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Showing posts with label GLIMPSES OF MILAN. Show all posts
Showing posts with label GLIMPSES OF MILAN. Show all posts
Saturday, April 4, 2020
Sunday, December 1, 2019
In autunno, 1882. Filippo Carcano (1840-1914)
The skyline of Milan is seen beyond a row of potted flowers and plants arranged on the parapet of a balcony under a cloudy sky.
At the end of the Nineteenth century, the centuries-old spires of the Duomo are flanked by a soaring smoking chimney and a belt of houses and factories that will soon take the place of the golden trees and fields in the outskirts of the city.
A nasturtium runs along the balcony next to a bergenia, with its fleshy and shiny leaves. A red carnation is tied to three sticks and three vases with red flowers, possibly hibiscuses, are close together. Moss covers the vase of a tropical plant with large light green leaves next to a begonia with a warm copper textured foliage and tiny white flowers. The lanceolate tips of a variegated plant suggest the presence of other vases on the floor of the balcony.
Filippo Carcano was an Italian painter who lived and worked in Milan and is considered an important figure in the school of Lombard Naturalism.
Painting from:
Filippo Carcano
Saturday, June 9, 2018
Monday, April 10, 2017
Flowerprint - Milano Fuorisalone 2017.
'Flowerprint' is the name of a façade gardening installation created by Studio Piuarch, with the collaboration of Cornelius Gavril, for 'Fuorisalone' during the Milan Design Week between April 4-9. 
The façade of the building where the Studio is based in Brera was covered by 2.000 flowers arranged in 200 vertical lines from roof to ground (10 meters in height and 20 meters in length). Roses, lilies, gerberas, carnations, rosemary, lavender and many more flowers were suspended along invisible wires creating a flower print, a curtain, an embroidery, a rain of colours and scents that changed with sun and wind. 
Potatoes seemed to anchor the lines to the ground. Their use, however, recalls an old technique practiced to propagate roses by cutting inserting it in a hole drilled in the tuber. Potatoes favour the formation of roots and provide nutrients and moisture.
'Flowerprint' unexpected and surprising.
Photos:
TravelinaGarden, Milan, April 2017
Links:
Flowerprint - Studio Piuarch, Milan
https://www.piuarch.it/
https://www.piuarch.it/
Thursday, June 16, 2016
Tram n. 12 in Milan.
Works to renovate a section of tramway n. 12 in Milan are completed, and, near Cimitero Monumentale, tracks disappear under clover and abelias.
In the road ahead, the double row of 170 Siberian Elms, planted in 1967 along the tracks, is now surrounded by lawn and flowers. New trees have been planted to replace those considered too ill and dangerous. Citizens' protests against the complete felling of the elms, in fact, led to a revision of the initial project and to the preservation of most of the trees.
Friday, January 1, 2016
Monday, July 27, 2015
La Vigna di Leonardo, Milan.
Back in 1498, Ludovico Sforza, Duke of Milan, donated to Leonardo da Vinci a plot near the church of Santa Maria delle Grazie. Leonardo appreciated the gift, not to mention that ownership of land
was a necessary element to obtain the citizenship in Milan. The vineyard, a rectangular plot of around 8.000mq, was surrounded by the vegetable gardens and vineyards of the nearby religious
communities. Here, Leonardo could have built a small house or a
laboratory, very convenient while he was working to the fresco of 'The Last Supper' in the refectory of the Monastery of Santa Maria delle Grazie, on the opposite side of the street. But, this would be his last important work for the Sforza family. French troops invaded Milan in October 1499, forcing the Sforza to leave, and, after eighteen years in Milan, Leonardo da Vinci also left the town, eventually returning in his native Tuscany.He moved again to Milan in 1507, accepting the invitation of King Louis XII of France. Leonardo reclaimed its property and was soon busy with different activities. It is still not sure whether he built a house or other buildings here, but he was really interested in and affectionated to the vineyard and included it in his will.
The vineyard we see today is the result of meticulous, long and passionate studies, excavations and researches. The location, the grape variety, identified in the white Malvasia di Candia Aromatica from the DNA of the remains of the roots, the scheme of paths and rows emerged from the ground and confirmed by drawings of the vineyard sketched by Leonardo; each element has been analyzed and faithfully recreated in the vineyard planted at the bottom of the peaceful, shady garden of the Casa degli Atellani.
Photos:
TravelinaGarden, Milan, July 2015.
Links:
La Vigna di Leonardo, Milan.
http://www.vignadileonardo.com/?setlang=en
Sunday, May 10, 2015
The Green Entrances. Orticola, Milan.
Rigorously green for the three entrances to the Orticola Flower Show. The few steps between the street and the rich exhibition of flowers in the public gardens in
Milan are lined with
palms, fruit trees and bamboo. Inspired by the elegant Dugnani Palace, celebration of the work carried on by the nurseries along the years and evocation of a luxuriant, meandering urban jungle, these fresh shady entrances are a perfect introduction to the flower show.
Dugnani Entrance- arch. Marco Bay/Enrico and Giorgio Cappellini Nursery.
"The Fantastic Fruit Orchard"
Cavour Entrance- Silvia Ghirelli/Nursery dei Molini (fruit trees)- Vivaio Minari (box trees) - All'Origine (glass containers).
"Bamboo bamboo"
Palestro Entrance - Anna Scaravella/Fratelli Ingegnoli Nursery.
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