Editorial Team
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
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,...
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
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.
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...
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
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...
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...
Wideyes Sound Garden at La Cutura: a night of electronic music built on pietra leccese
Cristina Lazic, the Curly Brothers, and Gianni Sabato play a glasshouse courtyard in Giuggianello, where a DJ console cut from quarry offcuts stands on the stone that carried Lecce Baroque
The fault is the last human trait: Jonathan Llense photographs circuits that stay unlit
Every screen is engineered to ignite at a touch: Jonathan Llense assembles complete circuits that withhold the spark, and claims failure as the gesture reserved for the human
Freia and therapeutic hemp: a growing industry without a supply chain behind it
When Freia Farmaceutici was founded in 2009, hemp did not yet have a defined place in the language of the Italian pharmaceutical industry. The plant was associated above all with...
We Love Print, London. A Magazine Stall at Old Spitalfields Market
In conversation with the founder James Laffar – «My grandfather used to know a few of our clients back when he had bookstalls in the Sixties»
Hemp cosmetics and rural architecture: the Canabetum experiment
Canabetum is an agricultural project founded by Marina De Benedetti in the Padua area, created as an extension of her family’s organic farm, Bio Agrigea. Hemp is at its center,...
Guerlain Vétiver Fauve: eau de parfum, rewriting a classic ingrédient
With Vétiver Fauve, Guerlain hands perfumer Delphine Jelk a difficult raw material — vetiver root — and asks for something the molecule has rarely produced: lightness
Albini 1876, come si costruisce un tessuto in centocinquant’anni
L'anniversario di Albini 1876 diventa un tessuto, con filati 150/1 e 150 fili per centimetro, in una storia fatta di strutture prima che di colori, dalla fibra al finissaggio
News & Coffee, Barcelona. The kiosk is a social nexus
From Passeig de Sant Joan to an international network of kiosks: News & Coffee brings together specialty coffee, newspapers and independent magazines without leaving the street
Lazoschmidl: your grandmother’s print, your phone’s front camera
The most transgressive thing in menswear right now is a bathrobe worn out the door and a floral print that belonged to your grandmother – Lazoschmidl SS27 Daynight, Paris Fashion...
Closeness is a fiction: Marie Tomanova shoots herself daily for a year
Three Empty Weeks in July – at Harkawik, New York, through July 11, 2026: a durational body of work shot on a Fujifilm Instax Square SQ6 implicates the viewer in...
Art Basel 2026: the market wants the first look back
From digital drift to material presence. How everyday matter became contemporary meaning. Art Basel Paris: a new stability
How Amouage builds a fragrance around perfumery’s most elusive flower
With Love Hibiscus, Amouage adds a fifth chapter to its Secret Garden collection — pairing one of perfumery's most structurally elusive flowers with a caramelized pastry accord
Athenaeum Boekhandel & Nieuwscentrum, Amsterdam. A printed archive on the Spui
Founded on the Spui in 1966, Athenaeum Boekhandel & Nieuwscentrum is a multi-floor archive of Dutch and international literature, academic titles, magazines, and periodicals at the heart of the city's...
Glass, steel and the New York table: how Rivington Milan evolves
A new outdoor terrace overlooking Porta Nuova marks the latest evolution of Hyatt Centric Milan Centrale's New York-inspired restaurant
