Matteo de Mayda

2 months ago | nytimes.com | Finn-Olaf Jones |Matteo de Mayda

By 2 a.m. we were happily lost again. Dimly illuminated arches and doorways reflected off the green canal waters. My daughter, Vivian, 16, and I were on a lion hunt in Venice, an annual occurrence for six years now.

Aug 14, 2024 | nytimes.com | Scott Reyburn |Matteo de Mayda

Ascending the grand marble staircase in the center of the Venetian palazzo, you encounter a selection of fake Gucci, Hermes and other luxury handbags laid out on a blanket. A street hawker seems to have been disturbed, leaving their knockoff wares behind. Then, turning right on the mezzanine level, you climb another staircase into a control room. A bank of live CCTV monitors flicker above an empty office chair and espresso-stained plastic coffee cup.

Sep 20, 2023 | departures.com | Madeline Gressel |Federico Ciamei |Matteo de Mayda

Italians were born to build. Building is the character of their nation, the form of their mind, the vocation and duty of their destiny, the expression of their existence, the supreme and immortal symbol of their history. — Gio Ponti, “The Italian Architectural Vocation,” 1940LOMBARDY, THE NORTHERN Italian region of which Milan is the capital, is among Italy’s lushest.

Aug 16, 2023 | buffalonews.com | Matteo de Mayda

The artist Hugh Findletar works on one of his "Flowerheadz" vases at the Zanetti Murano glassblowing studio near Venice, Italy, on July 25, 2023. Jackie Onassis, Naomi Campbell and Anne

Aug 16, 2023 | buffalonews.com | Matteo de Mayda

The artist Hugh Findletar works on one of his "Flowerheadz" vases at the Zanetti Murano glassblowing studio near Venice, Italy, on July 25, 2023. Jackie Onassis, Naomi Campbell and Anne Hathaway are among those whose faces the Jamaican-born artist has reimagined as glass vases. (Matteo de Mayda/The New York Times)