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Casa Mollino, Turin

Casa Mollino, Turin

A door in Turin with no name beside the bell - behind it, the apartment Carlo Mollino spent eight years building, and never lived in.

Casa Mollino, Turin

A door in Turin with no name beside the bell - behind it, the apartment Carlo Mollino spent eight years building, and never lived in.

Reggia di Caserta

Reggia di Caserta

Caserta draws a fraction of Versailles's crowds, for reasons I still find genuinely puzzling. On a palace built in imitation that somehow out-argued the thing it was imitating.

Reggia di Caserta

Caserta draws a fraction of Versailles's crowds, for reasons I still find genuinely puzzling. On a palace built in imitation that somehow out-argued the thing it was imitating.

Hotel Locarno, Rome

Hotel Locarno, Rome

Opened in 1925, seized twice by war, and rescued from ruin by a woman who fell for half a floor of it and spent years buying back the rest -...

Hotel Locarno, Rome

Opened in 1925, seized twice by war, and rescued from ruin by a woman who fell for half a floor of it and spent years buying back the rest -...

Learning to See a City: Seven films worth watching

Learning to See a City: Seven films worth watching

On cinema, place, and learning to see

Learning to See a City: Seven films worth watching

On cinema, place, and learning to see

Going Slowly

Going Slowly

On Palladio, the Grand Tour, and what travel can still teach us

Going Slowly

On Palladio, the Grand Tour, and what travel can still teach us