Andrei Clontea‘s creativity arises from the continuous encounter between different elements. First of all two places, Brussels and Luxembourg, the cities in which he works. Architecture and art follow, one the starting point and the other the arrival point, beyond nature and artificial structures. All together, they become ingredients of…
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by Evi Mibelli. “Not in the thing itself, but in the degrees of shadow, lies beauty. The pearl, phosphorescent in dark places, loses much of its charm in the sunlight. There is no beauty in it, except that created by the contrasts of light and shadow.” – Book of Shadows…
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Eclectic, meticulous, and ingenious Cristian Visentin, born in 1972, works in industrial design, spanning genres, materials, inspirations, and products. Born in Varese, he graduated from the Politecnico di Milano in Design and has recently started his own studio in Pavia, focusing on industrial design, graphics, interior decoration, and architecture. Whether…
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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 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…
Read moreby 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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by Roberta del Vaglio. A full immersion in avant-garde authorial planning, between exhibitions and dreamy but always functional design, capable of narrating the most avant-garde vision of contemporary creativity. Gaming is a serious thing: this could be the underlying theme of the latest edition of Edit Napoli, permeated by irony,…
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Design is planning, necessity, vision, idea that has a purpose; or, in this case, many purposes. From refrigerators to stoves, from hoods and cookers to sinks and electric scooters: here comes EMO design, the studio that sees design not as an end, but as a means to create everything we…
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by Claudia Schiera. The bathroom is a fundamental space within the home, a constantly evolving reality with all its details, accessories and finishes: let’s discover the latest innovations based (increasingly) on energy saving and material sustainability. The 2024 edition of Cersaie in Bologna, the International Exhibition of Ceramics for Architecture…
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by Roberta del Vaglio. Sustainability and recovery without neglecting beauty and creativity: the future is a melting pot of different cultures, amazing but also linked to tradition, between craftsmanship and cutting-edge design. Not a fair but a festival, a great celebration of design in all its forms, reflections, skills and…
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