IFDM

The charm of haute couture for the collections of Elie Saab Maison. The line of furnishings, in fact, reprises all of the refined sensuality of the runway shows created by the Lebanese fashion designer, translated into a total look for contemporary interior design. There are all the ingredients of the Elie Saab style: elegance, femininity, cosmopolitan inspirations drawn from...

The elegance of Élitis moves outdoors and spreads across gardens and terraces thanks to the new outdoor rugs. The collection boasts the use of durable high-performance fabrics and handcrafted designs, made with recycled synthetic materials suitable for outdoor use. Round in shape, Amapola features a large poppy flower with stylized and simplified petals. Braids moving in opposite directions give...

You have a long history with Missoni, first in fashion, then at home. For Milano Design Week 2024, you started a collaboration with Roda, with a small outdoor collection. What is your path? I was born in Sorrento, I left when I was 18 and studied at the Art Institute - I liked colours, so I was immediately interested in...

Owner: Christian Schallert/Brummell Projects Architecture and Interior design: Bergendy Cooke, Amine Abouraoui Furnishings: custom made; Olivari Lighting: Vesoi, Ingo Maurer Bathrooms: Neve Photo credits: Emily Andrews, Ely Sanchez, La Dichosa Boutique Hotel Maison Brummell Majorelle stands next to the famed Majorelle Gardens in Marrakech that surround the Yves Saint Laurent museum. It was built at the behest of Austrian hotelier Christian Schallert who envisioned it...

Milano Design Week has just reached its conclusion, but the city is still buzzing with the energy of the event connected with the Salone del Mobile. In particular, the Porta Venezia Design District, a self-proclaimed “other district” now in its second year, was a magnet for visitors, with an estimated attendance of over 60,000 visitors. Relying on the cosmopolitan,...

In a modern reinterpretation of the convivial spaces typical of Arabic culture, Patricia Urquiola introduces the modular sofa Insula, one of Kettal’s novelties for 2024, a project that blends innovation and tradition together. Drawing inspiration from majlis, vital places within Arab communities where social gatherings, debates on local events, and receptions occurred, Urquiola revisits the domestic space with a...

The impact of artificial intelligence in the discipline of architecture is unavoidable and undeniable. The recent mass adoption of highly accessible machine learning tools including DALL-E, Stable Diffusion, and Midjourney has allowed designers to test their limits and assess their role as an author in the design of the built environment. The book Artificial. Intelligent. Architecture by Frank Jacobus and...

Imperfettolab, “laboratory of the imperfect”, was born in 1992 in Longiano, on the Via Emilia, in the province of Forlì-Cesena. And it is immediately poetry born from the encounter between art, design and functionality at the limits of sculpture. If at the beginning the research of the brand focused on stage design, sculpture and painting, since 1997 the work has...

The Kunstmuseum Basel dedicates an extensive exhibition to a pioneer of Minimal Art: the American artist Dan Flavin (1933–1996) rose to fame in the early 1960s with his work with industrially manufactured fluorescent tubes. Bringing together thirty-five light installations, twenty-one works on paper, two early paintings by Flavin that are rarely displayed, and a selection from the works by...

Terrasza is a new phygital platform for the world of outdoor décor, which began last October in Barcelona with a circuit of showrooms and events on open-air design. This year the initiative was also part of Fuorisalone 2024, with the first edition of Terrasza Milano.  The platform was part of the 5VIE circuit, and for the occasion it opened an...

Founded in 2020 by the designers Clément Rougelot and Kevin Dolci, 13Desserts is a French design collective based in Paris and Hyères les Palmiers, which creates furnishings, lighting products and premium objects.  The desire of the founders to open the project to other professionals is driven, as the name of the group implies, by a holiday tradition typical of the...