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

“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

They’re just kids, “just kids”. Only? What does it mean that “only” when it comes to children? We know, we who we are no longer that, explore their light thoughts, we remember the time when we discovered our shadow? Valerio Berruti is an artist who has long dealt with childhood: in his works always appear

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

A photograph is not “beautiful”, said Ugo Mulas to a young and inexperienced Gianni Berengo Gardin, a photograph is “good” and it is when tells you and says things, communicates something. Mulas could not yet know that the one who listened, attentive and eager to learn would become, in turn, a great master in visual

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

Giulio Cesare Croce. A name that (maybe) says little until you mention three characters born from his pen: Bertoldo, Bertoldino and Cacasenno. The adventures of Bertoldo the commoner, as witty to win the right to live at the court of the Lombard king Alboin, constitute one of the greatest comic texts of the seventeenth century,

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

Girls from all around the world have entered Barbie’s fabulous world, falling into it as you fall into the Sleeping Beauty’s dream, from 1959, year in which the production of the first model of the most famous icon doll in the world begins. Barbie, American origin, is a symbol of a whole western seductiveness, with

by Petra Cason Olivares Mentioning “Bugatti”, to anyone today would be natural the connection with the famous Alsatian automotive company probably vaguely recalling the elegant forms of “fin de siècle” car body. However, few people would associate the name Bugatti to the figure of Carlo, father of the automotive entrepreneur Ettore, fine cabinetmaker and surprising