As timeless explorers, we are constantly looking for design pieces belonging to the highest Italian artisan tradition.
That’s why, by presenting the objects we discovered by going around or made especially for you, we were thrilled by the idea of being able to tell you the STORIES behind them: unexpected, original, unique because Italians and we Italians, you know, things we always do them our way.
In this section we will reveal the secrets of some designers, we will let the protagonists speak directly, we will take you to the most hidden and precious corners of our country.
«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
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
Venice, Campo Sant’Angelo, Calle degli Avvocati 3709: here there is a space of 250 square meters that Carlo Scarpa, between 1961 and 1963, completely redesigned. Looking at the photos of the interiors, you can grasp the intimate atmosphere of a place born to be inhabited,
“Cerco di progettare case il cui valore sia la flessibilità. Più pareti scorrevoli che porte, più trasparenze che muri e più allegria che solitudine” : questo raccontava l’arch. Maria Cristina Mariani Dameno – nota a tutti come Cini Boeri – a Margherita Guccione del MAXXI
Starting from the Sixties, in the wake of the American pop art of Andy Warhol, Roy Lichtenstein, Claes Oldenburg, Richard Hamilton, and of New Dada by Jasper Johns, a company that, with the support of the architects of Studio Sessanta5, immediately established itself poses in
Tapestries, fabrics, carpets, patchwork, embroidered or knitted paintings, have been the subject of experimentation by various contemporary artists. Think of the interest shown by Alighiero Boetti , after a trip to Afghanistan in 1971, for the traditional technique of fabric patchwork, used by local embroiderers
In an interview released in 1973: “When we used the word” design “we did it with profound respect because it named a new way of thinking and building: it was a word that only us, the insiders used while we tried, moving in a deaf
