#florian & Geneva

[goalhofer]

2024 olympics Switzerland roster

Athletics

Charles Devantay (Zurich)

William Reais (Chur)

Timothé Mumenthaler (Geneva)

Felix Svensson (Versoix)

Lionel Spitz (Adliswil)

Jonas Raess (Zurich)

Jason Joseph (Basel)

Julien Bonvin (Sierre)

Tadesse Abraham (Geneva)

Matthias Kyburz (Rheinfelden)

Ricky Petrucciani (Locarno)

Simon Ehammer (Stein)

Emma Van Camp (Bern)

Annina Fahr (Schaffhausen)

Catia Gubelmann (Zurich)

Lena Wernli (Zurich)

Julia Niederberger (Buochs)

Giulia Senn (Bern)

Géraldine Frey (Zurich)

Salomé Kora-Joseph (St. Gallen)

Mujinga Kambundji (Bern)

Ditaji Kambundji (Bern)

Léonie Pointet (Jongny)

Audrey Werro (Fribourg)

Rachel Pellaud (Biel/Bienne)

Valentina Rosamilia (Aargau)

Yasmin Giger (Romanshorn)

Fabienne Schlumpf (Wetzikon)

Helen Eticha (Geneva)

Sarah Atcho-Jaquier (Lausanne)

Angelica Moser (Andelfingen)

Pascale Stöcklin (Basel)

Annik Kälin (Zurich)

Badminton

Tobias Künzi (Würenlingen)

Jenjira Stadelmann (Bern)

Canoeing

Martin Dougoud (Geneva)

Alena Marx (Bern)

Climbing

Alexander Lehmann (Bern)

Cycling

Stefan Bissegger (Weinfelden)

Marc Hirschi (Ittigen)

Stefan Küng (Wil)

Alex Vogel (Frauenfeld)

Mathias Flückiger (Bern)

Nino Schurter (Tursnaus)

Cédric Butti (Thurgau)

Simon Marquart (Zurich)

Elise Chabbey (Geneva)

Noemi Rüegg (Schöfflisdorf)

Linda Zanetti (Lugano)

Elena Hartmann (Grisons)

Aline Seitz (Basel)

Michelle Andres (Baden)

Alessandra Keller (Ennetbürgen)

Sina Frei (Männedorf)

Nikita Ducarroz (Sonoma County, California)

Nadine Aeberhard (Bern)

Zoe Claessens (Echichens)

Equestrian

Robin Godel (Fribourg)

Felix Vogg (Waiblingen, Germany)

Steve Guerdat (Elgg)

Martin Fuchs (Zurich)

Edouard Schmitz (Wangen An Der Aare)

Pius Schwizer (Oensingen)

Andrina Suter (Schaffhausen)

Mélody Johner (Cheseaux-Sur-Lausanne)

Fencing

Alex Bayard (Sion)

Pauline Brunner (La Chaux-De-Fonds)

Golf

Joel Girrbach (Kreuzlingen)

Albane Valenzuela (Dallas, Texas)

Morgane Métraux (Lausanne)

Gymnastics

Luca Giubellini (Rebstein)

Matteo Giubellini (Rebstein)

Florian Langenegger (Bühler)

Noe Seifert (Sevelen)

Taha Serhani (Hutwill)

Lena Bickel (Ticino)

Judo

Nils Stump (Uster)

Daniel Eich (Fribourg)

Binta Ndiaye (Bern)

Pentathlon

Alexandre Dällenbach (Saint-Denis, France)

Anna Jurt (Bern)

Rowing

Scott Bärlocher (Würenlos)

Dominic-Remo Condrau (Zurich)

Maurin Lange (Bern)

Jan Plock (Zurich)

Patrick Brunner (Zurich)

Kai Schaetzle (Lucerne)

Joel Schurch (Schenkon)

Raphaël Ahumada (Lausanne)

Jan Schäuble (Bern)

Andrin Gulich (Zurich)

Roman Röösli (Neuenkirch)

Tim Roth (Zurich)

Célia Dupré (Plan-Les-Ouates)

Lisa Lötscher (Meggen)

Fabienne Schweizer (Lucerne)

Pascale Walker (Zurich)

Aurelia-Maxima Janzen (Bern)

Sailing

Elia Colombo (Bern)

Arno De Planta (Pully)

Yves Mermod (Zurich)

Sébastien Schneiter (Bern)

Elena Lengwiler (Hinwil)

Maud Jayet (Lausanne)

Maja Siegenthaler (Spiez)

Shooting

Jason Solari (Malveglia)

Christoph Dürr (Zurich)

Nina Christen (Stans)

Audrey Gogniat (Le Noirmont)

Chiara Leone (Frick)

Swimming

Tiago Behar (Lutry)

Antonio Djakovic (Frauenfeld)

Thierry Bollin (Bern)

Roman Mityukov (Geneva)

Noè Ponti (Locarno)

Jérémy Desplanches (Geneva)

Nils Leiss (Geneva)

Lisa Mamié (Zurich)

Tennis

Stan Wawrinka (Stans)

Viktorija Golubić (Zurich)

Triathlon

Adrien Briffod (Vevey)

Max Studer (Kestenholz)

Sylvain Fridelance (Vaud)

Julie Derron (Zurich)

Cathia Schär (Lavaux-Oron)

Volleyball

Tanja Hüberli (Thalwil)

Nina Brunner (Steinhausen)

Esmée Böbner (Hasle)

Zoé Vergé-Dépré (Berne, Germany)

[valiantsword]

@caelumfcrged said, " tell me something about you that i don’t know . "

" mmm, " the immortal laughs into the smoke already travelling down his throat, making him choke. they were in geneva after a rabbit hole of a conversation involving chocolate. any minute desiderius was going to meet them and whisk them off into the sunset. or, at the very least, towards a few restaurants and a bakery he'd been begging arthur to try. " goes right for the hard questions, i see. "

they'd stopped at a cafe to wait for the other immortal. a steaming cup of black coffee sat in front of the blonde with an ashtray sitting right next to it. another puff and a flick of his thumb later the former king tilts his head to the side.

" considering i don't usually talk very much you'd think i remember what i've said about myself and what i haven't. " a vibration from his burner phone indicates desiderius is about ten minutes out. one finger punches in the lazy response of ok before returning to his line of thought.

" desi and i tried to open a coffee shop in florence once. 1700s. 1730? it was after the success of cafe florian over in venice. " arthur brings the cigarette back up to his lips. " had to close it after the first world war. kind of fun while it lasted. that's the most hands on i've ever been with a business. usually, i throw money at it and walk away. "

[lady-olive-oil]

Ok so hear me out!

I’ve been thinking of giving Work Out a revamp. The chapters 1-9 will still be there but, I’m doing a whole new one. Geneva is still gonna be Michael’s cousin and such but, there’s a twist. With the help of one for my sisters in writing @tallulahchanel I have gotten the urge to write again. Genevieve’s face claim will be changing most likely because I have some ideas in mind. Her face claim change is by one of my favorite wrestlers and she illuminates, black girl magic. None other than the lovely Jade Cargill. So! Stay tuned for more updates!

[pixiemelon]

i forgot to post this yesterday hdsdhfdsd theyre twins, their names are florian and geneva

[lady-olive-oil]

Geneva! Come get your father!!!!

Fast & Furious Presents: Hobbs & Shaw (2019) dir. David Leitch

[college-girl199328]

Crypto, meet Pablo. The heirs are taking advantage of a fad for crypto assets that have taken the art and financial worlds by storm, by offering 1,010 digital art pieces of one of his ceramic works that have never been published.

In an exclusive interview ahead of the launch, Marina Picasso and Florian Picasso opened up their posh apartment in an upscale neighbourhood to show off the many works from their illustrious ancestor. The piece offered up a glimpse, though tantalizingly thin, of the piece behind what they are billing as a groundbreaking fusion of old-school art and digital assets.

The mission is to capitalize on and ride the wave of interest in non-fungible tokens, or NFTs, which have generated millions for far-less-known artists while being criticized by some as environmentally harmful get-rich schemes.

According to their promoters, a Picasso would signal the entry of a Grand Master. Fungible tokens are assets which can be exchanged in a one-for-one manner, according to economics jargon. Each dollar or bitcoin has the same value and is freely tradeable. By contrast, a non-fungible object has its own value, such as an old house or a classic car.

Combine this notion with cryptocurrency technology known as blockchain and you get NFTs. It's a digital certificate of authenticity that can be attached to digital art or, well, pretty much anything else that comes in digital format — audio files, video clips, animated stickers, even a news article.

A great-grandson of Pablo Picasso said, "We want to connect the worlds of fine art and NFT.” In order to drum up interest and to protect — for now — a family heirloom, his descendants are keeping it close to their chest. It only shows a sliver of the underside of the ceramic piece related to the NFTs, which is about the size of an oversized salad bowl. Forms such as a thick yellow line, a dribbling green splotch, and a brushed-on number “58” at the base are visible.

The pottery piece, which is cherished by Picasso, dates to October 1958, when she was a child. “It's an expressionistic piece," she said, "representing the face." The piece is joyful and happy. Life is depicted. I have shared my life with my children with this object."

In March, Sotheby's will offer an auction featuring both a unique NFT and a ceramic bowl. The first phase of the online sale of more than 1,000 other NFTs will begin Friday through the Nifty Gateway and Origin Protocol platforms.

Florian Picasso cited the colourful ceramic piece as a “fun one” to begin with. It is almost as if an NFT Picasso is an epochal event, like when the Beatles collection was finally made available on iTunes. The family and the business managers say they want to attract a younger audience of Picasso fans.

Florian Picasso asserted that everything is changing, insisting that the NFT honours the great artist. “We are paying tribute to Picasso and how he worked, which was always creative," he said.

There was a time when Picasso, according to legend, would simply doodle on a napkin as payment for a restaurant meal — despite the fact that his work was worth far more than what he had paid for.

Two portions of the proceeds will be donated — one portion will benefit a charity that aims to reduce the shortage of nurses, and another portion will benefit a nongovernmental organization whose aim is to help reduce carbon dioxide in the atmosphere. Florian Picasso, a DJ and music producer, as well as John Legend and Nas will write.

The full track still hasn't been released: Florian Picasso played a snippet to a reporter before turning it off. “The NFT tell you a lot more," he quipped.

[divyabhashkar]

Family clarifies no 'Picasso NFT' is set to be sold online

Family clarifies no ‘Picasso NFT’ is set to be sold online

GENEVA: Pablo Picasso‘s family is not selling a digital asset linked to one of his works after all. After a granddaughter and great-grandson of the artist trumpeted the upcoming sale, lawyers for the family said Thursday that his heirs have not authorized the launch of any such “Picasso NFT.” An intra-family disagreement has cropped up over it. Marina Picasso, and her son, Florian Picasso, showed…

[lindsay36ho]

The World of Piano Competitions – issue 2 2021

As a collaborating partner Piano Street is proud to present the sixth issue of The World of Piano Competitions, a magazine initiated by PIANIST Magazine (Netherlands and Germany) and its Editor-in-Chief Eric Schoones. Here we get a rich insight into the world of international piano competitions through the eyes of its producers and participants.

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Contributing Editors: Gustav Alink (Alink-Argerich Foundation), Gerrit Glaner (Steinway), Patrick Jovell (Piano Street), Florian Riem (WFIMC).

Free download!

Piano Street is happy to share the sixth issue of WOPC with our readers free of charge: The-World-of-Piano-Competitions-issue-2-2021.pdf

Content

Interviews Alexander Gadjiev | Chopin and the ungraspable Anton Gerzenberg | Balancing act Sa Chen | Opening to the future Garrick Ohlsson | Working with a millipede

Competition Report 18th Chopin Competition Warsaw Liszt Competition Budapest MozART in Aachen

In Profile Telekom Beethoven Competition Bonn 10th Intern. Franz Liszt Piano Competition Weimar – Bayreuth Geneva International Music Competition Kayserburg International Youth Piano Competition Internationaler Schimmel Klavierwettbewerb Memorijal Jurica Murai & Murai Grand Prix International Brahms Piano Competition Detmold International Schubert Competition International Paderewski Piano Competition International Keyboard Odyssiad & Festival | U.S.A. XII Darmstadt International Chopin Piano Competition Schumann Competition 2021 Düsseldorf

Behind the Scenes WFIMC | Agenda and News Géza Anda 1921–1976 | All honour to the music Victoria Hall The Concert Technician | Backbone of a Piano Competition The Paderewski Music Association

The Piano Fazioli’s 40th Anniversary The Kayserburg Étoile Collection of Exotic Woods Pianists and Piano Brands | Mutual Love, Admiration and Fascination The Chris Maene Straight-Strung Concert Grand Piano

Background

The piano enjoys a tremendous popularity worldwide and has the universal quality to be able to communicate through cultures, history and geographical borders. The value of piano competitions cannot be overestimated in terms of focus on the piano as an instrument and piano playing. The competition industry engages a multiplicity of concerns including hi-end piano manufacturing, media coverage and broadcast, repertoire spotlight and pedagogy, concert and lecture production and not least, career opportunity and exposure for laureates and non-laureates. All this contributes to a richer cultural life and can powerfully promote the aim we all share: to spread the joy and riches of the art of piano playing.

”Piano music, especially live, is incomparable and can be a great source of joy for players and listeners. We all should strive to allow as many people benefit from it as possible. For that, this edition of The World of Piano Competition is an excellent form of encouragement. I hope its message spreads widely! I wish everyone much joy reading it and, later on, attending a concert!” — Guido Zimmermann, President Steinway & Sons Europe

THE WORLD OF PIANO COMPETITIONS is published twice a year by PIANIST, as a part of the regular edition, and also worldwide as a separate magazine.

PIANIST (regular edition) is published four times a year in Germany, Austria, Switzerland, Luxemburg, Liechtenstein, the Netherlands and Belgium. www.pianist-magazin.de www.pianistmagazine.nl

from Piano Street’s Classical Piano News https://www.pianostreet.com/blog/piano-news/the-world-of-piano-competitions-issue-2-2021-11294/

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Genevieve: I’m the baddest around and there ain’t nothing anyone can do about it.

Florian: you sure about that? Looking a little basic to me.

Genevieve: Watcha mouth when you talking to me. You wanna keep all your teeth?

Florian; Oh I do and so I am. Question is; do I need to use them on you?

Genevieve: Cocky and disgusting.

Florian; I didn’t hear any objections.

Genevieve: Get over yourself Munteanu.

Florian; Not till you get over me first.

Genevieve: Good bye!

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I had to!🤣it’s been a thought in my head lately.

To my good sis @tallulahchanel here’s a little something something.😏

[ianlynam]

From a photo shoot for Geneva techno DJs Florian & Pieter for their upcoming LP https://www.instagram.com/p/B5uke3EhRqM/?igshid=1bmpsr59zj75p

[en24news]

Trees: New offensive against slaughter - News Geneva: Actu genevoise

Trees: New offensive against slaughter – News Geneva: Actu genevoise

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"To the trees, Geneva." It is under this call a martial strand that a group claims new measures in favor of trees. They will take the form of two bills tabled before the Grand Council. These texts were presented Monday morning at a press conference.

"Genevans are angry at the destruction of the environment in our canton," says Florian Baier. The president of the Geneva Evangelical…

[oldmotors]

Giorgetto Giugiaro left Bertone for Ghia at the end of 1965, and by March of 1966 one of his first Ghia designs was on the stand at Geneva. It was the #Isuzu117, a clean, glassy coupe from a brand few at Geneva had ever heard of. Isuzu was a tiny make, and despite a lengthy history, it had only built its first home-grown car in 1961, though it built licensed Hillmans from 1953-62. Unknown label or no, the 117 got a warm reception at Geneva, leading to a more production-ready version for the Tokyo show in October. The public loved it, and the 117 was built from 1968 to 1981. - Originally, 117 was just the internal name of the forthcoming mid-size (for Japan) sedan platform that Isuzu was working on for 1967. That car emerged late that year as the Florian sedan, which also had some Ghia input. It was a fertile period for Giugiaro, which was no doubt helpful to struggling Ghia (then owned by Dominican ex-dictator Ramfis Trujillo). The 117 was cut from the same cloth as other period designs of his - the Fiat Dino Coupe and Mazda Luce (done at Bertone), and the Fiat Vanessa and De Tomaso Pampero (concepts at Ghia). - The 117 was so popular that Isuzu put it into limited production for 1968. Mostly handmade, it was produced in small numbers and sold only at home - quickly becoming a very desirable but rarely seen car. The  rear-drive architecture and G-series I4s were shared with the Florian, but often it used DOHC versions of the G and sometimes had Bosch fuel injection. Inside, the 117 was much more richly appointed than the Florian. Isuzu’s car output was tiny, and it wasn’t until GM took a stake in 1971 that Isuzu gained scale. GM’s investment made a volume-built 117 possible; which happened in early 1973 - bringing cheaper spec versions, too. The price came down and sales soared - but it remained mainly a JDM exclusive. - Isuzu was content to not change a great looking car too much - and treated it to only one facelift, a modest update to rectangular sealed-beam lights in the fall of 1977. This 135-hp 1978 XE represented the top-of-the-line 117 until the end of production, though in 1979 a rare diesel was added, one of the very first diesel-powered sporty cars. (at SODO-Moto) https://www.instagram.com/p/B2PDOVolTBb/?igshid=wa8qnyj2d3vt

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With his excellent reputation for watchmaking craft, Antoine Preziuso is proud to present his new creation TTR3 Blue Equalizer Frequencies. This unique watch in 18 ct white gold contains 233 saphirs of over 24 ct in total, in rare blue royal, baguette-cut, invisible mounting, with three solitary trillion saphirs floating on the dial, beside the three tourbillons. The Tourbillon of Tourbillons movement, a core component for this brand, is the result of a collaboration between him and his son Florian that is at the heart of this brilliant watch. TTR3 Blue Equalizer Frequencies Technical Specifications Movement Calibre:  Antoine Preziuso AFP-TTR-3X Winding:  manual Power Reserve:  48 hours Dimension:   39,8 mm Total height: 10,8 mm Transmission:  planetary triple-differential gear Regulator organs:  3 tourbillons « planetary satellite » Frequency:  3 x 21’600Ah (3Hz) Rotating speed:  1 t/minute (tourbillons); 6 t/h (plate) Components: 570 Rubies:  65 Ball-bearing:  6 Barrels: double serial barrels Decoration: 2 saphirs trillon – 0.76ct. Patent: 3 international patent Function Hours, minutes, tourbillon Real Resonance Acoustic Frequencies patented Case Shape: round Dimensions: Ø 47 mm Thickness: 14 mm Material:  white gold 18kt. set with 233 baguettes blue royal saphirs Glass: sapphire crystal with anti-reflection treatment. Crown: 18kt gold set with 20 saphirs baguettes + 1 solitaire saphir Back: Sapphire crystal Strap Rubber and crocodile leather on the back. Deploying buckle set with saphirs Unique piece Link in bio (at Geneva, Switzerland) https://www.instagram.com/p/B07z1owiV0I/?igshid=g5w9wyoe2dt6

[lady-olive-oil]

Me with Florian x Geneva & M’Baku x Nefe 😂

Me when I see my otp getting hot and heavy in a chapter

[coppolafrancis]

Antoine Preziuso is Horology’s Best Kept Secret

About 20 years ago, watchmakers who were working behind the scenes to develop and construct complications for major brands began stepping out of the shadows and marketing watches under their own names – Christophe Claret, Richard Mille, Peter Speake-Marin, and Franck Muller, to name a few. Others may have been self-employed for a few years but then came under the protective roof of a large company. But Antoine Preziuso is one of the lone fighters in the watch industry. His watch brand has existed since 1991. He produced up to 900 watches per year before the financial crisis struck in 2009. Since then, he has returned to his roots. Many of his timepieces are one-of-a-kind, although he also produces a few models in small series. The question of limitation, which some large brands may use to create individuality, does not arise here. 

Preziuso was strongly influenced by his Swiss homeland. He grew up in a traditional watchmaking neighborhood in Geneva in the 1950s. “When I played in the narrow streets, I would tinker with watchmaking tools and components for watch movements that the little watchmaking workshops had put out on their doorsteps to be picked up for disposal,” he recalls. Preziuso’s father, who worked for a watch manufacturer, would show his son how to take apart and reassemble an alarm clock or a table clock. Antoine enjoyed himself immensely and his early experiences prompted him to enroll at the famous Geneva Watchmaking School when he became a teenager.

He studied there for four years. During this time, he was always drawn to the watchmakers in his old neighborhood. Here he met successful watchmakers, such as Gérald Genta, whose watches Preziuso liked so much that he asked Genta if he could work for him. “He told me I should finish school first,” Preziuso says.

Preziuso is a gifted storyteller. You can listen to him tell stories from his past for hours. He’s a romantic, an art lover, and a realistic dreamer – because most of his ideas become reality. He acquired essential watchmaking know-how during the two years he spent as a young watchmaker at Patek Philippe. Since he graduated at the top of his class, the firm didn’t hesitate to hire him. “I learned a lot there, especially about what quality means and how complications work,” he says. He enjoyed working at Patek Philippe, but one day, talking with a colleague who was about to retire triggered a turning point in his life. “He said I’d be surprised to see how quickly time passes,” Preziuso recalls. Preziuso quit his job and went traveling with his girlfriend, whom he would later marry. “I didn’t want to spend my life in a factory,” he says. 

After some time had passed, Preziuso’s path led him back to Geneva. But the thought of working for someone else no longer appealed to him, so he started his own business. He bought old timepieces cheaply from antique dealers and at flea markets, repaired and refurbished them, and then sold them at a tidy profit. More or less incidentally, he also began designing his own timepieces. Today he still makes the “Siena,” which was one of his very first models. It’s a single-handed timepiece inspired by the tower clock in Siena, Italy. When he displayed it at the independent watchmakers’ booth at Baselworld, it sparked the interest of a Japanese businessman, who asked if he could order 200 “Siena” timepieces. Preziuso was startled and was clearly not eager to accept the offer. But his wife, who happened to be standing next to him, immediately said, “Yes. That’s what we do. We can do it.” And that’s how the Antoine Preziuso brand got off the ground. The brand still has many fans in Japan today. 

Big orders soon followed. A well-known watch brand commissioned Preziuso to create a watch with a repeater movement and a perpetual calendar – a previously unachieved combination of the greatest complexity. And Preziuso designed and built the first wristwatches with complications for Harry Winston when that brand entered the watch industry. Today, Preziuso seldom works for other brands. He’s busy with his own ideas. But he is no longer a lone wolf: his son Florian has completed his watchmaker training and spent many years working with his father on creating a watch with three tourbillons. “We had already worked on this for a very long time. Then one day, Florian suddenly said, ‘I’ve got it!’” His father was a bit skeptical, but the two men built a prototype in large scale – and it worked! “Then we miniaturized the whole thing and built the watch,” Antoine Preziuso says. 

With the “Tourbillon of Tourbillons,” the father-and-son team achieved three patent-protected inventions. These also enabled their watch to be entered in the Grand Prix d’Horlogerie de Genève, where it won in not just one category, but two: the Public Prize and the Innovation Watch Prize. “That was a very great moment for us,” he recalls.

The Genevan native is also a trailblazer in the quest for new materials. In 1991, he was the first watchmaker to include meteorite rock in a watch. His latest model is the Stella Polare, whose case is crafted from stone cut from the Muonionalusta meteorite, an iron-rich rock that was discovered in northern Sweden in 1906. To make the “Widmannstätten” patterns of this iron meteorite visible, the material must be polished and treated with acid. This results in a unique, crystalline, hatch-marked surface. “This is a watch that outlasts time,” Preziuso says. He loves paradoxes of this sort – as do a great many of his fans.

After Preziuso and his son complete a few timepieces, the family goes on a tour and presents them to connoisseurs of the brand in Dubai, Tokyo, Singapore, Seoul, and the United States. Few of these unconventional timepieces return to Switzerland because they quickly find eager buyers during these sales trips. To hear Preziuso tell it, it sounds like a stress-free life. But that, too, is an art. It’s called l’art de vivre, which means that despite all the strenuous efforts required, one can enjoy life.

If you are in search of white gold engagement rings then please contact us and send your queries.

[lady-olive-oil]

I’ve been thinking…

Do y’all miss Florian x Geneva? I’ve been meaning to write some stuff for them.