BRAND: ASSOULINE
Description: Original text by owners Paola and Daniela Faccioli, featuring a foreword by Alain Elkann. Alain Elkann has been working with Italy’s cultural ministry for the last ten years, first as counselor to the Italian cultural minister for five years, and then as an adviser for cultural events and foreign relations to Minister Sandra Bondi. He has worked directly with influential Italian author Alberto Moravia, Prince Hassan Bin Talal of Jordan, Chief Rabbi Elio Toaff, and archbishop Carlo Maria Martini of Milan. Awarded the Legion d’Honneur by the French Republic, Elkann presently serves as president of the Foundation for Italian Art and Culture (FIAC) and is a professor at the University of Pennsylvania. Text by Eugenio Alberti and Alain Elkann.