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StudioGrazia

Raised on rosaries & red sauce. Exploring the Italian identity where faith meets folklore, and tradition meets irreverence.

Who is She?

Hi, hello, ciao. Welcome to Studio Grazia, where the caffè is as strong as my opinions, and the themes run from the sacred to the profane. This is for anyone who loves Italy not just as a destination, but as a way of living.

Pull up a chair. I have saved you a seat at my table. Have you eaten?

01

Life & Style

La bella figura: the art of looking and living well, with strong opinions about both.

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02

Amore

Love, relationships, and the particularly Italian way of complicating both.

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03

Faith

Catholicism, folklore, superstition, and the thin line between all three.

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04

Travel

Italy as I've experienced it: the beauty, the chaos, the devotion.

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The Manifesto

I'm just like an espresso shot: an Italian classic, intense, and not to everyone's taste.

Studio Grazia exists at the intersection of faith and folklore, red sauce and rosaries, the Italy that raised your grandparents and the Italy you actually find when you get there. It is not a travel blog. It is not a recipe column. It is, however, a cultural commentary on Italy at its most magnificent and most misunderstood — its beauty, its contradictions, its devotion, its excess — and what it means to inherit all of it.

I'm writing as someone who belongs to this place (legally and culturally), carrying all the messy, beautiful weight that comes with that.

This is my public love letter. To the country that formed me. To the Church that shaped me. To marriage. To motherhood. To ambition. To the discipline behind beauty. To style that means something.

Maree, Founder of Studio Grazia
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No. 01 Life & Style

How to make passata, just like nonna did

What once felt like an old-school family chore is now being romanticised, filmed, and re-shared… and I’m not mad about it.

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No. 02 Life & Style

How I lost weight despite being an Italian who loves her pasta

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No. 03 Travel

Our Italian babymoon

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No. 04 Life & Style

You’re not ugly; just poor

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No. 05 Life & Style

Here’s how to ruin your career on social media

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