Milan + Expo 2015
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
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
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
Milan | Pisacco Bistrot
An impressive recent addition to the mainstream drinking and dining scene in style capital Milan is Pisacco, gastro-bistrot in Via Solferino, on the edge of one of the coolest areas of the new Milanese movida in the northern reaches of Brera. Put ... More
Milan | Magna Pars Suites
Ever heard of a fragrance hotel? Probably not, as the one we're about to reveal is probably the world's first and only, for now. It's just opened in dashing Zona Tortona, brainchild of the Martone family and created on the site ... More
Milan | Boarding Pass Art
Valeria Francione, a girlfriend of mine who's a fashion and interior designer based in Milan, has come up with the ultimate travel souvenir. She takes some apparently trifling token of your trip - a luggage tag or boarding pass, a ... More
Milan Malpensa | Taste of Liguria
Cooking and eating its way around the Italian regions without venturing too far from Milan is the series of events known as Per tutti i gusti - Il giro d'Italia a tavola. The next appointment for all tastes, scheduled for ... More
Milan | The Ultimate Panettone
Christmas is coming, the goose is getting fat, and last weekend 36 stalwart pastry chefs from the finest artisanal bakeries in Italy rolled up their sleeves in Milan to present a peerless panettone. Re Panettone is the event, organised by the appropriately ... More
Milan | Graphic Detail
At the Triennale Design Museum, an eye-opening exhibition on Italian graphic design traces the first 100 years of an unobtrusive discipline with some legendary and many neglected grand masters, brilliantly laying bare its enormous significance in society and in our daily ... More
Rome to Milan | Trainspotting
Tearing up and down the peninsula in a flash of red, Italy's newest train - and Europe's first private high-speed fleet open to all passengers - has a first name. Italo is the cool alternative to the national Ferrovie dello ... More
Milan | Manna
This has to be one of my favourite eateries in Milan. And every time it's serendipity anew, this neat place in a trim, quiet square in a decidedly untrendy part of town, the old Turro neighbourhood. Matteo Fronduti, pure Milanese, class of '77, ... More
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