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Discover the landscapes, symbols and traditions behind Cortina, Toscana and Amalfi.

Cortina Toscana Amalfi

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The Table

What protects a wood, marble or glass table, and what belongs on it once it is set. The practical questions, answered.

Protecting Your Table Setting the Table All Table Guides

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Hosting & Living

Stories about receiving guests, living naturally and the ways our relationship with the home and table continues to change.

The Philosophy Receiving Guests Entertaining Today Hosting at Home

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Linen & Craft

Follow the material, the embroidery and the Italian hands behind MI RE LA, together with the story and philosophy of the brand.

Living With Linen The Craft Our Origins

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In the Kitchen

Recipes, ingredients and the small decisions behind Italian cooking, from what belongs in the pan to what is better left out.

Explore In the Kitchen

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Four Inches Below the Knee

Before the 1930s nobody bought clothes for skiing. By the mid-1940s the trousers had changed shape for good. The window in between is what these two motifs are wearing. Read more...

The Rules That Kept the Valley Whole

In the fourteenth century the Regole closed whole forests to cutting and grazing for years at a time. The landscape that looks untouched is the result of decisions. Read more...

The Moment Before It Moves

The reserve that saved the ibex paid a bounty for every fox killed. One of them needed a king and a century to come back. The other never left Read more...

The Animal That Returned to the Rock

In 1965 eight ibex were released in the Dolomites. One pair walked away, crossed two mountain groups, and founded the colony still standing above Cortina. Read more...

Aperitivo, Back Inside

Après-ski faces backwards, toward the slope. Aperitivo faces the other way. The Italian hour between the last run and dinner, and what a table is for once people start using... Read more...

The Mountain Does Not Need to Be Added

Antlers on the wall, skis over the door, checks on every cushion. The houses in Cortina that convince you do the opposite, and they always have. Read more...

The Flower Closest to the Rock

The emblem of the Alps did not come from the Alps. It arrived from the deserts of Central Asia during the ice ages, wearing a coat built to survive drought. Read more...

Before the Chairlift

In 1925 a cable car saved you an hour of walking. In 1936 a sledge carried fifteen people up through the snow. Then came a single chair, and one skier... Read more...

A Village That Learned to Receive the World

Most people already have an image of Cortina. It is real, but it is not the beginning. A prologue to Collezione Cortina and the five motifs from the valley. Read more...