Rotterdam Lab

Rotterdam is a paradise for cyclists, with many kilometers of bike lanes covering the entire city. But it is also a laboratory for architectural experimentation. Roaming its streets or sailing down the Meuse, observing...

Copenhagen and the eternal springtime of design

A city where everyone gets around by bike, where people live in close contact with  nature, where homes are energy-efficient nests and are always ‘hygge,’ cozy and intimate, in delicate hues, with wooden furnishings...
Germogli installation by Marcantonio - The Circle of Harmony, Second Life by Natuzzi

24 hours in Milan – Durini/5Vie

Natuzzi, Via Durini 24 (on cover). Giant, golden olive shoots in the courtyard of magnificent palazzo: it is the installation commissioned to Marcantonio, an artist/designer, to celebrate Fabio Novembre’s restyling of the showroom. Emu, Corso...

Discover Madrid, where history meets the present

Spaces and paths to embellish the urban context, while also allowing people to move easily, while improving the quality of life of the inhabitants: this is the basic concept of architecture in Madrid, in...

Milan restarts: what to see, where to go

Milan, the design capital and Italy’s most international city, after months of closure, lights up with Milano Design City, two weeks of events from 12 to 23 April, including presentations, talks, conversations in person (finally!), but...
Interni - Design Re-Generation - Photo © courtesy of Lissoni & Partners

24 hours in Milan – Tortona/Statale

German Design Council, Opificio 31, via Tortona 31. The vibrant fabrics by Anna Resei are among the winners of the ein&zwanzig competition for sustainable materials organised by the German Design Council. New Times (Made in Slovenia),...
CopenHill, Copenhagen - Photo © Oliver Foerstner

In Copenhagen, on the hunt for beauty

Copenhagen is one of those cities capable of astonishing you: you imagine it as a cold northern European capital and you find it sparkling, alive, with corners capable of making you fall in love,...

London: the place to be for design lovers

“London and design go hand in hand,” says Ben Evans, director of the London Design Festival, the most important event for English creativity, from 18 to 26 September 2021. Under the gray London sky...
Artwork Italian Heritage by Kerasan

24 hours in Milan – Brera/Centrale

Artwork Italian Heritage by Kerasan, Piazza and via San Marco 2 (at dOT/design event Outdoor Taste). Ceramic coffee tables Segni delle Carte are the protagonists. Lee Broom, Blindarte, via Palermo 11. A reinterpretation of the design of places...
Plaka, Athens - Photo © Neirfy

Athens, the city in the plural

In all languages, Athens is always written in the plural, never in the singular. This is because the city contains multiplicity: secular and modern, quiet and casual, noisy and chaotic, a concrete jungle interspersed...