Eating Out
With a few spots already dotted throughout Milan, Yango Zhang, the owner of take away chain Ichi Station, wanted to highlight the dine-in experience at their latest outpost on Via Solferino. With the help of award-winning creative consultancy,...
Eating Out
Located on the rooftop of The Medelan, an iconic embodiment of Milanese splendour, a building that reflects Italian style at its most authentic, Horto is a new fine dining Milanese restaurant that invites its guests to "enjoy a multi-sensorial...
Eating Out
Burger restaurant, Bun, opens yet another restaurant in Milan, the ever-expanding chain (that also has outlets in Turin) opting for the elegant Brera district (an important fixture of Milan Design Week) as its latest home. Designed by fun-loving...
Design
A permanent exhibition of Casa Lana——a private residence designed by iconic Italian architect and designer, Ettore Sottsass in the mid-1960s——can now be accessed at Sala Sottsass, a new space opened by Triennale Milano at the Palazzo...
Eating Out
Bologna-based studio, Rizoma Architetture, join visual artists TO/LET and all-round creative agency Comunicattive in bringing to life the third Milanese outpost for brothers Matteo and Salvatore Aloe; located close to the Central Station area and...
Eating Out
When brothers Salvatore and Matteo Aloe opened their first pizzeria fresh out of University in 2010, little did they know that less than a decade later, two would turn into a team of roughly 90, with nine restaurants in their native Italy, and two...
Eating Out
Setting up a 'third wave' micro-roastery in Milan might be a daunting prospect. After all, isn't coffee in Italy the highly-concentrated, thick black liquid known the world over as espresso? In a city—and country— often doggedly resolute in its...
Hotels
Led by Natalia Ranza's yearning to create a hospitality experience truly like no other, Milanese entrepreneurs the Ranza family have converted their private residence into a 43-roomed central Milan hotel that combines design, personality and...
Shopping
Located in Milan’s hip Brera Design District, and marrying two of life’s greatest pleasures (well, two of mine at the very least), Tiramisù Delishoes delivers an unconventional but inspired coupling: part dessert bar, part shoe store....
Eating Out
Harking back to the literary cafés of the Age of Enlightenment — a philosophical movement that dominated the world of ideas in Europe in the 18th century — the Moleskine Café fuses café, art gallery, store, and library under one very...
Hotels
Room Mate Giulia has a touch of the Wes Andersons about it — which is fitting, given that the revered filmmaker's debut interior design project is just a few kilometres away; the Texan's kitschy Bar Luce keeps visitors to the imposing Fondazione...
Culture
Fondazione Prada has unveiled a new permanent venue in Milan, proving that there's much more to the fashion giant than fancy handbags. Rem Koolhaas, from architectural firm OMA, has been in control of the project that has seen seven existing...
City Notes
Combining a traditional downtown vibe with the atmosphere of the historic Edo period, The ONE@Tokyo is a 142-room hotel located in the east side of Japanese city's 23 wards. A place to gather and meet, the property is home to a stunning ground...
City Notes
Space Copenhagen have completed devastatingly beautiful interior design works on Mammertsberg, a hotel and restaurant housed within a 1911-built classic Swiss villa that overlooks Lake Constance on the border of Germany, Austria, and...
City Notes
After calling Clerkenwell home for more than 20 years, Vitra have made the move further east, choosing the Grade II-listed Tramshed building in the heart of Shoreditch, as their new London flagship headquarters and showroom. Originally a power...
City Notes
M.A.D. Collectif (Mode, Arts et Divertissements) is a Montreal-based group of creatives formerly known as Groupe Sensation Mode, and they have recently moved to a new 3,600 square foot space in the city's lively Village district, partnering with...
Dispatches
Since the popularity of cannabis use is growing, and it's getting legal in many areas, it's not a problem to find a store to buy cannabis products. But not all of them provide a good range of products or test their products in third party labs to...
Dispatches
Leftover spray paint can be both a blessing and a curse. On one hand, it can be an inexpensive way to give your home a quick facelift. On the other hand, having too much unused paint can be a hassle, as you need to find ways to use it up before it...
Dispatches
No one can deny that technology and the internet have changed not only the business landscape but consumers' day-to-day lives, giving them more flexibility and freedom. But people often forget that this freedom has come with a price. Technology,...
Dispatches
Fire watch services are a vital part of fire safety in buildings. They protect property and people from fire hazards if an alarm or sprinkler system is down or out of commission for maintenance. If your business or facility is subject to a fire...