Could one Italian architect have the antidote for America’s dying malls?
The Beverly Center mall, owned by Taubman Centers, may have a $500 million renovation budget, but Massimiliano Fuksas, the architect spearheading the transformation, only has one goal — to make you feel something when you walk in. "Emotion is everything," the Italian architect told The Real Deal as he waxed poetic on art, beauty and why indoor sho...
Ferrari Seeks Open Road to U.S. Drivers in EU Trade Talks
by Brian Wingfield Ferrari SpA (FERI) wants to ship its luxury sports cars to the U.S. without having to pay duties. The owner of KFC and Pizza Hut restaurants is seeking lower tariffs on chicken wings exported to feed hungry Europeans. Lobbying by companies is accelerating as the U.S. Trade Representative's office prepares to negotiate with the...
IALA, CWL to Offer Tips on How to Become a Judge
The Italian American Lawyers Association and California Women Lawyers will each hold a meeting next month featuring advice on how to land a judgeship.IALA's meeting is slated for May 15 dinner and will be held at Casa Italiana, 1051 N. Broadway, just north of Chinatown. The cocktail hour will start at 6 p.m., with dinner and the program following.T...
Silicon Valley Skills Meets illy Coffee at the New illy Foundry
Announced last month from illy's global headquarters in Trieste, illy Foundry is a nimble, Italy-based unit of developers and interaction designers being drawn from all over the world. The unifying purpose of this group is to deeply understand people's habits and wishes related to the coffee experience, and then build new digital products and servi...
Silicon Valley, gli errori da evitare per le startup. Poi un tour fra luoghi storici…
Le startup italiane che sbarcano negli Usa? Commettono quasi sempre tutte gli stessi tre errori. Il primo: credere di avere un'idea unica, che non ci siano concorrenti nel loro settore. Non è vero, ci sono sempre, magari in spazi attigui. Il secondo: sottovalutare le differenze culturali, anche se i manager parlano benissimo l'inglese o hanno vis...
Italydesign.com Announces Their Spring Design Sale
Italydesign.com is an innovative and cutting edge factory direct importer of luxury modern and contemporary furniture offering many of Italy's most prestigious brand names coupled with the highest level of customer service. Italydesign.com's Emeryville, California showroom and warehouse located in the San Francisco Bay area is one of the l...
Silicon Valley + AgTech Means Opportunities Abound
Often in Silicon Valley we hear statistics like ”more data has been created in the last 2 years than in all previous human history.” And while the explosion of big data is momentous and meaningful, similar exponential models are applicable to food. Try this prediction made by Nobel Laureate Norman Borlaug: “In the next 40 years, farmers wi...
Italian and American Cars Highlight Pebble Beach 2016
Italian and American collectibles are dominating the sales at Gooding & Company and RM Sotheby's during the Pebble Beach Concours d'Elegance's motoring week. Among the headliners at Gooding & Co. on August 20-21 are a 1971 Lamborghini Miura P400 SV with coachwork by Bertone, that is being offered publicly for the first time (est: $2.2-...
Zegna Opens First Store of its Z Zegna Line in Los Angeles
Italian luxury menswear house Ermenegildo Zegna opened this week its first stand alone in the U.S. dedicated to its Z Zegna line. The new Z Zegna mono-brand store is situated within the Beverly Hills Centre Mall in Los Angeles. Also this week, Z Zegna's creative director, Paul Surridge, presented the Z Zegna Fall Winter 2013-14 collection at the Z...
From a white silk yarn with Andrea Rubelli, President and CEO, Donghia; Co-CEO, Rubelli
September 18, 2014, Thursday 11:00 AM - 12:00 PMGalleria Atrium - 101 Henry Adams St - San Francisco, California 94103 Andrea Rubelli narrates the unique exhibition recently created by the Rubelli Design Studio in Venice, presenting seven amazing installations whose single common denominator is a thread of white silk. Each p...
Lettera aperta al Presidente del Consiglio Matteo Renzi
di Marco Marinucci Signor Presidente, la sua visita in Silicon Valley è particolarmente apprezzata. Siamo onorati che abbia accolto l'appello che, insieme al nostro amato Console Generale in San Francisco, Mauro Battocchi, le abbiamo rivolto in occasione dello scorso Italian Innovation Day (qui il video, al min. 6.18), l'appuntamento...
Investment Wizard Wanted Now to Promote Italy
In the past weeks important announcements were made by American companies. Cisco, Apple and GE informed that they plan to carry out R&D investment in Italy. In fact, Italy is one of the six leading manufacturing countries in the world, second in Europe only to Germany, ahead of France and the United Kingdom. Now that the Italian Govern...