Dolce Vita began as a dream drafted on a cocktail napkin.
Founded in 2001 on New York City’s Lower East Side, the brand’s name is an homage to our founders’ favorite bar from their days studying in Italy.
Since those days, we’ve stayed true to our roots in New York’s vibrant creative epicenter while broadening our horizons and always allowing our wildest dreams to dictate the next step.
Today, every Dolce Vita collection is designed for the fearless – the dreamers, the tastemakers, and the confident individuals who inspire us every day.
Cucina Casalinga is a home-based Italian cooking school that offers daytime and evening cooking classes. Homestyle, hands-on lessons are the specialty of Sally Maraventano who opened her school more than 25 years ago in her small kitchen on Sharp Hill road in Wilton. Today classes, followed by sit-down luncheon or dinner with wine and dessert are held in Sally's state-of-the-art kitchen on Drum Hill Road in Wilton. A wood-fired Tuscan oven from Reggello Italy sits on the patio with a formal herb garden and fountain near by. In warm weather students dine al fresco on the patio surrounded by bougainvillea, fig and lemon trees - a little bit of Italy, in Connecticut.