Laura Pinna
Home Staging Made in Italy
Always passionate about art, antiques and home furnishings, Laura Pinna is an Interior Designer.
Her passion for Home Design inspired her to also specialize in Home Staging, a profession that was started in the United States and which has allowed her to focus on and perfect the re-designing of interior spaces.
She feels grateful and fortunate to come from Sardinia, and to live in such an evocative and captivating landscape that stimulates her imagination and creativity.
Laura is able to bring out the most important aspects of a space, capturing them through her camera lens and enhancing them via the tools and tricks of Interior Design and Home Staging.
Claudia Sigismondi & Andrea Proto
Design is our added value
Partners in life and work, Claudia and Andrea are architects with complimentary skills.
Their creative approach to work is a guideline in their projects, with Claudia bringing her visions in terms of atmosphere, mood and color and Andrea turning them into reality with his space planning skills, technical know-how and attention to detail.
Their posts are a window on the world of architecture and design, a source of inspiration and cost-effective solutions to enhance the interiors with elegance and flair.
Gerardo Cappelli
A dreamer’s style discovery
Married to a lovely woman, Nicoletta, and owner of a formidable little dog, Kikuyu, Gerardo Cappelli is very close and grateful to his family. He feels like the main character of Ben Stiller’s “The secret life of Walter Mitty”. A dreamer.
He loves travelling on his sexy Meggy, a wonderful Guzzi Bellagio motorbike, and sailing, since he discovered the pleasure to leave a crowded beach and forget about the rest of the world.
He has a moustache and dresses manically, with a real passion for waistcoats. He’s curious, he’s a Gyrotonic and Gyrochinesis trainer and he will go around looking for the real Italian style.
Daniela Pinna
The lady of wine
Agronomist, oenologist and researcher Daniela Pinna founded Tenute Olbios winery with her husband, Davide Mele, in 2003, recovering her grandfather’s vineyards. For three generations, Daniela’s family preserved and passed on the tradition of Vermentino’s cultivation with ancient and traditional techniques, safeguarding this precious vine variety.
Nowadays Daniela gives even more value to this place, producing some distinctive wines that tell the story of her family and territory in a unique and elegant way. She’s the oenologist and host of the beautiful Olbios Wineries. A place to visit.
In the last Vinitaly edition, Daniela received the Angelo Betti Award with the Grand Medal of Cangrande 2017, well-known in the viticulture world.
For further information about Tenute Olbios
Paola Vanacore
The Queens of fabrics
Paola collects fabrics from all around the world: Italian silk, damask, brocade and wool; French lace and silk; Indian brocade, silk and decorated organza; embroidered wool from Kashmir; loom-manufactured organza and silk from Laos; Japanese silk and brocade. Italian fabrics made by regional laboratories harmoniously coexist with kimonos, Moroccan brocades and Indian saris in her atelier.
Colour and light are Paola’s distinctive features. Her couture line, Thea G, is made of fabrics with both artistic and cultural, ancient and modern references. Every creation is strictly a unique piece, as the materials used to realize it.
Her posts will be like a plunge into this kaleidoscopic collection; they will tell us about the fabrics, their origins, history and, most of all, the emotions and fantasies you experience admiring, caressing and possibly wearing them. Each textile has a soul, a destination that Paola skilfully catch and transmit.
For her, elegance is in the harmony between form lightness and colour balance.
Nicoletta Fontana
A well grounded dreamer
Her big eyes are wide open on everything characterized by an unusual and clear beauty…
She admires – and envies a little bit – creative people. Her name is Nicoletta, she’s 30 years old and she moved from Milan to Rome to stay with her wonderful boyfriend. She’s well grounded (with exquisite shoes), but her head looks up in the sky. She’s a special agent at Maria Laura Berlinguer’s service, in search of pure Made in Italy enchantment.
Mariangela Romoli
Scent of elegance
Florentine by birth, she learned how to recognize beauty and quality in perfumes through the ancient factories of Florence, nowadays sadly closed. According to Mariangela, perfume is made of art, research and craftsmanship.
Her choices go beyond passing fashion, in the direction of a niche market. The word “niche” refers to the concept of nest: a small, protected place. In perfumery we label as “niche” a brand that is appreciated for its creations, but chooses not to increase distribution in order to safeguard its quality along with the artistic and artisanal soul. What really characterizes artistic perfumery is continuity, thanks to creations made to last. That’s the reason why they must be original and break with tradition. In other words: unique.
Her posts will make us cross countries and continents, passing from the unknown scents of distant lands to the discovery of plants, spices, olfactory pathways and distinctive nearby products. Mariangela lives in Spoleto now, looking for quality and excellence to bring to her perfumery: niche brands devoted to the preservation and uniqueness of their identity.
Tiziana Pregliasco
AdPersonam
Tiziana is a mother, wife and personal trainer. She believes that nutrition and physical activity determine the quality of our existence more than other factors. Also in a job: when people reach top levels of vitality and energy they are happier and all the spheres of their personal and professional life develop in harmony and serenity!
Sport is a constant for her: first, she was an athlete, then an event planner which contributed to the realization of important world competitions, including the 2004 Summer Olympic Games in Athens and the 2006 Winter Olympic Games in Turin. She used to work as a personal trainer but today her focus is on developing wellness services for companies who care about their managers and employees.
Wife and mother of two kids, among thousands of family commitments, she accepted the challenge of an innovative professional project: bring into companies the culture of wellness and the regular practice of healthy habits
Her personal business AdPersonam changed name and is nowadays integrated into a more structured organization: iPersonalTrainer has chosen her as Corporate Services Manager; her mission now is to help professionals and companies tackle the challenges of present and future work by achieving and maintaining high levels of psychophysical health.
Francesca La Via
The music lady
Music has always been her passion. As a child, while all her friends were dreaming to become an actress or a princess, she already saw herself conducting an orchestra or sitting in front of her piano on a theatre stage.
You can go far away led by your passions. Today Francesca La Via is a choir conductor, piano and music teacher fully dedicated to children, since she perfectly knows how important it to be understood and discovered when you’re young. She teaches music to nurseries with the Gordon method and musical pedagogy at kindergartens and elementary schools.
She works for the CDM, the Music Learning Centre in Rome; she organizes concerts and courses for Koob library and cooperates with the Music Association for Peace in Rome.
Anna Giulia Pecoraro
A woman on women's side
Doctor Anna Giulia Pecoraro was born in Rome on July 11, 1964. She graduated with honours in Medicine and Surgery in July 1989 and specialized cum laude in Obstetrics and Gynaecology in October 1994.
She currently works at the Quisisana nursing home in Rome, plus she’s a technical-legal consultant at the Court of Rome.
In 1996 she published, along with Prof. Fabrizio Forgione, the book A quick guide to ultrasound in Obstetrics and Gynaecology, offering to family doctors and gynaecologists a practical and comprehensive knowledge on the ultrasound technique and indications on whether or not to use this very useful diagnostic support.
Her office is in Rome, Lungotevere della Vittoria 5
Phone: 0636001598
Cristiana Grassi aka Orata Spensierata
Food beyond recipe
She was born in a northern metropolis and, after several years of publishing and public relations work, she dropped everything and went to live on an island.
There she totally focused on her passions: food culture, cooking and photography. L’Orata spensierata was born in 2009 and from a cooking blog it soon became a sort of second skin.
In the meanwhile she did her best to promote, communicate and enhance through pictures and words the wine and culinary culture of her place, between biodiversity, traditions, products, catering and respect for the territory.
Daniela Bardoni
The lady of law
Daniela Bardoni is a freelancer civil lawyer licensed by the High Courts. In more than twenty years of career in the Court of Rome she had many professional assignments of different nature, gaining significant experience in the bankruptcy, contractual and labor law fields.
Since 2015 she’s the creator and host of the radio show “Right on Air”. Her book “Children and their protection” was recently published by AdMaiora.