36 Hours at Emiliano
I’ve lived almost half of my life in São Paulo.
It was in a beautiful house in a neighborhood called Morumbi. There were cooks, other staff members, dogs, turtles, gardeners, parrots from the Amazon, coffee beans shrubs, personal trainers, computer trainers, dog trainers, orchids, a pool, Nandinas trees, spice pepper trees and anything that you could imagine. It was a perfect and suspended platform on top of the city, a small Brazilian Shangri-la. I was protected and treated like a princess and my orders were executed like the ones of a powerful queen. I was surrounded 24 hours a day, by an intimidating, aggressive and well trained army of security to preserve my agenda and make sure that any unplanned outside interference would not disturb my perfect, structured and established life.
One day when the trees grew, the orchids bloomed, the kids matured, the house beautifully aged and harmoniously functioned I heard a call; the call of my gypsy soul. I started traveling around the globe using to my Brazilian store as a trampoline to look for the answers and reasons of that call. Other people and different cultures were constantly teaching me their philosophies and way of life, my clients were continuously and increasingly thirsty of my wanderings through the world and their quench for products that I would bring from those distant lands were the result of the constant ’sold out’ stickers on the store shelves.
The rooms of my house would constantly change according to the last destinations of my trips, there was a general family unsecured expectation about my returns with “what is she going to change now?”
After my trips to Bangkok, my bathroom would transform itself into a Thai spa, after Jaipur, the bedroom into a small and cozy sanctuary, Africa would suddenly influence my white work desk becoming a symbol of fertility and wealth. But as a gypsy, my caravan changed, and working on a speed limit of the law of technology, I discovered that I had to have a faster way to be and live. Wanting to be everywhere at the same time I realized that time and space were just an illusion, and that call was telling me more and more about changes that had to take place in my life.
While my mother followed my route through maps or on National Geographic TV shows and asked concerned through long phone conversations:” Qu’est ce que tu cherche, ma cherie? (What are you looking for sweetheart?) I visited countries like Burma, China, Japan, Thailand, Argentina, India, Israel, Africa, Colombia, most of Europe, Egypt, Polinesia, Usa, Mexico, Brazil, Greece, Turkey and many others. (You can check in my website more than 250 pictures are available in the “Joelle at work photo gallery” section.) http://www.joelle.com.br/en/photo_gallery1.htm
Continuously listening to the a call of my spirit that needed dramatically to be free, I kept a diary mostly all my life and now I understood that this diary had to have a voice, the Joellelifestyle project, for the simple sake of helping others manifest what they feel about themselves, were and how they would like to live, and their internal spaces or homes to be.
My personal life today has changed, I consider myself a ’Technomad’ a term coined by Steven Roberts to describe a nomadic person who remains connected through online nomadic living. It’s also about the intelligent home living where soon the consecration of the cocoon effect will be transformed in a high-tech cavern customized to our personal needs through technology like biometric digital and electronic codes identification of our own and unique dna, eye iris, voice, fingerprint. Wireless domestic equipments and safety security detectors will protect us from unwanted intrusions. The ideal is to link this concept to the one of Nature, beauty and aesthetics, emotional wellbeing, physical and spiritual health.
I decided this time, due to a short trip from New York to my Sao Paulo, to test a new approach of living 36 hours in the way most of the technomads live today. I picked the hotel Emiliano, realizing that I could be able to work, receive guests, socialize, relax, listen to music and have the lifestyle that perfectly reflects the speed in witch I am operating and at the same time be nurtured with everything I need in my very different hectic and agitated agenda. While Felipe Silva the Emiliano’s sales manager and I chat about the world’s new concept of modern living regarding articularly the new hotel’s concept and their integrated condos, others guests, arrives and sits down around the same rectangular elegant African Zebrano table designed by Arthur Mattos Casas (along with the rest of the hotel) gently asking us, if he and his team were interfering in our conversation by watching a social campaign of Bahia in the large plaza screen TV in front of us. The 36 hours passed in a second, just the way I personally need to live, I successfully managed to do it all and above everything else, I also enjoyed my stay.
I am taking in serious consideration that to live among the simplicity of the brothers Campanas’s furniture design, doing business in a wi-fi hi-tech environment, recharge in a Zen-like rooftop spa, savour connoisseur food, and socially connect with a friendly and sophisticated surrounding might be my new all year-round personal project commitment to live in style in the Brazilian and already global city of Sao Paulo.
A message for the International investors in Brazil, just watch me!!!
Related Links:
The Hotel: http://www.emiliano.com.br/emiliano.html
The Designer: http://www.arthurcasas.com.br
The Furniture Design: http://www.designboom.com/eng/interview/campana_mov.html
The web site: http://www.joelle.com.br/
