Belgium is design
Toolbox, an exhibition curated by Giovanna Massoni for Belgium is Design, features a collection of both industrial and artisanal contemporary design, representing the nation's creativity. Video in Italian
De Lucchi and Nichetto for De Padova
Two interesting new takes on the chair — Donzella, a sophisticated wooden archetype by Michele De Lucchi, and Luca Nichetto’s Deck seating system, a blend of indoor and outdoor furniture.
From Milan to Seoul and back
Aiming for an osmosis between brand and designer, Alessandro Mendini’s latest project develops an entire concept for the new company Ramun, combining technological innovation with his own style.
Iosa Ghini / La Triennale
Massimo Iosa Ghini expands on the process and vision informing the numerous projects he has created in recent years, now presented in an exhibition at the Triennale on the occasion of Salone 2013. Video in Italian
B&B Goes Green
Atelier Oï draws on production offcuts to create 3D seating with a deceptively simple texture
Juice: the Essence of Design
An exhibition illustrating the many facets of the design process in a fresh selection of galleries, featuring new industrial manufacturers and self-producing designers.
Solid Acts
Inside Superstudio Più, the Solid Acts — Design from Croatia exhibition showcases the work of 29 designers, in an eclectic display that seeks to give tradition a contemporary expression.
Alla ricerca del progetto empatico
In occasione della settimana del Salone del Mobile 2013, Carlotta de Bevilacqua ha disegnato due nuove lampade per Artemide, entrambe alimentate a led eppure davvero diverse tra loro.
In search of empathetic design
On the occasion of the Salone del Mobile 2013, Carlotta de Bevilacqua has designed two new lamps for Artemide, both of which are LED-powered yet entirely different from each other.
FujiwaraMuro: House in Goido
The house by FujiwaraMuro recalls a city in miniature: its four discrete building volumes surround a central plaza space, lit from above by the sun.
Formafantasma: Cucina Sambonet
At the Triennale Design Museum, Formafantasma interpret the Italian designer Roberto Sambonet: their portrait is ambiguously constructed between fiction and historical accuracy.
Unchanging states of light
One of the protagonists of this year's Milan Furniture Fair is Norwegian designer Daniel Rybakken, who presents his newly designed Ascent lamp for Luceplan.
The competition
The competition "Digital Ideas for Expo City 2015" invites the world of design, in the broadest sense, to develop ideas for the city and the home in the categories Smart City, Mobile Applications and Digital Home&Office + Smart School.
Luzinterruptus: Olympic Games
Using glass bottles, coloured water and LED lights, Spanish collective Luzinterruptus once again undertakes a protest action, this time against the International Olympic Committee.
Resonate Festival
With its second edition, the Serbian festival – a meeting point for technology and art – establishes itself as a sounding board for a mature and growing scene.
Ripolltizon: un asilo
Un percorso colorato a zig-zag, orienta i bambini di questo asilo appena copmpletato sull'isola di Maiorca dagli architetti spagnoli Pep Ripoll e Juan Miguel Tizon.
Chris Ware at Galerie Martel
At the Galerie Martel, an exhibition dedicated this brilliant American illustrator and cult author displays a vast work of rare intensity, where the hand disappears behind storytelling of an oral, almost pre-graphic, physicality.
An abode for Mediterranean culture
In Marseille, an enlightened political will has championed the realisation of an architecture built for the meeting of Mediterranean civilisations. Designed by Boeri Studio, Villa Méditerranée is an invitation to reflect on the intersecting and common destinies that unite the peoples of the Mediterranean Sea.
GAAGA: Stripe House
The Dutch architecture studio completes a single family house where the façade is marked by a series of horizontal stripes, amounting to a total of 7,000 metres carved manually in semi-hardened plaster.
KiBiSi: Scoop Chair
The Danish design studio has designed a new family of contract market furniture for Globe Zero 4: designed to last for generations, the chairs seek to inhabit the overlap between private spaces and public areas.
Under My Tree
Made of metal and wood this waterproof lamp designed by Florian Brillet for Ligne Roset is an invitation to an outdoors life, to summer dining in the garden: Under My Tree will be presented at the upcoming Salone del Mobile 2013.
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The factory of ideas
At the Lieu du Design, a recent exhibition marking 30 years of French design school ENSCI — Les ateliers, as it is affectionately known — is a wide-ranging review of the work of more than 800 graduates over three decades of activity.
Revisiting the Rijksmuseum
Amsterdam's Rijksmuseum is open again in more ways than one, as architects Cruz y Ortiz banish claustrophobia from the labyrinthine interventions that obscured a 19th-century original.
HAF, Pereira, Fukusada: unZIP
On the occasion of the Salone del Mobile 2013, designers HAF by Hafsteinn Juliusson, Rui Pereira and Ryosuke Fukusada will present unZIP — a reinvention of the conventional chair cover — at Ventura Lambrate.
Portrait of a space
In an exhibition at Ben Brown Fine Arts Gallery, German photographer Candida Höfer continues her tour around the Bel Paese, focused on gems in smaller northern cities such as Bibiena, Mantova, Vicenza and Carpi.