Boffi, the art of living in the kitchen: a ritual between design and craftsmanship
There is no need to design new rituals when the existing ones are restored with dignity and passion. The bathroom […]
Laura Fuso
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Kengo Kuma is the influential, disruptive theorist of the anti-object architecture
Kengo Kuma’s architecture is open to many interpretations, but contextuality is the common denominator of all his work, especially the […]
Renzo Piano is the made in Italy architect legend par excellence
The most distinguishing trait behind Renzo Piano‘s constructions is not having a distinguishing trait. Better said, Piano’s signature on its […]
Architect, entrepreneur, interior designer and textile innovator: Florence Knoll left an imprint that transcends any specific fields
With a rationalist design approach, influenced by Bauhaus and American modernism, after graduation Florence Knoll found herself as the only […]
5 iconic designs by the Italian Enzo Mari who was, most of all, a maverick designer
The first Compasso D’Oro Award ever assigned not to a product but to a set of theories was for Enzo […]
HOK’s method: warm culture, cool work
The son of an architect, in 1955 George Hellmuth joined Gyo Obata and George Kassabaum to found HOK. Fellow architects […]
Artemide, the human and responsible light
Ernesto Gismondi, an aerospace engineer who owned three cinematographs, in 1960 invested 500USD in producing lamps. With a catalogue that […]
Gae Aulenti, the Italian lady of architecture and design
While the debate over the gender pay gap in architecture – and not only – is growing louder nowadays, try […]
Kartell, bringing innovation home since 1949
A young chemical engineer had a dream: to turn a popular, disregarded material, used at the time for everything that […]
Workspace History – The Johnson Wax Headquarters by Frank Lloyd Wright
For his social impact and for his unmatched body of work, realized along seven decades of practice, Frank Lloyd Wright […]
Snøhetta, landscape and architecture working together
There’s a mountain in Norway named Snøhetta. It’s neither the highest of the country nor the most important. But, according to […]
Konstantin Grcic: industrial design, made simple
With a passion for materials and technology, extensive research activity into the history of architecture and design, an engineering-oriented approach, […]