A new and exclusive coffee table book that's now out in stores captures Italian families in their mansions, in the company of friends and dogs, and inherent style

Big families and bigger smiles. In matters of happiness and the heart, Italians aren't very different from Indians.
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Like Carlo Noseda, an employee at Saatchi & Saatchi says, "Always put your family first".

He is just one of many subjects featured in The Italian Touch, a photographic compilation of style and sophistication among Italian citizens, launched by leather brand Tod's.

There's never a dull moment when Italians are in the house, and the matt pages of this book come alive with angelic smiles, hearty laughter, upright family pride, quiet moments, even the plump paradox of 70 year-old lawyer Mario Durso teaming branded sneakers with a double-breasted jacket.

The collaboration couldn't be more Italian with the homebred leather goods brand spearheading the project in association with fashion and style journalist Donatella Sartorio and photographer Paolo Leone.