Editorial Team
Where does heavy leather come from, and what happens before it becomes a shoe?
From the structure of collagen to chestnut, mimosa and quebracho tannins: the collaboration between Cuoio di Toscana and Paul Andrew becomes the occasion for an inquiry into heavy leather
Jean Schlumberger at Tiffany & Co.: I Am Only a Pencil, in Paris
The Exhibition I Am Only a Pencil in Paris: Jean Schlumberger’s creative process at Tiffany & Co., from sketch to workshop
Saliva: few drops on a classical portrait — Naruki Kukita and the Bukkake series
From a Bushwick studio the painter works in oil and pre-Impressionist layers, adds the anime figure last, and teaches in a dojo where students learn the form before breaking it
Beyond the Alpine Vernacular, a Contemporary Architectural Vision Emerges from the Landscape of the Dolomites
Designed by Peter Pichler, Schgaguler Hotel in South Tyrol reinterprets the forms of the Alpine house through geometry, materiality and a dialogue with the surrounding landscape.
Satinine Galleria: Bulgarian rose, Italian sage and Indonesian nutmeg beneath Mengoni’s iron vault
The Milanese house names a composition after the Galleria Vittorio Emanuele II and builds it on three raw materials from three countries
Radical tailoring: What does it mean today?
Radical tailoring: when tailoring moves beyond human anatomy, using construction to enlarge, displace, and reconstruct the dressed body
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
In the Prato district, Dell’Orco e Villani develops technologies for textile recycling and hemp applications in construction and automotive, amid regulatory constraints and supply-chain challenges
Extracting CBD: from artisanal practice to industrial production
As the cannabis market expands, extraction technologies are moving towards scalable processes with a lower environmental impact. The case of Herbolea Biotech and solventless extraction
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 help the green building sector
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
Kajal’s Dahab Absolu adds the flowers that Dahab left out
Patrick Müller of LUZI rebuilds the house's floral-free bestseller around tropical fruit, a sulfur-bright green thread and a base where oakmoss and musk share one Italian word
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
Hemp oil from Italian cultivation is processed within a single production cycle: formulation, testing and packaging take place in the same departments, with no external stages
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
An alliance between farmers, businesses and institutions: the European Industrial Hemp Association – EIHA – positions hemp as a strategic resource for the Green Deal and European production sovereignty
Green building and industrial hemp in Italy: sustainability and supply-chain limits
Mario Catania explains how hemp can become a concrete resource for the ecological transition, combining industrial production, environmental sustainability and social development
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
Italy’s new industrial hemp laws redefine the plant’s limits and uses, amid demands for control, legal uncertainty and a sector that continues to call for clarity
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?
A conversation with Beppe Croce, president of Federcanapa, on industrial hemp in Italy: how to cultivate and process it without a linear supply chain
Industrial hemp for food
Flour, oil and milk: hemp for food provides nutritional elements that are good for those who practice sports and for animal and livestock feed
