I learned a new word today – muratura. Well, OK, muratura is Italian for masonry, so if I was fluent in Italian, it would not be nearly so new. Such a lovely word to describe this traditional kitchen style, where the cupboards, drawers and shelves are set into masonry elements, sometimes decorated with ceramic tile, ...
A few more photographs for my “I wish I were in an Italian Palazzo right now” series. Is Italian Palazzo a tautology, actually? Does any other nation have Palazzi? Anyway, take a look at this beautiful kitchen via the The Kitchen Directory. Fireplace, windows, shutters, art, marble bust of ancestor, ceiling, and above all, CEILING ...
Those playful Italians, what will they do next? Have you seen Karim Rashid’s designs for Scavolini’s Crystal line? No boring kitchens here: (photos Scavolini via Trendir). It’s gotta be tough when you always have to be at the cutting edge of design – this makes back-painted and mirrored glass cabinet fronts seem so “last decade”. ...
Monday of the last full week in January has been calculated (albeit dubiously and by suspect sources) to be the most depressing day of the year. While Mondays have a lot to answer for, it seems really unfair to blue to associate it so firmly with depression. Today, I’m helping blue fight black. I challenge ...
I’m sure I’ve mentioned my dream of living in an apartment in some absurdly romantic Italian palazzo in an earlier post. And I’m not particularly fussy about the palazzo itself, almost any one will do. But since I fell head-over-heels in love with Venice during three foggy days in the middle of Winter a few ...
Since it’s the weekend, I’m allowing myself to post some dream kitchens. This is the dream where I live in an apartment in a converted palazzo in the heart of an Italian city, so of course my kitchen has to be by Arclinea. You can’t beat Arclinea for loft style living – these beautiful kitchens ...