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The Italian design is recognized and admired globally, its perfect match between craftsmanship and innovation has gained admiration in every design sectors since decades. This Italian design legacy has passed from generation to generation and today the new and youngest designers are carrying the torch, like the young Apulian company Gemanco design....

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On April 23rd 2017, the third Vegetable Cathedral by Giuliano Mauri – the master of “natural architecture”, who passed away in 2009 – was inaugurated thanks to the efforts of the artist’s children. After the first one created in 2001 in Borgo Valsugana, Trento for the “Arte Sella” festival, and the second one built in Oltre il Colle, Bergamo (which...

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Jack A. Barcelona Jr. will be honored posthumously with the Distinguished Citizen Award at the Italian-American Cultural and Heritage Society of Washington County’s banquet May 21 at the Hilton Garden Inn at Southpointe. Each year, the society honors outstanding individuals of Italian-American heritage who have not only excelled professionally, but...

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Even as luxury Italian men’s designer Ermenegildo Zegna prepares to open a new flagship store in the Crown Building at Fifth Avenue and 57th Street, it’s moving its corporate offices out. Zegna has signed a 10-year, 20,132-square-foot lease for the whole seventh floor and part of the sixth floor at SL Green’s 10 E. 53rd St. Sources said the asking...

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In 1955, I decided that I wanted to be a baseball player. My dad had taken me to my first Phillies game and I was enthralled by the smell of the grass and pure beauty of the game. Soon after, I joined my first baseball team, the Southwest Colts just before my 8th birthday. Back then, things were different. Teams played to win and actually kept scor...

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When it comes to bright, light, and refreshing white wine from Italy for summer sipping, the first grape that comes to mind is Pinot Grigio. The best examples typically come from Northern Italy and offer pure stone fruit flavors and tingly acidity. But these wines aren't the only refreshing Italian whites. I recently had lunch with winemakers Andre...

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Il 19 e 20 maggio il Miami Design District ospiterà due giornate interamente dedicate ai professionisti del settore per la promozione del Made in Italy. “The Best of Italian Design”, organizzato dall’Italy-America Chamber of Commerce Southeast (IACC), è rivolto a di più di 300 architetti e designer degli interni, membri dell’American Institute of A...

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Homeless and starving, the Corrente children traipsed through the mountains of central Italy during World War II, foraging for food and shelter, going so far as to rely on leaves for sustenance and suckling from sugar-dusted towels soaked in whatever water they could find — this for some semblance of flavor. Angioletta Pavan, grieving the loss of h...

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Co-owners Marc Petrosino and Michael Latini of Monkey Boys Productions located in a former steel warehouse in Glenside, Pa., are puppeteers, designers and fabricators. They create puppets, props, creatures, costumes, practical effects and entertainment for film, TV and stage. On a visit to the Press Club, President Peg DeGrassa heard firsthand how...

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When Italian architect Ettore Sottsass launched the controversial collection of furnishings known as Memphis at the Milan Furniture Fair in 1981, the design world was shocked. “It appalled some and amused others but put everyone attending the fair in a state of high excitement,” Suzanne Slesin wrote in The New York Times after the debut of the colo...

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