Editorial Team
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
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?
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
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
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
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»
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 Vétiver Fauve is an...
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
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»
Smoke Signals San Francisco: Fadi Berbery’s independent newsstand on Polk Street
From Beirut to San Francisco, Fadi Berbery founded Smoke Signals in 1995, a European-style newsstand offering international magazines, independent titles and curated print culture on Polk Street
Castello di Cigognola, otto secoli di storia e una notte di performance dal vivo
Per la prima volta aperta al pubblico, la rassegna ideata da Émilie Fouilloux porta nell'Oltrepò Pavese Petrit Halilaj, Yoann Bourgeois e il quintetto barocco Capriccio Armonico
I tre artisti che la New York degli anni Ottanta ha dimenticato
Fabio Cherstich riporta in scena tre artisti queer morti di AIDS negli anni Ottanta e Novanta, rimasti fuori dal mercato dell'arte newyorkese e sopravvissuti grazie alla custodia privata di amici...
Wood in a circular economy: reclaimed teak to give discarded wood a second life
From Mumbai to Umbria, Baro Design and Laquercia21 turn reclaimed wood into contemporary furniture—proof that sustainability can be built from scraps, not mass production
UNITOM Manchester and the return of the physical magazine
In Manchester’s Northern Quarter, UNITOM and some independent publishing — treating printed matter as something to collect
Between Fire and Fermentation: Inside a Contemporary Culinary Laboratory
Moving through cultures – Yapa beyond Milan with an opening in Antiparos, extending a project built around movement, local relationships and changing landscapes
Open House 2026: Milano dall’alto e una digressione sul razionalismo
Qual è l’identità estetica e architettonica di Milano? Esiste un luogo che sa darne sintesi e racconto – da qui si può comprendere tutto
Dolomiti SPA Hotel Fanes: cool air, altitude and body rituals in Alta Badia
From a sixteenth-century farmhouse to a five-star wellness destination, Hotel Fanes reimagines Alpine hospitality through architecture, landscape, and a deeply physical approach to wellbeing
Metamorphosis as fracture: Alexandra Alvarez Garcia for Lampoon MECCANO
From Kafka to the mechanical body, identity dissolves into systems of labor, alienation, and constructed selfhood – where the body becomes a site of tension between control and collapse
Il capitale economico della libertà femminile, secondo Sabina Belli
Sabina Belli, CEO di Pomellato, al Milan Luiss Hub: dalla dipendenza economica alla violenza finanziaria, perché la libertà delle donne passa prima dal portafoglio poi dalla rappresentanza
Piano City Milano 2026 all’ex Caserma Mameli: tre concerti e cantiere aperto
Dopo oltre quindici anni di abbandono, l’ex complesso militare tra Niguarda e Bicocca torna accessibile mentre prosegue la bonifica del futuro quartiere urbano di Milano nord
Fashion is just about a sense of Community: why Stone Island proves it better than the others
Community is a testing ground: how Stone Island’s garments have been managing to evolve through real-world use across subcultures and shared environments
Lampoon Aphantasia: an unfinished piece for mechanical piano
Photographer Walter Pierre and model Raya Martigny explore body as mechanism for Lampoon Meccano, in a visual editorial suspended between aphantasia, friction, and incomplete motion
Smartphone interaction and the erosion of boredom: we look for the pause
We were promised tools to free our time. Instead, today we surrender the only hours that are truly ours — the empty ones. Leonie Volk for Lampoon MECCANO
The system we live in was never built for the four cycles women go through
Arale Reartes for Lampoon MECCANO – four hormonal phases as mechanical states, between self-portrait and still life, against a model of linear productivity
Restoring stone and silence: San Corrado di Noto and the rural Sicilian landscape
Nestled in citrus groves and olive trees, the resort maintains historic architecture and landscape, integrating energy-efficient design and local materials in its restoration
Pietro Porcinai, 1,300 landscape projects: a reportage from Oasi Zegna
In Oasi Zegna, between the 1950s and 1970s, architect and agronomist Pietro Porcinai developed a territorial system for the Zegna family, integrating gardens, industry, forests, and monuments
Tutela costiera nel Sulcis: dune, mare protetto e mille anni di storia
Una necropoli fenicia nuovamente esposta dall’erosione costiera, vent'anni di interventi sulle dune e un'area marina protetta: nel territorio di Domus de Maria, il Chia Laguna Nature Resort ha costruito la...
Scandinavian Minimalism in the Marrakech Medina: The Architecture of Riad No. 37
An inquiry into the structural restoration of an eight-room boutique hotel through the integration of Danish design principles and local Moroccan craftsmanship.
Chiara Yiontis draws circles, no sketch no plan
Each work is built through repetition: circles drawn one by one without sketch, where proximity creates structure and a single encounter can redirect a life. Chiara Yiontis for Lampoon MECCANO
