Editorial Team
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
An alliance between farmers, businesses and institutions: the European Industrial Hemp Association – EIHA – positions hemp as a strategic resource for the Green Deal and European production sovereignty
Green building and industrial hemp in Italy: sustainability and supply-chain limits
Mario Catania explains how hemp can become a concrete resource for the ecological transition, combining industrial production, environmental sustainability and social development
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
Italy’s new industrial hemp laws redefine the plant’s limits and uses, amid demands for control, legal uncertainty and a sector that continues to call for clarity
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.
Can hemp become a fragrance, or is it still just raw material?
Canapa N318 by LabSolue uses Cannabis sativa L. as an olfactory raw material, isolating terpenes through low-yield distillation and integrating them into a controlled formulation system
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?
A conversation with Beppe Croce, president of Federcanapa, on industrial hemp in Italy: how to cultivate and process it without a linear supply chain
Industrial hemp for food
Flour, oil and milk: hemp for food provides nutritional elements that are good for those who practice sports and for animal and livestock feed
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
Certifications of the hemp supply chain: limits and opportunities
In Italy, the hemp supply chain is promoted but not regulated, categorized and certified - blockchain may lead to a solution
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
Hemp enters Italian clinical practice from the seed: studies on vulnerable patients, protocols and formulations free of psychoactive cannabinoids, while the production supply chain remains fragmented
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 was founded in the Padua area as an agricultural and cultural project, combining natural cosmetics, rural architecture and a hemp supply chain that remains fragile and incomplete in Italy
From fields to bioreactors: hemp water retting
Italian Hemp Water Retting: monitoring water biological parameters, the new Bioreactor by Prototipo Studio is ready for operations
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
Hemp in Sardinia: agricultural potential and legislative obstacles
Sardinian hemp is an agricultural crop with potential, held back by rules that fail to keep pace with farming. Across Barbagia, Nurra and Campidano, cultivation could provide a wider range...
Do you need to apply for a license to grow hemp in New York?
A multidisciplinary team at Cornell collaborates to enhance hemp cultivation and resource sharing within the industry, backed by state funding and focused on research and education
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
From seed to fiber: Assocanapa and the rebuilding of the hemp supply chain
In Piedmont, Assocanapa is working to rebuild the industrial hemp supply chain through university research, agricultural mechanization and new textile and construction applications
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
Biology in the field: insects and microorganisms for sale to support agricultural production
Italian agriculture is reducing pesticides by rethinking crop protection from seed to harvest, in greenhouses and open fields: living organisms are once again useful tools for farming
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...
Remediating soil with industrial hemp: how Green Valley turns waste into renewal
In Roccasecca, southern Lazio, Green Valley uses industrial hemp to remediate contaminated land and restore agriculture’s role in environmental regeneration
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...
Eau de France, bergamot and tomato leaf in the Rue Rancé collection
Rancé 1795 puts a green, sappy material next to citrus in its spring eau de toilette, in a line named after the Grasse street where the family palace stood
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
