Noise and light: New York according to Giacomo Bevilacqua
Sunday, 21 January 2018
by Laura Fornasari New York is noise and light. The uninterrupted traffic noise, and the far cry of sirens. Did you know that New Yorkers say it’s impossible to make a phone call without being interrupted by at least one siren? But New York designed by Giacomo Bevilacqua is made of colors and stains of shadows
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Auxiliary Territorial Service, Junior Commander No. 230873
Saturday, 13 January 2018
by Andrea Di Betta “To be, or not to be that is the question/ whether ‘tis nobler in the mind to suffer/ the slings and arrows of outrageous fortune/ or to take arms against a sea of troubles, and by opposing end them.” From the beginning of the seventeenth century this dilemma, forged by William
Kate Beaton: Rewriting History. In comics
Thursday, 11 January 2018
by Laura Fornasari Kate Beaton (born in 1983, Nova Scotia) is a Canadian cartoonist author of the online collections series of comic strips under the name “Hark! A Va- grant”. After graduating in history and anthropology, and having worked in the marine museum of British Columbia, she decided to test herself com- bining the two
In a group of elected: Mary Shelley
Tuesday, 02 January 2018
by Laura Fornasari It is legend the story of the group that met at Villa Diodati, in Switzerland, in the gloomy atmosphere of 1816, the year without summer. Lord Byron, Percy Shelley, Mary Shelley and Claire Clairmont and John W. Polidori: housebound by bad weather and inspired by reading Gothic novels, they challenged each others to
Turin smells of paper. International
Thursday, 21 December 2017
by Salvo Taranto The elegance comes from a classic, timeless beauty, the long history prestige that sits among its shelves and the people who have set foot over the decades. Immense authors like Primo Levi, Jorge Amado, Allen Ginsberg, Philip Roth and Amos Oz. The International Luxemburg Library is located in one of the loveliest
Caccia Dominioni & Catilina, the Chair of the New Italian Bourgeoisie
Friday, 15 December 2017
by Petra Cason With him goes away a century of the history of design: Luigi Caccia Dominioni leaves us on the 13th November 2016, at the age of 102 years, but of him remains an almost inexhaustible heritage. The architect, urban planner and designer, born in 1913 from a noble family from Milan, trained at the
Giada: reinvent to look far
Thursday, 07 December 2017
“We are like dwarfs perched on the shoulders of giants so that we can see more and farther than them, not because we have keener vision or greater height, but because we are lifted up and borne aloft on their gigantic stature,” wrote Bernard of Chartres. This quote fits perfectly to Silvia Vatta, the owner
Books among the ruins
Sunday, 03 December 2017
by Elide La Vecchia The image is known. A few years ago it was also used on the covers of notebooks and diaries, in posters and postcards; placeless and timeless icon, stacked in random orgy of images between Marilyn’s faces and improbable exotic islands; now its commercial use is a little expired. The image is that
Futurist music: 1910-1911
Friday, 24 November 2017
by Luca Ferrari “Desert schools, conservatories and musical academies “. With these words open up the conclusions of the Manifesto of Futurist Musicians appeared for the first time in 1910, a work by the composer Francesco Balilla Pratella (1880-1955). This will be followed, in 1911, by the Technical Manifesto of Futurist Music, where they will
Stories of hands: not only a book
Wednesday, 15 November 2017
by Roberto Righi There are photos of the most talented Italian artisans and their hands, expert, skilful, careful, wise, damaged, dirty, calloused, tired and beautiful hands. And there are their stories. Stories of lives devoted to work, true stories of passion, love and effort, stories of people who believe in the tradition and makes everything