The bibliophile’s handbook
Wednesday, 15 January 2014
How many book lovers could tell they really know everything about their objects of desire? Are you sure you are not missing out anything, unless you are a printer or an antique expert? In this section you will find a selection of definitions – more or less known – to test your knowledge and discover
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DESIGN IN 400 WORDS: Giorgio Tartaro, who interview us who interview?
Wednesday, 15 January 2014
Insiders know Giorgio Tartaro since the beginning of his career, but “next door” design enthusiasts approach his professional career following his Tv shows. The simplicity he uses to bring this discipline in our homes helped everyone turn some corner of their home in a special corner. A thesis on Enzo Mari, why a degree in
A Pixel with mustache
Wednesday, 15 January 2014
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.a Which color, size or sex is
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Cats and art: iconography of a household deity (part one)
Wednesday, 15 January 2014
Although the exact date of the beginning of the partnership between man and cat is still vague, recent comparative DNA studies estimated that the first domesticated cats may have been in the area of the Fertile Crescent some 10,000 years ago. Almost a thousand years later, the fascination that the cat had on the man
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The idea and the gesture. Rodin vs. Pollock
Wednesday, 15 January 2014
An impossible comparison: Auguste Rodin and Jackson Pollock. The one a refined sculptor lived in the nineteenth century, the other cursed painter who has forever changed the New York painting scene in the Fifties. No affinity, no point in common, but after having visited the two current exhibitions at Palazzo Reale in Milan on the
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One hundred of these numbers, Rat-Man!
Wednesday, 15 January 2014
It was 1989 when Leo Ortolani created Rat-Man (Deboroh The Rock to his friends) as a parody of overseas superheroes. In 1997, the early stages of success, he had already decided that the saga of his super-nerdy in puppet style would have had a conclusion with the release of comic book no.100. But no: over
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Cinzia Munari and “Immagini d’Io” at Milan’s Triennale
Wednesday, 15 January 2014
Matthew Cibic, Matali Crasset, Caterina Crepax, Jacopo Etro, Marco Ferreri, Elio Fiorucci, Forma Fantasma, Martí Guixé, Lorenzo Palmeri, Karim Rashid, Paul Ulian, Mila Schön, Gianni Veneziano are some of the 50 creatives (designers, artists, designers and other) invited by TAM TAM, the non-school for new design, to interpret the image they have of themselves, on
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Design in 400 words: Christmas tree transformations
Thursday, 09 January 2014
It was thanks to Johann Wolfgang Goethe that the (Christmas) tree appears for the first time in the great literature, in his famous work The sorrows of young Werther. The year was 1774. It is said, however, that the first was “spotted” in Tallinn, Estonia, a few years before. It was 1441 and it seems
Merry Christmas & happy New Year
Wednesday, 11 December 2013
Fermomag goes on holiday, but… The Christmas break arrives even for Fermomag, who will return in January in the form of real browsable magazine. Other innovations are in progress: redesign of the site, e-books, contests, a blog with lots of news and trivia. Season Greetings and see you in the new year! www.fermoeditore.it
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Fabric as an artistic medium, on display in Turin
Wednesday, 11 December 2013
Until March 23rd, 2014 at the Fondazione Sandretto Re Rebaudengo in Turin are showcased textile works by 18 international artists, a tribute to the rich weave of meanings that the use of fabric has had over the time and in different cultures. The Rebaudengo since 1995 is committed to supporting young artists, in collaboration with
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