On February 3, 1898, in the small Finnish village of Kuortane, Alvar Aalto (1898 – 1976) was born. Counted among the foremost architects of the 20th century, he also actively worked as a designer, and his creations played a crucial role in the development of modern Finnish and international design.…
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by Evi Mibelli. “You cannot create happiness with beautiful objects, but you can ruin it with ugly ones” – Finn Juhl. If we want to understand the greatness of Finn Juhl, we just need to look at his house in Ordrup, north of Copenhagen, now home to the museum dedicated…
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by Elena Banfi. It is the right time to renew the home textiles and rediscover, thanks to full-bodied materials and special processes, lost tactile sensations. And beautiful. «Touch comes before sight, before speech. It is the first language and the last, and it always tells the truth», wrote Margaret Atwood.…
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Craftsmanship, aesthetic research and precious materials to enhance the taste of beauty, expressed in many collections for the home and table: here is the best of the Parisian fair dedicated to the home universe. The 2025 edition of the proud French Maison&Objet, has been concluded in the original space of…
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by Gaia Mussi. A high-performance home where systems and electronic devices communicate with each other and operate in an integrated and automatic manner: a dream that is within everyone’s reach, achievable in any living context. In a smart home, electronic devices are termed “smart” because they are connected to the…
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An interview by Evi Mibelli with Riccardo Leporini, Commercial Director of Cinelli Piume e Piumini. There are places that combine the sweetness of the landscape with the industriousness of the people. Challenges that see young people full of initiative start businesses capable of marking the history and future of the…
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by Marta Bellacosa. A customizable and often modular design capable of telling personalities and preserving stories, hobbies and passions: between books, plants and decorative details, bookcases and shelves give a unique character to every room, maintaining order with a pinch of style. A well-designed bookcase transforms a bare wall into…
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by Evi Mibelli. “I don’t decorate houses. I build them” – Julia Morgan. A slender figure, elegant and sober in dress, with gentle features. An iron will and a mastery of the subject that make her male colleagues pale. A list of over 700 works created in her fifty-year long…
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By Sebastiano Tonelli. Eccentric, visionary, multifaceted, Philippe Starck was born in Paris on January 18, 1949, and is considered by many as the enfant terrible of design. Son of an aeronautical engineer, he studied at the École Nissim de Camondo in Paris and at only 19 years old, he founded…
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Bruno Mathsson was born on January 13, 1907, in a small town in Sweden and is considered one of the pioneers of modern Swedish furniture design. As the son of a cabinetmaker and a descendant of a generation of carpenters, he gained a profound knowledge of wood and its processing…
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