Florence Knoll: architect, entrepreneur, interior designer and textile innovator
With a rationalist design approach, influenced by Bauhaus and American modernism, after graduation Florence Knoll found herself as the only […]
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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.
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, […]
Clean geometries and open spaces: Le Corbusier, the father of modern architecture
According to him, architecture is the masterly and magnificent play of volumes brought together in light: Charles Edouard Jeanneret is […]
Illuminating the human experience with pieces by the world’s most famous artists
It all started with a word: Cocoon. Without this plastic material originally used as a protective packaging by the US […]
Bjarke Ingels is the enfant prodige of a pragmatic, utopian architecture
Pursuing an ideal that Ingels himself calls ‘hedonistic sustainability’, Bjarke Ingels Group‘s projects seek to question how sustainability can be […]
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