Colour me very happy

Maria KillamWhat a nice surprise to find this morning my name in a list of favourite posts, compiled by Maria at Colour Me Happy. Maria is a friend, a beautiful and vibrant lady but most of all a very knowledgeable and respected designer (her image above was taken when she was in Calgary as a keynote speaker). She is also the most generous...

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Venice Biennale

(Text and Images are from La Biennale di Venezia official site, worth exploring to know more about the most important, oldest international art exhibition in the world, born in 1895 and evolved into what it is today, please see also: Wikipedia). Biennale Art 53rd International Art ExhibitionMaking WorldsThe 53rd International Art Exhibition,...

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A classic apartment

A spacious apartment, in a classic Milanese building end of 19th century which represented an example of the affluent lifestyle of the time.The layout was already great and it was only slightly modified to create more spaciousness and a sense of more freedom but the corridors remained as a partition of the various rooms. Sliding black mirror...

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Made in Italy in New York

Year 1900 The first 100 cases of Martini vermouth arrive at New York port. The Italian vermouth encounters great success. In the 60's a young artist creates new posters to publicize the product...his name is Andy Warhol...Year 1948Salvatore Ferragamo opens a store on Park Avenue (25 years after his first American store in Los Angeles!)....

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Fashionable day in Milano

Wonderful Fifi of fun, informative, creative and colourful blog Fifi Flowers today has posted on Milano, my first city. As I said in my comment to that post it was a Proustian moment to see those images of rainy days. I immediately felt like being there, I heard the sound of traffic on wet cobblestones, the Tram swooshing by, the chatting...

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An Italian version of Moss

About an hour from Milan, in a city that also likes to hide its treasures, a creative family has chosen to open an extraordinary store not at street level but on the first floor of an historic, four centuries old, building. Inspired by Moss in New York but certainly more fascinating, if not just for the location... Rubens spent some time...

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Networkshop...

I know the title is made up, but on Saturday I went to a workshop and I ended up networking and socializing.The workshop was held at Fluff, in Vancouver, and it was very informative and fun. To know more about it you can read a wonderful, informative post by  Kulli Yee who I was glad to meet there.The social part was even more fun since...

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Thanks for the award

Design Ties received some well deserved awards and they also put my blog on a list of 15 best Canadian blogs...From my heart a big thank you to Kelly and Victoria ....

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Celebrities

I was reading today the latest post by Style Court.Courtney had the great idea  of the "Three Wishes" and asked Interior designer Grant K.Gibson, whose blog I also follow daily, to describe his. If I can add a comment I am sure Grant had another wish come true having just returned from Venice.When I read that one of his wishes was to...

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