by Costanza Carbotta. The Austrian duo Simiæn, namely Julia Schwarz and Lisi Penker, brought the future to the Isola Design Festival, through ancient art and a timeless tradition, also from the point of view of tableware: a tea set. Licking Rocks is a project designed with a view to finding…
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Some remember him for the Pirelli skyscraper in Milan, others for the iconic Superleggera chair, rightfully entering the ranks of 20th-century design icons. Yet others recognize him as the founder (and director for a remarkable fifty years) of Domus, a magazine still at the forefront of contemporary architectural discourse. The…
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by Roberta del Vaglio. How do today’s children and young people study? In a classic way but not only, at the desk but also elsewhere, often in connection with classmates and, even today, fighting the number one enemy: distractions. The ability to concentrate can be improved with good organization of…
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The designer was called to the creative direction of the company which has been producing furniture and movable walls for the contract world for over 50 years, bringing her inclusive vision inspired by a precise concept: gentle total office. New ways of living and working, a conceptual and design modus…
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What inspires me? Light. Light is decisive for shapes, for objects, for a total environment. Light goes and has no dimension, and it can travel very far. (Nanda Vigo) Nanda Vigo was born in Milan on 14 November 1936. After graduating from the Institut Polytechnique of Lausanne and an important…
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by Sara Gecchelin. The experience of good sleep leaves behind the stress and tension of a hectic life, and allows us to slow down and restore energy to our daily lives. In short, it helps you regenerate. But to rest well you need to lie down on the most suitable…
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by Evi Mibelli. “Time, for Beauty, does not exist” – Eva Zeisel. I am secretly proud of having had the opportunity, in 2004, to meet a true design legend in New York: Eva Zeisel. He was 98 years old and carried with great elegance and playful liveliness. His fundamental contribution…
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An interview by Evi Mibelli with Daniele Mazzon, General Manager of Cristina Rubinetterie. It was 1949 when in Gozzano, in the Novara area, a young entrepreneur decided to open a small business that supplied semi-finished products for the taps and fittings sector. These are the years of post-war recovery and…
Read moreby Costanza Carbotta. “The tree should not be cut down, it should be planted“. This is the fundamental concept of the KeepLife project, an innovative material created thanks to dried fruit shells (walnuts, hazelnuts, chestnuts, almonds, pistachios and peanuts), moldable into resistant products suitable for any type of design. For…
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An interview by Evi Mibelli with Auro Po, President of Steel Cucine. “Steel is a noble material, it has something eternal in it. This is why our company is called Steel – steel – to make products that, like steel, survive ourselves” – Auro Po, President of Steel Cucine. There…
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