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| Born on April 1, 1943, at Mendrisio, Ticino. After an apprenticeship in Lugano he attended art school in Milan and continued his studies at the Venice IUAV (University Institute of Architecture), where he graduated in 1969 [...] |
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| The sumptuous mass of the building is embedded in the small-scale urban fabricof the italian enclave of campione and reapperas mirrored in the waters of lake Lugano Arriving at Campione from Lake Lugano, the visual impact [...] |
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| THE SILENT NATURE Of STONES Tomaso Garzoni's encyclopedic Universal Marketplace of all the Professions, a work so "monstrous" as to arouse "vehement wonder" in readers, was the last of the Renaissance [...] |
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| Boutros Romhein was born in Syria in 1949. He arrived in Italy in 1983 and since 1990 has lived and worked in Carrara. In these few lines of biography we will have to follow the hawk's flight of this man, elderly yet immersed [...] |
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| One of the paradoxes that opens the debate over the near future concerns the great vendetta of the material over the intangible. People who "make things" are generally not fully aware of what they are doing, meaning [...] |
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| Sometimes the stone names are ambiguous, for fancy, similarity or assonance, abused also by man-made product. A correct appellation and sampling must guarantee the nature and origin of the product. Today the names of [...] |
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| Boutique of uniqueness Not just a shipyard that guarantees the latest technology and the highest levels of quality construction, but a "couturier," where each yacht bears the unique imprint of its owner. Sanlorenzo has [...] |
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| In 1929, Lorenzo Viani, an artist and writer in Viareggio, published Ritorno alla Patria (Return to the Homeland), an autobiographical novel. The following year it was ranked equal first with Anselmo Bucci's Il pittore volante [...] |
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| Helmut Newton is one of the photographers who have left a powerful imprint on the history of the image of the contemporary woman. His famous portraits are notable for their cultivated and elegant eroticism: he brings out [...] |
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