by Sara Gecchelin. The historic Umbrian textile brand maintains the thread of tradition to present itself as a refined protagonist of home decor: it is one of the exemplary cases of UAU – Umbria Artigianato Unico – capable of demonstrating that craftsmanship is not nostalgia but a contemporary way of…
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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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by Evi Mibelli. “It is the intrinsic language of the materials that I want to express.” Nordic design has always had a streak of inexplicable magic. And in the case of the Dane Poul Kjærholm it is unequivocally so. The source of inspiration is Nature. Even if lines, rigor, geometries…
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by Evi Mibelli. “Everything is a sum of details, but every detail is usable if it is thought out, designed and finally created”. At the end of the 19th century, the Austrian newspaper Neue Wiener Tagblatt wrote that never before in all of Europe had such a new building as…
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Paolo Rizzatto was born in Milan on 25 December 1941 where he still deals with architecture, interiors, products and lighting. After graduating in architecture from the Polytechnic of Milan in 1966, he opened his first studio together with Antonio Monestiroli di Leo with whom he mainly dealt with architecture and…
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by Evi Mibelli. Observing the vast and multifaceted production of Oki Sato – founder of the Nendo design studio – one instinctively thinks of Osvaldo Cavandoli, Bruno Munari and a quote from Hagakure. Osvaldo Cavandoli was the genius from whose pencil the cartoon La Linea was born, the little man…
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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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