Blend sugar and butter to obtain a soft cream. Add the egg and the lemon peel and the flour. If it needs add 2 spoons of milk (or add in the beginning 20gr of butter more). Add the puffed rice and mix it. Add the baking powder and blend it. Use a spoon to make the portion and put them in the oven. Wait until a delicious smell and a light brown aspect!

OTTO HOW OLD R U?

OTTO DUNKER promising designer

how is your bed? and your cot when you were baby? I have a white wooden bed which you can pull out. But it is very big now and so long it can be because I've grown a lot. When I was little I had the same bed, only it was not pulled out. When I was a baby a slept between my mother and father mostly.

which kind of meal you do not like? which is your favourite dish that your mom prepare to you? I like salmon soup. Only my mother don't cook so much. It is mostly my father who cooks. I love his food!

your favorite book to read? I like Manga series. But I also like Oliver Twist, that my mother reads to me in the evenings now.

have you got an imaginary friend? No not any more! But when I was little I had a Snail named Mr Fugo. He's dead now.

do you sleep with someone - something with? I have a couple of softies, but I don't have them in my bed all the time. It gets so crowdy.

 

LUISA AND SARAH HOW OLD R U?

LUISA, writer and mum

SARAH MARIA, communication manager and daughter

how is your bed? and your cot when you were baby? LUISA - I had a traditional cot, 50ies style, it has been used by all my relatives, my bed is covered by a textil with big flowers. SARAH - I sleep with many puppets, when my dad sings the lullabye he has to do it for everyone of them too!

which kind of meal you do not like? which is your favourite dish that your mom prepare to you? LUISA - I hate sweet maize in can, most of all in the salad! I love beaten eggs with coffee, my mum makes them every morning for us before school. Fattening and exciting bomb! SARAH - I hate all the stuff inside the animals such as liver…I love eating new things everytime, my mum makes me happy when she cooks something new, if we cook together it is even better!

your favorite book to read? LUISA - russian fairy tales SARAH - I cannot chose, one it is not enough!

have you got an imaginary friend? LUISA- In order to drive crazy the nons at the boarding school I invented to have a depraved brother castaway from the family. SARAH - Tata and Zaffeo.

What do you want to do when you grew up? LUISA - a brave archaeologist SARAH - a director

If you could, what would you like to steal from the other one? LUISA- Her capability to find friends and keep them SARAH - Her magic capability to create beaty from everything she touchs.

FRANCESCA AND CHIARA HOW OLD R U?

FRANCESCA KAUFMANN, owner of Kaufmann Repetto Contemporary Art Gallery and sister of Chiara 

CHIARA REPETTO, owner of Kaufmann Repetto Contemporary Art Gallery and sister of Francesca

how is your bed? and your cradle when you were baby? Francesca - I have a basic ash tree bed, from my bed we draw out another the bed where my little sister sleeps. Sometimes I make some experiments trying to suffocate her during the night. I remember my cot when my sister was born, I was 7 years old and I would have loved to jump into it! Chiara - my bed is a camp bed, I have to drag it out from my sister’s bed. I love jumping on my bed but unfortunatly last night it fell down on my mum’s ankle! I have no memories of my cot, my mum put it off as soon was possible.

which kind of meal you do not like? which is your favourite dish that your mom prepare to you? Francesca - I have a kind of trauma from boiled fennels, at the kindergarden they forced me to eat them. My mum cooks great lasagna but I am not really interested in food, sometimes she tells me that if I don’t eat enough she will have to do restorative injections to me….  Chiara - I hate fish, EVERY KIND of fish, since ever! Everything cooked by my mum is eccelent, but I especially love her pizza, when I come back from school and I smell this incredible flavour I feel like paradise!!

your favorite book to read? Francesca - favole al telefono by Gianni Rodari and the Peanuts, there I learnt the word 'sarcasm' Chiara - just one? Il paese dei maghi by Pinin Carpi, but also Grande Gigante Gentile by Roahl Dahl.

have you got an imaginary friend? Francesca - I have no imaginary friend, but when I was a baby I called myself “the girl” Chiara - no, I have no imaginary friend: I like play by myself and do my own business!

What do you want to do when you grew up? Francesca - the director of a contemporary art gallery Chiara - writer or a cashier

If you could, what would you like to steal from the other one? Francesca - her converse collection Chiara - I have to say that I am super lucky! My sister gives me a free access to her bedroom, for this reason I am not jealous. Maybe I would love to wear her glasses but I stopped with this desire when I started to use them too!

 

MARTINE HOW OLD R U?

MARTINE CAMILLIERI - artist

how is your bed? and your cradle when you were baby? I sleep in a cube (in Viet-Nam, 4 sticks, one at each corner of the bed, put up a rectangular mosquito net, as a cube). You have to open a delicate door to come in, like in a real house. It is a very personal space,  it is also a screen for my dreams. Everything seen through,  becomes soft and nice and poetic. For my craddle, as I was born in France,  I only remember the sweet warmth of my blanket when it was cold.

which kind of meal you do not like? which is your favourite dish that your mom prepares to you? Beeerk, I hate spinach, I don't want to be Popeye !

your favorite book to read? It's my pupil's textbook, it is so wonderful to see that all this black drawings mean something !! I kept this book, called La joie de lire, as I become an adult.

have you got an imaginary friend? The friend of my dreams is a husky.  As in my country, it never snow, I like to dream to white and frozen landscape. I have seen in a book a wonderful dog with a great blue regard in his russet coat. Now Husky is my friend... in my snowy mind !

What did you draw first? A lot and a lot of towns, or city, or villages... on all over the sheet. I like to imagine small or large houses for everybody, streets and roads, church, school, bakery... life.