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Everything you need to know about La Vita Monte-Carlo

by: Cassandra Tanti
23/08/2021

In keeping with its ‘Life is an art’ concept, Monte-Carlo SBM will stage La Vita Monte-Carlo in September with a month-long programme that covers all of life’s pleasures.  
The luxurious Monte-Carlo lifestyle would not be possible without experiences such as drinking or lunching on a terrace, strolling along the seafront, listening to a concert, shopping, enjoying incredible encounters or basking in the thrill of the game.
So, from mid-September to mid-November, La Vita Monte-Carlo will host unique events at various SBM resorts.
It all kicks off on 10th September with the La Vita Monte-Carlo Gala Dinner in the Salle Empire at the Hôtel de Paris Monte-Carlo. The next day will see the Monte-Carlo Vendanges with three unmissable wine-themed encounters hosted by the Hôtel Hermitage Monte-Carlo. La Vita Monte-Carlo will light up autumn in the Monte-Carlo Société des Bains de Mer Group establishments until 10th November with various exciting events.
La Vita Monte-Carlo: exclusive ‘Candlelight’ evening at the Hôtel de Paris Monte-Carlo
The Salle Empire will be the opening scene for La Vita Monte-Carlo, hosting a candlelit gala dinner with a unique floral backdrop on 10th September at the Hôtel de Paris Monte-Carlo. During this special dinner, coordinated by Chef Franck Cerutti and his teams, La Vita Monte-Carlo will shine the spotlight on Monte-Carlo savoir-vivre and three talented young female artists: young Monegasque prodigy, pianist Stella Almondo, who, at just 15, will entertain with the classic notes of Chopin which will unfold into Jazz. She’ll then hand over the reins to the young DJ Irène Drésel, a rising star on the new French electronic scene, who will lift the mood with a hypnotic set before returning to close the evening with one last performance. Finally, singer Elodie Frégé’s beautiful and captivating voice will ring out around the Salle Empire during this spectacular evening.
La Vita Monte-Carlo: vendanges at the Hôtel Hermitage Monte-Carlo
After the music comes the Vendanges Monte-Carlo. From 11th September, real grape vines will run freely in front of and inside the Hôtel Hermitage Monte-Carlo, passing through the lobby and corridors en route to the Yannick Alléno restaurant.
With special significance at Monte-Carlo Société des Bains de Mer, this theme has inspired a number of prestigious events:
Thursday 16th September – ‘Champagne: a new destiny’ tasting convention
Head to the Salle Belle Epoque at the Hôtel Hermitage Monte-Carlo to sample the finest champagnes, served by Frédéric Rouzaud himself, Chair and owner of Louis Roederer, who will explain the revolution currently transforming Champagne.
Saturday 18th September – 300% Dinner at the Yannick Alléno restaurant at the Hôtel Hermitage Monte-Carlo
100% Yannick Alléno, there in person to prepare the dinner, 100% Chapoutier whose excellence dates back to 1808, and 100% Parker, i.e. only wines with the top score, the Holy Grail, from the famous American critic.
Friday 24th September – ‘Creating an original, high-quality wine cellar’ tasting convention
Tasting session hosted by Angélique de Lencquesaing, founder of the Ideal Wine site. An opportunity to discover rare wines and wonders far off the beaten track, and to rediscover the essentials.
La Vita Monte-Carlo: Tropical and Havana Night at the Monte-Carlo Bay Hotel & Resort
The Monte-Carlo Bay Hotel and Resort invites guests on a fun and relaxing journey through La Vita Monte-Carlo with two unique events:
Friday 17th September – Tropical Night at the lagoonside
The programme includes a sensory awakening with live DJing by Mr Jaz with support from artist Micael Sene, magical close-ups with Simeon Wolfgang, aquatic ballet and fireworks. Chef Marcel Ravin will take charge in the kitchen, creating daring flavours to tantalise the taste buds and whisk guests more than 8,000 km away from Monaco… to the Amazon rainforest.
Saturday 9th October – Blue Gin Havana Night
With Latin tunes and Cuban flavours. The chance to sip a creative rum-based cocktail, discover the secrets of cigar smoking or take your first salsa steps.
Preview 8th September
Monte-Carlo Beach will host a preview of La Vita Monte-Carlo with a picnic on 8th September at Domaine d’Agerbol, Roquebrune-Cap-Martin – the garden that supplies the starred Elsa restaurant with organic products.
 
 
 

Picasso to Koons: Jewellery by Artists

by: Stephanie Horsman
08/07/2021

A unique display of fine jewellery created by world-famous artists and passionately collected by Diane Venet is being exhibited at the Grimaldi Forum from Sunday 11th July.
Diane Venet, wife of artist Bernar Venet, began her unique collection of jewellery made by artists in 1967 when she purchased a brooch created by painter Roy Lichtenstein in New York. Her collection began in earnest though after meeting her husband in 1985, when she decided to dedicate all her purchases to commissions from artists.
For over 30 years, she has amassed an extraordinary selection of more than 230 pieces made exclusively by artists, 180 of which will be presented at the Grimaldi Forum.
Well-known artists such as Pablo Picasso, Jeff Koons, Niki de Saint-Phalle, Keith Haring and Roy Lichtenstein all created pieces either bought or made for Venet’s collection.
“These creations are always the result of an encounter, whether with the artists themselves or with other collectors,” says Venet. “Both groups have encouraged me. They have given me no small amount of support in my discovery of this new world where art, seemingly at play, surpasses itself.”
Diane Venet came from a family of art collectors and her father, Jacques Segard, was chairman of the Friends of the Musée National d’Art Moderne in Paris. She met and married Bernar Venet in the mid-1980’s in New York, where she helped him organise his exhibits and became an avid collector of art herself.
Her idea for exhibiting her jewellery came in 2008, when it received such acclaim that she took her show on the road presenting at the Museum of Arts and Design in New York, the Benaki Museum in Athens, Miami’s Bass Museum, and the Seoul Art Centre in South Korea, to name a few.
Picasso to Koons: Jewellery by Artists will run from 11th July to 19th August at the Grimaldi Forum.
 
 

Creative classes for kids at the Grimaldi Forum

by: Stephanie Horsman
07/07/2021

Searching for something fun for the kids to do during summer break? Take a look at these Giacometti-themed youth workshops coming up at the Grimaldi Forum.
From 12th to 23rd July, the Grimaldi Forum will be hosting a series of creative summer workshops for children aged seven to 11, teaching the art of making art using the Alberto Giacometti exposition as inspiration.
Themes change each day of the week and include some amazing offerings such as model drawing, where children use a classmate as a model and try their hand at sketching them in different poses, as well as portrait drawing, where participants work from a painted portrait of Anette and reproduce the sketch using black pen before shading in the surfaces with dry pastels.
Other offerings see kids getting their hands dirty whilst having fun creating a Giacometti-style bust from a block of clay, or reproducing a Giacometti Walking Man sculpture using a metal wire frame encased in clay, a favourite method of the artist.
Finally, kids can create still life drawings, replicating an apple as true to life as possible using shadow play and volumes with dry pastels.
Whilst on-site, children and parents will also be able to enjoy the Giacometti exhibition currently underway highlighting 230 works from the artist that include sculpture, paintings, prints and drawings accompanied by photos.
The classes run Monday through Friday from 10am to 12pm, or from 2pm to 4pm, with a maximum of 20 students per workshop. For reservations and more information, call the Grimaldi Forum ticket office at +377 99 99 30 00.
 
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Inside Monaco’s summer exhibition of Alberto Giacometti
 
Photo of Giacometti’s Walking Man by Monaco Life
 
 
 

Les Dîners Étoilés at Fairmont's Nikki Beach

by: Stephanie Horsman
02/07/2021

Nikki Beach at the Fairmont Monte-Carlo will be hosting a dinner series featuring Michelin-starred chefs, all offering their takes on dishes made exclusively from fresh, local ingredients.

Nikki Beach will be hosting the Les Dîners Étoilés (The Starry Dinners) series from 12th July to 17th August.

The cheeky double-entendre means that diners will not only be treated to a meal under the stars but will be served meals by Michelin-starred chefs. This is the first year that the Fairmont Monte-Carlo will host the four-year-old event, which was first launched at Nikki Beach in Saint-Tropez.

The selected chefs will take over the kitchen at the hotel in order to create gastronomic wonders using only fresh, local produce that will tantalise the taste buds, be healthy and gorgeously prepared.

The Fairmont dates are the 12th of July with three Michelin-starred Chef Christophe Coutanceau at the helm, and 17th August featuring three Michelin-starred Chef Glenn Viel.

Chef Coutanceau, who hails from his namesake restaurant in La Rochelle, will start off with an appetiser of crystalline langoustine tartare, followed by a wild marsh prawn in fine jelly. He is calling his main course the “Lean line” served with courgettes and kumquats, and the meal will be finished off with a foreshore dessert, following his reputation as the “Fisherman Cook”. The night is limited to 120 guests and is €200 per person without wine and champagne pairing, or €250 with.

The second night at the Fairmont will feature Chef Glenn Viel from the restaurant L’Oustau de Baumanière in Les-Baux-de-Provence. Chef Viel received the 2020 Sustainable Gastronomy Prize from Michelin for his continued successes in having a sustainable kitchen. He has yet to reveal his menu, but it has been confirmed that it will be €200 per person with a 120-guest limit.

Both nights are sure to be unforgettable.

 
 
 

Herculis EBS hosting Olympic favourites in Monaco

by: Stephanie Horsman
02/07/2021

The road to the Olympic Games in Tokyo passes through Monaco on 9th July when some of the world’s best athletes compete in track and field events ranging from running races, long and high jumps and pole vaulting, to name but a few.

Three weeks before the start of the Olympic Games in Tokyo, some of the world’s finest track and field stars will be found competing in Monaco for the Herculis EBS games.

Some of the biggest races will be the 400m men’s hurdles race where reigning world champion Karsten Warholm from Norway will be going up against American sensation Rai Benjamin for the first time this year. Benjamin caused a stir recently when he came within milliseconds of beating the Kevin Young’s world record in Eugene, Oregon. Warholm, for his part, raced in Oslo on 4th June beating his own personal best on the 300m hurdles by more than a half a second, showing that he is in fine form and ready to rumble.

Another race everyone will be watching is the 100m men’s sprint where 25-year-old American Trayvon Bromell, after overcoming a series of injuries, has regained his role at the top of charts. He ran the race in 9.77 seconds at the start of June in Florida, marking the fastest time for this race this year and followed up the success by cinching his spot for the Olympic Games just over two weeks later. Though he’s the one to beat, compatriot Fred Kerley and Canadian André de Grasse are also hungry for the win and will give him a run for his money.

The 200m women’s sprint is shaping up to be quite the thriller with the two top contenders for the Olympic gold facing off in Monaco for the first time ever. 34-year-old Jamaican Shelly-Ann Frasier-Price is going up against American Gabrielle Thomas, 10 years her junior. Both are slated to be big winners at the games, and seeing them compete head-to-head in Monaco may set the tone for races to come.

These are but a few of the exciting events taking place on Friday 9th July. The ladies will be participating in the aforementioned 200m sprint, as well as the 800m, 1500m, 3000m steeplechase, pole vault, triple jump and javelin. The gents will participate in the 100m sprint, the 800m, 1500m, 400m hurdles, 3000m steeplechase, high jump and long jump.

The doors at Stade Louis II open at 6pm for a 7pm start. The games will go on until 10pm. Ticket prices start as low as €10 and are on sale through the event’s website at https://monaco-diamond-league.com/fr/17011-herculis–meeting-international-dathletisme/

 
 
Photo source: Herculis EBS
 
 

Monaco is getting into the “swing” of summer

by: Cassandra Tanti
23/06/2021

To mark the official start of summer on 21st June, SBM launched its hugely successful ‘Swing Monte-Carlo’ with a programme that combines shows, unique events, ideas for day trips and experiences at SBM resorts.
This year’s theme is ‘Marvellous Gardens’ and the second edition was launched on a beautiful summer’s night around the Place du Casino on Monday. Boutiques on the Promenade Monte-Carlo, a stylish open-air shopping area, stayed open all hours for the occasion, while the Hôtel de Paris hosted a series of ‘Escapes’ including wine tasting from the hotel’s cellars and massages by Thermes Marins Monte-Carlo.

Wine tasting in the courtyard of the Hôtel de Paris Monte-Carlo

The highlights of Swing Monte-Carlo 2021 are the Festival of the Sea on 23rd June and the opening of Mada Lounge from the 24th, the summer pop-up venue of Mada One in Place du Casino gardens. Every Thursday until 28th August, Mada Lounge will offer musical nights from 4pm to 10.30pm in a chic Bohemian atmosphere amidst Place du Casino gardens and overlooking the legendary Casino de Monte-Carlo.
Meanwhile, the boutiques on Promenade Monte-Carlo are dressing up in ephemeral decorations for the ‘Marvellous Gardens’ theme, with shop windows and pop-up terraces sporting the colours of Swing Monte-Carlo.
‘Marvelous Gardens’ is the theme of this year’s Swing Monte-Carlo, and they’ve also created the perfect spot to take a selfie

For those wishing to get away from it all, SBM is proposing “ways to escape” from breakfast to dinner around variousthemes. ‘Gourmet’ day, for example, starts with breakfast at the Café de Paris Monte-Carlo, the mythical brasserie and hub of Monegasque life for 150 years, followed by window shopping on Promenade Monte-Carlo, lunch at Elsa restaurant at Monte-Carlo Beach, and, to kick the night off, an aperitif at the Blue Gin bar at the Monte-Carlo Hotel & Resort. But a gourmet day wouldn’t be complete without a dinner in Monaco’s most prestigious restaurant, the three Michelin starred Le Louis XV – Alain Ducasse à l’Hôtel de Paris.
‘Swing Monte-Carlo’ was launched last summer after the first phase of the pandemic as a symbol of renewal and in reference to the hedonistic ‘Swinging 60s’ of London.
 
 
Photos by SBM