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This shot from Scott Schuman takes me straight back to Italy, (where I’ve been hiding out for the last two months and) where they really know how to wear a scarf.
Cool and soft, Milan.
Shabby chic alla Milanese. This apartment in Lambrate is in one of the most culturally mixed quarters of Milan. A case of bringing the outside in, by the look of the interiors, and the keeping it real lack of pretension is refreshing.
English Country goes minimal in Milan.
The stunning new ‘destination’ calendar by Milan photographer Gianni Pezzani rewrites the rules.
Star designer Rodolfo Dordoni lowers the tone, choosing deep grey over the usual white for the walls of his own apartment in central Milan.
OK I admit it, I have a thing for older men lately, especially passionate, talented, distinguished ones like the Milanese Maesto Angelo Mangiarotti, still going strong at 88, and whose ethos includes “happiness comes from correctness”… The Mangiarotti anthology exhibition now showing in Mantova at the Casa del Mantegna until November 8 includes sculpture, architecture, design that looks like sculpture and the poignant, evocative free-hand drawings for which the architect is famous – and so well loved.
9ex AT Casa
Looking at this Milan home of the free-spirited Sicilian painter Nino Mustica, I started to understand just how to win the war on clutter… It may not be, as the organising pros suggest, a case of a place for everything (accompanied by exceptional levels of self-discipline) after all. But rather a matter of balancing disarray at low level with equally noisy, really interesting art everywhere else.
