Italy boasts an artisan tradition whose richness and variety have few rivals in the world. Italian handmade paper, however, is not necessarily the first thing that comes to mind when talking about Italy, yet the spread of paper in Europe was due to local master paper makers. This very useful and versatile product, in fact, came to us in the Middle...
READ MORETwo Delaware County commissioners went to Italy recently and returned with commitments from three Italian companies to invest in Delaware County. According to a press release from the county's economic development office, the Italian firms reached agreement with commissioners Shannon Henry and James King during an October visit. Henry, who is presi...
READ MORECould this be a trend? More Italian fashion brands looking to the L.A. market for exposure and retail growth? Just a few months ago, Italian brand Eleventy expanded to a new permanent location in Beverly Hills, and now Genny, where Gianni Versace got his start by working with Genny sister brand Byblos, has come to Brighton Way with its first U.S. s...
READ MOREVendemmia is an Italian tradition, old and still in vogue to this day, so much so that it has its own word for it. Vendemmia is the day on which we harvest the grapes and prepare them for the fermentation process. The word itself derives from the Latin words vinum(wine) and demia(to harvest). Vendemmia takes place between August and October. The be...
READ MOREThe Ferrari Purosangue represents a new chapter in the historic Italian manufacturer’s over 75-year history. With its four doors and four seats, it’s unlike anything the Prancing Horse has made before, and it provides a different approach to luxury and design from everything else in Ferrari’s illustrious lineup. The Purosangue’s various creature co...
READ MOREInteresting Engineering sat down with designer and innovator Amleto Picerno Ceraso at the 2023 Maker Faire in Rome. His architecture and design firm, Medarrch, creates products where digital technologies mix with a humanistic approach to design, using bioplastics to create the most stunning 3-D printed furniture. Medarrh’s mission, according to Cer...
READ MOREVilla Firenze Contemporanea, a showcase that was inaugurated on October 19, 2023, was born with the ambition of highlighting contemporary art and the excellence of Italian design, through a showcase for artists and designers as well as for companies, with an intent to strengthen their role in this important market. The one-of-a-kind project showcas...
READ MOREIn the 2022/2023 period, the Italian exports performance in the tomato-based products sector was lower than the previous marketing year: 742,400 metric tons of pastes, 1.438 million tons of canned tomatoes, and 179,400 tons of ketchup and tomato sauces were sold over the last marketing year, according to Trade Data Monitor figures. The decline in s...
READ MOREThe first edition of our Guide 'Vini d'Italia' was christened in Florence. It was the autumn of 1987, the 1988 edition, the one with the bottle-green cover, the strange oversized format and the graphics that were revolutionary for the time. Looking at it again, one theme stands out: most of the wineries that make the national scene so vital today w...
READ MOREFerrari’s hybrid models outsold their petrol counterparts for the first time in Q3, as the Prancing Horse continues to ramp up its electrification programme. According to its latest results a total of 51 per cent of the brand’s deliveries were hybrids in the three months to the end of September. That figure has shot up from just 19 per cent at the...
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