Traditional Italian home cooking blends with a refreshing modern interior to create a unique dining experience. An early 20th century warehouse has been transformed into a cosy yet modern lounge, where guests can relax with an aperitif, after-dinner drink or Sunday brunch accompanied by live classical music.

The restaurant's interior was designed by architect Marco Fournier with British manor house-style touches like tartan-lined chaise lounge, hunting trophies, vintage sofas and international magazines completing a welcoming atmosphere. The space has been transformed by fashion houses, car, publishing and telephone companies to host social events, fashion shows, television spots and photo shoots.

Cuisine is based on "grandma's traditional recipes" - select Italian dishes well prepared with top quality seasonal ingredients and given a modern twist. Prices range from 35 euro to 50 euro and the restaurant is open every day from 7pm to 2am.

Events hosted at EDA include Gucci, Krizia and GQ parties, a Land Rover dinner soirée, a Camilla al Fayed jewellery launch, and TV spots for Campari and Jageirmester.

Lupetta 5 & BelowTheLine was founded in 1990 and is today one of Italy's most dynamic production services and location agencies.

Capable of filling any and all production requirements for commercials, feature films, photo shoots, music videos and documentaries, Lupetta 5 is universally recognised as the most prestigious location agency in Italy. With one of the richest photographic databases in Europe, the company's huge location catalogue enables clients to have at their disposal, and at very short notice, superb scenic locations and immediate control over availability.

Contact the agency to discuss any type of creative project.

Solomango is a group of professional photographers producing:

• Contemporary travel and reportage features.
• Editorial assignments.
• Full text by travel writers.
• Stock libraries of high quality photographs.

Solomango offers a full assignment service throughout Italy and abroad.

The photos in this feature were shot by Richard Taylor. Nestled deep in a valley surrounded by the foothills of the Himalaya, the Holy City of Lhasa retains an atmosphere like nowhere else on earth.

Marco Di Marco was raised in Rome where he still maintains his primary residence. He studied fine arts and holds a graduate degree in architecture.

His passion for photography found him at an early age, and has developed over the years into a fulfilling professional career.

In the last 10 years, Marco has been involved in many high-profile commercial projects, from still life to contemporary art, architecture and design to industrial products. He has also shot numerous reportage pieces, record covers, portraits of celebrities and fashion shoots.

Marco tells us that despite his eclectic professional career, he still likes to dedicate time "to developing experimental projects."

Milan-based fashion and interiors photographer Davide Lovatti works out of his own highly regarded studio space Lo.spazio, shooting mostly for magazines and catalogues.

Aside from his commercial photography Davide also concentrates on his wide ranging personal work, supplying photographic images for exhibitions and private collections.

InFAct is a production and service company based in both Naples and Milan, offering support for the planning and management of photo shoots.

InFAct has extensive experience in scouting locations and producing shoots for the Italian market. The company specialises in the area around Naples and it's bay area, the Amalfi Coast, and the islands of Capri, Ischia and Procida.

With a clear choice of locations, favourable budget options and high levels of service quality, the company complements the natural advantages of the sunny Italian climate to satisfy a wide variety of production needs.

InFAct supports productions with its own on-location equipment rental section, providing a flexible service based around the needs of customers.

Founded in 2001, Milan-based Archivio Mazzaron Giommi specialises in location research.

The company's archive includes more than 20,000 updated photographs of public and private locations suitable for all types of productions.

In seven years of activity, Archivio MG has consistently combined reliability with enjoyment - characteristics that have helped the company achieve its goals of acquiring an increasing number of clients in the fashion and furniture industries, as well as from renowned Ad production companies.

A consultation can be arranged free of charge.

Sakis Lalas was born in Greece and has lived and worked in Milan since 1998. He specialises in portrait and fashion photography. Over the years he has shot some of the most famous stars of the movie world and fashion industry, as well as many top businessmen.

This past year he produced portraits of Roberto Cavalli, the Ferragamo family (Wanda, James and Vivia), Luciano Benetton, Dean and Dan Caten (the twin designers of D-Squared), Kean Etro, Angela Missoni, Lapo Elkann, and many others.

Sakis Lalas also works as an interior design photographer and has featured in many top international magazines, including W&WWD (Conde Nast) in the USA, Style (Corriere Della Sera magazine) and Anna in Italy, Marie Claire Taiwan, Vogue Greece, and National Geographic Traveller in the Netherlands.

Welcome to the latest edition of Showcase Italy, brought to you by Production Paradise. Once again we present the very best of the Italian visual media industry and, as always, more information can be found in our Directory.

If you're near Milan over the next month, be sure to check out the following events:

• Body Work: from Pop to Conceptual Art, the body in video, paintings and photography by 35 international artists, from Vito Acconci to Andy Warhol.
• Ritratti d'autore: the great anthology is dedicated to the portraits of writers, intellectuals and artists captured by the German photographer Gisèle Freund.
• Richard Avedon: Photographs 1946-2004 - see our events feature below for more details.

Our cover image this month is by Giampaolo Sgura, represented by CloseUp.

Sonia Marin is a freelance photographer who also works as an external lecturer in the Department of Photography at the European Institute of Design.

She has been working commercially since 1994, focussing especially on still-life subjects as a fine art photographer. Sonia has organised travelling exhibitions from Copenhagen to Washington, Boston and Barcelona.

She received special mention as Best Complete Project in the 'Photographic Talent' Competition by FNAC, Milan (2006), and was awarded Best Artistic Picture of the year in the Commercial Field at the 'Master' Competition, Moscow (2006).

Sonia is able to capture the emotions and sensations of life through simple images of everyday objects and the human body, by "de-contextualising and re-inserting them into a new environment". Creating images for either commercial or personal work, her style and direction is guided by the need to tell stories with single images.

All of her images are rendered through Polaroid.