Nato nel 2010, il brand Servomuto rivisita il paralume tradizionale per farne un oggetto di sofisticata sperimentazione linguistica, attingendo al mondo dell’interior, e adottando un approccio quasi sartoriale. La duplicità dei rimandi, cui il termine rinvia, riflette la natura “giocosa” del brand ma al contempo esplicita l’idea del connubio tra l’evocazion[...]

Luigi Caccia Dominioni, architetto e designer, spicca come vivace interprete della tradizione milanese e lombarda ma anche come progettista sensibile nella ridefinizione del rapporto tra modernità e tradizione a tutte le scale, dal livello urbano (in particolare a Milano) alla scala dell’oggetto. La poltrona Catilina (1957) è, tra gli oggetti di design, un p[...]

Il connubio e il difficile equilibrio tra arte e industria è sempre stato al centro di accese discussioni che, almeno a livello nazionale, hanno creato le felici condizioni per la nascita del design italiano. Quel design che trova una sua compiuta identità solo nel dopoguerra e in particolare nella prima metà degli anni cinquanta, ma trova la sua genesi in p[...]

Certainly among the most internationally well-known, recognisable and imitated, Thonet bentwood furniture, with more than 50 million pieces sold to date, is seen as the first designer furniture. There are many factors to Thonet’s success and it’s still interesting to retrace some milestones to understand the precursory effect of a system, that of design, pr[...]

Contemporary interior "Landscapes" Again during Design Week 2022, the Cappellini company proved its “systemic” approach to envisioning new scenarios with a double contemporary living exhibition by international creatives and by supporting young talented designers, asking them to develop its futuristic concept centred on the parallel dimensions of living. A[...]

The outdoors as an extension of the indoors: it happens with fashion that adorns the body, but today it happens above all with the home which, from an intimate refuge, expands to accommodate new comfortable and increasingly less temporary spaces. Recent limitations have perhaps facilitated a trend which had already been underway since living spaces shrank in[...]

Flos today represents Italian excellence, an internationally recognised actor in the residential and contract lighting sector, but above all it is the story of a successful business case, developed from the role of innovation, a fundamental element both in the original creation of the company and in the subsequent development of the brand. Besides product qu[...]

A cactus, a mouth, a lawn, iconic objects that are now familiar and part of the collective imagination, were the expression of an immense countercultural movement and a rejuvenated society which, in the 1960s, redesigned everyday life to combat bourgeois respectability, with brightly coloured miniskirts, synthetic materials, new gestures and communal living,[...]