What we have just said goodbye to was a year of changes and important decisions, as I have already described in my previous editorial.
The goal in 2026, however complex, will be to get out of a comfort zone in which everything is beautiful by definition. It’s time to break the silence when something isn’t convincing: the last article in our Style Ideas column clarifies this without leaving room for doubt.
Our gaze is focused on the house, of course, but nothing prevents us from applying this critical exercise to everything that surrounds us. In fact, I recommend it and do it every now and then, it helps to refocus.
With that said, let’s move on.
I’m very happy with what lies ahead and, shortly, you will see new and significant changes in the magazine. I’m very happy with what lies ahead and, shortly, you will see new and significant changes in the magazine.
Let’s not rush, let’s proceed in an orderly manner.
In recent weeks, among the various articles, we have also told you about our holiday table, where the color palette has favored antique pink – a nuance that we will continue to see also in 2026 – together with a British-inspired mise en place, with velvet inserts for the tablecloths.
We talked about the renovation of a house in the countryside between the Itria Valley and the Murgia of Puglia. Here the starting point was not the simple redevelopment of a residence, but a “broken promise”: a volume in reinforced concrete, abandoned, devoid of finishes and, above all, a real soul.
Unmissable, then, is the space dedicated to the cultural panorama which opens the new year with a calendar full of Exhibitions & Events. One above all: “Liberty. The art of modern Italy”, opening in Brescia on January 24th. Over one hundred masterpieces – including paintings, sculptures, photographs, graphics and refined atelier clothes – tell the story of the transition between the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. An era that, I admit, I continue to find profoundly fascinating.
Happy start of the year to all of you.
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