Posts Tagged ‘cup’

An uncontrollable passion

Magazine -> #2 Creating Opportunities

It gets into your head, but mostly into your heart and senses; it is something vague until the object of desire materialises, and then you can reach out for it, touch it, possess it. At the cost of no matter what sacrifice. The love of making collections is a phenomenon the outcome of which may be a collection of cards but also a collection of excl...

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The magic cup, not only for coffee

Magazine -> #2 Creating Opportunities

White, big, smooth, perhaps somewhat irrational, but beautiful. In my recollections, at least. It's the cup I used to drink my milk in when I was a child. There was also coffee but maybe, because of the particular period, the war had just ended, it was more like an impression of dark colouring rather than real coffee. I used to break pieces of brea...

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The opinion

Magazine -> #25 Innovage

Innovage may be one of the latest buzzwords, but the concept it refers to, and which I deem to be very important, has a far longer legacy. Take for instance the worldwide success of “Made in Italy” brands, or rather of the Italian houses behind these much coveted brands. Their not-so-secret secret lies in their ability to combine and blend the ...

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The coffee of tomorrow

Magazine -> #25 Innovage

In front of a cup of coffee illy’s seventy-fifth anniversary celebrations have been an occasion for me to take a deeper look at this corporate enterprise. What I see is a fine example of Innovage. Thinking back to the nineties, I remember when a cup of espresso coffee was still fairly much a lack-lustre commodity. At the bar one would simply o...

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    Martin Luther King

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    Ai Wei Wei

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Twenty thousand leagues under the sea by Jules Verne (1825-1905). This book is the answer to my thoughts on travel. It certainly anticipated the saga...
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