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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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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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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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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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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“I love breaking down the boundaries between what is considered art and what is commonly thought of as design or product.” He is brilliant, creative, irreverent. A romantic maximalist who literally frees design and interiors from the prevailing minimalism and the pervasive “Ikea mood” of recent decades. One might…
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When we think of nineteenth-century design, the collective imagination immediately turns to interiors with a heavy baroque style or to cups embellished with flowers and golden edges. But there is also more, proof of this is Christopher Dresser, a designer originally from Glasgow and active during the Victorian era. Today…
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Like Marcel Wanders’ design or not, the middle ground is difficult. An extrovert and out of the ordinary design characterized by floral elements, redundant decorations and bright colours, such that it is almost considered an anomaly in the world of contemporary design. Wanders’ goal is to make us feel like…
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Born on May 18, 1883, in Berlin, Walter Gropius is considered one of the greatest pioneers of modern architecture of the 20th century and is primarily remembered as the founder of the Bauhaus, along with Ludwig Mies van der Rohe, Le Corbusier, Alvar Aalto, and Frank Lloyd Wright. The son…
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by Evi Mibelli. “You surround yourself with the things that are important to you. Your space, your things: this is who you are” This phrase was displayed on one of the walls of the exhibition dedicated to Konstatin Grcic, which took place in 2015 at the Vitra Design Museum in…
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