Tag: Favale di Malvaro
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Weird but Wonderful | Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs in Italy
While I was in Italy art directing “The Brian Boitano Project,” I began to notice something peculiar. Everywhere I went, I saw Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs. There are several versions of the fairy tale in Italy, dating back to the fifteenth century. Which is interesting, but doesn’t explain why they are so beloved,…
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Style Moment | A house in Favale
“Beauty is a summation of the parts working together in such a way that nothing needs to be added, taken away or altered.” Elio Carletti (1925-1980) Italian artist
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Eye on Design | The Brian Boitano Project | HOW TO | Dining room pendant
If you’ve seen the posts about The Brian Boitano Project, you’ll know that I had the best job of my life as art director of the HGTV television show, chronicling the renovation of a crumbling stone villa in the mountains of Italy. One of the most asked questions regarding the details of the design is…
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Italy | The Great Big Italian Feast
It was like a movie. On the side of a mountain, just off a treacherously curvy road, the residents of the town of Favale di Malvaro gathered for a Sunday afternoon feast. Brian’s contractor for the renovation of his family home in Favale was Enzo Pezzolo, and he invited us all to the town feast. …
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Eye on Design | HGTV | The Brian Boitano Project | Behind the Scenes
By now you’ll have seen the television show (if you haven’t you can find it on Netflix), and, as promised, here is my personal chronicle of Brian Boitano’s transformation of a 19th century stone house in the village of Favale di Malvaro, Italy. He started by knocking down some walls. The ground floor consisted of…
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HGTV | The Brian Boitano Project
In a tiny hamlet called Favale di Malvaro, on top of a mountain in Northern Italy, was a house where time stood still. An abandoned stone house, crumbling and derelict, was still filled with the furniture and personal relics that had belonged to countless generations of one family – the Boitanos. No one had lived…
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Style Moment | Piselli vines, Italy
“There is no better designer than nature.” Alexander McQueen (1969-2010) British fashion designer
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Up in the Clouds
[cvg-video videoId=’5′ mode=’playlist’ /] Watching the clouds move across the mountains on a rainy day in Liguria, Italy. Music: “Brucia la Terra” (“Speak Softly Love”), sung live, at my side
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Style Moment | Favale di Malvaro, Italy
“Travel does what good novelists also do to the life of everyday, placing it like a picture in a frame or a gem in its setting, so that the intrinsic qualities are made more clear. Travel does this with the very stuff that everyday life is made of, giving to it the sharp contour and…
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Style Moment | A house in Liguria, Italy
“We ascribe beauty to that which is simple; which has no superfluous parts; which exactly answers its end.” Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803-1882) American poet
