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Two centuries of Milanese pastry in three addresses a few metres apart
From Marchesi’s rocking horses to Cova’s new panettoni and Sant Ambroeus’ ninetieth anniversary, Christmas 2026 becomes a way to read how three historic pastry houses have evolved within Milan’s Quadrilatero

ZERO Milano: the onyx, the iron and the Venini glass that haven’t aged
In 2006 Dordoni Associati designed the interiors of ZERO Milano, on corso Magenta. A backlit onyx wall, an iron structure and a Venini sculpture of 300 elements still define the Japanese restaurant, which marks 20 years with its new chef, Ichiro Nakagawa

Rose Snow de HJ by Henry Jacques: the rose wax that crystallizes in the bottle
Perfumers filter wax out of rose extracts to keep a perfume clear. In Rose Snow de HJ, a fraction of it stays and forms crystals that melt at skin temperature

Cascador by Henry Jacques: the raw materials behind a citrus fragrance
From Calabrian bergamot groves to sawmill offcuts in the United States: the fields, stills and laboratory methods behind a fragrance in Les Classiques

Bodrum Loft: brutalist stone volumes absorbed into the woodland of Demirbükü bay
Thirty-six stone villas form a village outside time, poised between the ancestral and the futuristic, while two thirds of the 57,000-square-metre site remain native woodland

700 plants in the garden of La Serena, Forte dei Marmi
At Vittoria Apuana, a Sixties building steps into the present as a five-star boutique hotel, its garden filled with citrus, ferns and hydrangeas beneath tall maritime pines It feels like living the golden age of Sixties Forte dei Marmi, carried into the present. A building from that decade, poised between brutalism and modernism yet warm […]




































