Editorial Team
Lampoon / The honesty Issue – The sensuality of Bonacina 1889’s wood told through the eyes of Eli Craven
It wasn't bamboo, it wasn't wicker. It was rattan, a solid wood that could be curved and shaped was just imported by Bonacina in the late Nineteenth century
iPhone, ink printer and photocopy. Andreas Schmidl and Josef Lazo, from the land of nostalgia
«A mid-century vibe. We bought these postcards in California. A classic kind of collage scrapbook thing. Almost like a wishboard based on our longing». Lazoschmidl’s fantasy is a provoking game
Lampoon / Diverso – Lou de Betoly among assemblages of madness and decadent surrealism
«I love this idea of real objects, somehow flattened to be archived. There’s a mix of natural and artificial fibers. Real hair in contrast with the plastic hair of a...
Rid Burman on being Diverso: «Things are abstracted, distorted, not traditionally beautiful»
German Expressionism, Egon Schiele, Modernism, Mirò. Rid Burman's many inspirations draw from a distant, dreamlike world
Dieter Rams: non c’è senso dell’umorismo, la forma segue la funzione
Weniger, aber besser. Non c'è senso dell'umorismo, la forma segue la funzione. Il colore è proibito, tranne dove Rams lo ritiene necessario: per anni i prodotti Braun hanno avuto pulsanti...
Seeking scraps of green in modern urban jungles: Petra Valenti and Yosephine Melfi
Milan has many paradoxes: futuristic glass architecture and battered urban spaces: for Paola Valenti and Yosephine Melfi, surviving in modern cities is a question of adaptation - just like a...
Eimear Lynch: «I don’t make characters. I only do portraits»
Irish photographer Eimear Lynch dedicated her summertime probing through intimate lives of young people across a series of portraits, freeing herself from introversion
Adrien Dubost and his odd dialogue between Louis Vuitton luxury and Seventies design
Bravery, the High Jewellery collection – 90 pieces designed by Francesca Amfitheatrof. It took a global three-year search to source the sapphires, emeralds, rubies, diamonds and gemstones used on the...
«We are a mix of different people, easily called a family» – Ruggiero Cafagna and a family album
«My wife Haruka is Japanese, I’m Italian, our daughter Joy is a mix of us with a French touch. Each one has a different story» – Ruggiero Cafagna and his...
Lampoon / Diverso – House doesn’t mean home. Katie Silvester on the meaning of being a family
Katie Silvester and Sam Carder roam around Scotland recounting how the concept of family has changed and how there is nothing more dynamic than human relationships
According to Guen Fiore, sexual tension is a tool against human fragility
Guen Fiore and Rubina Vita Marchiori willing to investigate that eternal feminine that precedes and overcomes every prejudice, showing raw images made of shapes, materials and fabrics
Lampoon, Dance is black: Genis Mitjans’ photographs are an ode to strength
As in a choir, models and professional dancers chosen by Genis Mitjans and Samuel Puyol trying to say everything that a single body cannot say alone. Intertwining bodies to speak...
Lampoon/ Hermès, a Cabinet de Curiosités could showcase an entire universe
Unseen objects, paintings, prints and sculptures. More than one hundred works have been selected for the Montenapoleone store in Milan, one of the strongest retail assets worldwide
Lampoon: The return to an honest existence – Caroline Mackintosh on the art of disobedience
«Behave ourselves, oppress the fire within, stop crying, don’t act so crazy, be quiet, ignore your urges, don’t display so much public affection, don’t be too wild» – freedom lies...
Hot as hell – Eroticism and laziness. Jo Fetto’s out-of-focus naked bodies
«Did I dream that or not? Sometimes I feel lonely in the heart, I guess it’s alright» – Photographer Joe Fetto's shots are a nonsense poem
Lampoon/ Diverso – Wind, boats, lake: in Luca Grottoli’s shots a revised story of Bellini Nautica
«Boats are the toys of adults: thus customers want to be cuddled». From these words of Romano Bellini, photographer Luca Grottoli plays a game of glances on the apparently calm...
Lampoon, Somewhere in between: Jackie Kursel chronicles the boundary of feelings
Photographer Jackie Kursel enjoys exploring the geography of sentiments. A photo narrative as a necessary condition for regaining our awareness
Cities will be forests: making buildings as tree houses is not just a matter of imaginary
A strategy for greener cities is to build greener architectures through the integration of trees, shrubs, and plants in the design of our houses
Lampoon / Diverso – Lea and her cat Gaston: a voyeuristic story of a secret Paris
A tangle of images, objects and memories crowd Lea's imagination. Photographers Alex Brunet and Olga Varova delve into human psychology and challenge a woman's confidence
Katerina Jebb: «Fragment by fragment I compose my portraits»
To create her portraits, Katerina Jebb works with scanners – «only the medium of scanography can accurately reproduce the subject matter»
Miss Beige takes humor seriously
A sharp irony that often plays a socially engaged role within Miss Beige’s works. The seriousness of the Milan stock exchange and the rides in Parco Sempione. A contradiction between...
The female gaze on sport has changed according to Florence Mann
In the south of France, the photographer follows the workouts of a rugby team – «I shot the girls both before and after training to reveal the effort on their...
Marie Tomanova depicting the feminine universe
A photographer's escape from the city to feel, understand and get in touch with humanity. Maria Tomanova's pictures are the witness of a sharing of feelings
Kuba Ryniewicz on the moral and political future of the UK
«This project will not be directly political, but it will have a political context». Photographer Kuba Ryniewicz's coast-to-coast journey along Hadrian's Wall is a portrait of the United Kingdom today
L’Arabesque, Milan. Modernist reverence for the past
L’Arabesque is an ode to that golden era of Italian culture, a love letter to Milan's history. «Time, in the world of art, fashion and design, does not exist: everything...
Lampoon – Diverso: I have shot unripe vegetables rather than flowers
Photographer Stefano Ortega letting the human being entering into an undefined love/friendship with the soil.«I want the proximity/distance to the subject to be clear»
Elizaveta Litovka on Dom Perignon: «the bottle of champagne was talking a lot»
«It erupted, bubbles flew in all directions and I managed to hear of celebration, of women, romance, flowers, dates, important events, travel, of Russian weddings where champagne is traditionally drunk...
Le sfide della Crionica per la conquista dello spazio
L’ibernazione per i viaggi interplanetari come soluzione all’inospitalità dello spazio. Sullo stato dell’arte, i vantaggi e le criticità della crionica interviene Matteo Cerri autore di La cura del freddo
9 ¾ Bookstore and Café, Medellín. Reflection compensates its environmental footprint
Inspired by the Harry Potter book, bookstore and leisure space: educational activities to encourage children to read, in a Columbian setting inspired by Italy
Un albergo senza radici per il turismo del futuro
Strutture ricettive in evoluzione, esempi in Italia. Casa Ojalá di Beatrice Bonzanigo – la prima unità nomade presentata a Rosewood Castiglion del Bosco
Giuseppe Chiari: Nessuno può insegnarti niente
In mostra alla Quadriennale 2020 la componente più concettuale della sua ricerca, legata alla creazione di una serie di statement che mettono in discussione la definizione stessa di ‘opera d’arte’
What would have been a simple project, became a fashion story – Sergio Calderoni
A Walt Disney cartoon called Mickey and the Beanstalk in which the antagonist was a giant playful kid and his gestures became the mood of the shooting
Una visita alla regina Elena di Savoia
Nel percorrere il corridoio del primo piano, il suo aspetto normale pare trasfigurarsi: quale, fra tante, sarà la porta della Regina?
Monte Napoleone marble mirabilia – Gianni Biondillo interviews Silvia Schwarzer
Layers, Geometries, Graphic lines – a game of marble goes bigger than ever, the aesthetic of Peter Marino and the architects at Bvlgari
Carolyn Finney: It is going to take time to build an inclusive future
«Our unhealthy relationship with the natural environment is linked to the unhealthy relationship we have with each other» In conversation with Carolyn Finney, author of 'Black Faces, White Spaces'
Dynamic prints and artisanal, handmade plissé: Julia Heuer
It is a period of reflection that relates to aesthetics, taking place before considering the restraints of production. Intw Julia Heuer
Lars Brønseth captures all in blue life scenes
«The cobalt blue has been my color. I’m not sure when it happened. It seems to catch my attention whenever it’s within sight. It’s the starting point where textures merge»
Sophia Wang’s MycoWorks’ Fine Mycelium – presenting their newest innovation: Reishi
Biochemistry into fashion – twenty years of scientific work fostered a mushroom-based, alternative to the fashion industry’s leather-problem. An exposition by CEO and founder Sophia Wang
Stefano Graziani’s Taxonomies pay homage to Carl Linnaeus’ utopian enterprise
Taxonomies – Stefano Graziani pays homage to the father of modern taxonomy through his travels around the globe concluding his insight and studies on the naturalist
Alex Black proposes a technical study in the materiality of photo paper
Ready-made from home combined in a rigid and calculated sense of composition. Man Ray's lesson: a photogram is a recording of the physical nature of light
108 days of Summer through the lens of film director Peter Spark
Perfecting the practice of lazy summer days. Peter Spark captures the essence of summertime through photographs that speak of salty kisses and sun on your skin
Manual versus automatic concepts – Nabil Nayal is mixing old and new patterns
Syrian designer, Nabil Nayal, brings the concept of affordable sustainability combining historical and contemporary patterns
Brooks Shane Salzwedel’s photography, between the possible and the imagined
Salzwedel uses his inner strength and inner child to tell his story: a self-created process involving different materials to portray natural and unnatural landscapes
How to act sustainable: Sustainable Thinking the Salvatore Ferragamo’s way
Salvatore Ferragamo launched Sustainable Thinking, a digital platform in eight different languages: a new era is marked as Mr. Marco Gobbetti is appointed CEO of the company
L’Oréal and Unesco: ‘The World needs Science, and Science needs Women’
Francois-Xavier Fenart states «Having only a third of female researchers all over the world, of which very few in top positions, is a waste of talent and opportunities»
