by Evi Mibelli. “I like the beautiful and the useful, and even more the beautiful in the useful.” Andrée Putman was neither a true designer nor a true architect, but an exceptional “ensemblière“. This is how Sylvie Santini, biographer of the grand dame of French design, defines her. A perfect…
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On 15 December 1870, Josef Hoffmann was born, a famous architect who was among the founders of the Viennese Secession (1897) and a few years later of the Wiener Werkstätte, an association of artists who proposed unity between the various types of arts and who had great fame for thirty…
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by Evi Mibelli. “The straight line is without God.” If many think that the very Milanese and renowned ‘Bosco verticale’ represents the most ambitious idea of contemporary green architecture on urban soil, they will have to think again. Because knowing architecture also means knowing how to look back. At least…
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Gae Aulenti: the lady of architecture and design. In the panorama of Italian design of the 1950s, women, due to a question of possibilities or female emancipation that characterized that historical period, did not have much space. One of the few personalities who managed to leave an indelible mark on…
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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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Playful signature dishes, for an authentic tablescape that embraces a worldview of #onlybeautifulthings. Among the memories of my visit to Maison&Objet, I definitely note Ilaria.I and her new collection of fun decorated porcelain plates and mugs. Original pieces that set the table through the simplicity of everyday life, but with…
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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 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 Daniela Pinotti. “I am a nomadic soul and always looking for change.” A special meeting, the one with Daniela Pinotti. A lively, open mind and a gaze that lights up when he talks about his passion for design, research, and experimentation. Her restlessness seems…
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Un respiro internazionale ha animato la capitale francese, trasformandone le vie in un intreccio di visioni e linguaggi: un dialogo ispirato tra la sensibilità progettuale di Maison&Objet e quella della manifestazione, entrambe guidate da un invito consapevole a ripensare il modo in cui abitiamo il mondo. September transformed Paris into…
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