The importance of paths in a house

This is a lovely image but who could sit comfortably on the sofa? can you see what the problem is? Of course the photograph was taken for a magazine but still... Have you ever bumped into an open drawer, hit a corner of a cabinet, had a hard time moving around your place with bulky items, finding it hard to pass to the side of the bed when...

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Velvet & Linen giveaway

Brickmaker’s coffee table.   Top with waxed rust base.   Size and height may vary slightly. 59” length,  43” width, 17” height.Mark Sage, owner of BoBo Intriguing Objects and designer of the Brickmaker's coffee table will generously donate three tables as a giveaway on Velvet & Linen blog.Brooke received 170...

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A new house for a couple

Have you ever been to London trendiest area, Clerkenwell, famous also for "White Cube" Damien Hirst's Gallery? Well...there is a new home for Moroso and Flos who now live together (happily ever after) to show furniture and lighting perfectly matching and to further promote Made in Italy. Their new house? a 600 mq. distributed on two levels....

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100th post giveaway

I would have never imagined, only a year ago, that I would become a blogger, but many things in life are surprising me later so...no big surprise I would say! Today I am writing my 100th post and in the image above you can see in the foreground the "potiche" which appeared in my first one (October 2008). How did my posts evolve? from the...

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Redecorating for autumn

Too cute!Images from "Sunday afternoon" Mutts by Patrick McDonn...

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Do you remember?

It happened twenty years ago in Berlin!A few minutes after I posted my previous article on Milan I received an email from Peter Turnley, a great photographer and photojournalist who I truly admire and who always inspire me and I felt the need of passing it to you. Hi Albarosa,Today, it has been twenty years since the fall of the Berlin Wall....

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Attention shoppers

La Rinascente, an Italian high-end department store and one of Italy's oldest brand, founded in 1860, recently inaugurated a Design supermarket, home to new trends and the best creativity innovations, in its flagship store in the center of Milan, just across the Duomo. The sleek interior was designed by architects Claudio Silvestrin &...

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Lighting by Castiglioni

Did I catch your attention? Well...now you have to read the whole post!A legend of Italian design, Achille Castiglioni is famous also for his lighting and one thing his daughter recently pointed to me (see my previous post on Achille Castiglioni Studio-museum) is that he always remained faithful to Flos. He was a designer and a gentleman...

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Sweet and sour clients

On the left I smile...I have new clients!On the right I am disappointed ...I have lost them!I have another question for my blogger friends who are also designer:Do you meet clients on week-ends and/or holidays? If so do you charge more for your time? I was approached recently by potential new clients who wanted me to have a consultation...

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Pillow talk with Joni

        Joni of Cote de Texas has a post on pillows which inspired me to ask a question:Why (most) men don't like (decorative) pillows?Is that because men think they are more practical and less frivolous than us ? Is that because pillows may suggest intimacy? Is that because they are too lazy to remove them...

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