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Il vetro distrugge l’odio: architetture giocate sulla trasparenza
Filtro e schermo riflettente, dialogo fra dentro e fuori – La superficie della terra sarebbe completamente diversa se l’architettura in mattoni fosse sostituita ovunque con il vetro, affermava Bruno Taut
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
Una conversazione con Benedetta Craveri: libero flusso di pensiero su La contessa di Castiglione
Sarà anche balzachiano e prosaico questo Ottocento, ma voglio difendere un momento cruciale del Risorgimento: la scrittrice vincitrice del Premio Bagutta racconta il suo metodo di documentazione
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
Grand Hotel, gente che va, gente che viene sussurrava Greta Garbo nel 1932
Un Grand Hotel popolato di umanità eterogenea è apparso come un sogno tra le mura del Teatro Parenti: un gioco e un'ironia con cui Hermès ha celebrato il negozio di...
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
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...
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
