Beyond this incurable frenzy to belong to the Neapolitan dream, this oleographic and perennial parade of audacity and feeling scattered among the everlasting magic of its alleyways, what else can one take away from Naples? In what other way can we capture vibrations and impressions that renew the global uniqueness of this destination, passing through forms and rites still private and unknown to most? Perhaps the name itself was meant to conceal the intent to crystallize a time in the making, doing so by subverting the rules of theatrical dining and all the scenography that narrates it. The gravitas of its millenary history, the carefree Neapolitan attitude, the lofty echoes of Serao, the providential authority of the patron saint: lava_slow_living (@lava_slow_living) has pushed itself absolutely to the extreme into a sensorial imaginary painstakingly hand-carved for its spectacle dinners and bespoke luxury events, absorbing the most hidden sensations and rites of the city of Naples and re-proposing them in the light of an authentic collective hallucination that finds in Naples an unmatched stage for that catharsis which only such events can arouse in those who take part in them. Instead, lava_slow_living, halfway between canonical celebration and introspective moment, inaugurates an innovative vein in the scenography and organization of spectacle dinners, reassessing with dominance and depth the very meaning of the event, understood not as an occasion but as a true ritual in the course of which vivacity, euphoria and dream crowd together in confusion, only to then be aligned by the executive and dreamlike skill of this Neapolitan boutique agency, which in a short time has created its own distinguishable and highly personam-calibrated visual code. It is the city’s spring, a striking renaissance has embraced Naples without needing to invent anything, but simply by insisting on and rediscovering millennia of beauty and tradition put to sleep over the centuries; inertia, sloppiness and a certain narrative superficiality have been uprooted by a metaphysical way of introducing the visitor into the whirl of the Neapolitan bedlam: a thunderous storm of instincts that in the city find their providential functional order. An almost metaphysical and introspective cut has enveloped everything that today derives from Naples, including the way of making events. lava_slow_living is visceral in the way it tells its own story, in a measured use of the iconic power of Naples without winking too much at visual repertoires that are by now overused and outdated; lava_slow_living vibrates from within and carries the guest into a Neapolitan non-place. The rediscovery of a new way of conceiving events, a promise of memorable and heartfelt enjoyment in the shadow of latent scenography, incisive without needing shouting or easy consensus. An invitation to beauty, to the power of rising again, to the value of the discreet and the artfully made, because if baby showers have become undying emblems of digitized tackiness that seems to please everyone, lava_slow_living comes to our aid in reminding us that inaccessibility is more than a limitation — sometimes it is a direct invitation to do better and to be better in everything one is. Judging by their latest work, I find myself fantasizing, and I am certain that if Kubrick had organized a dinner in Naples, he would have done it exactly like lava_slow_living.