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

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

Un viaggio tra boiserie, pannelli dipinti, sculture, arredi e specchiere, ceramiche, bronzi e un mosaico di tecniche creative. Genovese di nascita, milanese d’adozione, architetto, scenografo

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

Matrice, la personale di Giuseppe Penone a palazzo della civiltà italiana, è il preambolo a foglie di pietra, maxi-scultura in largo Goldoni, donata da Fendi alla città di Roma

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

Firenze, New York, Barcellona, un’esistenza nel segno della libertà e della creazione – «Ho preso ispirazione da sensazioni tattili, forse perché non ci vedo bene»

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

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»

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