Cities of the future
Nhood. This emblematic name is the contraction of the word “neighborhood.” The reference to being a good neighbor speaks not only to the company’s innate consulting orientation but to the ideal of community, positive...
Gwenael Nicolas: “How I design the Versace stores”
Gwenael Nicolas, born in 1966, is an award-winning French interior and product designer based in Tokyo, who is sought after in Japan for his ability to capture light and movement in dynamic, ethereal and...
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 IFDM interviews: Maria Porro
A few weeks before the start of Milan Design Week, we met Maria Porro in the course of a non-stop day: before the interview she was the protagonist of a photo shoot, immediately afterwards...
The unstoppable Mr Schrager
After launching the concept of boutique hotel during the 80s and 90s, in New York with Morgans, Paramount and Royalton, or in Miami Beach with Delano, Mr. Schrager founded the Ian Schrager Company which...
A (Italian) Londoner conquers Rome
Coming to IA Interior Architects to get the hospitality portion of the award-winning global firm off the ground Veronica Givone talks about what it means to be inclusive listeners before designers, the importance of...
An immersive narrative of design
Creating hotels in dialogue with their historical and iconic location, Sara Duffy – background in art history and television – produces an high-end interior design with an immersive and unique narrative. Her classic vision...
Even hotels have a soul
FROM THE DESIGN OF THE INTERIORS TO THE CREATION OF ATMOSPHERE: A CONVERSATION WITH ANDA ANDREI OFFERS SOME THOUGHTS ON THE EVOLUTION OF HOTELS AND THEIR DESIGN
The IFDM interviews: Deyan Sudjic
Deyan Sudjic is, above all, a man of culture: his reading of architecture and design is very often linked to annotations on the society that produced those works. And his observations often suggest new...
Form Follows Fiction
German architect Ole Scheeren has impressed the Chinese with the project CCTV Headquarters Tower, popularly nicknamed Big Trousers due to its unique shape. From MahaNakhon tower in Bangkok, the Interlace in Singapore to Empire...
