Many international wine connoisseurs consider Italian reds to be among the best in the world — the equal, if not the superior, of French and California varietals. “I don’t think there’s a better wine grape in the world than Nebbiolo, especially with food,” said Bend’s Ron Lybeck, a former New York sommelier employed at the Ariana Restaurant. Nebbio...
READ MORENel mondo sta impazzando la moda dei barber shop in stile italiano. Il merito è di una startup di Bari, la Sen Martin, nata con un progetto di arredamenti per barber shop in stile vintage che sta facendo rinascere la moda delle barberie Made in Italy. Un progetto ideato e messo in opera da 8 giovani professionisti tra cui due architetti, un social...
READ MOREFor the Italian government, it seemed like a recipe for success: create an official "Made in Italy" logo to defend the country's finest food exports from an army of foreign impersonators. On supermarket shelves worldwide, a star-shaped logo would mark out real Italian cheeses, hams, pasta and sparkling wines from those that only look or sound Itali...
READ MOREThe Giulia Sprint Speciale Coupé in these images was designed under the direction of Turin-born engineer Orazio Satta Puliga (1910-1974), with the support of invaluable colleagues such as Rudolf Hruschka. Satta Puliga once commented, “Alfa Romeo is not just a car manufacturer: its cars are something more than cars made in a conventional way. There...
READ MORELast night, Sergio Rossi hosted an intimate dinner in New York to celebrate the new sr1 collection. It was hosted by CEO Riccardo Sciutto and held at Lavagna, the East Village eatery offering traditional Italian trattoria fare, where well-heeled guests were given a taste of Italy. Next to the menu lay a miniature lookbook cataloging an assortment o...
READ MOREA laid-back, sand-between-the-toes spirit pervades this sophisticated pied-à-terre. “The look is intentionally unusual, but there’s also a sense of fun because we’re in Miami Beach,” Alessandro Isola says. It’s a vision in white, accented by water tones. The apartment is one of 26 that Interior Design Hall of Fame member John Pawson conceived for t...
READ MOREEstate, voglia di gelato. Ma è il gelato che non conosce stagioni. Il consumo durante i mesi estivi, infatti, è tipico dei paesi dell’Europa del Sud, ma oltre Oceano, dove il made in Italy va forte anche su coni e coppette, i dati raccontano di un prodotto che non risente del clima. “Mentre in Italia Il 70% del gelato viene consumato d’estate e il...
READ MOREIn a world where the younger generations are less and less acquainted with pen and paper, and more and more in love with keyboards, talking about the pleasure of writing with a a good fountain pen may seem old fashioned. Call me old fashioned, then, because that’s what I’m going to do. When I was in Elementary school, we all wrote with fountain pen...
READ MOREItalian fashion revenues continue to outperform Italy’s broader economy, and in the last part of 2016 and in the first quarter of 2017 they even picked up speed. That would already be good news in itself, but it is even more so because the textile and fashion industry is Italy’s largest after machinery. “If we consider the fashion system in the wid...
READ MOREYou don’t have to be in Rome to eat as the Romans do. Eataly, an authentic Italian marketplace and restaurant, is finally coming to the West Coast: and exclusively to Westfield Century City. Opening the doors to the new store will reveal an experience like no other. Standing three stories tall, Eataly will feature a vast array of products to purcha...
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