Article: Numero uno for style; The Best of Italy: The Italians have always been design divas but there is no need to leave London to snap up their cutting-edge style.

TOP Italian furniture and kitchen manufacturers are increasingly colonising the capital with standalone shops or concessions within department stores.

Two funky Italian furniture companies, Driade and Kartell, show some of their best ideas at Selfridges while Cassina - the Italian firm which manufactures classic re-editions of famous furniture - has a concession at Chaplins in Knightsbridge. Harrods, too, has taken the Italians to heart with Porada, Flexform, Minotti and Desalto among its contemporary furnishing ranges.

"The success of Italian companies lies in their skill at interpreting designers' concepts and manufacturing them with great flair," ...

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