Events
Milan | Dom Pérignon
The Italian première of the latest Dom Pérignon vintage would hardly be a humble affair. In fact, it's to be a week-long event in an exclusive ad hoc installation in the magnificent courtyard of 15th-century Palazzo Carmagnola in central Milan. Check ... More
Rome | Eternal Greenery
Coming very soon, a grand celebration of greenery - of the garden and landscape variety - in Rome. And not in any old exhibition area or park but magnificently atop Renzo Piano's Auditorium Parco della Musica, in the hanging garden designed by ... More
All Over Italy | Digital Food Days
And what on earth does that mean? Well, it's the title given to a nationwide spree of events where the digital universe and planet science meet around a table with the excuse of a culinary binge! Fruit of an alliance between Digital ... More
Milan | Location Hopping
Or What Didn't We Get Up To During Design Week 2013. Once upon a time, Design Week in Milan was synonymous with the International Furnishings Fair, aka I Saloni. That's still the official, trade face of it, of course, up at the Exhibition ... More
Naples | Gianni Versace Tribute
Gianni Versace is the undisputed if absent protagonist of an exhibition at Naples' Palazzo Mondragone. Eclectic inspirations, boundless imagination, vivid colour, fearless patterns, and the metal bits - they're all there in around 200 items designed by one of the planet's ... More
Florence | Slow Art Day
No barrelling past the Botticellis or scurrying through the sculpture hall on April 27. Slow Art Day, celebrated worldwide with events inviting if not actually obliging us to slacken the pace and take a good long look at some artwork, is upon ... More
Parma | Pizza Prince
Hot on the heels of Design Week in Milan is an event dedicated to another icon of Italian culture, possibly even more appetizing. Starting today, the Exhibition Centre in Parma is hosting the first ever Pizza World Show, international trade fair ... More
Milan | Fuorisalone in Green
If eco-credentials aren't already a design ante, they should be. In the 21st century, no product or idea is quite so cutting-edge if it isn't also ethical and responsible. As Design Week 2013 takes off in Milan, here's a motley green ... More
Milan | I Saloni 2013
The temperature's rising in Milan. It's a seasonal thing: April is here and the biggest and best, the original Design Week is only a few days away. Around 2000 exhibitors are right now fretting about their stand layout in the mainstream Saloni at the ... More
Naples | Walking the Walk
When you've seen the unmissable and marvelled at the top sights of this still lawless, querulous, unique city of extremes, it's time to get to know Naples better. It's time to delve deeper into its lesser quarters, off the beaten track, ... More
Tremezzo | Villa aux Camélias
One of those magnificent stately homes built on the shores of Italy's northern lakes, Villa Carlotta was a de rigeur station on latter Grand Tours thanks to sumptuous artworks within and stunning park and gardens without. They called it a corner ... More
Bologna | Ono Modern
Yes, Ono as in Yoko. Ono Arte Contemporanea is small gallery and event space just a couple of minutes off Piazza Maggiore, run by Maurizio Guidoni who keeps it positively buzzing with great shows and much more. I was lucky enough to ... More
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