Lema Contract for the new Roomers designed by Lissoni

A turn-key project for the 130 guest rooms of the new Roomers in Baden Baden, Germany, signed by Lema contract. Piero Lissoni at the forefront of the hotel design

Story and technology, the fundamentals to bright the present and the future

So many ‘firsts’ mark the history of Foscarini, an Italian company with a European outlook and a watchful eye on the world in order to spot the places and cultures where its lights are an added value. But it is also a brand that is bucking the trend, still successfully depending on trade and keeping a respectful distance from the contract universe

The great wave of change

Our meeting with Sergio Buttiglieri, Interior Design Director of the Sanlorenzo shipyard, is a dive into the history of global design that has produced an enviable cultural sector linked to Italian know-how, a wealth of ideas resulting from cross-contamination that has created an interior design revolution in the luxury marine industry. A world of ideas and substance that – to quote Edison – is 1% inspiration and 99% perspiration

The Architecture & Design Film Festival towards NYC

From Seoul to New York, via New Orleans and Chicago. The Architecture&Design Film Festival prepares for its ninth edition with a series of international corollary events

Indelible traces

Alberto Vignatelli will be remembered as a pragmatic dreamer, pioneer of the interior industry capable of leaving his signature in all the many activities where he acted as main character

Ron Gilad’s Glass Cube

Gilad reinterprets the distinctive themes of Molteni&C's corporate identity: materials – primarily wood – quality, experience, technology, industry, craftsmanship, products and collections. The white, minimal space inside Glass Cube contains monumental doors and endless...

Extrovert science. The Experimentarium’s multidisciplinary approach

CEBRA has recently finished restructuring the Experimentarium, introducing radical changes to its architectonic expression. The existing building, a former Tuborg beer bottling plant, has been extended and reorganised, with the addition of new floors and...

A harmonious union

Uniting different influences, the Dress or Dressed project (also known as Dress & Dressed) was exhibited (during MDW) and continues to be exhibited with an intriguing set-up designed by Luciano Marson which combines two...

Chairs & More sides with the UN

The Library Events Room in the United Nations headquarters (Geneva) is known for Henrik Sorensen's large painting behind the dais, which dominates the space, and for countless bookcases located along the walls. Now, however,...

The many sides of Central Embassy

Bangkok is without doubt one of the most alluring – and complex – capital cities in Asia. It is vast, highly polluted and extraordinarily vibrant. No longer is it merely “an expanse of brown...