Category Archives: Turin

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17-plus books for 2017

Dead poets, nude dancers, good bohemians, mystical Symbolists, jaded aristocrats, queer courtiers and blind men at play in a realm of dreams and voodoo

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/ Belle Époque, Bohemians, Books, Compulsions, Dada, Dandies, Decadence, London, Mystics, New York, Paris, Prague, Turin

17-plus books for 2017

Dead poets, nude dancers, good bohemians, mystical Symbolists, jaded aristocrats, queer courtiers and blind men at play in a realm of dreams and voodoo

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/ Turin

More Mollino

Back to Turin to see the designer’s greatest interior, the Teatro Regio

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/ Turin

More Mollino

Back to Turin to see the designer’s greatest interior, the Teatro Regio

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/ At home with..., Dark arts, Places, Turin

Places: a Turin trinity

A stroll through good and evil, light and shadow, life and death, genius and madness, heaven and hell.

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/ At home with..., Dark arts, Places, Turin

Places: a Turin trinity

A stroll through good and evil, light and shadow, life and death, genius and madness, heaven and hell.

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/ Artefacts, At home with..., Born this day, Compulsions, Dark arts, Turin

The Shrine of Turin

Strange things happen in Turin. Giorgio de Chirico’s canvasses were haunted by the “nostalgia of the infinite” he sensed in the piazzas of this neo-classical northern Italian city; it’s also where Nietzsche went nuts and supposedly boasts the Gates of Hell among its landmarks.

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/ Artefacts, At home with..., Born this day, Compulsions, Dark arts, Turin

The Shrine of Turin

Strange things happen in Turin. Giorgio de Chirico’s canvasses were haunted by the “nostalgia of the infinite” he sensed in the piazzas of this neo-classical northern Italian city; it’s also where Nietzsche went nuts and supposedly boasts the Gates of Hell among its landmarks.

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