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Design Icons – Finn Juhl

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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DnA Associates studio – the right balancing act

Every interior design is a microcosm, a mirror of a distinct personality. Behind it lies the work of those who can turn dreams and visions, tastes and passions, into reality. Managing to leave their own distinctive mark every time. Design and Architecture. This is the solution behind the acronym that…

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Design Icons – Julia Morgan

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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Design Icons – Philippe Starck

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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Bruno Mathsson – design icons

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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Shoe racks – elegance in order

Décolleté, sneakers, boots, sandals, and slippers: every season, it’s never clear where to put them and, most importantly, how to do it with style. The latest space-saving innovations come to the rescue with custom-designed proposals with a high level of design. It’s one of those necessary furnishing complements that help…

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Design Icons – Victor Horta

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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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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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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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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