11390 Italian house magazines etc

Excellent magazines and I buy many of them when I am in Italy. Particularly "Il Rustico".

After vino rosso, home interior magazines are one of the few things I would ever be prepared to go without or even cut back on. I'm an unashamed addict. Currently on the road so don't have my numerous piles around me but certainly read Il Rustico, Casa Stile Antico too, Villegiardini but my absolute fave is a bi-monthly entitled Antica Casa, the only magazine with house photos nowadays that make me swoon, and there's a garden edition too, Antica Giardino. Rarely ever throw a copy away, always circulate them amongst my friends, I have British home interior mags going back to 1982. In fact, we had a December 1982 Homes & Garden on the coffee table over Christmas and everyone commented on it.
Whilst on the subject, have you noticed how the English word "Country" is creeping in to a growing number of Italian titles? Drat, wish I was at home because hubby bought one last month that's clearly using British/Australian sourced articles translated into Italian. I'm very friendly with the owner of our village Edicola and she told me it sells really well. Another good one is a French title (two in fact), the seen-everywhere Cotes Sud and a less well known one but certainly available in places around here, Campagne Decoration. Both are great for not just interiors but recipes too.
Yes, Aretina, several could be invaluable when renovating as they often include articles on cost estimates, etc. Isn't there one very similar in style to Cotes Sud that also regularly has a few plans for new builds that could be immensely helpful to anyone going that route too.
As we live in one, I love seeing how other people have renovated ancient quirky Italian houses but restoration aside, don't you find that English country interiors are increasingly popular (as I mentioned above) and that Scandinavian style too appears regularly? Equally, you rarely open a French interiors mag today without finding an Italian (invariably Tuscan/Umbrian) house featured.

Another interesting magazine is Casaviva from the Mondadori Group:
[url=http://www.mondadori.com/ame/it/gruppo/testate/cv.html]Gruppo Mondadori[/url]

There is a "learning language" benefit from reading anything written in Italian but I am sorry, I am not as enthusiastic about Italian Homes & Gardens and DIY type magazines as those posting above. They are expensive too. In the past, when commuting regularly to and from Italy to UK, I would buy one at the airport. The cover looked tempting but they are wrapped in plastic so one cannot peep inside. They often disappointed. Few can compare to those sold in the UK. So now I just have a subscription (33 euros thus saving money) to VilleGiardini. They have a section called il Progetto which lists "opere e costi" but I always doubt that things can be done for the prices quoted. At least not for Foreigners. It is of course a matter of ones taste in magazines, I would read House & Garden in England and occasionally Country Living which I can now view online.

Yes, Noble, I have also purchased VilleGiardini which is very good. It is also from the Mondadori Group. I agree that the magazines are quite expensive, particularly bearing in mind the amount of publicity that they carry. One of the main reasons I spend money in Italian magazines is that it helps me to acquire vocabulary and to practice the language.

I can't beleive h ow many different titles there are in Italy. How many times do you want to buy a magazine entirely about flooring - or (in one memorable case) fencing??

[quote=annec;107879]I can't beleive h ow many different titles there are in Italy. How many times do you want to buy a magazine entirely about flooring - or (in one memorable case) fencing??[/quote]

Annec you've just reminded me of the wonderful smell of creasote! :notworthy:

Some nice looking mags so thanks for that Adriatica... but your comment on selling renovated property is too sweeping a generalisation for me to agree with. Thousands of Italians might well be looking, but that, in most cases is where they stop.

Talking about flooring reminds that we once counting six separate titles for pianists in a newsagents in France...

My fav is the bi-monthly "Come ristrutturare la casa" which covers many aspects of renovating a house including all those extra luxury fixtures and fittings that you can't afford after you've paid for the renovation! :bigergrin:

Just wondering if any of these publications are available to buy in the UK too.

Some will be in the foreign section of a large newsagents but most are probably only available outside Italy on subscription Sal.

[quote=Sally Donaldson;107891]Just wondering if any of these publications are available to buy in the UK too.[/quote]

[url=http://www.italianbookshop.co.uk/]The Italian Bookshop - Italian language and literature books and Italian Courses[/url] maybe?

Thank you Anne. Looking at the website I suspect very few if any in this area.

[quote=Sally Donaldson;107891]Just wondering if any of these publications are available to buy in the UK too.[/quote]

There's an Italian book and magazine shop in Soho - just next to "Tin Pan Alley" if you know where that is - but how would you read them - or do you just want to look at the pictures? Many of these magazine articles can probably be viewed online anyway.

[quote=juliancoll;107940]There's an Italian book and magazine shop in Soho - just next to "Tin Pan Alley" if you know where that is - .[/quote]

[FONT=Times New Roman][SIZE=3]Julian, I went looking for this shop over the weekend and couldn't find it. I vaguely remember a Tin Pan Alley gift shop but the only one I could find is the bar Tin Pan Alley in Denmark Street but there was no Italian bookshop near it though.

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The Italian Bookshop is in Cecil Court off St Martins Lane - next to Wyndhams theatre I think.
Try house 24 as a magazine - pornography for house hunters! comes out 4 times a year which at 10 euros a throw is a good thing.

Patch - It is in Cecil Court (nicknamed Tin Pan Alley due to lots of music shops and a recording studio that used to be there) as Ram has said - it's a very short little lane/alley and runs between St Martins Lane and Charing Cross Road. (impossible to park - take the Tube)

But hang on a cotton picking minute - wasn't London's Tin Pan Alley Denmark Street? Charing Cross ROad on the right about where Borders is? If I remember back to reading 84 Charing Cross Road many years ago, Im sure it was there - and all the music shops are still in Denmark street. Cecil Court was always book and prints. I know its an italy forum and I should technically go to London.forum.net or something, but its piqued the interest of an expat who used to inhabit that end of town.

Now hang on a cotton picking minute Ram - don't you go calling my geography into question - even if you are right. :bigergrin:

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Denmark Street was/is where all the music shops were and is the one nicknamed Tin Pan Alley. Cecil Court is lower down on the same (left hand) side if you are coming from the Marylebone Road direction.

Sorry for sending you on a wild goose chase Patch, but many years of late night living in numerous Soho Speakeasys and listening to Bootlegs had me disoriented for a moment or two. :reallyembarrassed:

Okay, not Italian I know but I have just looked up "House And Garden" on Google and see that it is no longer published which I find sad. In their website you are directed to a sister magazine which in my opinion is inferior.

I wonder if Italian magazines are in jeopardy of similar closures.

It's still being published and you can even subscribe Sal...but mustn't get off topic eh? [url=http://www.houseandgarden.co.uk/]House & Garden March 2009[/url]

No, sorry Noble. That is not the same publication - "House And Garden" - [url=http://www.dominomag.com/magazine/2007/12/houseandgarden]Dear House and Garden Reader:: Inside Domino: dominomag.com[/url]

Click on the link I give Sally ...that's the posh House & Garden I used to read any how!

Ah mystery solved!!! Lesson learnt!!! That must have been American "House And Garden" When looking for UK websites.- google.co.uk. yes that's the one I meant Noble. Thank you. Glad to see it's alive and kicking!!!.

PS We also must be careful of adding these links!!!! You never sure who's watching over our shoulder. lol

Yes, and if it was Conde Nast looking over your shoulder you'd be in for a large courtcase.

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There's apparently a piece about pastore abruzzese dogs in this bi-monthly magazine next month: "La mia Casa in Campagna" - Tattilo Editrice S.p.a.

Anyone come across the title before to be able to say whether it's generally worth reading for its articles?

I have purchased last year a couple of issues of the magazine called "La mia Casa Country" which is from Tattilo and they were good: however, I have not seen this latest issue. Nevertheless, I think that it may be interesting to have a look at the article.

i think it might lead a few people to understand that building and restoration does cost a lot even for Italians..... and that all people have difficulties with this and length of time taken and you have to make sensible choices... especialley with time scales.

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