Delta One to feature Italian luxury brand Missoni
The Delta One experience will soon be further differentiated by a new partnership the global airline has forged with Italian luxury fashion house Missoni. Together, Delta and Missoni – a brand known for its creative use of colors and patterns – will elevate Delta One with a new customer amenity kit and top-of-the-line details woven into key touchpo...
Senator Palumbo Honors 2024 New York State Veterans Hall of Fame Inductee Captain Regina Gallagher Marengo
Senator Anthony Palumbo (R,C-New Suffolk) proudly announced Captain Regina Gallagher Marengo as the 2024 New York State Senate Veteran Hall of Fame inductee for the 1st Senate District. Captain Regina Marengo's distinguished 25-year career with the US Navy Civil Engineer Corps, her exemplary leadership, and unwavering commitment to service have ear...
New York's Center for Italian Modern Art to close permanently
The Center for Italian Modern Art (Cima), an art museum and research center in the Soho neighbourhood of Manhattan, announced on Friday (14 June) that it would close its doors permanently on 22 June. Its current exhibition, Nanni Balestrini: Art as Political Action —One Thousand and One Voices—the first stateside retrospective of the Italian experi...
Getting To Know President-Elect Domenick Napoletano
As Brooklyn attorney Domenick Napoletano takes over as president-elect of the New York State Bar Association on June 1, he’s looking to support lawyers who are dealing with the day-to-day concerns that come up in their practices. “What President Richard Lewis and I have talked about is continuity,” said Napoletano. “So that it carries over a period...
America is closer for Sicily: landed and already departed the first direct flight between Palermo and New York
It took off Saturday, June 8, at 5 p.m. from New York's JFK Airport and landed Sunday morning at 7:20 a.m. in Palermo, the first direct flight operated by Neos airline, which departed for the Big Apple at 11:25 a.m., arriving on the other side of the Atlantic at 2:50 p.m. In addition to these schedules, the 355-seat Boeing 787-9 Dreamliner will tak...
A Spirited Affair for Bar Convent Brooklyn by the Italian Trade Agency
The Italian Trade Agency is organizing the upcoming edition of Bar Convent Brooklyn on June 10, 2024, from 6-8 PM at Mirror Bar in the Arlo Williamsburg Hotel. At Bar Convent Brooklyn, bar and beverage professionals are invited to network with peers and learn about new trends, techniques and products in the domestic and international markets. Atten...
Celebrating Post-War Italian Graphic Design and its Transatlantic Influence in NYC
Walking into One Art Space on Warren Street, Massimo Vignelli’s 1964 Pirelli advertisement greeted me — you know the one, the red and pink duotone image of a joyful bike ride. It was a bright spot of color against a black-and-white gallery display featuring the names of influential Italian designers. I was delighted to attend the launch event for “...
Poltrona Frau makes a move in Manhattan
Conceived as a dynamic space for interaction and creativity, the new Poltrona Frau flagship at 118 Madison Avenue embodies the design vision of AMDL CIRCLE, helmed by the architect Michele De Lucchi. Inside an Art Deco building from the early 1900s, the showroom is organized on three levels, for an impressive floorspace of over 1700 sqm, where clie...
Mayor Adams heads to Italy to discuss important issues with officials
Mayor Eric Adams has left New York for the “Eternal City” of Rome. Adams left Thursday to meet the pope in Italy and attend the World Meeting on Human Fraternity, where he discussed with world leaders city and international issues. The trip is not unusual for Adams and other mayors who regularly travel for conferences and to meet international lead...
From Bisanzio to Italy. Made in Italy by Women Exhibition
Event date: From May 20 2024, 10:00 To May 25 2024, 16:00 (Local time) Place: IIC-NY 686 Park Avenue, NY For a fee: No Risa Venezia upcycles the end-of-the-roll of the most luxurious furniture fabrics in the world to create sustainable, one-of-a-kind, couture, wearable art. Skilled artisans, deeply rooted in the Italian traditions, transform the fi...
Poltrona Frau Announces Opening of Flagship Store on New York's Madison Avenue
Italian luxury furniture brand Poltrona Frau is set to open a new flagship store on Madison Avenue in New York City. The store, located in a historic early twentieth-century Art Deco building, spans three levels and covers 19,000 square feet, making it a significant presence in Manhattan's midtown design district. The flagship store is envisioned a...
Italian Design Icon Gaetano Pesce Dies Age 84
Italian designer Gaetano Pesce has died in New York. The news was confirmed in a statement released by his studio on Instagram this morning: “It is with a heavy heart we announce the passing of visionary creator Gaetano Pesce.Over the course of six decades, Gaetano revolutionized the worlds of art, design, architecture, and the liminal spaces betw...