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Saints and Martyrs

St. Anne, Italy 1968 I’ve already said here how thin is the line between Holiness and Grotesque. And althogh I completly understand the kitschness and grotesque look of these icons, there still a mistery that is able to capture me. Saints and Martyrs is…

Villa Rufolo, Ravello

Villa Rufolo is, together with Villa Cimbrone, the other wonderful Villa located in Ravello. Both the villas were laying in decay and poor condition until two english men took them back to their splendour during the 19th century. The Villa…

Piero Fornasetti

“So I dressed with remaining ceramics, furniture and objects; so I placed a message in each, a small story, at times ironic and obviously wordless, but audible to those who believe in poetry.” Piero Fornasetti Time ago, while I was…

Villa Cimbrone, Ravello

Ravello seems to be the place where romantic and intellectual english men found the peace long yearned and sought after the wanderings of the Grand Tour. Villa Cimbrone, along with the other Villa Rufolo, it’s one of these places. The Villa belonged…

A shell shop in Amalfi

Incredible how sometimes life is. I found this shop in Amalfi and it was the same shop I stopped by about 10 years ago, when I visited for the first time this city. It sells only sea-things, from shell to…

Everybody ashamed of loving pop: 90′s music

Many times I tried to choose a period when people used to dress the worst way possible, a period when bad taste was the rule, but I always ended up thinking that we can’t choose one because first, fashion is…