LINA BO BARDI È senza dubbio una delle figure più significative e rivoluzionarie dell’architettura del Novecento. Dopo la laurea in architettura conseguita a Roma nel 1939, si trasferisce a Milano dove inizia la sua collaborazione professionale con Carlo Pagani e con lo studio di Giò Ponti. Contemporaneamente...
Branco & Preto era il nome di un negozio di architettura e design aperto nel 1952 a San Paolo. Aperto fino al 1970, il negozio si può definire uno dei precursori dell'architettura d'interni e dell'arredamento moderno in Brasile. Gli architetti Miguel Forte, Jacob Ruchti, Plínio Croce,...
One of the leading British interior designers in the 1920s and 1930s, Syrie Maugham is best known for being the first to decorate her living room completely in white. Maugham's interiors never lacked white paint, white satin, mirrors and white velvet lampshades. While all the other...
Provence, France. Villa Aziyadé was conceived by a Swiss architect in 1894 as a small marabout-shaped pavilion, known for its distinctive domed roof design in the manner of a sanctuary. Intended as a country retreat, not as a sprawling villa, the architect designed a labyrinthine...
AT THE HOUSE OF NICOLA DEL ROSCIO where the experimental aesthetics of the artist CY Twombly permeates the space with a witty blend of prosaic objects and eighteenth-century grandeur. Nicola del Roscio's house is a 17th century hunting lodge built by a cardinal on the remains of...
Fascinated by the life and work of the Milanese designer, who passed away in 2017, we had the opportunity to imagine an interview with her, filtered by the memories and words of her daughter Elisabetta. Where does the combination of creativity and functionality that uniquely...
On the occasion of the centenary of Gabriella Crespi's birth, an exhibition dedicated to the great Milanese artist and designer will open in Turin on May 27th. Organized in collaboration with the National Automobile Museum and the Crespi Archive, the exhibition was conceived as an original...
His first work dates back to 2015. He himself says that it took a long time to get there. Immediately after high school, in fact, in 2008, he began working as a set-up in some contemporary art galleries, foundations and museums in the city of...
“Nice! What is it? " We asked you to tell us about an item and we know that one in particular won in the end. Can you tell us about it? Sure. I chose Hippopotamus I, designed in 1968 by Francois-Xavier...
You know the iron chariots of the colossal Ben Hur shot in Cinecittà?It was the first major order for Romeo Rega. We are in 1959, but the success of this young iron craftsman had only begun a decade earlier, in a small shop in Trastevere,...