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It is an event that serves as an appetizer to dinner with the purpose of socializing with friends while drinking sunset-hued cocktails and snacking on a selection of cheeses and salami, bruschetta and sometimes fried foods.  It is so embedded in the Italian lifestyle that bars all over the Italian peninsula host aperitivi with various drink and foo...

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It is difficult to describe in words what the island of Capri actually is. One runs the risk of falling into clichés or even failing to convey the idea of what to expect once you reach this island. It is not trivial to point out that this is truly a dream island: artists, poets, and film stars fell in love with it immediately to the point of never...

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At the dedication of Taranto Cathedral in 1970, its 79-year-old architect, Gio Ponti, gave a speech. His words are not well remembered, but his family kept a recording of what preceded it: 10 minutes of applause, like “thunder”. This was a figure who, according to some anti-modernist mythologies, was supposed not to exist – a modern architect belov...

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In the past twelve months, we’ve all become sadly acquainted with the idea of contact tracing: used very successfully in the management of the pandemic in countries like South Korea and Israel, it hasn’t been as efficient here in Italy, where a dedicated app, Immuni, has been largely considered a failure on all fronts. This is pretty strange to say...

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Colliers has secured a long-term lease for Italian furniture designer Rimadesio at 102 Madison Avenue in New York City. A retail team led by executive managing director Tom Citron along with associate Robin Dinkin represented the landlord, A. Ruth & Sons, in the transaction.  Rimadesio’s new store will occupy 6,204 s/f at the building with its oper...

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Lavazza North America, part of global Italian coffee company Lavazza Group, begins construction of the first roasting and packing plant in the United States. The new plant is slated to open in October 2021 and will serve the US market. The plant is an expansion of the Lavazza Professional facility in West Chester, Pennsylvania, which will integrate...

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There's a special kind of church in Uptown right now that has a congregation of just one.  "It's become a church space for me, yes it has," Mark Balma said. "It definitely feels like that now." Balma has created a church-like space for himself in Uptown, where he has rented a studio to work on his paintings. He spends hours there each day, bringing...

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Stefano Porcini was born in the Province of Varese, a town poised midway between the natural beauty of the Alps and the metropolitan buzz of Milan, into a family that was passionate about culture, constantly surrounded by beauty: artists, architects, designers and humanists, among whom he spent his childhood and adolescence, experimenting with inno...

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Since the outbreak of the coronavirus pandemic, wedding planners stopped working for a year. There has been no ‘stop and go’: they had to postpone the weddings scheduled for 2020 to 2021. Now they risk to lose this season as well. The Coronavirus pandemic has canceled marriages and with them the turnover of many Italian companies. Already 30-40% of...

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Sometimes it’s the thinnest of membranes that separate us from each other.  This came to mind when I was contemplating our dramatic change of shopping habits over the last four years. For most of my life, I have shopped for food in supermarkets and for clothing in department stores. This is, indeed, the predominant behavior pattern in most of North...

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