Crazy, rich Asians
Monday, 23 September 2013
In recent years we have heard so much about Asia, emerging market with a changing lifestyle due to the fast enrichment of some families. They say Asia will economically dominate the twenty-first century. The new rich are there, and China is the country with the highest rate of rich people. The Land of the Dragon,
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Innsbruck and the charms of Tyrol
Monday, 23 September 2013
Countless travelers – pilgrims, merchants, diplomats and artists – along the ages have chosen the city of Innsbruck as a destination or as a place to stop on the way to and from Germany, a jewel surrounded by majestic mountains; but tourism in the modern sense was born in the nineteenth century, attracted by the
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The Pixel with mustache
Monday, 23 September 2013
It’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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The lunatics will save us. A look at the Venice Biennale
Monday, 23 September 2013
A book that looks like a codex and a building which never existed. Between these two poles man, fragile and thinking, creative and dazed, humanity with his dreams and sorrows, with its gods and its superstitions, with all its passions and its diseases. Impressive, standing at the center of the first room in the fascinating
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Les Cités Obscures
Monday, 23 September 2013
June, 1982, the first episode of Les Murailles de Samaris was presented to the French public on the magazine A Suivre, it was the first of twenty books that make up the body of works published in Belgium by Casterman from 1983 to the present. In Les Cités Obscures, François Schuiten and Benoît Peeters created
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Fashion contaminations
Monday, 23 September 2013
Contaminations. Away from disaster movies and environmental disasters, contamination seems a creative imperative now. Unknown scopes and environments combine to give birth to something new, unexpected and exciting. It’s like entering the realm of endless possibility, where everyone has the right to exist. Cinema, photography, visual arts, music… and fashion. Textile creations are no strangers
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Design in 400 words: the “squares” by Alessandro Mendini
Monday, 23 September 2013
I first “met” Mendini when I purchased Lot of Dots for Swatch, in 1990, the watch completely covered in squares. Growing up, I discovered design and start following the architect/artist, I remember that the structure of Alessi headquarter really impressed me: a kind of Willy Wonka’s chocolate factory that stands out in a natural environment
The London revival of Effe Logo
Monday, 23 September 2013
Detail oriented, decisive, innovative, resourceful and motivated. So she describes herself (and she seems to be) Francesca Corsini – aka Effe Logo – graduated at the Art Institute Paolo Toschi in Parma (1995) and at the Academy of Art and Design Cappiello in Florence (1998). We met Francesca during her “Italian holiday” for a few
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The Pixel with mustache
Wednesday, 19 June 2013
It’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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Olfaction, the sense preferred by memory
Wednesday, 19 June 2013
Balzac, Baudelaire, Calvino, D’Annunzio, Flaubert, Gadda, Wilde, but above all Proust and Süskind… great is the literary fortune of olfactory memories, powerful time machines able to bring us back to the past in a matter of a moment: the smells have the power to activate episodic memory, the one that holds all the events of
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