April and the new dimension in Milan

In other times we would now all be walking amidst a crowd on Corso Italia, or from one pavilion to another at the Fair in Rho; or we’d be eagerly awaiting the imminent start...

Real, virtual

September is the month of the year with the highest density of project-related events. Worldwide. Between fairs and design weeks – in Helsinki, Paris, Sydney, Singapore, Vienna; in Detroit even the whole month –...

Wonder Book Yacht&Cruise 2022. Cross-over at heart

Significantly, in this Wonder Book Yacht&Cruise 2022, three of the usual twelve Wonders are bridges. Whether covered, open or hybrid, they are all paths of connection, the cross-over point between one shore and the...
Alcova 2024 @ Villa Pagatti Valsecchi, Varedo – Photo © Piergiorgio Sorgetti, courtesy Alcova

The big bang?

The first sign came in mid-January, when Alcova, a highly acclaimed collective exhibition event in the Milano Design Week constellation, announced its new location (or two, rather): Villa Borsani and Villa Bagatti Valsecchi. In...

Exchange? Exchange!

The world changes and China changes too. A new cultural wave says that quantity has to give way to quality. The economic slowdown (though in any case the performance is enviable) makes the demand...

.Wonder Book Spring Summer 2023. The Craft of Complexity

According to the sociologist Edgar Morin, “There is complexity only when the different components that make a whole are inseparable (such as the economic, political, sociological, psychological, affective, mythological) and when there is a...

Designing a new social dynamic

For the first time since its debut in 2016, the .Wonder Book reveals a new approach to architecture and interior design, a departure from the usual hospitality projects. This is not a choice dictated by...
September 2023 moodboard: Delightopia

Delightopia

Sugar-free… who would have imagined that the suffix “free” (of gluten, lactose, palm oil, allergens – and so on, at length) would take on such importance in our lives today? Delightopia, our moodboard for...

.Wonder Book FW 2022, time and architecture

The clear theme and widespread practice that emerges from this Fall edition of Wonder Book is the will (beyond the mere need) to recover architectural structures on different scales, in complementary indoor and outdoor...

Goldrush

There is no room for shyness when it comes to style, least of all in the home. And this month, the desire to impress has taken over. Perhaps it’s the glittering atmosphere of the...