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Private equity is setting its sights on the Italian retail industry. With 28 transactions worth €1.8 billion, 2016 was the strongest year since 2010. What has grown above all is the total value of signed deals: within 12 months they tripled compared to the 456 of 2015, and are getting close to the €1.668 billion of 2014. The number of operations is...

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The Italian design is recognized and admired globally, its perfect match between craftsmanship and innovation has gained admiration in every design sectors since decades. This Italian design legacy has passed from generation to generation and today the new and youngest designers are carrying the torch, like the young Apulian company Gemanco design....

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The founder of Italian food chain Eataly will fund a hi-tech €1 million restoration of Leonardo Da Vinci's masterpiece, The Last Supper, aimed at preserving the delicate masterpiece. Eataly entrepreneur Oscar Farinetti made the announcement on Thursday, at a Milan event with Culture Minister Dario Franceschini. The restoration will clean the air in...

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Is there such a thing as too much pizza? I learned the answer by spending an evening eating with Pasquale Moro, a master pizza chef and 2016 world champion for flatbread pizzas, as he prepared an entire menu, from aperitivo to dessert, based on pizza. The dinner took place in Cascina Caremma, using the old wood-fired oven dating back to the 1600s a...

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New York native Gina Viteritti is the recipient of a full-tuition scholarship from the National Italian American Foundation (NIAF) in partnership with Accademia Teatro all Scala, one of the most renowned institutions for training professionals in the performing arts, and Politecnico di Milano Graduate School of Business (MIP), an internationally re...

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Con il titolo ”New York New York” si apre domani una mostra ricca di 150 opere e divisa in due sedi, il Museo del Novecento e le Gallerie d’Italia di Intesa Sanpaolo, che, come spiega il curatore Francesco Tedeschi, indaga sui «legami con gli Stati Uniti e in particolare con l’ambiente e la città di New York che hanno dato all’arte italiana del Nov...

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Ten Italian universities have been recognized among the top 200 'young' universities world wide - with one attaining ninth place overall. According to the rankings from Times Higher Education, which judged universities under 50 years old across 48 countries, the Scuola Sant'Anna in Pisa is the ninth best university in the world. "I'm very happy wit...

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A new book, “Entryways of Milan,” celebrates 144 entryways all over the city.  Some embody truly historical design partnerships, from Aldo Andreani’s Palazzo Sola-Busca (1924-1930) marked by the grotesque Symbolist sculptures by Adolfo Wildt, to a 1950s limestone corridor by Gaetano Brusa embedded with the ceramicist Pietro Melandri’s dramatic bas-...

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Amid the boom and revolution of Milan in 1967, artists, writers and eccentrics of all stripes fueled their creative ferment with drinks at the legendary Bar Jamaica. There, the son of a Milanese goldsmith hatched a bar-side plan for a new kind of jewelry: Aimed at the era’s freewheeling feminists, it would be expressive yet easy to wear, blending I...

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Just outside the northern city of Milan, a very colourful tourist attraction is taking shape. The city is set to get Italy's very first tulip field this month - and visitors can take the flowers home to keep. The enormous field, which has the aim of becoming "the happiest place in Milan", will showcase 250,000 tulips of 183 different varieties acro...

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