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Step by step
Stair design over time
by Sabine Eiche
Have you noticed howsome stairs make you feel as though you’re hobbling along in tight, heavyboots, while others make you feel like you’re floating in a pair of softleather slippers? If you live in one of the narrow houses that make …
Italian Voices
'L'amicizia'
A window on language and customs in Italy
Nell'amicizia, Italians do not necessarily aim for understanding. The simply see, know and feel. And while this type of soul-searching needs no consent, real trust might not apear for years.
People phone the pressroom with various questions. Some depend on the season. …
Style + Fashion
Blast from the past
Spandex and shoulder pads usher in spring
Wallflowers beware. This spring and summer’s styles aren’t made forbashful fashionistas. Ruffles, spandex, neon colors, sheen and sequins aboundin current collections that embody the vibrant spirit of the belle donne who sport these looks.
Think back to the 1980s.Remember those multi-colored …
Italian Voices
'Magari'
A window on a language and customs in Italy
My colleagues and I were having a meeting and I might as well have been talking to myself. A curly white wig and a gavel to pound out ‘order in the court’ would have been the only way to get everyone …
Life
Eggcellent extravagance
Easter traditions have sugar and 'spice'
Holy Week, which begins on Palm Sunday and ends the following week on Easter, is celebrated throughout Italy. After the 40 days of fasting and abstinence of Lent, the Florentines treat Easter unlike any other holiday. In Florence the tradition of …
Italian Voices
'Come si deve'
A window on languagge and customs in Italy
In a country where food must always be served at the right time and temperature, I find Sunday brunch the easiest way to entertain. I say this for two simple reasons. First, I am a morning person who makes a mean …
Style + Fashion
If the shoe fits
Ferragamo museum is a shoe-lover's paradise
The Ferragamo flagship on Santa Trinita, in the heart of Florence, houses more than designer shoes and bags. It is also home to the newly renovated design museum, Museo Salvatore Ferragamo. And it’s not solely a shoe museum, as many would …
Italian Voices
'Arrangiarsi',
A window on language and customs in Italy
‘Arrangiarsi or the ability to ‘arrange oneself’ is all about overcoming obstacles. Italians love to jump fences, and they do it with an agile grace that people from Anglo-cultures can almost never pull off’.
Writing about arrangiarsi is a bit like chasing …
Life
Unforgettable
Festa della Donna commemorates women's rights
When boyfriends, husbands and employers give sprigs of yellow mimosa to their girlfriends, wives and female employees, you know it’s Women’s Day. When all the female members of the household abandon the men to go out to dinner in festive groups, …
Italian Voices
'Insomma',
A window on language and customs in Italy
The Florentine is hunting for a new home and I’ve been trying all day not to write about it. But our search for an office keeps sneaking into my article as if this page were the rented space we’re looking for. …
Italian Voices
'Mah...'
A window on language and customs in Italy
‘Sometimes used to introduce discussion or resume debate, mah is the net that captures stray thoughts. It’s the time you take before you jump and your chance to consider how cold the water is.’
I have never been on a speed-date in …
Italian Voices
'La Privacy'
A window on language and customs in Italy
Watch how people share secrets and you’ll discover the things they are trying to hide. Learn how a country exchanges confidences and you’ll uncover the cornerstone of social rapport.
Italians may be known to the world as free-speaking, overly expressive individuals, but …
Insider Florence
Row, row, row your dragon boat?!
Where rowers take to the river
Walking along the Arno, you’re almost as likely to hear the rhythmic beatings of a dragon boat drummer as a motorino’s horn. The sport of dragon boat racing, introduced to the west less than two decades ago, is thriving at Società …
Style + Fashion
Singular 'scent'sation
Your persoanl perfume profile
The Jet Setter:
Catch her if you can: skiing in Aspen, being seen at Fashion Week in Milan, sailing in Southampton. With things to do and people to see, this cosmopolitan babe is always jetting off to an exotic and fabulous destination. …
Life
Fan mail
by Kate McBride
Dear Arnie:
How happy we are this morning to see the little white spot of your head with its black tam. We happen to be looking out the window at the passersby, our weather vane, to see what they are wearing before …
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