Milano Design Week 2023 – Alcova, Photo © Agnese Bedini, Piercarlo Quecchia, DSL Studio

Design and the City

This year, after a break and uncertainties due to the pandemic, the Salone del Mobile.Milano was back in April. The calendar is back in phase. The numbers were very positive, with 307,418 visitors registered...
2023/05: Plumpup

Plumpup

The latest Milano Design Week almost universally banned hard edges, wagering on a plump scenario. Since little room seems to be left for slender straight lines, we have plunged into a new paradise of...

Utility and beauty

When I was little, my sister and I did our homework sitting on two red plastic chairs. They were light, glossy and looked like they were made from Lego. They were akin to a...

.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...
2023/03: Metropicalitan

Metropicalitan

Rather wild, but right next to the city. With a bit of healthy naiveté. This is the aesthetic tribe we’ve chosen for our March moodboard: the Metropicalitans, a human category with the desire to...
Venini @ Italia61, design Carlo Scarpa

A matter of spirit

March is a very important month in the décor and contract sectors. In Cannes (this year from 14 to 17 March) MIPIM is the fair-event that brings together the most influential players from all...
2023/02: Folkness

Folkness

Rebels, indeed, but with a touch of lightness. The latest design trends mark a return to the taste for objects that speak of other parts of the world. As if our homes were gatherings...
Louhi chair, design Kaveh Najafian

The future of creativity

A few days ago, while talking with the French designer Patrick Norguet, the conversation took an unexpected turn: “Designers might be headed for extinction. New technologies are arising, based on artificial intelligence. Few people...
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Yin & Yang

For professionals in the world of décor and design, January is traditionally a moment of many trade fair appointments. With a special focus on decorating: complements, objects, fabrics, wallpapers. But it is also the...
2023/01: Poplander

Poplander

Poplander is our new carrier (free of symptoms) of trends, the moodboard protagonist for the first month of 2023 – not the lead singer of an up-and-coming band. He won’t get millions of Spotify...