“Creativity is a system”: OPS Team launches
The Milanese design and architecture scene welcomes a new entity: OPS Team. Founded by Dino Cicchetti, Carlo Formisano, Rei Morozumi, and Simone Scarano, the studio positions itself as a multidisciplinary practice dedicated to architecture,...
Living tout court by Studiopepe
Arianna Lelli Mami and Chiara Di Pinto, alias Studiopepe, have built up a recognisable and personal language over time, reflected in a rich and sophisticated vocabulary of materials, unexpected combinations and sensory surfaces, in...
Studio visit: A Interiors
Before trends, before aesthetics, and before labels, Anoud Khalid Mishaal designs from a place of meaning. Through her studio, A Interiors, she has carved a distinctive language that treats space as a lived experienceone...
Chad Oppenheim: The architecture of emotion
«The emotional quality of architecture stems from the harmony between the natural and the artificial», says Chad Oppenheim, the visionary architect who founded his eponymous Miami-based studio, Oppenheim Architecture, in 1999 with the aim...
The art of living on display in Madrid
A benchmark design and interior design event for the design world, Casa Decor reaches its 61st edition this year. From April 9 to May 24, 2026, the exhibition, curated by Alicia García Cabrera, will...
Design is a slalom… very special
Discreet and reserved in life, gently determined in his profession, Andrea Auletta recounts the many accelerations of his heartbeat with a smiling sobriety. From the stormy period of his studies and his abandonment of...
IFDM Interviews: Carlo Ratti
Carlo Ratti has designed the torch for the Milano Cortina 2026 Games with a subtractive approach, placing the flame – and sustainability – at the centre: recycled materials, a rechargeable burner, and an essential...
Studio visit: Agata Kurzela
Founded on curiosity rather than convention, Agata Kurzela Studio sits at the intersection of research, emotion, and spatial experience. Rejecting fixed aesthetics and rigid disciplinary boundaries, the studio’s work unfolds through context, narrative, and...
The art of crossing boundaries
Born in Tehran and raised between the US, Germany, and France, India Mahdavi has cultivated a career that reflects her multicultural path. Now based in Paris, she leads a studio – founded in 2000...
Measured elegance
Across Milan, there are small practices that embrace compact scale as a value, turning it into fertile ground for precision, care and vision. Founded in 2022 by Dominic Cava-Simmons and Chiara Greppi, Studio Cava...
