30/05/2008 - Magazine YEAR XII - Number 2 - June/September 2008
A city dipped in green. Such is Turin, which has made this colour the symbol of Torino World Design Capital, which on the occasion of the World Congress of Architects in June will touch the apex of an event being held in the Piedmont capital for the first time.
But green is also the colour of Turin’s rich collection of trees, a treasure that led the European Congress of Arboriculture to vote it European Tree Capital. Coming on the heels of the Winter Olympics and the designation, along with Rome, as World Book Capital, two more prestigious acknowledgements that reward a city that has been able in just a few years to transform itself and to take up challenges not limited only to industry. Two opportunities, two facts that we hope – not without a pinch of Savoy pride – can serve as an example to Italy as a whole. In this difficult moment, we would like for the change in course undertaken by Turin to be, if not an example, at least a model for a country in search of new outlets and new identities, new certainties and shared synergies. Like the synergy that Turin and Milan and their respective regions are working up in view of Expo 2015, or that in 2011 will see the entire nation celebrate the 150th Anniversary of Italian Unification. Marked by greater sharing of intentions, projects and hopes. Beyond the colours of politics.
INDEX
LUXURY TOPOGRAPHY
pag. 4 – Torino e il Design
pag. 6 – Aimaro Isola
pag. 12 – Roberto Sambonet
pag. 14 – Event map
pag. 16 – A very special tour
GOLDEN PAGES
pag. 18 – From 7.00 p.m.
GOURMANDISES
pag. 24 – Appetising view
pag. 30 – Dinner appeal
PEOPLE
pag. 34 – Mario Cresci
pag. 40 – Anna Zegna
pag. 44 – Massimo Nava
CULT OBJECT
pag. 48 – Mangusta close-up
SOPHISTICATED SHOPPING
pag. 54 – Sunny season
AGENDA
pag. 58 – A long summer
THI NOTEBOOK
pag. 70 – Star guests
pag. 72 – THI addresses