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In the 1980s Italy gave the world the slow food movement. Born in 1986 from its predecessor organization, Agricola, it started out as a protest against the opening of a McDonald’s restaurant in Rome’s iconic tourist destination, the Spanish Steps. Carlo Petrini, its founder, had no idea that this limited local protest would explode after only a few...

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Brock’s Performance, a global leader in the design, testing, retailing and distribution of go-fast parts for motorcycles, is proud to announce that it has secured the exclusive rights to distribute Italian exhaust specialist Termignoni’s lineup of street, dirt and racing products in America. More than 300 slip-on exhausts and full systems for 70 bi...

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“The animator is an artist who could have been an actor but, being very shy, decided to work behind the scenes.” Says Mitja Rabar, the 40 years old Italian animator, whose shyness was balanced out by a great artistic talent and a passion for drawing and animation.  I meet Mitja,  who is from Trieste and currently the only Italian animator working f...

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Italian nylon fiber manufacturer Aquafil opened its first carpet recycling facility in the United States. The new 116,000 square feet building in Phoenix, Arizona, has the capacity to turn 36 million pounds of old carpets into raw material annually, the company says. Aquafil manufactures a polymer called Nylon 6, and operates in two main product ar...

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In its 26th year, the Ceramics of Italy Tile Competition challenges architects and designers to create outstanding works through the use of Italian ceramics and porcelain tile. A well known building material, ceramic and tile usage can be found through out architecture's historical timeline. As modern technology and advancement in building material...

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In 2019, things are about to change which will almost invariably be seen as progress. Progress has been one of the touchstones of the decade and is used to justify a rash of change in different arenas of fashion to technology to morality. Indeed, progress has been seen not only as desirable but inevitable. Moreover, it is now being delivered to us...

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Italy is known around the world for its high-quality fashion industry. Italian fashion manufacturers represent more than 40 percent of Europe’s fashion industry as a whole — and produce nearly 100 per cent of luxury fashion industry goods around the world. To put it in even starker terms: As the Italian economy slowed down in the second half of 201...

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This is the story of how one lost Lamborghini found its home. In 1980, approximately 120 Lamborghini Countachs were manufactured. Sharp-angled and sexy, with scissor doors and a powerful rear mid-engine, they emblematized the uncompromising vision of the Italian sports car. Two such Countachs ended up as show cars at a Lamborghini dealership in Swi...

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Sul piano della creatività e della ricerca di nuovi mix e di nuove nuances, le aziende italiane dei filati restano imbattibili, come si è visto al salone fiorentino Pitti Filati numero 84, principale appuntamento mondiale del settore (fino a venerdì 25 alla Fortezza da Basso con 119 marchi di cui 21 esteri che espongono le collezioni di filati per...

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For the Renaissance lords of Italy, courts were the places where they could rest from the strain of wars and government, where to enjoy the pleasures of life, make important alliances and show off their wealth and power. Hosting dinners was a major pastime, although calling them ‘dinners’ would be downplaying: they were sophisticated banquets compl...

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