Job opening at Banca d’Italia – New York Representative Office
Banca d’Italia is looking for a dynamic, well-organized Office Manager/Bookkeeper to join its representative office in New York City. Qualifications/Skills Requirements: Bachelor’s Degree; English and Italian fluency, both spoken and written; The candidate must have solid working knowledge of Word, Excel and PowerPoint; Work authorization in the Un...
“Design Stories. Il design italiano dal passato al futuro”: il progetto di Caterina Monda
Dieci storie di design italiano. Una raccolta fresca e stimolante di punti di vista, esperienze, sguardi, studi, prospettive di personaggi più o meno noti, ma sempre interessanti. Una panoramica di quello che è oggi il mondo del progetto, che poggia su basi storiche e si apre al mondo, con contaminazioni ed esiti a tratti sorprendenti. Dieci testim...
Columbian Lawyers Association Holds Installation Ceremony in Great Neck
The Columbian Lawyers Association held its annual installation ceremony at Leonard’s Palazzo in Great Neck on Thursday. The organization installed its new board members, gave farewell presentations to its outgoing board members, presented the Saint Francis of Assisi/Mother Cabrini Award, and welcomed incoming president, Ida Como. Hon. Joseph Risi,...
Snaidero USA NY Flagship Redesign Wins Prestigious International Architecture Award
The Snaidero USA New York Flagship showroom redesign by Italian architect, Mario Mazzer has won the 2021 International Architecture Award®. It is the oldest and most prestigious international building awards program, bestowed by the Chicago Athenaeum: Museum of Architecture and Design and The European Centre for Architecture Art Design and Urban St...
Velasca Milano Opens Today in New York City
Velasca Milano, the Italian brand that offers high-quality Made in Italy shoes at fair prices, opens today in New York City, with their first Bottega located at 250 Elizabeth St. With a business model that aims at creating a direct-to-consumer channel that allows to fill the gap in the market for reasonably priced handcrafted shoes, the store's pur...
A Thriving Industry in Westchester County and New York State since 1751
Here at the Saracino Industries family of stone companies, we like to say, "one man's rocks are another man's treasure." This has been the case for centuries, where dusty, noisy, industrial stone quarry sites yield the finished, polished, pristine architectural stone exhibited on the world's most beautiful structures.Granites, marbles, limestones,...
The Pope of Gloop For 60 years, Gaetano Pesce has been preaching the gospel of uncertainty in design. Finally, the world has caught up.
The world of tidily ordered forms is a convenient fantasy. The real world gloops and glops. Here and there, it bulges. It sags. It was once considered modern to architect this chaos into order, to machine the wet muck of existence into clean lines and hard edges. That is not the modern of Gaetano Pesce, the Italian-born industrial designer–artist–a...
Inside the Youth Culture Renaissance of Traditional Italian Tailoring
It was forecasted that “hot vax summer” in New York — when newly vaccinated young people emerged from more than a year of isolation — would herald a moment of aesthetic excess and opulence in fashion. And while some shoppers — particularly those college-aged and younger — did spring for that kind of frosted-pink-and-sequined Y2K revival, there was...
Zanotta House a New York, inedito luogo d’incontro che dà valore al design italiano
Cominciamo con il definire quello che non è. Zanotta House New York non è uno showroom, non è un negozio né tantomeno un luogo tradizionale di vendita. Non è neanche un boutique apartment, che già rappresenta un’evoluzione in chiave esclusiva del concetto di esposizione. In questa costruzione di mattoni nel Lower West Side di Manhattan, al numero 2...
Last Manfredi dealership sold to Island Auto Group: ‘This is the end of a legacy’
Nick Manfredi, whose father, Joe, once owned the lion’s share of auto dealerships on Staten Island, recently made a tough decision to sell off his last franchise, Manfredi Chevrolet. “This is an end of a legacy for us. It took me a long time to really process it. There are a lot of emotions attached to it,” said Nick Manfredi, an Annadale resident....
IACC and Confindustria FEDERORAFI Join Forces to Promote Italian Jewelry Manufacturers in North America
The Italy-America Chamber of Commerce (IACC) is pleased to announce that it has recently signed a partnership agreement with Confindustria FEDERORAFI, Italy’s national federation of goldsmiths, silversmiths and jewelry manufacturers, to support FEDERORAFI and its more than 500 member companies in their commercial expansion and promotion on the Nort...
Versace Returns to New York City
The Italian fashion house has secured a 285sq m boutique in the SoHo area of New York City. The store is located on the ground floor of a mid-rise structure built in 1879 and is within close proximity of several other luxury brands including Linda Farrow, Louis Vuitton, Stella McCartney, Dior and Fendi. The interior design of the store has been cre...