Design in 400 words: Michele De Lucchi, wood and light
Wednesday, 16 October 2013
Wood is De Lucchi great ally. It seems that you come into harmony with this natural material and handle it. It is like that? I like wood more than any other material because it comes from the earth and it is born from nature. The architecture must always maintain a link with its surroundings and
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Signs of travel by Emilio Uberti
Wednesday, 16 October 2013
“Paper and pen” is a combination that, in its most introspective form, suggests the idea of great intimacy. Moments in which you are at the presence of yourselves immersed in writing or drawing. Some argue that drawing is for a selected few, but it is not true. Drawing is like writing. It needs practice. Once
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Mists and fairy vapors: Rébecca Dautremer
Wednesday, 16 October 2013
She does not like to talk much about herself, she likes when evening falls, she thinks that when you are sulking you are more beautiful than when you laugh: it could be a description of one of the Princesses oubliées ou inconnues that made her famous but instead is what Rébecca Dautremer, a young French
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Botero in Parma
Wednesday, 02 October 2013
Soft, bulky, and despite all, harmonic bodies, which catapult you into a dimension where the disproportion is, after all, enjoyable. 47 plasterwork, delicate only in the material, given the measures, arranged on two floors to retrace the production and artistic growth, since 1973, of one of the greatest exponents of modern art still alive. The
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Design in 400 words: Benjamin Lee
Wednesday, 02 October 2013
love Yayoi Kusama, an artist of points… when I opened my library I have dedicated the children area to her with a “copy” of an installation of hers. Once, while I was in line, I saw a picture of her with a nice man, a particular man: the man was Benjamin Lee, photographer. Tokyo, Hollywood,
Sherlock Holmes, Swiss surprises
Wednesday, 02 October 2013
Where were invented meringues? The name says it: in Meiringen (Oberal, Switzerland). This village surrounded by impressive mountains has another peculiarity: the Sherlock Holmes Museum. Opened in 1991 – centenary of the death of the famous detective – is located in the basement of an old English church in the center of the little town,
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Atelier. Marina Burani
Wednesday, 02 October 2013
The entrance is at the rear, the palace is one of the most beautiful of Parma: residence of nobles, for many years home to Marina Burani’s atelier, and it is not enough… the big apartment and the lovely attic are also places of exposure – Alphacentauri gallery – where contemporary art events are put on
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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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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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