2018
Vinile Milano is one of the landmarks of the city nightlife. Located at 17 via Tadino, parallel to shopping neighborhood Corso Buenos Aires, Vinile Milano shares its address with the world-renowned art gallery Studio Marconi.
The term “vinyl” is commonly meant to define the stuff, starting the 1950s, way up to the 1980’s, analog sound storage mediums – better known as “records” – were made of.
2018
The following is a pretty extensive gallery of photos. Though it does not pretend to be an exhaustive review, it aims to visually offer the occasional reader the pulse of the town during the recent Milano Design Week 2018.
The Milano Design Week, also known as Fuorisalone, is an initiative aimed at giving designers, design firms – but also artisans and small businesses – an exposure to the international audience during the week of one of the most important fairs of the trade: the Salone del Mobile of Milano. Read more “Fuorisalone. Milano Design Week 2018”
2017
…up and down the underground trains, passing through the main monuments of the City-On-The-Seven-Hills, trying to catch the spirit of the place.
2017
The show title is L’origine del Mondo (The Origin of the World), after a notorious picture by Gustave Courbet hanging from a wall in the Musée d’Orsay, in Paris.
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In a time when most of the population displays the greatest self-indulgence to vanity, not to say narcissism – and an extreme awareness when they are in the reach of image recording devices of any kind – to get a realistic representation of their real self, it is of the utmost importance to capture your subjects while they are unaware of it. Read more “JF LONDON COCKTAIL PARTY IN MILANO”
2017
Sometimes, even the ordinary quarters of e glamorous place propagate the same fascination – if not more of it – as their more titled and more popular neighbors do. They just do it in a more subtle and humble way. Read more “THE GIUDECCA ISLAND IN VENICE”
2017
Every year, in Ivrea, Italy, during Carnival, the people stand up to recall and celebrate the story of Violetta, the miller’s newly wed daughter who was supposed to lay, on her first night as a bride, with the lord of the town, according to an old infamous principle named “jus primae noctis”. Read more “THE BATTLE OF THE ORANGES AT THE IVREA CARNIVAL”
2017
Christmas is behind our shoulders. Yet, while the New Year starts shelling out its days, Christmas decorations are still around, especially in the golden mile downtown our cities. Read more “DOWNTOWN COMO IN THE HOLIDAY SEASON”
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In support of the people of Berlin. We will not yield to fear. Read more “CHRISTMAS MARKET”
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ATM stands for “Azienda Trasporti Milanese” or “Milan Transit Authority”, a company established 1931, owned by the Milan Municipality. Its oldest pride is the urban network of rails on which, since 1933, runs the fleet of streetcars, for it’s functionality: it’s cheap to manage and does not pollute. Today, two among the oldest specimen of the fleet run daily as restaurant-on-the-move for a two hours long dinner across the vast network of rails. Read more “ATM 85TH ANNIVERSARY”