Trieste | SaluMare
Scouting in Trieste for our Can't Forget Italy visual storytelling project, I came across SaluMare. Bright and busy, it's somewhere between a deli, a bar and a slow fast-food outlet, but seafood only, and I found the concept really genius. They ... More
Grottaglie | Giovanna Alò
We're back in Apulia and hot on the heels of a young ceramics designer whose first, innovative tableware line is as striking as it is inspired. Giovanna Alò hails from a dynasty of master potters in Grottaglie and modelled clay before she ... More
Carrara | Marble
Carrara and marble go together like the Cayman Islands and dodgy hedge funds, but virtuously. The Ancient Romans began seriously quarrying here, bewitched by the immaculate white or beautifully-veined rock, and used it to build and decorate their finest public ... More
Syracuse | Greek Scenes
Featuring large in the programme for this year's season of classical plays at the stunning Greek theatre in Syracuse is an unlikely name: Rem Koolhaas. The Dutch archistar and founder of OMA hasn't taken to acting or even directing, but was ... More
Milan | Sustainable Hospitality
Stylish Brera has a classy new hotel with a noble claim: no emissions, no pollution. The Hotel Milano Scala, fashioned from a late 19th-century palazzo right on Via dell'Orso, boasts a heat-exchange system and buys electricity from providers using only clean ... More
Rome | Open House
Coming soon, Open House Roma, in its very first edition and boasting an unstinting programme of architectural wonders open to the public for free guided visits, as well as architecture tours and related events, on Saturday 5 and Sunday 6 May 2012. Open ... More
Palermo | Tribeca Café
Palpable atmosphere and fusion make Tribeca Café one of the coolest hot spots in downtown Palermo. This is definitely the place to go, and the place to be seen, at aperitivo time, as young professionals who work in the area well know: lively ... More
San Miniato | 7047 Boutique Hotel
As boutique as they come, 7047 is a haven of arcadian tranquility and a stylish base for Tuscan travelling, smack in the middle of the region and less than an hour's drive from most places you'd want to visit. It has ... More
Rome | Architecture Walks
Elena Morgante is prodigiously qualified to offer guided architecture walks around the Eternal City, so some of us are very fortunate that that's precisely what she's doing these days. She's earned a couple of Italian university degrees in the history of ... More
Milan | Design Week Appetizer
Just a tiny morsel, a mere soupçon, a humble titbit from the new products on show at the 2012 Saloni and Fuorisalone, hardly scratching the surface of the immense international display of irrepressible creativity and implausible diversity which started today. Serralunga of Biella, of ... More
Isola di Mazzorbo | Venissa
A half-hour boat ride northeast of Venice, and notwithstanding its connection to Burano (albeit via an impossible wooden bridge), Mazzorbo is one of the lesser islands in the lagoon, sparsely populated and happily overlooked by tourists. This is where you'll find Venissa, an estate, ... More
Milan | Brera Design District 2012
Now a cornerstone of Design Week, stylish Brera is the most central and arguably the most exciting of the Fuorisalone circuits in 2012. No missing it, just north of Piazza Duomo and festooned all in red with flags, showroom signs, ... More
