A COUPLE OF PALACES Painting

One of these palaces has been a gift from Maurice, my hairdresser in Milan, the same who had previously given me the Tiger and the nice Leopard. I have to say that his palace is very similar to him. Like him, is magical and enchanted, seems to be coming from a fairy tale, in which mingle exoticism, eccentricity, word of dreams and fantastic adventures. It’s made by glazed ceramic, painted in bright colours and gold. The second palace is more real: it’s a Tongkonan, the traditional Toraja’s house, an archaic tribe, living on the wood mountains of the south of Sulawesi’s island, in Indonesian. It’s a perfect model, made by the same Teck wood and the same decorative precision of a veritable Tongkonan. It seemed me really wonderful, when I saw it in the Tomohon’s Market, in the centre of Sulawesi, and I bought it impulsively. More difficult was arrange the shipment to Milan, by fly, in a wood hand-made could be right also for the backdrop of the enchanted Maurice’s palace.big box. I remember the shipping belonged a couple of month to come. The backdrop of the picture are the wild hills of the interior of Sulawesi’s island, that I think