It’s not like someone working in the post office. For an artist it’s life, it’s a way of life, it’s not something you decide to quit somehow. You’re there the moment you know that you cannot avoid it.
From illustration to performances, from sculpture to acting: Nicola Di Benedetto – «We were all staging the Seventies and we all were acting»
Songwriting it’s intuitive. «Often, it’s a setting or a place. Whether they connect or make any sense together, where I am physically can dictate the sounds I’m making»
Director of the Vitra Design Museum, Mateo Kries: «Museums are not only reflecting social evolutions but seeing themselves as an active part in society»
Reiner Werner Fassbinder, Alberto Arbasino, Carlo Emilio Gadda. Toshio Matsumoto. Visual researcher and creative director devoted to fashion and cinema, Giangi Giordano tells his story
«I want to know. Not believe. Not guess. I want to know» – Gian Maria Tosatti: not knowing what’s going on in ones’ territory can be a choice, but when it’s not, it’s a threat
Designer Antonin Tron: «I never claimed that ATLEIN is sustainable, because as long as you’re creating something, you’re creating waste. It’s not a perfect system»
Journaling as a therapy, Mia Moretti talks to Liza Voloshin to collect poems on love, self, and freedom, on the verge of the low touch economy in the pandemic
«I extract the bark on my own and it’s not regularly harvested either. The final product ranges from earthy brown to pink to deep terracotta colors with a scent of wood».
Former architect turned visual artist, Tatiana Brodatch explores love and nudity: «My plasticine people are the actors. The photographs and the stop-motion are the play»
The challenge to change the perception of red mud in order to consider it a potential sustainable resource. In conversation with Kevin Rouff, Paco Boekemann and Guillermo Whittembury
«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
Griffin Frazen on data visualization, 3D modelling and «using architectural thinking and technical skills to help people understand protests from a spacial perspective»
The Beach animals: machines made out of PVC tubing and sails moved by wind energy that wander the shores of Scheveningen, the Netherlands – man is by nature an artist and an engineer
How knowing the origin of your pieces helps to create a client experience that surpasses the act of buying something. «You just should care who’s made something and where it’s come from».
Former architect and graphic designer turned artist dedicates her time to the formation of organic-inspired ceramics: unglazed and rough, yet figurative and soft, the ceramic vase designs of a Danish artist
Upcycling designer Nicole McLaughlin and John-John Johnson Junya, known as DJ4Animals, repurpose university hoodies for SUFE Fund, delivering a message on the state of student debt in America
The British violinist presents new album Between the Clouds, gathering classical pieces from his 20-years music repertoire: «There is a lightness to them like a cloud»
When eco-friendliness meets body-positivity: Ella Wiznia of The Series New York’s drive to upend traditional body conceptions and produce upcycled garments
Patricia Zhou worked at dance companies across Europe or the States with her primary focus laying on Russian style ballet rather than the English techniques
Body is sacred, nudity is art, and nature is a living being. Bianca Lee Vasquez seeks the veracity and the reverence nature holds with living beings: «We need to see divinity in one another»
A look into the vision of an architect and the inspiration to design not only our spaces but the way we live. Talking earth, Ettore Sottsass, and a wooden sailboat
The exploration of storytelling and the celebration of black joy through community and clothing: Priya Ahluwalia turns to film to capture the different heritages present in London
Making products requires constant investment in improving the creative process. Mats Rombaut, founder of Rombaut and Víron: «Sustainability means necessity»
«I like this idea of a natural cycle, birth, death, the relationship between order and chaos. I aim to recreate these aspects in ephemeral sculptures, which are not made to last»
Sofia Tchkonia’s confidence to underdogs: the tinkering of trust towards local creatives has kindled a spirit to unveil the Mercedes-Benz Fashion Week Tbilisi
«There is a kind of coherence between what I did then and what I do today». Messages, opinions, and discoveries, understanding life in a way beyond images
Syrian designer, Nabil Nayal, brings the concept of affordable sustainability combining historical and contemporary patterns
The creator of the PET lamps and precursor of sustainable design believes stories can change the world, bridging the gap between industrial production and craftmanship
The work of Brooklyn based ceramist Yuko Nishikawa is guided by the Japanese onomatopoeia ‘piku piku’, «an involuntary movement caused by unexpected contact»
Local artisans meet a global platform through Maria Manga’s search for balance, and the union between what is and what will be
Olivia Rubens sees tomorrow’s fashion as a system where creativity and sustainability can walk hand in hand with a touch of Metalocalypse
Tom Van der Borght wields the influences of Bjork, his tenure as a social worker: he journeyed through the social issues and communities that marry his refuge
From a raw material to 3D modeled prototypes, Folies Créatures by Eva Verwhict is the metamorphosis of flora and fauna into a collection of bags and shoes
Outerwear famed for being durable – K-Way foresees to spearhead the arena of sportswear. A conversation with Lorenzo Boglione, BasicNet vice president of Sales
The fashion collective of digital designers, florists and pattern cutters helmed by Paula Sello and Alissa Aulbekova builds up digital garments and structures for in-game avatars and Instagram filters
The odd combinations of style, beauty, and colors have always showcased who Paul Smith is. In his Spring – Summer 2021 Collection, he demonstrates that such principles have always been alive
Observing the valour of the tango, the final instalment of the filmic project S.W.A.L.K demonstrates how techniques developed in the Artisanal collection are artistically industrialised for ready- to-wear
Directed by Jonathan Anderson, the Show-on-the-Wall stems from a desire to discover formats of communication that respond to the times we are living in
The Spring Summer 2021 collection of Giorgio Armani reiterates a sight of elegance with the individual is at its core, balancing precision and sensuality, purity and concessions to eccentricity
Under the Creative Direction of Matthew M. Williams, the Parisian Luxury Maison Givenchy has unveiled its first jewelry collection campaign, featuring the bold yet elegant
The Italian family business Zegna launches its collection is designed in collaboration with the American Luxury brand Fear of God. «Our open conversations and emotions were translated into garments»
Following a period of renewal and improvement of its structure and offer, Palazzo Galliera opens to the public again with a personale focused on the female fashion icon
Loewe launches a plant-based home scent selection. «There is an intimacy and coziness, but also a celebration of the natural world, to these candles that I find both timely and timeless»
On September 8th, Moncler Genius – a concept supporting the message ‘One House, Different Voices’ – unveiled a collaboration with Girl Up, within the Moncler 1952 collection
Kim Jones will present his first FENDI ready-to-wear collection for Fall/Winter 2021-22 season during Milan Fashion Week in February
Miu Miu keeps on its Women’s Tales series, centered on the female gaze in independent cinema. The last entry, ‘IN MY ROOM’, explores solitude and heritage during the Covid-19 lockdown
Traditional artisanal practices and the design industry have more in common than suspected. One man’s commute is the Argentinian designer’s textual playground
The marble façade of Museo Correr becomes a cascade of molten gold – Dior’s hymn to the Venetian Republic and to culture and ethics
The new site of Hermès Leather Good & Saddlery division is opening in 2022. The building will be made only of bricks and wood, and its shape will grant the artisans natural light
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SUSTAINABLE MATTERS
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CIRCULAR ECONOMIES AND GLOBAL FORESTRY
SUSTAINABLE MATTERS IN THE ANTHROPOCENE
the grafted
edited by stefano boeri
in conversation with
elizabeth diller
HANS ULRICH OBRIST
Mitchell silver
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