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Living room life

Living room life

The Geffrye Museum in London has reconstructed the British middle class’ living rooms from the 17th to the 20th century

Reading velvets

Reading velvets

A possible reading to understand the story that the flowers on Sant’Alvise’s soprarizzo velvet have got to tell

The theatre of fashion

The theatre of fashion

The Fashion and Applied Arts Museum of Gorizia reopens, wholly renewed and with two brand-new rooms

Sorry, no more room in the lagoon!

Sorry, no more room in the lagoon!

Annapaola Cibin’s installation on the roof of Luigi Bevilacqua’s weaving mill is made up of fishes in painted luxury velvets

Treasures to be found: San Zulian

Treasures to be found: San Zulian

A few steps away from St Mark’s Square lies one of Venice’s hidden treasures: the church of San Zulian, which holds, among other treasures, Bevilacqua’s Italian upholstery velvet

Walking along the Silk Road

Walking along the Silk Road

Lampasses, velvets, damasks and brocades have something in common, the core and secret of their preciousness. That something is silk, the raw material behind each of these fabrics. But where does silk come from? Luxury fabric silk comes to Europe From silkworms, you...

The velvet armour: Yiqing Yin

The velvet armour: Yiqing Yin

A garment which can protect and give strength to whom wears it, being both as natural as a second skin and as shielding as an armour: this is the mission which the young - she was born in 1985 - stylist Yiqing Yin has chosen to draw inspiration from for her creations....

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