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Alessandra Baldereschi for Coincasadesign

7 April, 2020
The glass plants in the photo are from Alessandra Baldereschi and have been designed for Coincasadesign, a project with the aim of promoting new design talent.The ironic but elegant plants are inspired by the succulent plants from the 1930’s by…

Musica in Castello: Giuseppe Verdi music festival in Italy

7 April, 2020
Musica in Castello is an Italian music festival dedicated to one of the greats of Italian music: Giuseppe Verdi. The festival reaches its seventh edition this year, and is directed by Giovanni Lippi. While Verdi’s music is the focus, the…

Bottega Veneta origami pleated tote

7 April, 2020
Bottega Veneta has created a gorgeous brick tone carryall that will be perfect for fall; after all unexpected hues always add a touch of big-time drama and put personality in your look. Made of pleated leather, with black snakeskin piping…

Controversial art on show in Milan and Bolzano

6 April, 2020
Last summer we talked at length about an artwork called One Balloon By Pawel Althamer which was on display at Milan’s arena. A big naked man floating in the air that caused quite a stir! The exhibition, as many of…

Italian singers: Giorgia and Gianna Nannini duet "Salvami"

6 April, 2020
Bringing two legendary female music stars from Italy is the song “Salvami” (”Save Me”). It’s a powerful duet that features two of Italy’s most individual voices, Giorgia and Gianna Nannini, and appears on Italian rock star Nannini’s latest album “Giannadream…

Harry's Bar Venice: Americans can get 20% off

6 April, 2020
American tourists are going through hell? The dollar is falling down and they can’t splurge any longer and this hurts. It seems that in Amsterdam no one wants dollars anymore. It’s too low and how low it can go no…

Google Street View in Rome finds citizens hiding

6 April, 2020
Google Street View arrives in Rome and the locals disappear - at least that’s what reported by the Times, who recently noticed people ducking into bars and shops as a car with a huge rotating camera rolled through the city.The…

Sleeping with Robbie Williams: Paola Iezzi says no

6 April, 2020
Italian singer Paola Iezzi lost a chance to sleep with Robbie Williams when he apparently asked her to spend the night with him after spotting her in the front row at one of his concerts in Milan. In an interview…

Chris Evans for Gucci Guilty

6 April, 2020
Chris Evans (along with Rachel Wood) is the new face of the latest Gucci Guilty male fragrance ad. This has been a very good year for the young actor; after landing the leading role in Captain America (one of the…

Milan men's fashion week s/s 2010: D&G;

6 April, 2020
This time D&G have drawn their inspiration from western movies in which fearless and spotless cowboys walk through life in faded blue jeans and plaid shirts, though they also know how to dress to kill, sporting richly embroidered trousers and…

Taking Palladio by the hand: historic Veneto villas

6 April, 2020
To celebrate the five-hundredth anniversary of Andrea Palladio’s birth Vicenza has organised a tour of all the villas built or inspired by the famous architect. One of the most important and influential architects in western History, Palladio changed the architecture…

The Park of the Nervia river, near Ventimiglia

6 April, 2020
If you are planning to spend a few days on the Italian Riviera, you may be interested to know that not far from the town of Ventimiglia near the border with France there’s a lovely park called the Oasis of…

Pirelli Calendar 2009 – Mariacarla Boscono in Africa!

6 April, 2020
On Vanity Fair you can see Peter Beard’s Pirelli Calendar 2009.Seven beautiful models that will take your breath away. Mariacarla Boscono the only Italian top model of the group, Malgosia Bela, Daria Werbowy, Randal Moore, Lara Stone, Emanuela De Paula…

Top 10 best bed & breakfasts in Turin

6 April, 2020
If you are planning to visit Turin, say, to explore its famous Christmas markets or the beautiful Venaria Reale (which is just a few miles away from the city‘s historic centre), you may be interested to know that there are…

Houses for sale in Umbria

6 April, 2020
At Collazone, on the rolling, green hills around Perugia, there are two twin houses that, though only recently built, are modelled on the old houses built in this region which boasts, among other things, a long-standing tradition in building craftsmanship.…

Summer holidays in Sardinia: San Sperate, near Cagliari

6 April, 2020
Not far from Cagliari, there’s a lovely village called San Sperate; you are wrong if you are thinking that we are just talking about one of those picturesque hamlets that tourists are so fond of! San Sperate is far more…