milan — Italy’s furniture and design industry embraced the Milan Furniture Fair after a two-year pandemic delay with unapologetic, over-the-top statement pieces, multi-purpose furnishings adapted to small spaces, and sustainable creations by young designers pushing the industry toward a greener path. . After a surprising pandemic redecorating boom, the industry is looking to an uncertain … Read more
bentley home opens first atelier in milan Located within a palatial, neoclassic architectural masterpiece in Milan, Bentley inaugurates its first furniture showroom – the Bentley Home Atelier – during the city’s Design Week 2022. The 500 square meter space, located on Corso Venezia, sets the perfect scene to debut its two new furniture collections. The … Read more
Milan Wine Week 2021 is back next month with an exciting new app that links visitors to local restaurants based on their favorite wines. Milano Wine Week, the internationally-renowned yearly event devoted to the world of Italian wine, will be taking place from 2-10 October with an extensive program of events in Milan and in … Read more
“Being inspired by history connects with the lives of the past. You want to live again, to be inspired. And to learn from the lives of people.” So said Miuccia Prada after the powerful Prada AW22 show she designed with Raf Simons, one of many strong showings in a week that asserted the importance of … Read more
Milan’s reputation as a stagnant fashion landscape where new talents aren’t given the space and opportunity to grow seems to be finally coming to an end. This season’s packed Milan Fashion Week schedule was brimming with young designers showing promising debuts, progressions in confidence, and more focused points of view. Distinctive in their expression yet … Read more
This is a complete contrast to the firefighting strategy at Grenfell, where efforts initially focused on fighting the fire in the kitchen where it had begun, before attempting to combat it in other flats and on the outside of the building. As is now notorious, residents were told to stay put until 2.47am (and some … Read more
From blazing fireballs at Rick Owens to Bianca Saunders’ investigation into Jamaican hard food, these were the best Spring/Summer 2023 menswear collections from Milan. and Paris June 28, 2022 “There’s a kind of anti-logic to the combination of the clothes, an oddness,” explained Raf Simons following his latest outing with Miuccia Prada, who had commented … Read more
“Roots feel so essential in the world now—even more than ever after the pandemic,” Martina Mondadori says, standing on the landing of her new flat in Milan alongside her partner, Ashley Hicks. Mondadori relocated from London to Milan with her three children. , Leonardo, Tancredi, and Cosima, in order to be closer to her mother, … Read more
Leonardo Del Vecchio, the Italian entrepreneur who started with a tiny optics workshop in the Dolomite mountains and ended up as the undisputed world leader in eyewear, has died. He was 87. is death was reported by Italian daily Corriere della Sera. A spokesman for Del Vecchio wasn’t immediately available for comment. Raised in a … Read more
Buccellati sets the table for conviviality at Milan Design Week 2022 Designers Dimorestudio, Ashley Hicks, Chahan Minassian and Patricia Urquiola create spectacular dinner table designs for Buccellati’s Milan Design Week exhibition, ‘Il Galateo – a journey into conviviality’. Only an Italian could come up with a word like ‘sprezzatura.’ When the 16th-century courtier Baldassare Castiglione … Read more
