Matteo Mammoli
Four Seasons Ritz Lisbon: reading the city through modernism, art, and elevation
Here the city feels both near and remote – the real voyage runs through halls and tapestries, where art and architecture narrate Portugal’s modern past without losing sight of the...
Celine in Milan takes the city’s most powerful corner, adapting instead of erasing
At Via Montenapoleone’s most strategic crossroads, Celine’s creative director chooses to work with an inherited architectural shell, framing continuity as both a design and sustainability statement
Hemp for the future: here’s why one plant can change everything
From ancient civilizations to climate-resilient futures, hemp is the sustainable, regenerative crop that touches every aspect of our lives – from agriculture to architecture, wellness to wearable tech
Lampoon SOAP – un sapone dagli scarti di fico d’India, con Satinine
Lampoon SOAP – un sapone dagli scarti di fico d’India, con SatinineIl sapone, cultura e metafora: dalla ricerca del numero di Lampoon dedicato al sapone, nasce una collaborazione con il...
Adrien Dubost: Cartier in a bubble bath
Adrien Dubost takes the Maison’s jewelry out of the velvet box and straight into the sink. The pieces float through water, foam, fabric, blueberries, and a few accidents that look...
Minimalism with a backbone: Gion A. Caminada carves Hotel Maistra 160 into Pontresina
Not another chalet and not Belle Époque cosplay, but a heavy, precise monolith of gneiss, terrazzo and Swiss stone pine that turns a central Pontresina plot into a sanctuary of...
Where Chiado meets Bairro Alto: inside Lisbon’s most storied boutique hotel
Rooted in historic architecture yet open to the city’s present, Bairro Alto Hotel interprets the genius loci of this part of Lisbon, from the ground floor to the upper levels...
A journey through Oman, between tradition and tomorrow
Across deserts, ports, and mountain plateaus, Oman blends tradition and reform, building a future centered on green industry, digital growth, and a steady diplomatic voice in a shifting region
Ash, Water, Plastic: Ritual and Reality Along the Ganges
From the divine descent through Shiva’s hair to the industrial discharge of modern cities, the Ganges tells a story of devotion and ecological crisis – between purification rituals and chemical...
Eriro Alpine Hide: a mountain refuge for travelers drawn to meaning and beauty
At Eriro Alpine Hide, the welcome is wool socks, not passwords: a high-altitude reset where no Wi-Fi and strong materials – larch, spruce, sheep’s wool – gently push travelers back...
Hygiene and the fracture of modernist architecture, Ignazio Gardella never designed through purity
Dispensario Antitubbercolare: Ignazio Gardella responded to political and hygienic pressures with calibrated disobedience, embedding spatial misalignments into a structure born of regulation
Maurizio Cattelan: Art is not a detergent. It doesn’t clean, it stains
An interview with Maurizio Cattelan: art shouldn’t wash anything away. I don’t want people leaving reassured or clutching a moral. If something sticks, let it be friction
Open House Milano: dieci anni di città aperta tra architettura, acqua e soglie
Tra case-scrigno, teatri ritrovati e quartieri in trasformazione, il volume del decennale di Open House Milano offre chiavi di lettura per una metropoli che si ricompone per frammenti e pratiche...
Tacchini: domestico e antiretorico – micro-variazioni che modificano la percezione della forma
Dalla rilettura dei Maestri alla sperimentazione materica, Tacchini è un metodo fondato sul dialogo tra generazioni e sul nuovo spazio milanese come luogo di ricerca
In Munich, an urban hotel drawn to the edge of a botanical horizon
With its curving volume, The Charles Hotel extends the serenity of the Old Botanical Garden into the city’s fabric, pairing rational architecture with biophilic interiors
Amanemu: natural hot springs and black cedar in Mie Prefecture
Amanemu by Kerry Hill Architects in Japan’s Ise-Shima National Park is built from local stone and cedar, featuring geothermal hot springs and a sustainable design rooted in tradition
Cultura giapponese e occidentale a confronto: individualismo contro collettivismo?
Come Giappone e Occidente affrontano la crisi climatica, valorizzano l’artigianato e ridefiniscono il rapporto tra individuo e comunità
Perché siamo nell’epoca del minimalismo?
Il paradosso del minimalismo: nel suo sogno di equilibrio un impulso autodistruttivo: l’umanità, dopo aver saturato il mondo, ora tenta di salvarlo sottraendo sé stessa
Nautor Swan: la sostenibilità della vela e la forza della community
A Saint-Tropez, il Nations Trophy 2025 chiude la stagione ClubSwan Racing e apre una riflessione sulla sostenibilità nella vela: Giovanni Pomati racconta l’evoluzione tecnologica e strategica di Nautor Swan dopo...
Areadocks, Brescia – a chamber of wonders: design, art, food, hospitality and more
In Brescia, Italy's Capital of Culture 2023, Alberto Marengoni has made a multifunctional space possible that has been a hub of entertainment and hospitality since 1995. Latest openings: a boutique...
Between Roses and Stone: Alila Jabal Akhdar, Oman’s Green Mountain Retreat
Perched two thousand meters above the Omani desert, Alila Jabal Akhdar is built from local stone, powered by sun and wind, and scented by the region’s wild roses
Cape of Senses rises 240 meters above Lake Garda within a 10,000-square-meter garden
Above Torri del Benaco, Hugo and Alessia Demetz have created a low, amphitheatrical structure that flows with the hill’s topography, bringing together local craftsmanship and sustainable building systems
Park Hyatt Kyoto: hillside terraces and the preserved skyline of Higashiyama
Architecture rooted in timber, stone and paper, gardens shaped with temple precision, a model of sustainable hotellerie within a UNESCO heritage site, and dining rituals framed by Yasaka Pagoda
Contraste: Matias Perdomo Creates a Theatrical Dining Narrative
When cooking is an inventive laboratory, the dining room at Contraste becomes a theatrical set—somewhere between Uruguay and Italy, within interiors reimagined by Debonademeo Studio
Rock the Craft: artigianato vivo dentro Palazzo Fendi Milano
Edoardo Piermattei lavora il cemento pigmentato a sac à poche e gli artigiani traducono il gesto in pelle e pelliccia, trasformando residui di collezioni passate in borse Peekaboo Made-to-Order
Norbert Niederkofler and the short supply chain that changes the mountain
From the origins of Cook the Mountain to three destinations: Atelier Moessmer, Ansitz Heufler and AlpiNN – Norbert Niederkofler has built a model rooted in Alpine biodiversity, short supply chains,...
Santa Caterina, Amalfi: The Evolution of Continuity, Senzafine
Senzafine marks the latest chapter in the evolution of Santa Caterina in Amalfi—shaping new experiences in space and cuisine while maintaining the hotel’s dialogue with place, heritage, and family continuity
Rooted in Mykonos: a family’s commitment to vernacular architecture and regenerative hospitality
The story of the Myconian Collection does not begin with a business plan or a brand identity—it begins with land, stone, and family. Redefining hospitality on an island too often...
Torel Palace, Porto: where Portuguese literature and architecture meet
A Portuguese palace from 1861 brought to new life – scraping away layers of paint from the walls. The stuccoes on the ceilings represent Portuguese writers, who give their names...
East Coast Makeover: BLESS’s Quiet Shift in Ibiza’s Hospitality Grammar
BLESS Hotel Ibiza reinterprets Cala Nova’s coastal landscape through monochrome contrasts, modular layouts and dense, curated vegetation
Building with the Land: Casa di Langa as a Circular-Economy Prototype
Everything recalls nature: the materials, the rough and imperfect textures, the pervasive presence of living greenery. From architecture to gastronomy, Casa di Langa is conceived as a unified, place-based system
Mona, Athens: slow living, industrial heritage and a view on the Acropolis
Entrepreneur Shai Antebi and Creative Director Eftihia Stefanidi conceived Mona as «a homage to the art of living». Furniture, textiles and design objects crafted from industrial waste materials, walls revealing...
Island Hospitality Moves Within Ibiza’s Layered Identity
Mediterranean roots and contemporary experimentation: a journey through Ibiza with Island Hospitality, exploring three places where hospitality engages with the land and local community
Built to Endure: Capri’s Hidden Hotel and Its Organic Architecture
Neither a landmark nor a brand, Punta Tragara resists uniformity and green storytelling alike – favoring instead an architecture of adaptation, built to endure quietly in the folds of Capri
Villa Cordevigo: a dialogue between earth, time, and taste
Villa Cordevigo: a dialogue between earth, time, and tasteAmid the vineyards of Northern Italy, a former patrician villa combines agriculture, architecture, and gastronomy to explore new forms of responsible land...
The Hotel Breathing New Life into Furore, the Amalfi Coast’s Secret Hamlet
Furore Grand Hotel offers a renewed sense of belonging in an Amalfi Coast village long hidden from view — a minimalist design of white and light embraces local craftsmanship and...
Casa Cavia, Buenos Aires, under the creative direction of Guadalupe García Mosqueda
A restaurant, cocktail bar, Ampersandpublishing house, bookstore, and flower shop housed in a rationalist villa belonging to Argentina’ s heritage – under the creative direction of Guadalupe García Mosqueda
Dior sfila a Villa Albani Torlonia, il giardino dove nacque il Neoclassicismo
Nel giardino che fu laboratorio del Neoclassicismo, dove Winckelmann e il cardinale Albani reinventarono il dialogo fra arte antica e natura, la sfilata diventa tributo ai legami culturali che uniscono...
Brach Paris casts future heritage through circular design in the capital’s greening west
From industrial bones to Bauhaus-meets-Surrealist alchemy, Philippe Starck turns the concrete shell at 1–7 rue Jean-Richepin into a political statement of circular design, complete with rooftop vegetables
Discovering Ardèche – triumph of vegetation and biocosmetics since 1983
At the crossroads of Rhône-Alpes, Provence and Languedoc-Roussillon, lies Melvita's headquarter – the brand celebrates its 40th anniversary with a partnership with the wwf to seal its commitment to the...
Carlo Traglio: a collection, to be a good one, must include a mistake
«Making art is like making love; it is carnal, physical—we all make love, but not everyone makes art». In conversation with the owner of Italian jewelry house Vhernier
Banyan Tree Kyoto, a hotel built on Higashiyama’s sacred edge
On Ryozen hill, fifty-two rooms sit above a hot spring rising at 40°C, wrapped around a bamboo Noh stage and stone walls
Beyond the ashes: Isabelle Albuquerque crafts eternal narratives of feminine agency
"I struggled with the disconnect between my internal femininity and my body. It was before the internet. It was isolating, but there was the Amazonians…" From her studio on the...
TRS Hotel Ibiza, a geometry of light in the vegetation of the Balearic Islands
Between Sant Antoni de Portmany and Cala Gracio, TRS Ibiza Hotel experiments with personal butler and Signature Level service – the brand's first in Europe is among the 41 Palladium...
The Venice Venice Manifesto: Creating Value That Grows Over Time
Founders of Golden Goose Alessandro and Francesca Gallo renovated old palace Ca’ Da Mosto and opened a new hotel on the Grand Canal with an avant-garde spirit
Alcova a Varedo: ritorna la storia di SNIA Viscosa e il dramma delle fibre sintetiche
Alcova apre un dialogo fra creatività e archeologia industriale abitando l’ex SNIA Viscosa di Varedo. Una storia di conquiste sociali e momenti di gloria, di crisi e lasciti ambientali
