Loro Piana opens its pop-up store in Los Angeles
Last May, Loro Piana, the Italian brand owned by the LVMH group, celebrated its partnership with the Mytheresa.com website in the sublime Stanley House in Hollywood. Seven months later, it has landed on Rodeo Drive, inaugurating a pop-up at 323 North Rodeo Drive, an address where Fendi recently made a name for itself, and where the watch brand Piag...
This new hotel brings Italian chic right to downtown L.A.
Once housing the Bank of Italy in downtown Los Angeles, the 1922-built Giannini Building is now home to Hotel Per La, which opened in September. Its Italian name translates to “for the,” a nod to bank founder Amadeo Pietro Giannini’s inclusive spirit, and the hotel’s, too (tag line: it’s for people like you). The 12-storey building was redesigned t...
Sacramento Lands Italian Robotics Company’s New U.S. HQ
In response to companies’ rising demand for new future mobility solutions, SIR Robotics Inc. will establish a U.S. business unit to serve North America. SIR (Soluzioni Industriali Robotizzate – Robotic Industrial Solutions) designs and manufactures robotic systems for the automotive and aerospace industries. The Greater Sacramento Economic Council ...
L'Italo-Americano speaks with Davide Accomazzo, president of COM.IT.ES Los Angeles
What are COM.IT.ES and what role do they play for Italians residing abroad? In general, COM.IT.ES are institutes that represent the Italian community. They were established in 1985 and are elected in each consular district every five years by Italians residing abroad. As representative bodies, the objective of COM.ITES is to facilitate relations be...
United Airlines: by summer 2023, the Rome-San Francisco flight is on the way.
United's new direct flight between San Francisco and Rome will start in the summer of 2023. The U.S. airline further ups the ante on the Peninsula with a new daily service that will debut next May 26 and run until the end of September. This will bring to 9 the company's direct Italy-U.S. flights, which will also confirm the 2022 new entry, the Mila...
San Francisco: the first Italian Culture and Innovation Hub opens
On October 20 2022, the first Italian Culture and Innovation Hub - INNOV.IT, which integrates the Italian Cultural Institute, Agenzia ICE's foreign investment attraction and innovation desks and the new Innovation Center, opened in San Francisco on October 2022: an initiative promoted by our Embassy in Washington and the Consulate General in San Fr...
Istituto Italiano di Tecnologia finalist in the USA in the “Ana Avatar X-Prize” robotic avatar competition
The iCub robot advanced teleoperation system enabled humans to visit remotely Venice staying 300 kilometers away; Alter Ego robot met and shook hands with TV stars, journalists and several people thanks to the operator that controlled it at distance. The two robots, the two research teams at IIT-Istituto Italiano di Tecnologia (Italian Institute of...
The Italian connection in agriculture, business and the professions
In pre Silicon Valley days, Santa Clara, then known as “The Valley of Hearts Delight,” had an abundance of “Italian Connections.” In a 1998 copy of “La Rivista,” Prof. John De Vincenzi, then president of the IAHF (Italian American Heritage Foundation) and historian, wrote about the contributions of Italian Americans in Santa Clara County, during th...
INNOVIT, Italian Innovation & Cultural Hub Has Its Official Website
INNOV.IT brings the best of Italy together – culture, business, technology, and science – in a one-of-a-kind space for global innovation. The result? A unique opportunity for those who are driving Italian innovation to interact with the venture capitalists, startups, universities, R&D centers and policymakers that make Silicon Valley the epicenter...
1928 Isotta Fraschini brings prewar Italian luxury to Jay Leno's Garage
Ferrari and Lamborghini are among the most recognizable Italian automakers today, but before either existed another firm set standards for Italian engineering excellence. Now part of California's Nethercutt Collection, this 1928 Isotta Fraschini Type 8A Landaulet is a testament to that bygone automaker. Nethercutt Vice President Cameron Richards pr...
Casino Di Piazza Will Transform Little Italy’s Piazza Della Famiglia Into An Italian Garden Casino
Channel your inner-James Bond and dress to impress for the Little Italy Association’s inaugural Casino di Piazza, an Italian garden casino experience on Friday, September 16th, in partnership with Vici Luxury Rentals! Located in the Piazza della Famiglia in the heart of Little Italy, the evening will feature craft cocktails provided by the Little I...
Maserati GranTurismo Folgore teases itself around Monterrey
Maserati began teasing the GranTurismo Folgore toward the end of Car Week on Twitter and Instagram with a caption that read, "A rose gold wrap suited to the Golden Coast. Impossible to keep it secret. We’re touring California with the new GranTurismo Folgore and an audacious Italian-American entertainer. The air is electric. Keep following us down...