October 2007
Conde Nast's Portfolio.com has a profile on the high end real estate and villa rental company "The Best In Italy":
Like the European aristocrats in Henry James novels, Brandolini trades in connections, linking New World money with Old World nobility and property. Financier Felix Rohatyn, film mogul Paula Wagner, and ad supremo Charles Saatchi have all been clients of Brandolini's. When Tom Cruise and Nicole Kidman were still married and sought a secluded Tuscan bolt-hole, the Contessa secured them the Villa Pisana, a stately 19th-century mansion discreetly tucked into a 7,400-acre estate outside Pisa. Sting, a longtime client of Brandolini's, once brought along his mobile studio to record an album in his rental villa. Brandolini persuaded the owners--who weren't quite sure what this blonde inglese actually did--not to balk at the trucks and hordes of technicians"
This year is the 25th Biennale of the Mostra Mercato Internazionale dell'Antiquariato, the oldest antique fair in Italy and one of the most important of its kind in the world.
The fair will be held from September 29th to October 7th, 2007 in the aristocratic setting of Palazzo Corsini.