Italian and American Cars Highlight Pebble Beach 2016
Italian and American collectibles are dominating the sales at Gooding & Company and RM Sotheby's during the Pebble Beach Concours d'Elegance's motoring week. Among the headliners at Gooding & Co. on August 20-21 are a 1971 Lamborghini Miura P400 SV with coachwork by Bertone, that is being offered publicly for the first time (est: $2.2-...
Zegna Opens First Store of its Z Zegna Line in Los Angeles
Italian luxury menswear house Ermenegildo Zegna opened this week its first stand alone in the U.S. dedicated to its Z Zegna line. The new Z Zegna mono-brand store is situated within the Beverly Hills Centre Mall in Los Angeles. Also this week, Z Zegna's creative director, Paul Surridge, presented the Z Zegna Fall Winter 2013-14 collection at the Z...
From a white silk yarn with Andrea Rubelli, President and CEO, Donghia; Co-CEO, Rubelli
September 18, 2014, Thursday 11:00 AM - 12:00 PMGalleria Atrium - 101 Henry Adams St - San Francisco, California 94103 Andrea Rubelli narrates the unique exhibition recently created by the Rubelli Design Studio in Venice, presenting seven amazing installations whose single common denominator is a thread of white silk. Each p...
Lettera aperta al Presidente del Consiglio Matteo Renzi
di Marco Marinucci Signor Presidente, la sua visita in Silicon Valley è particolarmente apprezzata. Siamo onorati che abbia accolto l'appello che, insieme al nostro amato Console Generale in San Francisco, Mauro Battocchi, le abbiamo rivolto in occasione dello scorso Italian Innovation Day (qui il video, al min. 6.18), l'appuntamento...
Investment Wizard Wanted Now to Promote Italy
In the past weeks important announcements were made by American companies. Cisco, Apple and GE informed that they plan to carry out R&D investment in Italy. In fact, Italy is one of the six leading manufacturing countries in the world, second in Europe only to Germany, ahead of France and the United Kingdom. Now that the Italian Govern...
Alfa Romeo, Maserati add SUVs to lineups
By Charles Fleming Sport utility vehicles are hot, and Alfa Romeo and Maserati want in on the action. The two Italian nameplates are trying to raise brand awareness by each adding an SUV to their sports car and luxury car lineups. The hope is to attract new buyers by giving them a vehicle they find more useful than, say, an A...
Made in Italy: design to line
Petersen Automotive Museum - 6060 Wilshire Blvd - Los Angeles, CA 90036. Five bays show the entire process of manufacturing a modern car. Visitors start out in an area with raw materials – steel, aluminum and unfinished leather – then are guided through the manufacturing process through to a finished car. Despite the widespread a...
Italian Design: Making in the Italy, Making in the US
by Mauro Battocchi For the 2013 Year of Italian Culture in the US, Fondazione Giannino Bassetti presents in San Francisco and the Bay Area the culture, beauty and innovation of 'Made in Italy' design: a week of exhibitions, debate and comparison between the cutting edge models of Italian production and the technology of Silicon Valley towa...
Euroclassix, How History and Nostalgia for Italian Vintage Cars Found Their Way to San Francisco
"We don't sell cars. We sell history, nostalgia and style." If you love vintage cars and you walk in at EuroClassix, you immediately understand that this is all true: as these cars are as familiar to their owners as their childhoods, you can feel the passion mixed with knowledge, the Italian style interlacing with history spread all around. ...
CleanTech Forum San Francisco 2013
L'ICE - Agenzia organizza, in occasione del Cleantech Forum che si terra' a San Francisco dal 18 al 20 marzo 2013, una missione di operatori del settore delle energie rinnovabili e delle tecnologie a impatto zero, interessate a sviluppare forme di partenariato e di collaborazione industriale. L'iniziativa rientra nel programma di attivita' nell'amb...
Come cresce una start-up tra Silicon Valley e Pavia
By Mauro Battocchi Con la disoccupazione in Italia al 13 per cento, fa un certo effetto entrare nel sito di Funambol, azienda californiana di software, e scoprire che sono aperte sette posizioni per ingegneri e sistemisti con sede di lavoro a Pavia. Provare per credere. Ma come? Questo non quadra con la teoria che gli altri sono sempre più bravi....
Meet Alfredo Coppola and the US Market Access Center
By Mauro Battocchi Among the various incubators and accelerators of the Bay Area, US MAC lead by Alfredo Coppola stands out for good reason. For 17 years, the firm has been focused on finding promising tech ideas abroad and bringing them to thrive in the heart of Silicon Valley. And they do this on a prolific scale: US MAC has adv...