This year’s Salone del Mobile furniture fair, which took place this week in Milan, fell much earlier in April than usual. But that didn’t spare visitors from the sneezing fits the city’s springtime pollen shed can bring — or from the long lines and late nights that are now part …
Milan is among Italy’s largest and most influential cities: Founded in 590 B.C., it eventually became the capital of the Lombardy region. Yet for centuries, it was somewhat overlooked as a cultural hub; while Rome, Florence and Venice were widely viewed as Italy’s seats of intellectual and artistic production, Milan …
This article is part of our Design special report previewing Milan Design Week. From furniture inspired by a dancing Muppet bird named Betsy to proposals for coping with a dystopian future, families of objects at Milan Design Week said more with more. Lara Bohinc turned her childhood love of Betsy …
This article is part of our Design special report previewing Milan Design Week. Few gallerists in the contemporary design sphere have the singular vision of Nina Yashar, 67. Ms. Yashar, the founder of Milan’s Nilufar gallery, established in 1979, and Nilufar Depot, now marking its 10th anniversary, has long been …
A century after the original golden era of railroads, trains are once again the talk of travel. In Europe, especially, train travel is surging as an environmental alternative to short-haul flights, with more night trains, high-speed routes and transnational collaboration between rail companies. Political ties between European countries may be …
Movies like Fellini’s 1960 film “La Dolce Vita” created an image of Italy as a smokers’ paradise. Cigarettes were the ubiquitous props of glamorous socialites, jaded reporters and just about anyone seated at a cafe. Those days are long gone. A series of laws gradually banned smoking at shared indoor …
Movies like Fellini’s 1960 film “La Dolce Vita” created an image of Italy as a smokers’ paradise. Cigarettes were the ubiquitous props of glamorous socialites, jaded reporters and just about anyone seated at a cafe. Those days are long gone. A series of laws gradually banned smoking at shared indoor …
Rosita Missoni, who, with her husband, Ottavio Missoni, built a luxury clothing brand on a foundation of boldly colorful striped and zigzagged knitwear that helped make Milan a capital of Italian high fashion, died on Wednesday at her home in Sumirago, in Northern Italy. She was 93. Her death was …