From their workshop in Via Diaz, Como, to the kilns of Murano, Ico and Luisa Parisi have woven together architecture, design and the applied arts in a journey of creative freedom. A catalogue raisonné captures the surprising modernity of objects and ceramics that fully convey their originality.

“I try to write through visuals and to suggest a different way of thinking.” Travelling to lose oneself and learn to look at the world. From carved pumpkins in Peru to Indian woodblock prints. “Artisans are the scribes who understand visual languages that are often overlooked.”

With three rather unusual new products, Apple is back to experimenting and is banking on a future of increasingly diverse screens and devices. It is a strategy that remains somewhat unclear, whilst competitors are investing billions in artificial intelligence. In the meantime, however, the Cupertino-based company continues to rake in record revenues 

The impression given by this entertaining and profound production is that Gounod is truly the flip side of Offenbach. And we know that a production which reveals an aspect of an opera that had always eluded you is a successful one. Erath and Rustioni, A magnificent production at La Scala 

For seventeen years, through Henry Beyle, he has been publishing valuable books – often rare or forgotten – printed with an almost artisanal attention to typographical detail. Amidst misprints destined for the waste paper bin, uncut pages and authors from whom to learn, his approach to publishing is, above all, a lesson in freedom: knowing how to say no

Whilst the decline in orders is causing difficulties for the Italian fashion industry, with redundancies and restructuring, training and redeployment of workers are becoming key tools for safeguarding skills and production capacity

From humidity and light to the risks associated with transport and display, preserving historical garments requires preventative measures and specialist expertise. The preservation of archives is an increasingly important challenge for fashion houses, particularly with the advent of new materials. 

“The work will now get into full swing with the establishment of 10 thematic working groups that will work with representatives of the political parties starting in the coming days,” say the PD, M5S, AVS, IV, Più Europa, Più Uno and Progetto Civico, together with the PSI, in a statement.

Present in the chamber: the PD, the M5S, Ruffini representing Più uno, the Civic Ecologist Left, Renzi supporters and Calenda supporters. The Democratic Party secretary is almost moved to tears; indeed, it almost seems like a different centre-left from the one brawling outside.

"A group of pro-Russian hackers has decided to put a bounty on my head and that of my family," claims the leader of FI. Meloni: "Equally worrying is the circulation of fake images, which are also being shared by members of the opposition."

Let us savour this round of Premier League action, readers (and to Serie A supporters, I apologise), because then the international break will kick off again, and without even a CR7 to analyse. In Manchester they are singing Venditti, while in Italy there is debate over Totti’s prostate.

From Churchill, winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature, to Liz Truss, queen of self-publishing, the trajectory of former British prime ministers is becoming increasingly downward. When politics gives way to the pen, literature does not always benefit

The Agency for Cinema and Audiovisual Media has been established, having been unanimously approved thanks in part to the efforts of Pupi Avati. Last year, the 88-year-old director, speaking from the stage at the David di Donatello Awards, specifically asked Meloni and Schlein to get in touch, meet up or have a phone call to ‘save Italian cinema’.

From France to the United States, no capitalist country has developed without the condemnation and anti-modern criticism of its finest intellectuals. We, on the other hand, have feared our classical humanist past as a burden from which we must free ourselves in order to be, or appear to be, in step with the times

The change at the helm of the European Central Bank could not have come at a worse time. And in order to ‘manage’ expectations, carefully calibrated communication with the financial markets is required

The war with Iran is in the background, whilst the Israelis are assessing their relationship with Trump.

Who wrote to the editor-in-chief, Claudio Cerasa