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.
Perhaps you have happened to come across some furniture magazines from the 70s. If you have, you will probably have been struck by the topicality of the pages and services offered, and you will have continued to leaf through them with curiosity and pleasure. Not
In 1961, in the province of Como, more precisely in Arosio, a completely automated furniture company was founded, equipped with the most advanced machinery for the time, destined to be a great success within a few decades, both in Italy. both abroad. The founder, Luigi
Humanity will continue even without me, but I am not going away, I am not leaving you. Whenever you see the treetops moved by the wind, you will think of me; or if you see a flower, you will think of me. This is the
From Campobasso, at the age of fifteen, Gino Marotta moved to Rome, where he came into contact with the artists who animate the Roman scene. Here, in 1960, he founded the CRACK Group together with Cascella, Dorazio, Mauri, Novelli, Perilli, Rotella and Turcato. “I am
“Bewitched by the moon”, it would be appropriate to say about Gabriella Crespi, when, after studying at the Brera Academy and at the Milan Polytechnic, she was noticed for her Piccole Lune (crescent-shaped steel sculptures) by wife of the owner of Tiffany & Co. From
Carlo Rizzarda was one of the most important wrought iron artists of the early twentieth century. He was originally from Feltre, a town on the slopes of the Belluno Alps, a territory where the tradition of metalworking has ancient roots and in the sixteenth century
Silent, rigorous, ironic man, Albini was one of the major protagonists in the development of rationalist thought in the field of architectural production, furniture, industrial design and museum exhibition.His is a refined and rarefied style, which was able to combine fantasy and craft, poetry and
The Green Village of Bali is an evocative complex of houses made entirely of bamboo by the architect Ibuku. Another surprising work in bamboo is the Vietnamese pavilion designed for Expo 2015 by Vo Trong Nghia Architects, organized on two floors and consisting of a
For almost a hundred years, La Bottega has been creating works that are used by architects and designers from all over the world to decorate and embellish interior projects for private homes or public spaces. Since the year of its foundation in Faenza, in 1928,
