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Design Icons – Andrée Putman

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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A gift for Christmas, Fattobene

The best gift? The unexpected one, capable of evoking pleasant sensations and memories. The most beautiful one? Fattobene has selected some of these objects that have lived in our homes for years, winning the hearts and habits of millions of consumers. Fattobene, the platform for the research and valorisation of…

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Design Icons – Josef Hoffmann

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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Design Icons – Gae Aulenti

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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Simiæn – the stone, the tea and the future

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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Gio Ponti – Design Icons

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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Be Human – Ilaria Marelli for Manerba

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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Design Icons – Nanda Vigo

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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Design Icons – Eva Zeisel

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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KeepLife – material continuity

by 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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