Italy and Design

Italy and Design
By Annsley Strong

Everyone likes Italy. Well, maybe not everyone,
but I don't get those who don't. It's got beautiful
architecture, iconic art, fabulous topography
inland and along the coasts, warm colors, people
of passion for life and love, food that has taken
flight from the comfort we Americans associate
with our own and a light that transcends it all.
Did I mention the light? And the love? I mean,
it takes courage to start your Saturday evening
on a park bench, literally entwined in each other,
completely ignorant of the wedding party and
guests gathering around you, watching you
watching the view. Bold! Engaged! In the
moment.
But I digress. Each of the component parts of
the landscape--ancient, modern, ruinous or
reimagined--is veiled in the softest of lights,
held loosely by the softest caress. There is a
grazing of the cheek, a glow that emanates from
within, a joy that should be reinterpreted in every
interior and exterior space. It is the single most
important element of any space--purposeful but
seemingly unintended, natural. It remains the
focus of what we do.