I love Opera, do you?

If you love Opera, Symphony, Ballet, you must love Teatro alla Scala and now there is a new Hotel to love, called Milano Scala.The project by Cibic&Partners is located in the Brera area, in the center of Milan, a few steps from the world famous theatre. An existing building, from the end of XIX century, was renovated creating 62 rooms,...

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The joy of autumn

After a few months of sunshine, roses in full bloom and blue sky, rain is coming, leaves are falling, fireplaces are lit and...Art Galleries  are putting up their best faces. Autumn is the best time of the year to get interested (again) in art. A few days ago I went to Bau-Xi gallery in Vancouver, for an interesting lecture and the...

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A Brillante project

Let's start from the beginning...  In this first picture you may notice a blah room with an awful track light and by-fold doors, the furnishings look very basic and the fruits very fake.  This room actually  could well be a budget hotel room but instead it was an apartment staged at the cost of $ 5,000, freshly painted...

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Elle Decor apartment

This time...again? you would say... we travel virtually to Milan where a stunning project by Italian Elle Decor magazine of an installation of a complete apartment, 13 rooms on two levels, from the entrance hall to the garage and the laundry has taken the space of all the eight huge windows at La Rinascente, the biggest department...

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Question of the week

Do you Rue? is the question of the week.Well, I am probably the last one to talk about the "much talked" new online magazine Rue, but I am really excited about it... Virtually flipping from page to page I saw many familiar faces whose blogs I am regularly following, even from their very first post for some, so at Rue I feel at home with...

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In conversation with...Albarosa Simonetti

Can you believe it?Iván Meade, principal of  Meade Design Group has just published an interview with me on his blog (please click here if you want to read about me).He already interviewed  many of my favorite designers for his blog, from Barbara Barry, Brad Ford, Michael Devine, Kelly Wearstler, Brooke Giannetti, Vicente...

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