Enzo Apicella
{{Short description|Italian cartoonist (1922–2018)}}
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Vincenzo "Enzo" Apicella, FCSD (26 June 1922 – 31 October 2018) was an Italian London-based artist, cartoonist, designer, and restaurateur.
Life and work
Enzo Apicella was born in Naples, Italy on 26 June 1922. Having served in the Italian Air Force during World War II] he went on to study at film school in Rome. Soon after, he became a freelance designer working in illustration and print journalism before co-founding Melodramma, an opera magazine, in Venice in 1953.
When the magazine ceased publication, he came to England in 1954 and began designing posters and sets for television, as well as producing cartoon films. A self-taught cartoonist, his cartoons were published in The Observer, The Guardian, Punch, The Economist, Private Eye, Harpers & Queen, and Liberazione.
In 1974 Apicella worked with artists John & Rosalind on the LP album A Night at Factotum.{{cite web|publisher=Discogs|title=A Night at Factotum|url=http://www.discogs.com/John-And-Rosalind-A-Night-At-FActotum/release/4975666|accessdate=19 January 2014}} He produced the sleeve design and caricatures. He was not only a restaurant designer and restaurateur, but is acclaimed as one of the protagonists of the Sixties{{cite book|first1=David |last1=Bailey |first2=Peter |last2=Evans|title=Goodbye baby and amen: A saraband for the sixties|year=1969|publisher=Conde Nast Publications|location=London|isbn=0900303069}}{{cite web|last=MacCarthy|first=Fiona|title=The line of beauty|url=https://www.theguardian.com/books/2006/nov/11/art|publisher=The Guardian|accessdate=19 January 2014}} – an enigmatic maverick, described{{Where|date=May 2015}} by Vogue's Bevis Hillier as "One of the creators of the Swinging Sixties" who profoundly influenced the face of London's restaurant scene. Known for going that much further{{Vague|date=May 2015}} than any of his contemporaries, Apicella understood that the pop uprising demanded more eating out than in.
He worked as an interior designer for over 150 restaurants,{{cite web|last=Mitchell|first=Jamie|title=Enzo Apicella|url=http://www.designcurial.com/opinion/enzo-apicella18156264/|accessdate=19 January 2014}} including 70 for Peter Boizot's Pizza Express.{{cite web|last=Fort|first=Matthew|title=Business Time to get back to Boizot's basics|url=https://www.theguardian.com/business/2002/nov/05/lifeandhealth.foodanddrink|publisher=The Guardian}} He was co-owner of Club dell'Arethusa, Meridiana, Factotum, Apicella '81 and Condotti.
Apicella worked with many London restaurateurs including Peter Langan, Peter Boizot, Michael Chow, Alvaro Maccioni,{{cite web|title=Alvaro Maccioni Obituary|url=https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/obituaries/culture-obituaries/10484998/Alvaro-Maccioni-obituary.html|accessdate=19 January 2014}} Sir Terence Conran, and Mario Cassandro.{{cite web|title=Mario Cassandro Obituary|url=https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/obituaries/culture-obituaries/8601684/Mario-Cassandro.html|accessdate=19 January 2014}}
Apicella was a member of the Chartered Society of Designers and is listed in the Dictionary of British cartoonists and caricaturists.{{cite book|last=Bryant|first=Mark|title=Dictionary of British cartoonists and caricaturists 1730–1980|year=1994|publisher=Scolar Press|location=Aldershot|isbn=0859679764|author2=Heneage, Simon}}
References
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External links
- [https://web.archive.org/web/20190130061102/http://www.enzoapicella.co.uk/ Official website]
- [https://web.archive.org/web/20140114203604/http://chairmag.it/2013/03/enzo-apicella-artista-uomo-libero-cosmopolita-nel-cuore/ Enzo Apicella. Artista, uomo libero, cosmopolita nel cuore]
- [https://web.archive.org/web/20131013203956/http://www.peterevanswriter.com/books/goodbye-baby-amen Goodbye Baby and Amen: A saraband for the sixties]
- [http://www.thespaghettitree.co.uk/ The Spaghetti Tree: Mario and Franco and the Trattoria Revolution]
- [https://web.archive.org/web/20130810225846/http://www.thespaghettitree.co.uk/radio-4-interview/bbc-radio-4-interview.html Restaurant designer, Enzo Apicella talks about his influence on the design of Italian restaurants in London]
Publications
- 1967 Non Parlare Baciami
- 1976 The Pizza Express Cookbook {{ISBN|0241891965}}
- 1978 The Recipes That Made a Million {{ISBN|0-85613-489-9}}
- 1983 Memorie di Uno Smemorato
- 1985 Jonathan Routh's Initial good loo guide: Where to 'go' in London. London: Banyan, 1987. {{ISBN|0-7119-1282-3}}. Text by Jonathan Routh.
- 1987 The Harpers & Queen Guide to London's 100 Best Restaurants {{ISBN|1-85203-018-6}}
- 1988 Don't Talk, Kiss {{ISBN|0-9506402-3-9}}
- 1993 Mouthfool: A Collection of Culinary Cartoons {{ISBN|0-948817-87-9}}
- 2003 Apicella Versus the United States of America {{ISBN|88-8112-430-0}}
- 2007 God Bless America {{ISBN|978-88-87826-45-6}}
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Category:British editorial cartoonists