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Step off the elevator on the 15th floor of 200 Lex, and you might be expecting just another showroom. But Paul Donzella, founder of antique gallery Donzella Ltd., has spent the last several months transforming a second showroom space across the hall into a gallery-like exhibition that showcases an impressive collection of pieces by Milanese furnitu...

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Illycaffe SpA, one of Italy’s largest coffee roasters, is changing its strategy to focus on boosting retail sales as it expands in the U.S. The company, best known for premium coffee sold mainly in hotels, restaurants and cafes, will target consumers at home as the pandemic locked down cities from New York to Los Angeles, according to Chairman Andr...

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During an age where air fryers, pressure cookers, and new-fangled gadgets have taken the home cooking world by storm, simple, handcrafted (and potentially half of a century old) tools still have a very important place in the kitchen. I like a shiny new nonstick frying pan and satisfyingly efficient mandoline as much as the next home cook or chef, b...

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Tiramisù is a velvety mélange of savoiardi cookies dipped in an espresso, layered with delicately sweetened whipped eggs and mascarpone cheese, and topped with a dusting of cocoa powder. Its name, tirami sù, means “pick me up,” perhaps a reference to the stimulating effects of the caffeine in the recipe’s espresso and chocolate.  Tiramisù, although...

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The Champagne & Sparkling Wine World Championships, the competition created and presided over by Tom Stevenson, the world’s top expert on sparkling wines, has revealed the Gold and Silver Medals for the 2020 edition. Once again this year, Ferrari Trento has confirmed its leading role, both in Italy and at an international level: with 9 Gold Medals...

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Sparkling wine fans have a new reason to sip and celebrate this month with the long-awaited launch of Gancia's Prosecco Rosé D.O.C. This new-to-market wine merges the popular trends of Prosecco and Rosé into a unique varietal approved earlier this year by the governing body for the Prosecco D.O.C. appellation. Maintaining Gancia's heritage of "firs...

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At a time when many of his peers preferred an austere minimalism, Gianni Versace stayed true to himself. The brilliant designer’s flashy signature looks set him apart from anyone else in the fashion world. With bondage-inspired gowns, brilliant prints, and metallic mini-skirts, Gianni and his namesake label pushed the boundaries of fashion. An inno...

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In the 21st century, protecting our homes means, more often than not, installing a top notch alarm system, one of those we regularly set off by mistake in the morning when, before our first coffee, we open the kitchen door to let the cat out. Our fear for intruders, unfortunately well justified, is quite specific: it’s people we’re afraid of and it...

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Pandoro is a soaring star-shaped cake with a delicious golden brioche-like center and a lovely vanilla butter aroma. It even comes boxed with a packet of confectioners’ sugar to sprinkle on top, to enhance its festive, Christmas-tree appearance. Italy sets many strict rules for its production, including the use of only natural yeast, farm fresh egg...

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Mary McLeod Bethune passed from this life 65 years ago in her white two-story house perched in the middle of the school campus she founded against all odds in 1904. Now a part of Bethune is being reborn inside an artists' studio in a tiny 1,000-year-old town on the northern coast of Tuscany. As master sculptor Nilda Comas carefully chips away at a...

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