You just have to check out a bit of history to understand how feudalism came down to give way to cities, and with cities came the bourgeoisie. The word bourgeois is definitely a controversial one …

There’s nothing more stimulating than getting to know places which hold secrets or which are nearly unknown by its inhabitants, and that’s what we’re going to tell you about Florence, a city which lives day …

In his admirable book ‘My life on rooftops0, the Samoan writer Albert Hanover has a marginal and delicate memory, like the corner of a miniature, for the Philosophy teacher who fell into luck during his …

In 1898, when Salvatore Ferragamo was born, the shoemaker trade was considered the most humble amongst the humble. So it’s not strange to think that in his house they cried out loud when, with just …

They say that smell is one of the most powerful senses. Especially smell’s memory. Who hasn’t felt the aroma in the air that’s taken them down memory lane, somewhere in the past which seemed to …

In one of the entries of the marvelously penetrative and lucid book of notes, essays, interviews, drawings and description of projects of Bill Viola, ‘Reasons for Knocking at an Empty House’. Writings 1973-1994′, the American …

When the summer arrives, the festivals and the decisions arrive too. You already know where to go this summer? You’re not going on holiday yet? Everything is relative to the budget that one has. Some …