Born in 1946 to help a country rebuild after the war, the Vespa went on to shape cinema, youth culture, advertising, and urban life. This is the story of an italian scooter that changed the way we move — and the way we stay close.
The Mayday designer uses skis, worn-out suits, and a tape-covered skeleton sled at Triennale Milano to reflect on a form of design that does not seek the wow effect, redefining instead processes, infrastructures, and collective choices.
"One sits more comfortably on a colour that one likes" said the designer whose 100th birthday we are celebrating this year. So Vitra, the company that established his fame, is launching a contest to vote on the color of the next edition of the Panton Chair.
We saw Grejsimojs firsthand, Ikea’s collection designed to bring play back into everyday domestic life with a series of physical, clever and unexpected objects.
We visited the Dutch company that rebuilt the idea of the wallet from scratch, discovering a place where the product rules and ethics matter most.
Metal drywall tracks take center stage in Drywall by Claudio Larcher and Sofia D’Andrea, a furniture series where design adopts architecture’s invisible grammar.
In Palermo, Sicily, the house museum Stanze al Genio opens to the public a hidden treasure of tiled floors and terracotta tiles, the result of more than 30 years of private collecting
From his collection of Memphis furniture to the costumes of his alter-egos, the life and career of David Bowie have been indissolubly intertwined with the world of design.
The return of a great classic from the past becomes an indicator of the new priorities of contemporary living, oscillating between a desire for immersion, shared comfort, and the centrality of collective experience.
Between computational design, advanced craftsmanship, and biological processes, Joris Laarman’s work transforms materials, algorithms, and objects into evolutionary systems, bringing laboratory practice and the Symbiocene into dialogue.
Between the hype of collectible design, medieval revivals, modern and postmodern legacies, Montelupo Fiorentino becomes a case study for understanding where ceramics are truly heading today.
From curatorship to cultural strategy, Simone LeAmon launches a new ambition for the Design Institute of Australia: to make design an engine of identity and a horizon for the country’s future.
