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Camorra and Italian police create interior style guide

The Italian author­ities have seized Camorra mob­ster Nicola Schiavone’s Naples apart­ment and videoed the whole thing, providing us with a vicarious glimpse into the design sens­ib­il­ities of Campania’s monied underworld.


(view it on YouTube)

Embarrassingly, I can dimly remember fea­turing some bits of not-totally-dissimilar décor on the shop­ping pages of Spaces magazine back in 2003. Either I do a post-ironic ana­lysis of the chan­ging face of kitsch or I just bury it deep?