The color that makes the difference: the black cat
Wednesday, 24 April 2013
Loved and respected as gods, feared and hated as demons. Black cats had over the centuries a troubled life and even today they are not highly regarded by everybody. Sacred to Isis in the ancient Egypt – in case of fire or other emergency that forced to leave the house, according to law and the
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Design in 400 words: FuoriSalone surprises
Wednesday, 24 April 2013
Milan, for me, is the most beautiful city in the world, but there is one week during the year in which it becomes like that for everyone. It’s the week of “iSaloni” where it changes clothes wearing the most shining it possesses. Design fills the street, installations everywhere, and every year a new pole of
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Atelier: Giorgio Tentolini
Wednesday, 24 April 2013
We had an appointment to decide about an exhibition project. Giorgio Tentolini comes running, panting and out of breath. He sits down and starts talking about sagittal sections, opens his leather purse and pulls out pieces of net, gauze, latex, torn folders containing prototypes of those series he entitled Cropped Papers. He also talks about
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“Sun and snow”, a gourmet meeting
Tuesday, 23 April 2013
Just take four writers and journalists of the Gazzetta di Parma, add the most famous Italian singer in South America, one of the greatest Italian contemporary painters, the creativity of the chef Andrea Nizzi and four beers of Birrificio del Ducato and you will have the recipe served to the guests of “Mangia come scrivi”
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Nutella is a traditional food?
Wednesday, 10 April 2013
Second meeting with the authors of the Fermoeditore in Mondadori Euro Torri (Parma): talking about food, but in a very special way. To hold court on April 22nd was in fact John B. Dancer, pseudonym used by Giovanni Ballarini, renowed academic who often has competed in “jokes”. The subject is the volume The disappearance of
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A Pixel with mustache
Wednesday, 10 April 2013
It’s like many cats: lazy, messy, unpredictable, but adorable. Yet special, like all felines can be. His name is Pixel, it lives with Cecilia&Fermo for a strange case and one day she decided to turn it into the protagonist of “flash” inspired to cat’s life in its many facets. Which color, size or sex is
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House concert, when live music is friendly
Wednesday, 10 April 2013
Since a few years is spreading even in Italy the phenomenon of the House Concert, “house” evenings with musicians who perform in an acoustic version, in front of a few guests invited by the host. Recently arrived in Europe, they are real live concerts organized in private homes, usually without amplification (even not to disturb
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Milan dizziness: a gallery and a trip back in time for Unicredit Tower
Wednesday, 10 April 2013
It is about 1140 when the abbot Surger restore the church of Saint-Denis outside Paris and, came to the area of the choir, the most sacred space, he decided to design it soaring towards the sky and huge windows that let the light in, the one of God. And it was the Gothic. Half a
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Henry van de Velde, a hundred and fifty years of Art Nouveau
Tuesday, 09 April 2013
Van de Velde Henry Clemens, known as Henry Van de Velde, was born in Belgium in Antwerp in 1863 and died in Switzerland in 1957. He studied painting, but his admiration for Ruskin, Morris and Voysey shifted him to design; a man of many talents, he believed in the symbiosis between the arts, whether it
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Noceto, sun and snow
Wednesday, 27 March 2013
Fermoeditore work Sun and snow does not stop. Saturday, March 16th a new stage has seen the volume leading to the modern library “Don Milani” in Noceto, at the event created by the bookshop “A Testa in Su” in Piazza Repubblica with municipal administration. Moderated by Fabio Fecci and the participation of the mayor of
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