NOMAD co-founder Nicolas Bellavance-Lecompte on the future fair
When the first edition of NOMAD took place in 2017 inside Karl Lagerfeld’s Villa La Vigie in Monaco, Hans Ulrich Obrist described the showcase as the […]
Design icons
Design icons are those who have made the history of this industry or represent a benchmark at present. This section is dedicated to the protagonists of the world of design: designers, companies, studios, who set new, higher standards with their activities.
Storet by Acerbis is a playful, spirited chest of drawers
Iconic designs are icons for a reason. Originally designed in 1994 by Italian artist Nanda Vigo, Storet is a ten-drawer cabinet for furniture company Acerbis that […]
Nendo design gives people small moments of wonder
Born in Toronto, raised and graduated in Tokyo, Oki Sato established a collective of multi-disciplinary professionals in 2002 to stand against the grandiloquent and self-referential design […]
Driade, the ever-evolving aesthetic lab of mass-produced living
Once upon a time, a graduate in stage design, Adelaide Acerbi, her husband, architect Enrico Astori, and his designer sister Antonia, joined efforts to found a […]
Vico Magistretti, a life between architecture and design
Born in Milan in 1920, the son of an architect, Ludovico ‘Vico’ Magistretti was one of the key figures for the reconstruction of postwar Italy, a […]
Foscarini is the Italian spirit creating lights that illuminate the meaning
In 1291 the Venetian government ordered glass masters to move their furnaces to an island in the lagoon on the Northside of Venice, for fire safety […]
Achille Castiglioni is the designer that draws around himself a world of curiosity
Achille Castiglioni is part of that generation of creatives that crucially contributed to the Italian miracle after World War II, able to attract investors on made […]
From jewelry to furniture, Nanna Ditzel is the versatile lady of Nordic design
Born in Copenhagen in 1923, in the mid 40s Nanna Dietzel started practicing with ebony, giving life with her touch to objects inspired to nature, transforming […]
Braun designs are simple, useful and built to last
It’s been a century since 1921, when Max Braun, a mechanical engineer, opened a small engineering store in Frankfurt, producing components for radio sets. In a […]
Charles and Ray Eames were the first designers to mass-produce molded plywood with compound curves
Looking back at the history of design, it looks like many landmark contributions at the heart of architecture and design’s most fundamental trends and methods came […]
Cassina is the Italian story of a furniture brand that builds its collections without using nails – just glue and joints.
Almost a century ago, brothers Cesare and Umberto Cassina from Meda, a town in Northern Italy, founded Cassina as a family workshop processing wood for furniture. […]
Blown away – Dyson’s key to success is failure
Today, Dyson’s yearly revenues grew to more than 5 billion pounds. When James Dyson and his wife moved into their new house, he found himself unsatisfied […]