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Milan Design Week Showcases More Than Furniture

Chairs, from a recent Milan Design Week exhibit

We love good design, especially good Italian design. Even though we are the first to admit that in excess, too much talk about too much design can start to feel a tad too much, even pretentious. That doesn’t stop us from clicking around the Milan Design Week 2012′s official website, wondering what the annual event will bring. It also doesn’t stop us from suggesting to anyone and everyone who can get to it, next week in Milan, to give it a whirl.

The event, the world’s leading furniture exhibition, is one that looks forward and back, and crystallizes the international design gestalt, often for years to come.

Here’s the lowdown for the Milan Design Week 2012.

The dates: Tuesday 17 to Sunday 22 April 2012.
The slogan: A Milano, no se dove? (In Milan, where else? Which might also be translated as, “In Milan, … read more >

To Rome With Love Highlights Movies As Travel Muse

To Rome With Love, Woody Allen’s latest movie, is slated to come out later this year and we’re excited for all sorts of reasons, including the facts that a.) the film is set in Rome and b.) Roberto Benigni is one of the film’s stars. The title tipped us off that this would be a … read more >

Easter Traditions in Italy Highlight Family, Food and Festivities

Easter traditions in Italy are many and varied, and begin the week leading up to Easter. All around Italy this week, families are preparing regional specialty dishes for holiday feasting while cities, towns and parishes are getting ready for Good Friday, Easter Sunday and an Italian tradition known as “Little Easter,” or Pasquetta. The Monday … read more >

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