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From Italia with love: How ‘Made in Italy’ can save the world
Salone Internazionale del Mobile, the flagship design event in Milan, attracting hundreds of thousands of visitors from all over the world, year after year the week-long design event cements Milan’s status as one of the design and innovation hubs of the world.
Italian Design History: a worldwide excellence
Italy has a long history of craftsmanship that intertwines different paths: art, fashion, food, wine, car industry but also design. How did it all start? Swide recounts the history of Italian Design to explain why, even today, we excel at it.
Alien to wearing a cord on your neck?
Alienina is about dressing yourself with ecological messages, not letting anything rot on wasteland but giving it a new life. Of it's own, in an alien world. Or your own.
Public Design Festival 3rd Edition – April 2011
Check out selected site-specific projects in Milan from 12th – 17th April 2011.
Nika Zupanc's outrageous designs
Nika Zupanc, a young designer from Lubiana (Slovenia), starts from feminine archetypes transforming the daily life into something more luxurious, elegant and provocative. The result is a sexy series of objects that showcase a new form of "fetish chic".
Test drive a prototype
Milan design week 2009 kicks off officially tomorrow. Swide intends to be out there (in the rain) finding the curious and the quirky. We kick off today with Italian bike producer Orco who are offering design-goers the opportunity to try out their new prototypes.
Don't move from your chair
Previewing next week during Milan design week the Morfojet armchair resembles an aeroplane seat - only with more legroom of course. Imagine first class rather than coach, imagine a seat where you can listen music and enjoy a film. Swide tries it out for size.
Red light design
Amsterdam’s famous red light district docks in Milan and move from the banks of the Dutch canals to the banks of Milan’s Naviglio Grande during Milan's Design Week that runs from April 22-27 2009. Swide gets a preview.
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The ‘Sport of Kings’ provides some of the best all day entertainment in the world. It’s where fashion, sport, the super rich, rural tradition and of course, horses all merge in an adrenaline and champagne-fuelled spectacle that really gets the heart pumping. Swide picks for you the top 5 horse races in the world.
Canadian Ben Johnson won the gold medal in the 100m final at the 1988 Seoul Olympics with an awesome display of power with a world record time of 9.79 seconds. However three days later his urine sample tested positive for a banned substance and was stripped of his medal and record. Johnson was sent home in disgrace, but that wasn’t the end to the Johnson story.
Moto Guzzi are lining up their latest reboot of their best-selling series with the California 1400. It’s a bit of a departure form the cruiser look of previous models with a more vintage Art Nouveau style.
Known for being quite the straight faced beauty on the red carpet, Kristen Stewart was the one making us smile when she revealed details about when she stripped off with Garrett Hedlund on the set of ‘On The Road’ and how shock was replaced by being at ease…
Graceful like the women he depicted and powerful like the stories he recounted through his works, Botticelli is among the Renaissance men who changed the world forever.
When I was a child, my parents used to take me to a little village, where we would have almond “granita” and collect fresh water form a little drinking fountain, afterwards. This little place is called Scopello and it was time for me to return to my childhood and explore as an adult.
The scenario is…you are only in London for 24hrs. This doesn’t have to mean being stuck in your hotel wanting but not knowing what to do. Enlightened travellers continually ask the question - What would a Londoner do? Have no fear Luxury London is here…
There’s no need to go far afield to exotic locations to find adventure. In recent years adventures have been rediscovering urban winders right on our very doorsteps. Urban Exploration, known also as Urbex or UE, is an (often illegal) activity that explores unseen or unknown sights in the urban environment.