Born in Copenhagen on February 11, 1902, Arne Jacobsen is one of the most renowned Danish architects and designers in the world. After graduating in architecture from the Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts, he opened his own studio in 1930, where he worked until his death in 1971, leaving…
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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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A journey into the creative heart of a company that combines mastery, craftsmanship, and innovation, from the production departments where furniture is born to refined narrative spaces that suggest an increasingly très chic contemporary lifestyle. When you think of Lyon, your mind turns to its traboules (the typical covered passages…
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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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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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