An Italian New Year's Eve

Milano Roma Napoli Firenze Cagliari Bologna To celebrate the night between December 31 and January 1st, called "Capodanno" it is an Italian tradition to shoot fireworks, as in many other cities around the world. In Venice they will celebrate like last year with the "Love 2010 event". On St. Mark's square from the central tower a spectacular...

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The end of a decade

Do you remember December 31, 1999? The decade began with a big fear of the millennium bug, which many "technology experts" said would create havoc in computers, airplanes would fall,  disasters would happen in every corner of the globe. As soon as the non-emergency had passed, a genuine threat materialized in September 2001 with the...

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An Italian Christmas part I

A major tradition in Italy is the setting every year, a few weeks before Christmas, of the Nativity scene, which we call "Presepio" from a Latin word meaning "manger". It could be just a few hours work, dusting figurines out of boxes where they slept the whole year or it could be a more challenging job, finding new figurines, recreating...

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My give-away winner is...

On my 100th post I promised a gift and today the winner of this B&W 8" x 12" custom print is Dale of Hospitality Design Inspirations, a blog exploring interesting and new hotel projects around the world. Congratulations Dale! and thanks to all the participants.If you want to be in Milan with me for Design Week 2010...click on "The event...

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Art & Jewellery

In January 2010 at the Vancouver Art Gallery there will be a new exhibition and the artist will be Michael Lin. "Michael Lin is highly regarded for his monumental painted installations that reconfigure and redesign public spaces. Using patterns based on traditional Taiwanese textiles, his work has been integrated into museum cafés, lobbies,...

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More on Milan Design Week

 During the Milan Furniture Fair (also called Salone del Mobile, trade only event April 14-19, 2010) there are always many other design events, open to the public, which are organized under the umbrella name of "Fuori Salone".  The whole city is transformed and in several areas there are performances, installations, interviews with...

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