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Diary: Milan Design Week (part 2)
Day 3: Milan Fairgrounds, Rho. Back to finish the design halls, then Eurocucine. Happy Britto chairs by Infiniti Roche Bobois Gufram’s iconic chairs, like the Bocca by Salvador Dali, were wired with counters to see which got sat on the … Continue reading
Diary: Milan Design Week (part 1)
Day 1: Press preview day. Met SH, a Milan Fair veteran, in luxury furniture brand B&B Italia’s flagship store on Via Durini. I shadowed her as much as I can so I wouldn’t get lost. From Via Durini we headed … Continue reading
From crisis response to luxury walls
I first heard of Shigeru Ban from my former professor and boss, Dan Silvestre, when he wrote about the Japanese architect’s paper tube architecture for the section I was editing in my first design magazine job. Shigeru Ban developed this … Continue reading
Fashion is part of the world of design, too
So it’s not couture, and the label says “Monsieur Lacroix”, but looky what we stumbled upon in Desigual (which, in my opinion, is not doing as good a publicity job as Uniqlo did for Jil Sander’s +J, H&M for Versace … Continue reading
Building crush: Palazzo Di Giustizia
I wouldn’t trade meeting this modernist marvel for all the medieval buildings we saw on our road trip from Vicenza to Firenze and back to Milan. If the weather had been nicer, and had I been able to walk around … Continue reading
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Tagged Leonardo Ricci, Palagiustizia
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Pilgrimage to Palladio’s statue
Born, lived and buried in the 1500s, Venetian architect Andrea Palladio nevertheless exists among us – around the world – in the classical Roman-inspired anti-Renaissance, neo-classic, and oft-called “colonial” buildings that surround us. And so, when you’re driving through Vicenza, … Continue reading
Roundtable discussion with Lissoni
There’s a reason I don’t like press conferences and roundtable discussions: I was at a press conference for Queer Eye (yes, that was a long, long time ago), and it was with general media, and I asked Thom Filicia a … Continue reading
Another Pritzker for Portugal
Some countries pride themselves in being able to afford a Pritzker Prize-winning architect. Some countries, well, they just make their own. This year’s Pritzker Architecture Prize laureate is 58-year-old Eduardo Souto de Moura, a fairly-under-the-global-radar Modernist. (The Cinema House, completed in … Continue reading
How yummy is this?
Dutch design-rockstar Marcel Wanders has designed tableware for KLM Royal Dutch Airlines with lightweight porcelain, cutlery and glassware. From March 27, business class flyers will get to enjoy one of the luxuries that once defined air travel. The tableware is … Continue reading
Posted in Green design, Starchitects & design divas, We're loving...
Tagged KLM, Marcel Wanders
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Oh my, Gehry
The Hotel Marques de Riscal in Spain: …and this is why I don’t even think about doing architecture. If you can’t be this brilliant, either work for him (or those of his caliber), or write his praises. So I write … Continue reading
