Design in 400 words: Fantacentrica
Wednesday, 04 June 2014
It’s called “Siabbottoni” (Buttoning) Simone Abbottoni’s website, that explains to those who enter for the first time: “N.1 Si is the beginning of Simone, and Abbottoni is the surname No.2 Si Abbottoni – imperative of “to button” in italian – is a gentle invitation to those who talk too much and badly”. But Simone Abbottoni
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A life in black and white: Stanislao Farri
Wednesday, 04 June 2014
Stanislao Farri is on the threshold of ninety. He still has so much energy, so much desire to frame subjects that strike him and take photographs that, printed, draw lines and perspectives, depicting unusual and fascinating glimpses as the last project dedicated to avant-garde architecture in Reggio Emilia, one of Santiago Calatrava. The curves of
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Pre-Raphaelites. The utopia of beauty: exhibition top marks
Wednesday, 04 June 2014
A simple exhibition? No, this is THE exhibition: the one to see “absolutely”. Pre-Raphaelites. The utopia of beauty, in Turin until July 13th, 2014, presents seventy works of the Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood from Tate Gallery in London: arrived in Italy as the last stop of a world tour, they will then be placed in a wing
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Technology to wear: fashion accessories for a healthier life
Wednesday, 21 May 2014
Many technology and sport companies are focusing on wearable devices, or the technology of the fashion to wear. These are accessories often related to sports with attractive design that allow for example to make the tracking of sports training, of body weight or situations related to wellness. As part of the “technology to wear” we
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A Pixel with mustache
Wednesday, 21 May 2014
t’s like many cats: lazy, messy, unpredictable, but adorable. Yet special, like all felines can be. His name is Pixel, it lives with Cecilia&Fermo for a strange case and one day she decided to turn it into the protagonist of “flash” inspired to cat’s life in its many facets. Which color, size or sex is
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Art on the table: from rococo to design
Wednesday, 21 May 2014
What is the relationship between a pot and Hans Arp? And among cutlery and Paul Klee? The relation was unveiled by a small exhibition at the National Gallery of Parma by CSAC, which focuses on the space of the table seen through the work of three great masters: Roberto Sambonet, Enzo Mari and Bruno Munari.
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Design in 400 words: SHARING DESIGN – The 3D world meets the 10D world (part one)
Wednesday, 21 May 2014
With Maria Christina Hamel of Milan Makers begins a cycle of interviews dedicated to Fuorisalone 2014. Leave the floor to the designer so she can tell us about her project, thought and concretized by the group that she represents. «Milan Makers in its manifestation SHARING DESIGN – 3D world meets the 10D world held during
A century of great photography: a superb exhibition in Reggio Emilia
Wednesday, 21 May 2014
Alongside European Photography 2014 with an high-level proposal, this is the purpose of the exhibition organized by the Museum of Modern Art in Salzburg and by the Fondazione Palazzo Magnani in Reggio Emilia: it does not happen every day to be able to trace a century of photography through the images of the most important
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Not only clouds: Luigi Ghirri
Wednesday, 21 May 2014
There is no photography, in Reggio Emilia, without Luigi Ghirri. The main protagonist of the image culture of the region – and not only – to the artist is now dedicated a retrospective that brings together 300 works, including shots, dummies, books, postcards, record covers, magazines, on a journey that explores his Pensare per immagini
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The fairy-tale macrocosms by Wes Anderson
Wednesday, 21 May 2014
If I had to choose where to live a second life, instinctively I would answer “in a Wes Anderson movie”. I close my eyes and I see. A clumsy boy scout eloping from camp Ivanhoe. Grown up, I would have attended high school in Rushmore, and then gone looking for my mother, getting on a
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