How to decorate with paintings

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HOW TO DECORATE WITH PAINTINGS: SUGGESTIONS AND MISTAKES YOU SHOULDN’T MAKE

How to decorate with paintings and give more personality to rooms of your home or your office?
To answer this question you need to consider many elements, because there are endless possibilities, and it’s easy to block in front of banal choices and leave everything halfway through.

In this post you’ll find some useful advice to help you put your idea into practice.

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Original mugs for art lovers

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ORIGINAL MUGS MADE FOR THOSE WHO LOVE ART AND GREAT MASTERPIECES

Which are the original mugs for art lovers?
Obviously, mugs reproducing great masterpieces of art which can make you start the day in style, on all counts.

If it’s true that a good beginning bodes well, then you must start with a bang and, in my opinion, there’s nothing better than admiring a great masterpiece. In this post I gathered some ideas about the most beautiful mugs on sale, a sort of buyers’ guide useful in making your breakfast more beautiful or to give them as a gift to an art lover, like you and me.

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How to decorate your home in Art Nouveau style: the unmissable objects

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HOW TO DECORATE YOUR HOME IN ART NOUVEAU STYLE: THE UNMISSABLE OBJECTS

How to decorate your home in Art Nouveau style with few objects
Over the last few months many of you have asked me to give some more space to design and also to objects that can give a dash of beauty to our homes and our everyday life.

So, here is the first of a series of posts containing some advice about making your home an old-time place.
In this post you’ll find some objects to decorate your home in Art Nouveau style.

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Design lamps: those which made history and are still modern

DESIGN LAMPS: THOSE WHICH MADE HISTORY AND ARE STILL PERFECT FOR A MODERN HOUSE

There are design lamps which made history but are still perfect for modern houses and I go crazy for useful objects which make life more beautiful with a dash of history of creativity.

In this post I’ll show you the most famous design lamps characterized by timeless style and one of those was part of my life for a long time.
Which one do you prefer? 

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Perpetual Calendar: the form of time becoming design

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PERPETUAL CALENDAR: THE FORM OF TIME BECOMING DESIGN

There was a time you had to look at the calendar to know what day it was, and there were no phone or computer screens telling the day or what time it was.
Do you remember that?
At that time desk calendars were fundamental, and in 1966 Enzo Mari designed for the brand Danese the Timor perpetual calendar, which became an object of desire, and is a design icon still today.

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