Luxury – Italian-made quality takes centre stage this week in the foreign press’s coverage of Italy. Reuters recounts the plans of yacht maker Ferretti, which has secured a € 250 million capital increase (September 10 – Yacht maker Ferretti secures 250 million euro capital increase) as it prepares for its listing on the Milan Bourse expected in late October (September 16 – Italian yacht maker Ferretti plans to list in Milan by end-October) and eyes possible acquisitions abroad (16 September 16 – Italy’s Ferretti eyeing possible acquisition abroad after IPO: CEO). Also ready for listing is the Elisabetta Franchi fashion label, which is aiming to raise capital on AIM, the Milan bourse’s alternative market dedicated to SMEs (New York Times, September – Italy’s Elisabetta Franchi Fashion Label to List in Milan in Reverse Takeover; Reuters, 12 September 12 – Italy’s Elisabetta Franchi fashion label to list in Milan in reverse takeover). T Magazine, the The New York Times’s style magazine, dedicates an article to design, photographing a Tuscan villa furnished by Milan’s Dimore Studio, with a design capable of showing “a vision for the future of Italian Modernism” (September 17 – A Milan Design Firm Shakes Things Up in Florence).
Culture – In culture, El Pais covers the exhibition Florence is dedicating to Leonardo Da Vinci, the “Tuscan genius” who also made his contribution to botany (September 14 – Leonardo da Vinci: inventor, artista y ecologista), while Le Nouvel Observateur recounts the initiative of the Turin venue Hiroshima mon amour that bans cellphones in order to “foster the atmosphere and spectacle of concerts” (September 16 – Italie: une salle de spectacle va expérimenter le concert sans portable).
Tourism and wine & food– In tourism, Die Welt writes about the Amalfi Coast through Sigmund Freud’s “enthusiasm” for Sorrento and its surroundings (September 17 – Nach Neapel war die Amalfiküste ein wahres Paradies). The German daily also covers gourmet cuisine with a visit to the Italian Food Festival in Hamburg (September 17 – 72 Stunden lang italienische Kost austesten), while The New York Times writes about the work of Accademia Italiana della Cucina, the guardian of the “sanctity of Italian food” in the Big Apple, too (September 16 – Guarding the Sanctity of Italian Food, One Meal at a Time). Lastly, Metropoli, the supplement of the Spanish newspaper El Mundo, pays a visit to Eataly in Milan, on the occasion of the “extraordinary inauguration” of Viviana Varese’s restaurant Viva (September 16 – Tremenda inauguración del Viva de Viviana Varese en Milán).
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