“We native Venetians and long-term residents number just over 50,000. We are dying out. Soon, we will disappear. The city prefers to be inhabited by someone else: not so much by other categories of human beings but by another way of being in the world.” – Tiziano Scarpa March 25, 2021, dawned quietly in Venice. The city was still in full lockdown, a Zona Rossa. The Piazza was empty, the calli were eerily still. It was a subdued day to celebrate the birth of Venice. According …
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New Ravenna Presents the Gracie Collection
March 9, 2021 (Exmore, Virginia) ..... New Ravenna, America’s premier designer and manufacturer of mosaics for residential and commercial installations, is pleased to present the Gracie collection in collaboration with Gracie, makers of handpainted wallpaper since 1898. Five Gracie designs were selected for interpretation into glass mosaics. The designs were chosen to represent international historic themes, from Roman and Chinese antiquity to the late Japanese Edo period, and French Art …
Bella Notte Linens Introduces Spring 2021 with Taline and Poppy
January 5, 2021 (Novato, California) ....Bella Notte, America’s original brand of home washable luxury bed linens, is pleased to introduce Taline, Poppy, and an expanded range of products in the embroidered Ines collection. The Taline collection is created from glowing silk linen charmeuse with elongated charmeuse tassels. As a personal comforter, Taline is backed in midweight linen and lightly padded for a layer of warmth. Taline is also available as sham, lumbar, accent, and 24" square …
New Ravenna Introduces Natural Selections designed by Kevin O’Brien
October 22, 2020 (Exmore, Virginia) ....New Ravenna, America’s premier designer and manufacturer of mosaics for both residential and commercial installations, is pleased to introduce Natural Selections, a collection of 12 mosaics designed by Kevin O'Brien. Each design represents a mosaic interpretation of O'Brien's velvet textile designs. For this collaboration with New Ravenna, O'Brien sourced designs spanning his twenty year library of artisan creations. Imagery in Natural Selections …
Bella Notte Linens Introduces Fall 2020 with New Textiles and Colors
July 15, 2020 (Novato, California) ....Bella Notte, America’s original brand of home washable luxury bed linens, is pleased to introduce new Fall 2020 textiles and colors. Fleur is a bouquet of vibrant blooms printed on luminous silk charmeuse, in warm or cool jewel-tones. Lynette is delicate floral embroidery with pale gold accents on softly textured silk velvet. The embroidery pattern was inspired by vintage chinoiserie, and reveals an elegant detailing when Lynette is garment dyed in any one …