Recycled wood – finding use for the byproduct of our forests
Economically developed countries often ignore the environment around them. A conversation with designer Tamara Orjola – investigating the use of pine needles
Sustainability is the main objective for new fashion brands
According to the World Bank, the textile industry is responsible for 20% of all global pollution, topped only by oil pollution. Black is the most polluting color. In conversation with Matteo Ward
Notes on Milan – a serious matter and flow of consciousness
Summarized as formality, conversations late at night, after the theatre. 'Cronaca d’amore' and political non-alignment
How can technology help us combat the water crisis?
It’s worth investing in water. Solutions to the water crisis exist—desalination plants, solar panels, and thermodynamic computers—they just need to be implemented on a global scale
World Forum on Urban Forestry 2019 – the breakdown
Nature must not be banished to outside of the city – it is the city. A detailed history, thoughts, and data on nature in Italy, from ForestaMi to the world
The reconstruction of a forest in Boeri’s scenary
A bridge between Friuli and Sicily - from the destruction of the Vaia storm to a new sap in the holm oaks planted in Syracuse
Folk, Punk, Rock — Maybe It All Started with CHECKS
The Myths and Meanings of Tartan. The Scottish Register of Tartans counts more than 8 thousand patterns, all catalogued
Sustainability is the main objective for new fashion brands
According to the World Bank, the textile industry is responsible for 20% of all global pollution, topped only by oil pollution. Black is the most polluting color. In conversation with Matteo Ward
Notes on Milan – a serious matter and flow of consciousness
Summarized as formality, conversations late at night, after the theatre. 'Cronaca d’amore' and political non-alignment
How can technology help us combat the water crisis?
It’s worth investing in water. Solutions to the water crisis exist—desalination plants, solar panels, and thermodynamic computers—they just need to be implemented on a global scale
World Forum on Urban Forestry 2019 – the breakdown
Nature must not be banished to outside of the city – it is the city. A detailed history, thoughts, and data on nature in Italy, from ForestaMi to the world
The reconstruction of a forest in Boeri’s scenary
A bridge between Friuli and Sicily - from the destruction of the Vaia storm to a new sap in the holm oaks planted in Syracuse
READING ROOM
Cultura e design – International Book and Concept Stores
Darial, Barcelona. A multidisciplinary space by Djaba Diassamidze
In a new wave of thinking about brick and mortar retail, reimagining the physical store, creating spaces where merchandise and art collide
Do you read me?! Berlin. A bookshop between art galleries and laboratories
A few square meters for about two thousand titles in the 'locus amoenus' of art. The exhibitors are counters recovered from flea markets.
New York, McNally Jackson Bookstores. Inside the NoLIta indie scenario
While so many bookstores have cut back on inventory, to concentrate on events, stationary or other branded merchandise, McNally Jackson have gone deeper with their book catalogue.
London, Atkinsons 1799. The dandy and the British bouquet
Fragrances for Napoleon, and a pomade made with bear grease – a place like a theatrical stage: how to stay modern and international without breaking with English tradition
LA, Keiko Mecheri. To ignore marketing is a marketing strategy
How to ride the market without Instagram and without multinationals behind it? A too sweet perfume that becomes a bestseller is a contradiction in the laws of industry
Labsolue, Milan. A long-standing pharmaceutical company is a perfume laboratory
France claims supremacy in the perfume arts – but once again, Italy shows it has the creative resources and the production methods to compete. Perfume culture: the Martone family
Directory
Spots and Notes, a new way of travelling
Madrid, Bless. A room on the avenue that seems to be halfway between Paris and New York
A tribute to the Twenties and to Art Nouveau among boiseries, macro-flowers on the bedside lamps and Louis Comfort Tiffany lamps
Little Beach House, Barcelona. Historical review of desing
Spanish aesthetics on the beach and a new historical interpretation of design
Kuala Lumpur, The Alila Bangsar. Leaving the smoke and atrophy behind
The blaring of honks, the humming of wheels and it’s all over. You arrive in front of the frosted doors to a building that coalesces past and present
