Not just Art

Van Gogh movie. At Eternity’s Gate, after having been presented Venice Film Festival in 2018 and I sincerely could not wait to arrive in the cinemas. The film directed by Julian Scnabel is presented at the cinema with some prestigious awards and a coveted nomination. The film received the Mimmo Rotella Foundation Award and the director Julian […]

HOW TO BECOME A TEDX SPEAKER How to become a TEDx speaker and be inspired? Become a TEDx speaker is not an easy path if you are not familiar with a stage if it is not a fact of people often, but the most exciting experience that can happen. It was like that for me […]

THE INDUSTRIAL CHAIR BY MARGARETE KLöBER’S  FOR POLSTERGLEICH The industrial chair designed by Margarete Klöber is not an ordinary chair. Created in the 1930s, it’s one of the most famous and sought-after chairs by design lovers. Margarete Klöber founded Polstergleich, her factory, in 1935 with the idea of bringing comfortable chairs to the offices. READ […]

ART AND COMMUNICATION: LET’S GIVE THE FLOOR TO THE THYSSEN-BORNEMISZA MUSEUM This interview with Elena Benarroch Vila, marketing manager at the Thyssen-Bornemisza Museum, marks the beginning of a series of appointments dedicated to the theme Art and communication, aimed at examining the relationship that institutions dealing with culture have with their public. I tried to […]

  MARKETERS DAY 2018. MY EXPERIENCE AS A MEDIA PARTNER IN A VIDEO “A matter of creativity” was the title of this edition, which saw me at the side of the Marketers Club in the dissemination and promotion of the online initiative. Here is the video of the day.

MOVIES YOU MUST SEE: GREAT ARTISTS AT THE CINEMA When I decided to write a post about the movies you must see to know the lives of the artists, I would never have imagined that I’d be spoilt for choice. After writing a post dedicated to Romantic movies: the most beautiful love declarations in movies, now […]

HELMUT NEWTON: THE BAD BOY OF PHOTOGRAPHY Helmut Newton is one of the most controversial photographers in the world. Around his photos and exhibitions devoted to him, the debate is always heated, because his shots are provocative. According to some people he was a genius who transformed photography fashion on purpose; according to other people […]

FINAL PORTRAIT: A MOVIE ABOUT ALBERTO GIACOMETTI Final portrait is the new movie directed by Stanley Tucci, who was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor for his performance in “The Lovely Bones” (2009), and is known for his unforgettable performance as “Nigel” in “The Devil wears Prada”. For his fifth film as […]

TRAINS TO VIENNA: HOW TO REACH VIENNA BY TRAIN HAVING A STOPOVER IN VILLACH Taking one of the trains to Vienna means going through Austria admiring the landscape and enjoying the pleasure of a slow journey. The Austrian Federal Railways inaugurated the new Railjet “Spirit of Venezia”, which from December 10th 2017 connects directly Venice […]

DREAM HOTELS: 5 HOTELS FOR ART LOVERS A dream hotel makes any journey unforgettable. The perfect hotel for me is located near museums and places of cultural interest I want to visit and provides quality customer service. And if it houses also some artworks or some design objects there is no doubt I feel like […]

MUSEMENT HAS CREATED A GIFT BOX DEDICATED TO ART LOVERS This year Christmas has arrived in advance for me, thanks to an amazing gift. I received the Musement Giftbox, and I can choose one of the several available art experiences it offers and, in addition, I discovered a new way to make original presents. If […]

THE MOST BEAUTIFUL CHRISTMAS MARKETS IN EUROPE Every year, in December, Christmas markets mark the return of festivities. Every square and town holds at least one Christmas market, but, in the end, they all look the same, and something unique and rare is really hard to find. So, I was searching for the origin of […]

ONLINE MAGAZINES: WHERE TO FIND THEM AND WHAT TO READ Online magazines have become a reality over the last few years, but have already transformed the way people read the news. They have certainly changed the way I read a magazine! To write a post about a design object, like the one I dedicated to […]

APEROL: HISTORY OF AN ITALIAN ICON The history of Aperol began during the Art Nouveau period. In 1919 the Barbieri brothers launched at the Padua International Fair what would become one of the most popular liqueurs among Italians. The original and secret recipe which has never been changed up to the present day has made […]

EAMES PLASTIC CHAIR: THE FIRST PLASTIC CHAIR IN HISTORY There’s a chair on which we’ve sat at least once. If there’s one thing that can never be missing in a doctor’s waiting room or in an office, that’s a Plastic Chair, a 1950s-style chair, with or without arms, and which can be joined laterally with […]

THEATRES AROUND THE WORLD: 5 THEATRES TO SEE AT LEAT ONCE IN YOUR LIFETIME Theatres are the perfect place to discover a territory, because they make you discover the history of a place and do things the locals usually do. In my opinion, there are some theatres you must see, no matter which show they […]

THE 7 WONDERS OF THE ANCIENT WORLD: WHAT THEY ARE AND WHERE THEY ARE How many times have you heard somebody talk about the 7 wonders of the world? Probably many times, and every time I try to list them I always forget one wonder. And every time I turn to the Web for help, […]

RICHARD GINORI: THE MANUFACTURE OF BEAUTY Founded in 1737 by the Marquis Carlo Ginori in Doccia, near Florence, the porcelain manufacture of Sesto Fiorentino, become in 1896 the Richard Ginori Manufacture, is the most ancient in Italy and is still working. The Marquis Ginori built a collection of models coming from the workshops of the […]

THE ARCO LAMP It was 1962 and light fell on tables, desks and magazines directly from the ceiling. There were also floor lamps, but they were unwieldy and didn’t light exactly the point you needed. An idea came to the Castiglioni brothers, Pier Giacomo and Anchille: to make a marble base and a steel arc-shaped […]

Why should an eyewear brand link its name and its latest collection to a street artist and to his works? The new O-Six collection is aimed at getting a different perspective, and has a lot in common with Kenny Random’s works, who is considered the Italian Banksy. But in Random’s works we can find romanticism […]