Editorial Team
Papercut, Stockholm: eighteen years of print retail in Södermalm
Alexander Dahlberg and Andreas Fryklund opened Papercut in 2008. The store trades magazines, books and film from one Södermalm address while Swedish bookshop numbers contract
Torre, Fondazione Prada: Rémy Savage brings distilling back to Largo Isarco
At Torre, Rémy Savage’s Archivio Isarco reconnects Fondazione Prada with the former Largo Isarco distillery through twelve drinks made from house-produced bases
Portrait Milano and the Sunday ritual of 10_11
At 10_11, the courtyard between Corso Venezia and Via Sant’Andrea becomes the setting for a weekly Sunday brunch inside one of Milan’s historic complexes
Pressato Coffee and Books: Nello Russo brings letterpress to a Turin coffee bar
Pressato combines a coffee counter, a bookshop for analog printing and a program of exhibitions tied to independent publishing
From tapper to mill, the plot disappears: how natural rubber gets its paper trail back
Eighty-five percent of the world's natural rubber is tapped by smallholders, one tree at a time, and new EU rules now require every buyer to prove which plot the cut...
Maison Crivelli builds Tobacco Carnaval on a leaf that is cured
Thibaud Crivelli worked with Quentin Bisch on an extrait built around cured tobacco leaf and infused rum – the formula is withheld
Hemp and textile recycling: Dell’Orco e Villani in the circular supply chain
Dell’Orco e Villani is a mechanical engineering company based in Capalle, in the municipality of Campi Bisenzio. Since 1964, it has designed and manufactured machinery and production lines for recycling...
Extracting CBD: from artisanal practice to industrial production
The value of cannabis no longer lies solely in the flower. Extracts obtained from the plant have become raw materials for pharmaceutical, cosmetic and other industrial applications, while oils, tinctures...
Poliform Milano: cast-iron columns and an oak stair at Piazza della Scala
Stefano Belingardi Clusoni holds the renovation to stone, light oak, glass and mirrored steel, while Poliform Lab furnishes fifteen hundred square meters as a villa inside the city
Hemp lime and hempcrete: green building and less CO2
The building industry consumes about forty percent of global energy: from Brittany to Italy, hemp lime could be a solution
Perfumer H Clay: Lyn Harris translates the earth into scent
Orange flower, sandalwood, juniper and burnt ash form CLAY, the eau de parfum Lyn Harris built after travelling through the Haouz Valley and the High Atlas: dry wood, mineral heat,...
Hemp cultivation’s sustainable assets: neither pesticides or fertilizers required
Sustainable hemp cultivation: with sporadic irrigation and no use of pesticides or fertilizers, hemp takes care of itself
Hemp Stories: Steve Marais captures sustainable natural fibers
It's all about hemp: hemp garments and an entire hemp collection: Made in Italy, aiming to present a new ‘Made and Sourced in Italy’ sustainable project
Lake Como Design Festival 2026 works the border between materials
Waste and biomaterials: the eighth edition reads the border as the seam where one material is worked into another
How do you milk a snail?
The great snail rush: ethical farming innovations and the cultural evolution that turned an unlikely ingredient into a cornerstone of the beauty industry
Milk can become textile: what a dairy does with a milk it cannot sell
Don’t cry over spilled milk. The story behind the idea of transforming food waste into fabric
Mille Edicola Milan: a newsstand in Porta Romana expands beyond newspaper distribution
Mille Edicola in Milan - a historic Porta Romana newsstand featuring newspapers, independent magazines, books, exhibitions and publishing events while preserving its original retail function
Hemp Care brings hemp into cosmetics through an integrated short supply chain
A Grassobbio, in provincia di Bergamo, prodotti per viso, capelli e barba a partire da olio di canapa e ingredienti derivanti da agricoltura biologica – parla Ottaviano Allegrini
Getting high without getting drunk
Mixology, herbs, ritual and Eli Martinez Bello at YAPA’s fourth Liquid Dialogues chapter — Altered states that has nothing to do with the alcohol
Librairie La Comète, Paris. One does not know but to take a leap
«What we carry is based on instinct. There are times when the print job is not up to standard, or the other way around. We trust the quality of the...
La tecnologia non crea acqua: dissalazione, riuso e reti intelligenti alla prova della crisi idrica
Tre miliardi di persone in stress idrico, l'agricoltura che assorbe il 70 per cento dei prelievi: le tecnologie possono rendere l'acqua utilizzabile, recuperabile e misurabile, ma non più abbondante
Yvon Lambert, Paris. On artistic recurrences
Yvon Lamberts returns to Marais, this time not as an art dealer but as a bookseller and modern publisher. «I want to do something more humanistic»
About Netsuke – carved in ivory or wood, hidden in kimonos
Netsuke are carved counterweights, worn at the waist to balance a pouch tied to a kimono sash. Merchants wore them against silk for decades, and the friction finished the carving
La Cittadella degli Archivi di Milano: due robot per duecento chilometri di memoria
A Milano venticinque persone e il robot Eustorgio mettono ordine in 100 chilometri lineari di carta prodotti in oltre un secolo dal Comune – considerando che l’Archivio del Canada ne...
Canale Villoresi: il mare dell’hinterland diventa un corridoio ecologico
Nato nell'Ottocento per irrigare l'Alta Pianura lombarda, dopo il degrado del secondo Novecento, il Canale Villoresi è diventato un asse per biodiversità, mobilità ciclabile e tutela del suolo metropolitano
What do young creators do for a living? Different jobs, sex working too
Showing off online for money can help pay the rent and be a political act. They don't have clients, but a lot of fans
EIHA and the Green Deal: hemp as a driver of Europe’s bioeconomy
In Brussels, industrial hemp is returning to the center of the political debate as a key resource for the European Green Deal. Within EIHA – the European Industrial Hemp Association...
Green building and industrial hemp in Italy: sustainability and supply-chain limits
From textile fiber to building material, from agricultural crop to a tool for soil regeneration: hemp is once again defining the materiality of the present. After decades of industrial silence,...
Reading Room, Milan. A white cube for magazines turns into a cultural hub
A Forty-square-meter gallery in the district of Corvetto. In conversation with founder Francesca Spiller: «Running a bookshop today means creating a relationship with the producers of magazines»
Alvar Aalto e Gio Ponti, due chiese e un dialogo immaginario
La concattedrale di Taranto di Gio Ponti in un confronto immaginifico con la Chiesa di Santa Maria Assunta a Riola che Alvar Aalto progettò in Italia
Le cure prima della chimica: le erbe medicinali dell’Aboca Museum
Il soffitto cosparso di piante medicinali appese a essiccare, mentre si coltivano a piante officinali quasi duemila ettari di terreno fra Umbria e Toscana: il primo museo in Europa dedicato...
The value of coconut husk fiber: what to do with the 85 percent we burn
Coir board holds together without synthetic glue, using lignin present in the material. What happens when the waste stream becomes the raw material? Where the sustainability claim runs into trouble?
Industrial hemp in Italy: a sustainable economy in a regulatory maze
Hemp in Italy is a strategic crop for agriculture and industry, but it lacks a stable regulatory framework. Between decrees restricting its uses and laws that fail to evolve, the...
How Vestigia Looks Beyond Collectible Design and Into Its Making
At Villa Marie in Tuscany, twenty-two designers bring marble, recycled materials and the production network of Pietrasanta into their work.
Can hemp become a fragrance, or is it still just raw material?
Canapa N318 by LabSolue uses Cannabis sativa L. as an olfactory raw material, isolating terpenes through low-yield distillation and integrating them into a controlled formulation system
Ninety-five percent water, five percent collagen: the jellyfish washing ashore as a textile
Salted, cross-linked, dyed with medieval egg yolk: researchers in the Netherlands, Japan and Israel are turning jellyfish collagen into fabric that behaves like skin because – structurally – it still is
Sea resources: Bysco’s naturally sourced textile fiber from mussel waste
Bysco developed a textile fiber that comes from mussel secretions. Its technical properties can allow the replacement of synthetic fibers like fiberglass and polyester
Federcanapa and industrial hemp today: where does the Italian supply chain break?
Federcanapa is a federation founded in 2016 that brings together agricultural businesses, processing companies, technicians and associations active in industrial hemp in Italy. It deals with regulatory issues, technical aspects...
Industrial hemp for food
A focus on hemp for human and animal diets, the market and regulations in the current Italian panorama
Manila Hemp is better known as Abaca Fiber: what is it?
The Sustainable Alternative to Glass Fiber: Manila Hemp (aka Abaca Fiber) - tensile strength, seawater resistance it’s willing to surpass hundreds of millions by 2030
Certifications of the hemp supply chain: limits and opportunities
In Italy, the hemp supply chain is promoted but not regulated, categorized and certified - blockchain may lead to a solution
Verdura Resort, Sciacca: A Coastline Built from Seventy Deeds and a Duke’s Name
Sir Rocco Forte spent seven years assembling more than seventy plots of land to build Verdura Resort on Sicily’s southwest coast and this year completed a redesign by Paolo Moschino...
Working titanium: anodizing, welding and printing the metal that won’t apologize
Fifty cents of titanium equals thousands in gold: the metal builds its case in jewelry on strength, purity and permanence: resistant to resizing, soldering, and to the market logic of...
Hemp: uses in the textile industry and the spinning of the raw fiber
The hemp spinning process: from cultivation to fiber preparation, the processing steps are a summation of risks
Poliform Café extends the flagship store into a glass volume open onto Piazza della Scala
A working sample of the company's interiors, tested by daily use: travertine, steel, and wood, forty covers, and a covered terrace at the quiet edge of the square
Hemp: reflections with author Paolo Ranalli
The paradox of hemp in Italy is that of a plant that was once a national excellence but failed to enter the modern market. At the beginning of the twentieth...
