Cesare Cunaccia

Born in Trentino, with Central European roots, is a journalist, writer, university professor, and curator. He has volumes published internationally, chiefly on the Italian historical and artistic heritage. He was the Editor-at-large of Vogue Italia and Uomo Vogue, and Art and Antiques Consultant at Ad Italia.

Hot tubes: Italian Design masters

A library of swimming pools – from emperor Hadrian’s villa to organic architecture

A master according to Gio Ponti – Luis Barragán: his house and rough architecture

The evolution of work in art: human body is a brain, the hand a learning tool

Lorenzo Villoresi: raw materials and inspirations, it all starts with a Pot Pourri

Rediscovering Milan’s Historic Citadel of Art and Culture through The Portrait Hotel

Transcending classicism – talking with Charles Ray Lampoon RUVIDO

Black Palermo, White Palermo – a Sicilian story with Vanessa Beecroft

Charlie Siem – a Guarnieri del Gesù from 1735, previously owned by Yehudi Menuhin

Bygone days; a collection of Cecil Beaton Venice images revised by Louis Vuitton

Architecture on transparency glass windows: every hatred would be destroyed

Stibbert, Florence. An inherited home that blurs the boundaries between romanticism and Japan

Eugenia Errázuriz – From South America to Paris and Biarritz pioneering an aesthetic of subtractions

Décor vs Design: can you understand the distinction? A balance to try if your taste is a matter of elegance

Roof gardens – returning what architecture has taken from the land

Cristóbal Balenciaga’s Spanish melancholy: the erotic tones of the matador traje

Patricia Urquiola and the gamble of designing from secondhand materials

Pierre Bergé – the man is an icon, portrayed in a visionary dialogue with musician Teodor Currentzis

Italian crafting supremacy: Naples and the art of Piqué

Chez Dédé, Rome. Italian attitude and French allure

Dior Her – Maria Grazia Chiuri: it’s no longer about clothes, but about political efforts

Louis Vuitton Florence – Ancient layers and architectures came to light during the restoration process

Koloman Moser – An experimental station of the end of the world

Past and future in Iran: can money become a religion again?

Les Lalannes — originality in an era of covers and revivals

The Collection Mondrian and Saint Laurent’s relationship with Claude Lalanne – a pop Antithesis

Maria Grazia Chiuri – young girls and their master ladies

The angels of temperance – Marie Schuller for Lampoon Issue 13

Gold floods Piazza San Marco – history and technology combine in Plessi’s installation

San Leucio Silk — fabric manufacturing is beyond a matter of mathematics

Chanel plays on opposites, with layered taffeta and velvet

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Lampoon Issue 29

Hot tubes: Italian Design masters

Bourgeois-interior in a series of hidden spaces designed by Italian masters for Lampoon: Franco Albini, Gianfranco Frattini, Luigi Caccia Dominioni, Cini Boeri, Claudio Salocchi, Nanda Vigo

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architecture

A library of swimming pools – from emperor Hadrian’s villa to organic architecture

«I hate rectangular pools – are lakes and rivers ever rectangular? I want pools for water nymphs, for diving into from a high tree, with a swim-up bar» – Gio Ponti and the organic architecture of pools

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architecture

A master according to Gio Ponti – Luis Barragán: his house and rough architecture

Rough walls that are the size of walls – screens on which the spectrum of the Mexican sun is projected. «My house is my refuge, an emotional architecture», architect Don Luis Barragán was fond of repeating

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Lampoon issue 28

The evolution of work in art: human body is a brain, the hand a learning tool

What does working on art mean nowadays? Artists and creators as social actors in evolution – from Plato until the robots today, in conversation with curators Giulia Piscitelli Pier Paolo Pancotto Daniel Knorr

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Florence

Lorenzo Villoresi: raw materials and inspirations, it all starts with a Pot Pourri

The Blue Lotus discovered in Sri Lanka propels Lorenzo Villoresi into new experiments. A conversation about the Maison, the changing perfume industry, and the value of raw materials

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Milan

Rediscovering Milan’s Historic Citadel of Art and Culture through The Portrait Hotel

Leonardo Ferragamo’s mark is revealed in the sketches of shoes that look like plans for futuristic architecture, resolved in skillful ergonomic structures

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the art field

Transcending classicism – talking with Charles Ray Lampoon RUVIDO

If you are a believer you believe in God, if you are not you believe in gravitational force – the death of God is a point of departure, like a springboard for a leap, for a creative impetus

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Lampoon issue 27, palermo

Black Palermo, White Palermo – a Sicilian story with Vanessa Beecroft

Palazzo Abatellis played host to VB94, a performance by Vanessa Beecroft: hieratic movement between statues and models dressed in white created in her Los Angeles studio

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Humanities

Charlie Siem – a Guarnieri del Gesù from 1735, previously owned by Yehudi Menuhin

«Every time you play a piece, even if it is the same, it never comes out identically. Music is defined by abstraction because there is the aspect of time one has to inhabit» – Charlie Siem

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Humanities, Lampoon issue 25

Bygone days; a collection of Cecil Beaton Venice images revised by Louis Vuitton

Chronicles of Cecil Beaton encounters, costume balls, social events leaving behind the diary and photographic records of his trips

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Design & Architecture, Lampoon issue 25

Architecture on transparency glass windows: every hatred would be destroyed

‘The surface of the Earth would be completely different if brick architecture were replaced everywhere with glass’. States Bruno Taut the realities of our utopian impulse to see through buildings

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Florence

Stibbert, Florence. An inherited home that blurs the boundaries between romanticism and Japan

Frederick Stibbert was an illegitimate son and a millionaire who amassed a collection that was a forerunner of D’Annunzio. From Egypt to the Alhambra: Monica Becattini talks about his home-museum

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Humanities, Lampoon Issue 24

Eugenia Errázuriz – From South America to Paris and Biarritz pioneering an aesthetic of subtractions

Eugenia Huici Arguedas de Errázuriz paved the way for the modernist minimalist aesthetic that would be taken up in fashion by Coco Chanel

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Design & Architecture, Lampoon Issue 24

Décor vs Design: can you understand the distinction? A balance to try if your taste is a matter of elegance

Current good taste has eroded an orthodoxy that began to crumble in the Seventies: design is today emptied of its original political militancy – worse still, it can be the complement of a furnishing

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Lampoon Issue 22

Roof gardens – returning what architecture has taken from the land

Le Corbusier is just one of the architects and urban planners of the twentieth century who measured themselves on the theme of the roof and hanging garden

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Balenciaga, Lampoon Issue 20

Cristóbal Balenciaga’s Spanish melancholy: the erotic tones of the matador traje

A dialogue with Arturo Obegero on the rituals and aesthetics of Spain. Cristóbal Balenciaga passed away in 1972, but his legacy prevails like a relationship between a bull and a matador

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Humanities

Patricia Urquiola and the gamble of designing from secondhand materials

Fun Aristocracy: Inlays and buildings, damasks and plots, some exponents of a ‘Fun Aristocracy’ – talents undeclared from titles

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Lampoon Issue 12

Pierre Bergé – the man is an icon, portrayed in a visionary dialogue with musician Teodor Currentzis

Bergé was a businessman, great collector, patron and cultural agitprop interested in Le Monde and Tetu, a gay rights activist and a leading name in the battle against AIDS

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Humanities, Lampoon Issue 19

Italian crafting supremacy: Naples and the art of Piqué

Gold and mother-of-pearl in the workshops across the Royal Palace: a touch of humor, obelisks, baroque and chinoiserie, ancient ruins and everyday objects

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Rome

Chez Dédé, Rome. Italian attitude and French allure

Painting, photography and a collection of objects picked up around the world or designed by the artistic duo who launched the concept store

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Dior, Humanities

Dior Her – Maria Grazia Chiuri: it’s no longer about clothes, but about political efforts

We should all be feminist because this is (still) a men’s world: «Hers is a world to be discovered, in which she lets you enter gradually»

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Lampoon Issue 17, Louis Vuitton

Louis Vuitton Florence – Ancient layers and architectures came to light during the restoration process

Design and art pieces for a new edit by Louis Vuitton a genius loci collection, a praise to the Florentine taste

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Lampoon Issue 17, the art field

Koloman Moser – An experimental station of the end of the world

Karl Kraus thus baptizes the melting pot of art, thought and innovation in Vienna between the end of the nineteenth century and the first two decades of the twentieth century

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Humanities, Lampoon Issue 14

Past and future in Iran: can money become a religion again?

The decline of the ideological factions and installation of a metamodern consumer hedonism has even managed to take hold in the Persia of legends

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Lampoon Issue 19

Les Lalannes — originality in an era of covers and revivals

For François and Claude Lalanne, a hippopotamus becomes a bathtub. Whether at an exhibition or an auction, this is how collectors’ obsessions start

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Lampoon Issue 16, Yves Saint Laurent

The Collection Mondrian and Saint Laurent’s relationship with Claude Lalanne – a pop Antithesis

Olivier Flaviano is the director of the Musée Saint Laurent Paris. He assumed the leadership of this Parisian institution in 2016 and worked for one year with Pierre Bergé

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Dior, Maria Grazia Chiuri

Maria Grazia Chiuri – young girls and their master ladies

Being sustainable means also protecting artisans from dissolving into the contemporary rush – young girls ready to save the legacy of textile masters

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Lampoon Issue 13, Marie Schuller

The angels of temperance – Marie Schuller for Lampoon Issue 13

Art is what all her work for Dior has in common. It shines through in an unfettered experience via assonance, never theoretic or orthodox – fast-forward and rewind, a conversation with Maria Grazia Chiuri

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Dior

Gold floods Piazza San Marco – history and technology combine in Plessi’s installation

The marble façade of Museo Correr becomes a cascade of molten gold – Dior’s hymn to the Venetian Republic and to culture and ethics

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Digital intelligence

San Leucio Silk — fabric manufacturing is beyond a matter of mathematics

A tale of the present and past of San Leucio in Naples — the center of fabric manufacturing and a past dream of an ideal city. Annamaria Alois takes on its legacy while maintaining its heritage

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Chanel

Chanel plays on opposites, with layered taffeta and velvet

The Grande Mademoiselle’s baroque austerity and the romantic aura of Caspar David Friedrich and paintings by Friedrich von Amerling – juxtaposed to Grace Jones dancing at Le Palace

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