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l’armanaque de sevilla 2025

27 Wednesday Nov 2024

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Before lockdown 2020 my neighbour Alfredo Rodríguez was working at Barra Baja, one of my favourite restaurants in the city. Then of course everything stopped. But not Alfredo. He started creating a series of Sevilla tapas bar façades that he would sketch while out on the few walks we were allowed and then finish at home. This led to a whole other line of business for him that eventually became his new full time job. I have two of his limited prints at home, of Casa Eme and Casa Morales. Then Alfonso had the idea to make an annual Sevilla almanac with a selection his ever expanding collection of façades on each page.

This is the 2025 L’Armanaque de Sevilla, hot off the presses, and once again I have also picked one up for Deb and Paul like I did last year.

chaiwat pilanun

04 Tuesday Jun 2024

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My friend Victor sent me this lovely pic overnight on whatsapp (he’s travelling in the US atm, this is why I always turn the sound off on my phone when I go to bed). But how fabulous is this? The view is from my Happy Place at the bar in Las Teresas, in front of the jamón cutting station. I have posted countless photos of this very scene over the years. So I asked Victor where he’d seen this and he said “on Twitter” but then couldn’t find the post again. I tried googling the signature and even searched the image… nada.

So it was time to ask social media… I put up the pic on Twitter, Bluesky and Instagram asking if anyone knew who the artist was and – in a very surprising turn of events – Bluesky won! My pal Rob came through with this…

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So wow. Not only an artist and husband to a fellow cancer survivor but, really, one helluva guy with an interesting background story. What I’d really love to know is when he was here in Sevilla and how he ended up in my Happy Place and THEN felt so moved by it that he decided to create this. Meanwhile, kudos to my Bluesky buds… I wish more of you were there. It’s a bit like how Twitter used to be.

 

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05 Monday Feb 2024

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If I’ve learned one thing during my countless visits to Casa Moreno over the years it’s that for Emilio nothing is ever urgent, there is no such thing as being in a hurry, and I love him for this. So the other day when I went to ask for my bill he said “ok, it’ll be ready in about 20 minutes”. Ha. The two guys at the bar across from him shot me a look and I said to them “it’s fine, the artist always takes his time”… in the end it didn’t actually take 20 minutes and I was given this personalised bill for La Reina de las Tapas.

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I have so many of Emilio’s little works of art at home, but it was this one that ended up framed and in the bookcase next to my desk. ❤️