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The most beautiful library in the world

Sunday, 08 March 2015 by Redazione

As a sign at the entrance reads, the Libreria Acqua Alta Venice define itself as “the most beautiful library in the world”. On the internet you will find many photo galleries, but we do not ever get tired of discovering the corners of this very special place, where you happen to meet among the managers

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Design in 400 parole: Venice in a bottle

Wednesday, 17 September 2014 by Redazione

You walk placidly, you’re in Venice, when you stop dead on your track and come back, as if something were calling you, some sort of subliminal message in your walk… a few steps and you’re before that white shop window which, as it seems, is already stamped in your mind, maybe it’s for the rainbow

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Edition Noir: when publishing has class

Wednesday, 30 January 2013 by Redazione

The publishing house Edition Noir was born in 1994 in a small town in Hessen, Lich. As the host of exhibitions and organization dedicated to regular publications, it takes part in various trade fairs in Germany – Frankfurt, Leipzig, and Düsseldorf. Since 2004, with the construction of the Bessinger hand press, engravings and woodcuts take

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The chocolate factory

Wednesday, 16 January 2013 by Redazione

Years ago in the Turin Photo Festival we created a work entitled “Use and reuse”, which investigated the status of industrial archaeology and the new destinations of old buildings. Later in Turin, we used the former tobacco factory for two editions of the festival, a beautiful semi-abandoned and unused space. The prisons of Turin are

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The “Bernstein-bookshop”

Wednesday, 16 January 2013 by Redazione

While in Italy many small bookshops are struggling to keep up with the big chains, in Germany, recently, one can see an opposite trend. Big chains like “Thalia” or “Weltbild” have to close branches due to falling sales and on the contrary, small bookshops are opening thanks to the initiative of booklovers and small publishers.

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The Sacred Lands of the Parma’s Appenines

Wednesday, 18 July 2012 by Redazione

At one time, the place where Villaggio Sacre Terre is located was only populated by wild animals. But, after restoring part of the medieval village with the methods of bio-architecture, a group of pioneers decided to leave the city behind and dedicate itself to project originating from the need for greater accountability for current problems,

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Museums worth visiting: the AGO, Toronto

Wednesday, 14 March 2012 by Redazione

Founded in 1900 by a group of private citizens as the Art Museum of Toronto, the Art Gallery of Ontario is one of the largest art museums in North America, with a physical facility of 583,000 square feet. The AGO expanded it facility in 2008 with an innovative architectural design by world-renowned architect Frank Gehry.

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Marsiglia city of culture

Wednesday, 01 February 2012 by Redazione

It was the 1980s and “Curiosity killed the cat” played “Misfit”, their first album. After decades, I realize that perhaps I owe something to the English band. In their appeal to that same curiosity that today, far from any expectation and desire, led me on a trip to Marseille. Just recently the city was appointed