Tre Mari’s adorable new window display is making winter feel less frigid
Even if you don’t like skiing, come for the tiny cannoli
If you absolutely must be outdoors as the temperature plummets this winter, you may find a silver lining in Tre Mari’s snowy window display.
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The legendary family-run Corso Italia bakery recently repurposed its 65th anniversary window display cake, turning it into a classic wintery scene using meticulously crafted miniatures. The handmade winterscape features a ski hill painted to look like icing and a chairlift that required taking tiny plastic toys apart, putting them back together and stringing them along the hill with wiring. There’s a ski chalet at the top, a variety of fastidiously selected trees and layers of fake snow. Il talento!
The display is more than just a majestic spectacle—it’s a scavenger hunt, too, with tiny jars of sugo and pocket-sized panettone placed throughout. Naturally, there’s also a super-small box of cannoli tucked into the scene, to match the real-life dozen you’ll probably buy when you visit.
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Carly Lewis is a journalist whose work has appeared in the New York Times and the New York Times Magazine, Vanity Fair, Wired, Interview Magazine, Pitchfork, Elle, and Maclean’s, where she is a contributing editor. Her work has been recognized by the National Magazine Awards and the Digital Publishing Awards. She reports on city life, culture—including what people do online—politics, art and crime. She received the Dave Greber Freelance Writers Award for “The Murder of Ashley Wadsworth,” an investigative feature about a Canadian teenager who was killed by a man she met on social media, published by Maclean’s.
