Cini Boeri died, goodbye to the architect and designer: she was 96 years old

Cini Boeri died, goodbye to the architect and designer: he was 96 years old

She left on the day of the awarding of the Compasso d’oro, which she had won in 1979 for the sofa Strips, designed in 1968 for Arflex and exhibited in the permanent collection of the Milan Triennale. With Maria Cristina Mariani Dameno, married Boeri (born in Milan on 19 June 1924), universally known as Cini … Read more

Beppe Severgnini’s challenge: fifty reasons for the neo-Italians

We came out of the storm several. Worse or better? I would say: we have not gone back. In our own way, we have moved on. The pandemic has forced us to find within ourselves – in our cities, in our families, in our heads, in our hearts – resources we didn’t know we had. … Read more

Furio Colombo: with Sartre in the jeep driven by Che Guevara

It is the morning of December 31, 1960, “the first anniversary of the young and cheerful revolution that had put the dictator Fulgencio Batista to flight”. Under the ladder of the plane are Jean-Paul Sartre, Simone de Beauvoir, Françoise Sagan and an Italian journalist: Furio Colombo, who arrived from New York with a pencil visa … Read more

Administrative Directorate: former mayor who handed over a library without books aspires to office – Congress – Politics

The bid for the Administrative Directorate of the House of Representatives has unleashed a whole controversial storm. And is not for less, this position manages an annual budget of 400 billion pesos, destined to the payment of payrolls of the congressmen, administrative charges, air tickets, among others. (We recommend: ‘CD received $ 300,000 from a … Read more

‘Harry Potter’ leaves famous bookstore for rejection of JK Rowling – Music and Books – Culture

The debate on gender identity has put the British writer in the spotlight JK Rowling, who has been accused of being a transphobic for expressing on Twitter that ‘only women menstruate’. Given this, the writer came out to explain her opinion and surprised with a statement in which she narrates that she was sexually assaulted. … Read more

Dead Milton Glaser, the inventor of the “I love New York” logo

The confession had come in 2016, live and with a lot of irony, during one of the Artist Talk del Cima, the Center for Italian Modern art in New York: Morandi was for me a unique and unrepeatable master, not only of art, but also of modesty, generosity, passion for small things. Then citing his … Read more

Walter Tobagi, Mattarella’s memory: «Because it exhorts us to hope»

Walter Tobagi was brutally killed because it represented what the brigatists denied and wanted to erase. He was a free journalist, who investigated reality beyond stereotypes and prejudices, and terrorists did not tolerate narratives other than their ideological schematism. He was a Democrat, a reformer, and this was unbearable for extremist fanaticism. He was a … Read more

I tell the Corriere – Bellanova’s tears the best thing about the government

Dear Aldo, I bitterly noticed the comments addressed to Minister Bellanova for her emotion during the press conference at Palazzo Chigi on Wednesday. I would say that, to a simple citizen, the tears of a woman who knows the humiliation of the exploitation of agricultural work seems preferable to certain gestures aimed at the opponent, … Read more

I tell the Corriere – Few masks, few tampons Italy unprepared for the pandemic

Dear Aldo, the doctors, nurses and health workers sent to fight the coronavirus without adequate protection have reminded me of our Alpine troops and soldiers who in 1941-43 were sent to the hell of freezing Russia to fight with cardboard shoes and good uniforms for all seasons. With the difference that while the Italian army … Read more