Book Milan Chic

The Milan Chic Book takes you to the north of Italy, a unique skyline emerges, combining the aesthetics of history and tradition with the innovations of modernity. Milan is revealed through Stefano Boeri's Vertical Forest and Rem Koolhaas' Fondazione Prada, as well as the imposing Milan Cathedral and the great iron and glass dome of the Galleria Vittorio Emanuele II. But the true essence of the metropolis lies behind the facades of remarkable buildings. Whether it's the interior design creations on display at the many design fairs or Leonardo da Vinci's masterpiece, The Last Supper , housed in Santa Maria delle Grazie, Milan needs a local guide to understand all its secrets and treasures. Author Massimo Nava and photographer Oberto Gili are happy to be of service to you.

Features :

• Silk hard cover
• Dimensions: 24.8 x 33 x 3.7 cm
• 296 pages
• More than 200 illustrations
• English language
• 2.8kg

Little extra:

Born in Milan, Massimo Nava was introduced to journalism at a very young age by joining the editorial staff of Avvenire at the age of nineteen. A graduate in literature and philosophy from the University of Milan, Nava then obtained a position at Corriere della Sera , the main Italian national daily. Over the next decades, he covered many notable conflicts around the world, worked as a correspondent in Paris, and wrote several nonfiction books and novels. Nava is currently a columnist at Corriere della Sera .

Oberto Gili started taking photos at a young age, but the idea of ​​becoming a photographer came to him when he saw the film Blow-Up , by Michelangelo Antonioni. In the early 1970s he moved to London to work as an assistant to the photographer Michael Joseph, after which he moved to Milan to work for the publisher L'Esperto. Since then, he has traveled the world taking photos. Gili worked for Condé Nast, New York Magazine and the Washington Post Magazine .