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A summer all ‘italiana’

In the summer the restaurant menu Zorzi NYC is a refined reinterpretation, in a contemporary style of the most famous dishes of Italian cuisine of the Northeast.

Colours and flavours of Belpaese in the “summer” Zorzi NYC restaurant, the “ristoculturalpoint of Manhattan who wants to give space to the culture and culinary traditions of Italy and, in particular, Venice. A mastery of it, of course it is the fish, but there is good U.S. beef.
“Our main dish is the fillet of sea bass cooked in a pan with potato crust, which is literally driving mad our customers,” says the young chef of the restaurant, Marco Berto. The recipe, however, is the flagship risotto Zorzi. “This is a risotto with prawns in a mixing raw champagne, very exquisite, a recipe created by Franco, his wife Tiziana and Alberto Zorzi, renamed ‘Lovester’ that can be translated nicely ‘lobster lover’, a tribute in a romantic almost to render homage to Venice, where they were born many of our recipes. ” Amongst the first, we notice that a dish is an original point of contact between the Italian and the U.S.: the red potato dumplings stuffed with salt cod with plenty on butter.
Do not miss the famous fry mixed with a Venetian, in which the fish is covered only with flour. Delicious, however, the scallops with vegetables, prepared in a way unusual for New York.
Between the seconds of meat, we recommend the fillet scalded in frying pan with flakes of Parmesan and rosemary sauce, or fillet on both sides peppered, the cut of beef with balsamic vinegar, chicken with fresh artichokes. All prepared with simplicity, as it is used in Italy. “The meat and fish in the United States are - ensures the chef of the restaurant Zorzy Nyc - of high quality, we prefer to find the formula to enhance the flavours through a few seasonings, and restaurants in New York that is sometimes concealed by the sauces used” .
Several desserts are always available, inspired by the Venetian and international cuisine. As fruit tarts, tiramisù trevisano with the amaretto, but also any kind of Bavarian strudel pears with chocolate sauce, as well as a symbol of the Venetian Carnival: the pancakes. The sweet that goes for the higher the fruit salad with ice cream made in house, a sign of the increasing attention of New York for your diet.
“If I am free for a while, I love to spend time amongst the tables and chat with the customers. I discovered to my delight - says Marco Berto - that many customers are already familiar with the Venetian and Italian food. “The chef of the restaurant tells Zorzi NYC, by the way, an amusing anecdote.”When I replaced the menu with a summer on, an American lady asked me with astonishment: ‘But how? Removed bigoli sauce! ‘. And I, surprised but pleased, I had to respond that it is not a summer dish, but that if she wanted to have it so, I could prepare her dish at any time …”

Cultural and Artistic Paths

Morandi at the Met

“The Italian quiet artist ” at the Metropolitan Museum in New York

When the Grand Prix for painting at the Venice Biennale of 1964 was awarded to Robert Rauschemberg, many wrote that the award went to the heavy tendency of the American Pop Art, at the same time as the Italian artist died more silent.
Giorgio Morandi (Bologna 1890-1964) has vanished in June of that year, precisely during the days of the paint of the Biennale. He painted all his life an endless series of still lives with bottles. The large retrospective exhibition that was recently dedicated the Metropolitan Museum in New York was therefore to provide a safe failure. Why, it was said, it is difficult for the American public understands and accepts an artist so distinctive and intimate. E ‘instead the opposite happened and the subtle and delicate poetry of her dusty bottles was well understood in New York. The press, in fact, noted the show with praise highly tones. The truth is that the work of Morandi raises an issue understandable to every latitude, that of reflection on the language of art. Its slowness and its silence then become recognizable elements of timeless art and cultural connotations geographical concerns and involve everyone. His vases and bottles express his imaginative vision that brings to mind a poem by Roland Barthes in which he says that the objects of our daily “do not notice when we are dead.” It happens to the bottles of Morandi expressing it in fact, a painful metaphor for life.

New York Itinerary

Penthouse on Broadway

It’s time for real estate in the Big Apple: the 25% price decline of apartments and houses is a greedy investment opportunity.

After several years of rapid growth to the tune of 10%-20% each year, the Manhattan residential market has entered a new stage – a stage ripe with potential opportunities for the savvy investor.
Manhattan’s real estate market has seen a significant price correction over the past several months. Compared to 2007, in the fourth quarter of 2008 the number of transactions was down by 10% and the number of units in the market (inventory) was up 40%. Two primary causes of this price correction are the recent credit crunch and a great influx of new properties.
The first has greatly reduced buyers’ ability to acquire any asset type, including real estate. Banks are now extremely reluctant or refusing altogether to finance more than 65% of the property value. As a result, we are seeing a strong reduction in the number of potential buyers with sufficient cash for a market where the smallest units are still very expensive relative to the rest of the country - 500 sqf studios are still selling for an average of $350k to $600k.
The second, 35,000 new units coming to the market over the next 18-24 months, will add new supply which will take a few years to be absorbed. The current rate is 7,000 units per year, down from 12,000 in 2007. The likely result is a negative price trend over the next 6-12 months and a 3-5 year period before the demand will exhaust the new supply and prices will start to increase again. The rent market has also declined but much less than the sales market, resulting in an increase in average yields per square foot.
In assessing the Manhattan real estate market it is also important to highlight what makes it almost unique in the United States. Manhattan is a small island where the demand for existing housing and new developments is constrained within its approximately 23 sq. miles. Over the long run there is a general imbalance from inadequate supply. We therefore believe that any period, such as the current one, in which Manhattan real estate deviates from its normal supply shortage towards an oversupply-based market, presents a potentially promising opportunity.
Secondly, Manhattan has a limited stock of investment properties, with its greater percentage of Co-op properties compared of Condo properties. Co-op regulations generally impose barriers to entry for buyers seeking investment properties. Almost all the new supply coming to the market are Condos, making it more compelling for investors to enter this market.
Finally, Manhattan’s status as “capital of the world” and its high wealth and income levels seem to make it immune from the distress seen in other markets such as Miami or Las Vegas where foreclosures – virtually non-existent here – have become all too familiar. As a result, we believe the prevailing winds in Manhattan to point to a period of relative decline followed by resurgence. This, combined with the other factors mentioned above, should make the downside risk of investing in Manhattan’s real estate much more limited than elsewhere in the U.S.
Given the significant price correction over the past 8 months, (new transactions are being cleared at 15% to 30% discounts as compared with during the peak in 2006-2007), we are in the presence of a compelling entry point not seen since the early 90s. The decrease in price and the increase in yields create an extremely interesting opportunity for a medium-long term investor. Higher discounts are obtainable in the case of new developments, especially for “bulk” buyers. 
Fifth Avenue Advisors’ Primary Investment Criteria: Possibility to acquire real estate assets at a price below the average per square foot (1 sq. meter is approximately 11sq. feet): now ca. $1,250 for the general market and $1,900 for the luxury market); Stability in the rent market: gross yields are around 6% p.a.; Targeting of specific sub-areas primed for extra growth (ex. Financial District); Investment horizons of 5-7 years; Opportunity windows of 12-18 months.
The combination of the credit crunch, an oversupply in the market, and stability in rents, make the Manhattan real estate market very compelling for an investor with a 5-7 year horizon.

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The European investor should be aware that the Manhattan market is highly regulated and full of complexities likely to confound most foreigners. Local support and assistance are needed not only to properly identify the best potential investments, negotiate deals, and supervise the closing but also to deal with the related legal, accounting and fiscal issues.

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For more information on the U.S. real estate market please visit www.fifthavenuead.com. Fifth Avenue Advisors LLC is an independent U.S. company that provides consulting, advisory and research services to investors from overseas and helps them identify the best available opportunities.

FASHION

Sea of Joy

We always wondered why the idea of a vacation that time spoke only of mountains and pines, shady woodlands with a cooler, green meadows, in the second half of the twentieth century has taken the road of the Sea, replacing those pictures green blue vast expanses of water where the contrast is the white foam of waves that refract.

Beach, sun, sea have become a holiday in absolute fashion and the very symbol of the summer.
In the show rooms of the big brands proposals sea hours overlap tiny bikini, body or bikini beach hours refined cocktail dresses made with a pare of aristocratic bill thrown onto the costume.
E ‘tempo di sole and fashion compliant with the need to give breath to the skin, perhaps helping with the new high-security products such as the sun tried Collistar strategy or the new Solar Sublime de L’Oreal, spreads on the skin while respecting the before and after the experts recommended in the instructions accompanying each product. Full Story

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Flavors of the Mediterranean

Gastronomy Class at the Aromi Restaurant & Bar at the Hilton Molino Stucky Venice.

A workshop of contemporary Mediterranean cuisine. So is the Aromas Restaurant & Bar, elegant and prestigious restaurant of the “Bars and Restaurants Collection” of the Hilton Molino Stucky Venice. The first to succeed in bringing that Mark Bolasco, director of guidance Ristoranti d’Italia del Gambero Rosso, “a ‘Network of the Fisherman’ directly on the table of a Hilton.” The reference is proposed by all’ antipasto namesake restaurant, inspired by the tradition of ‘ciccheti’ in ‘bacari’ Venetian strictly in the style of the flavoring. A sort of network rovesciata the stern of a vessel, which thus reveals its delights, such as anchovies in ice cream ’soar’, shrimp coconut milk, tuna and asparagus, prawns in aria orange, curled octopus on roasted focaccia d ‘ olives, ‘moeche’ on algae, squid stuffed with tomato mush.
Selected products and recipes, primarily among those of the Venetian tradition and reinterpreted in a creative duo of chef d’exception: a veteran of high food which is the executive chef Franco Luise and chef d’origins Salernitane Antonio Vitale . Thus the Mediterranean and its fruits are well represented by the dishes offered. How nell’insalata of lobster, grilled octopus and other seafood, or in fillets of mullet all’aglio fresh parsley and accompanied by a season in Treviso radicchio crispy, or foie gras pan on envy and zabaione all’arancia caramelized fig. Or even by seasoned ricotta gnocchi from frozen basil and a delight in the Venetian lagoon, in the canoce stew. But it is the vegetable lasagna, with flower pumpkin mousse filling and mozzarella cheese, the dish that marks the encounter between two cultures: between the Venetian with the colors of vegetables and Sant’Erasmo Parthenopean with the flavor of a mousse mozzarella di buffalo. The lagoon should be reconstructed in a rather ‘fish mosaic’ composed of shrimp, scallops, monkfish tail, shrimp, fish and squid and served with salsa coral all’aglio and lemon basil. Surprising, however, among the meat dishes, the filet of beef injected Refosco and cooked in hay. Among the desserts, could not miss the Tiramisu, among zabaione, millefeuille and various chocolate delights.
Intimate and sophisticated at the same time, the Aromas Restaurant & Bar in Venice exemplifies a concept of modern luxury, without frills but with a lot of substance. His areas offer both inside and tables, in summer, also a panoramic terrace along the Canale della Giudecca.

Aromas Restaurant & Bar
Hilton Molino Stucky Venice
Giudecca 810 - Venice
Tel: +39 041 2723311
www.molinostuckyhilton.com

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A lavish nest of Papadopoli

One of the homonymous gardens and the picturesque canal of Tolentini, Hotel Papadopoli Venice is both a novelty and confirmation

A change of name to remain the reference point of modern Venetian hospitality. The historic Hotel Sofitel Venice becomes Papadopoli Hotel in Venice, becoming part of a new and exclusive collection of the group Accor.
The new name of the hotel, which has 97 rooms and suites, recalls the adjacent gardens Papadopoli, who in turn take the names of former owners, a rich merchant family of Greek origin, they were to remove the existing buildings and exploit monastic orchards and gardens by planting fruit trees and mulberry trees. In 1834 the gardens were redesigned by the painter and set designer Francesco Bagnara, and in the years following, hosted memorable festivities.
The hotel furniture reflects the splendor achieved by the Venetian Republic, in particular during the eighteenth century Venice. Sober and elegant, the Papadopoli Venice Hotel enjoys a picturesque view of the canal Tolentini and is surrounded by green gardens of the same name, which overflow inside through the charming winter garden, the work of Master Peter Porcinai. Between the freshness of exotic plants found space and tables, always finely drawn, the restaurant is renowned in Venice for the cuisine and atmosphere strict confidential: an experience not only in taste but also of the spirit.
The coffee-bar Salotto Veneziano has a rather prestigious history, as a forum for lively cultural meetings, attended by artists and intellectuals of the city. Its visitors can be inspired by the volumes of the library devoted to the theme of travel, while a corner was dedicated to Corto Maltese, the character created by the pencil of the master of comic Hugo Pratt, habitual frequenter of the hotel during his stay in Venice. The famous and charming sailor was spent inside the “Campiello Corto Maltese”, which reproduces in detail typical Venetian squares: the walls of the houses where the bricks noticeably discovered, small windows with flowers, the typical lace, and even a cat faces.
The services are guaranteed high level, with maximum comfort, with exclusive services available to their guests such as private motorboat and the Golden Keys Concierge.
A unique feature of Papadopoli Venice is its position among the most functional of the lagoon city, near the Canal Grande, near the Bridge of the Constitution - is involved in glass and steel of the renowned Spanish architect Santiago Calatrava - colleague that within a few minutes with the hotel logistics hubs to Piazzale Roma and the railway station. With just a few steps to bite in the lattice of culture, art and history of Venice, the Scuola Grande di San Rocco frescoes by Tintoretto and the Church of Santa Maria Gloriosa dei Frari with the ‘Assunta’, a masterpiece of Titian and the Scuola Grande dei Carmini reflects the work of Tiepolo.

Papadopoli Hotel Venice - Hotel Sofitel Venice former
Papadopoli Gardens - Santa Croce, 245
30135 Venice
e-mail: h1313@accor.com
www.hotel-Papadopoli-venezia.com
www.sofitel-venezia.com

Tel: (+39) 041 710 400
Fax (+39) 041 710 394

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Dreams of light

A diamond bridge between Vicenza and New York

“Diamonds are the girls’ best friends” Nicole Kidman sang swing on a swing at the center of Mouling Rouge, and before her Marilyn Monroe on the set of “Gentlemen prefer blondes.” Jewelry, diamonds, diamonds, gold, pearls. The simple view is shining eyes of any woman and etymologically speaking the word is preceded by a joint one with joy.
Two major sport events such as an essential accessory of fashion and design. Prior to Vicenza and then in New York you can visit an impressive display of jewelry exhibition, jewelry, silverware and watches.
In Italy Vicenzaoro First / charm (May 16-20) Glamroom the pavilion has attracted particular interest due to elegant displays of jewelry  female author could particularly benefit from new previews have shown that a merger between particular colors, shapes with alternative materials such as wood, glass, ceramics. Inside the Gem World, a site dedicated to the display of gems, precious stones and related services from around the world.
The event, aimed at business operators, and has been the main spectator as the ultimate consumer, he or she better, that the front window of a shop will not resist the beauty and brightness of that object that makes eyes light imaging already him.
New collections and trends in the jewelry will be exhibited to the JA, or International Jewelry Show in New York. The Javits Convention Center will host a large exhibition with over 1,500 suppliers who will showcase their precious works. Jewelry and latest news from around the world will be visible in the period between 26 and 29 July 2009.
In addition to the exhibition showcases the fair will give the opportunity, through seminars, to learn to control and manage a store by increasing sales. Exposure not only to consumers but also for those who want to learn how to properly manage and increase sales through the courses and tests to be simulated.
Every taste and desire will be able to find it as a jewel, but the fair also offers the possibility of finding new ideas, new ideas to an increasingly rich and meet all requirements. The diamonds shine with light, always decorate the eyes of the wearer, but for once, will light the dreams of those who, beyond those windows, for an instant imaginary of being a fairy princess.

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A light that changes

For the 46th times of the International Furniture Fair in Milan (48 editions), Roberto Pamio has two lamps to low-and high design content.

Ended a few weeks ago in Milan what is, for me, the 46th edition of the International Furniture Fair. The number of editions I took part is enormous, a total of 48 editions in which I participated: it is from 1962 that I bring my work regularly, missing only two times to the important event, including the first edition.
It is important for me not only as an honor, being part in this event, which is a beacon of reference of the furnishings, and creativity of the illumination in Italy and internationally. Even this year they are not missing, when it was a hit in record of nearly 280 million visitors (over half of them foreigners), and was promoted an almost infinite number of events inside and outside the large exhibition area of Rho, which catalyzed the ‘attention of the media, not just those in the sector. Within Euroluce, the International Exhibition of Enlightenment, an event that is connected to the hub for the sector, Fabbian presented it to the public and business operators, the two latest creations signed Pamio Design, or the two lamps “Zoè” and “Sail”.
Fabbian, with which I work from about ten years, has proved once again to be a company that stands against the crisis by investing in demanding products, continuing to focus on quality and working to expand its market. For example, opening a new branch in the United States, New Jersey.
The speaker “Zoé” is designed for use in retail outlets, showrooms or outlets and is characterized by the low energy consumption, as more and more important. The lamp is made from a white shell with metallic wires of steel support independent media and power supply to the ceiling (to electrification voltage for fluorescent lighting).
“Sail” is a lamp-image, ideal for public places that mean ‘tendency to do’, such as bars and restaurants, which can be used both internally and externally. The particular shape makes it a tool to furnish through the light: it is a vertical diffuser in white printed polyethylene rotational base with die-cast aluminum (to electrification voltage halogen lamp and led rim) suited to creating ‘ islands’ and specific environments, thanks to the ability to choose the shade through the colored lights.

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The future is its ArchiNature

In Venice a premium on the bio-architecture. Why are key responsibilities of the environmental industry sector?

Whether a single family or town house that is on modern piles on the Po Delta, the project planned for Palo Scanno that won ‘ArchiNature 2009′ Award sponsored by the Commission dell'’Ordine sustainability of Landscape Architects and Planners Conservatori Province Venice, home of the future will be environmentally friendly. On basis of the least environmental impact and, in contrast, the intervention to achieve, it will be completely reversible and recyclable, taking into the consideration the fact to alter the user’s landscape.
“It’s constantly growing demand for increased safety and fire resistance, greater well-being and health in the face of lower energy costs, architectural and comfortable city in which you feel rooted and part of a community - remember the president of the Committee Matthew Pandolfo sustainability - but we must not forget that now, the construction sector accounts for approximately 40% of CO2 emissions, provision of waste, energy consumption, when not responsible for enormous wastage or collapse. ”
The latest example was the recent earthquake in Italy, which had the merit of making us reflect on the importance of building awareness in contemporary society, but it is sad to think of a theme so important after a natural disaster, when we entities are responsible to do that for years working in this direction. The Chamber of Architects of the Province of Venice has established such a commission since 2006 sustainability with the goal of creating an opportunity for discussion and debate on issues of bio-ecological, to promote and support the culture of eco-sustainability in architecture and to foster opportunities for discussion between those who simply want to know more. In this respect, it was also created the “ArchiNature” addressed to all subscribers to the architects who can participate with works project attentive to issues of bio-architecture. Projects that have attended the last edition have been exposed to Forte Marghera at the Fair “Nature 2009″, leaving it to the public the opportunity to vote for the best project.
“But in spite of these issues will talk a lot, the road ahead is still long - we still says architect Matthew Pandolfo - we realized that there is a lot of ignorance and uninterested for most of the designers. The same university of architecture seems to keep churning graduates who are very interested in these issues, but are often disappointed with the inability of teachers to find answers to the climate emergency that affects us directly “.

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Depero and New York - Against Venice Passatistas

Depero and New York
Advertising Architecture

He was a futurist, everybody knows that. It was the future of advertising, design, 360 ° perception of the world. E ‘Fortunato Depero, the artist who designed the “Futurist Reconstruction of the Universe”, the title as one of its most fascinating writings signed by the painter Giacomo Balla. Depero has left the mark of his “Architecture advertising” as defined himself, and everybody knows that those who are working every day to the realization of a book, a graphic design for a web page or an object of design and per cent other things. “Everything, everywhere, it was decided tendency futuristic; by the architecture of the pavilions colored plastic gardening and kiosks; from woven fabrics, printed, embroidered with crystals from the book, theater etc.. etc… Indicating the triumph of style dynamic, mechanical, ultra-colorful of our times and insistently claimed by the Futurists. “The work of Depero, the first artist of the twentieth century created their own house-museum (opened a few weeks in Rovereto, Italy), has also Futurist dynamism with the ocean arriving in New York. Since his first trip to America in 1928, Depero found in the Big Apple as the fulfillment of imagination futurist about the speed, action, dynamism. Careful to attend theaters and clubs to capture artistic tastes and trends of daily life begin, established his artistic laboratory on 5th Avenue. Among its activities, the presentation of the covers of magazines like Vanity Fair or Vogue interior design of restaurants like Enrico & Paglieri (where today stands the Rockefeller Center) and Zucca, the futuristic first restaurant in New York.

“Against Venice Passatistas”
Directions to the renewal of the city

If there is a legal issue  today and believe instead of the Grand Canal would be perhaps a great airport, or who knows what form of architecture. Yet, in April 1910, approximately one hundred years ago, the manifesto “Against Venice passat” came out of the drawer of a group of avant-garde artists who have argued with great tone, the destruction of the writing, the remaking of the forms in sculpture and painting , aesthetics audience and courage, the abolition of museums, libraries and academies of every kind. ” Filippo Tommaso Marinetti, leader and founder of Futurism, glorified today in various cultural projects of international scope, he found himself along with Umberto Boccioni, Carlo Carrà and Luigi Russolo for signing a manifesto of intent against Venice, the city of “great nostalgic dream.” Reading the document, the wonder and charm won the reader “to fill loving the small stinking canals with the debris of old buildings and derelict sickness. Burn the gondolas, rocking chairs for jerks, and rise up to heaven, the imposing geometry of metal bridges and factories canopy of smoke, for lifting the sagging curves of the old architecture. “A few months later, in July, the leaders of Futurism, Marinetti, hastened to make a “speech futuristic” written ad hoc for the Venetians and delivered to the La Fenice theater, with the stated aim of liberating the world from the tyranny of ‘ love, of sentimentality and nostalgia, to make Venice a “great and strong industrial, commercial and military” ready to dominate the Adriatic Sea.