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,...
Walking through Venice towards Campiello De La Comare you might come across a colorful and welcoming entrance.It is the door to the showroom of the historic Tessitura Luigi Bevilacqua, which originally, when it was founded in 1875 by Luigi Bevilacqua and his partner Giovanni Battista...
«Anche le mie bambine avevano sempre le mani sporche di terra – racconta in un’intervista Dolores Demurtas – ma io non le sgridavo, lasciavo che la mangiassero perché l’argilla ha poteri depurativi per l’organismo». Da queste parole traspare il profondo legame di questa donna, minuta,...
Elinor is six years older than John. She and she are a navigation instructor, while he is enlisted in the United States Navy. They meet, get married and go to live in California, in San Francisco, where Elinor works for Boeing Aircraft. John does a couple...
Il compito dell’architetto, io credo, è anche quello di suscitare un succedersi di emozioni… I miei ingressi, le mie scale, persino i mobili sono soluzioni urbanistiche. Per 102 anni Luigi Caccia Dominioni è stato un urbanista architetto, un urbanista scultore, un urbanista designer, nel senso che...
Definito "anarchitetto" dal poeta francese Jacques Prévert per via della straordinaria capacità artistica con cui pensava e realizzava le sue opere Jacques Couëlle è stato un architetto autodidatta. In un’intervista alla RAI nel 1969 dice di considerare la casa dell’uomo come “la sua protezione, come il...