Tag: Italy
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Weird but Wonderful | Peaceful Protest
“We are against war and tourist menu.” Restaurant in Trastevere, Rome
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Weird but Wonderful | Don’t Trip
“Danger to fall in the sea.” Capri, Italy
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Eye on Design | Rome | Bike Gallery
I’ve been to a lot of art galleries, but I’ve never seen one quite like this one in Rome.
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Style Moment | Blue urn, Rome
“Simplicity is the ultimate sophistication.” Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519) Italian Renaissance artist, architect, mathematician, writer
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Rome | Nothing But the Truth
La Bocca della Verità, or Mouth of Truth, was made famous in the 1953 movie, “Roman Holiday,” when Gregory Peck scared Audrey Hepburn by pretending his hand had been bitten off. The famous face is still there, and the scene is re-enacted over and over and over and over again…
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Roman Holiday
The city of Rome is a living, breathing, open-air museum, and I have been its patron for the past few days.
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Style Moment | Chiesa del Santissimo Sacramento, Rome
“Rome is the city of echoes, the city of illusions, and the city of yearning.” Giotto di Bondone (1266-1337) Italian painter and architect
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EYE ON DESIGN | CHAIRS |Tuscany | The Chair
I’m obsessed with a chair. I don’t know how or why it has happened at this particular time, but it has become my mission to find a replica of this chair. I’m not kidding, I HAVE to find it. It’s a neoclassical French Bergère chair, and I have a corner in my living room that’s…
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Eye on Design | Black and White in Color
Some of the most intriguing photos I’ve taken in color have turned out to be black and white. Without color, the graphic patterns and unique shapes of the world reveal themselves…and they can be every bit as captivating as an explosion of color.
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Style Moment | Como
“Have nothing in your house that you do not know to be useful, or believe to be beautiful.” William Morris (1834-1896) English textile designer, artist, and writer
