Blending plastic bottle with Bogota’s craftmanship

Alvaro Catalàn de Ocon creates PET lamps: he could be considered a precursor of sustainable design bridging the gap between industrial production and craftmanship

Cabanes des Grands Cépages, design Marco Lavit

Designing is a human mindset as the survival instinct, hunger, sex

Genius Loci Marco Lavit Nicora talks about earth, Enzo Mari and a wooden sailboat and a house pulled by a horse called Maria

I never took off my costumes, I remained inside my role – playing Mario Meli

From illustration to performances, from sculpture to acting: Nicola Di Benedetto – «We were all staging the Seventies and we all were acting»

When Boredom is Fertile: from the library of Crema comes a visual research

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

Sussy Cazalet on designing rugs and wall hangings. «Rothko-meets-Mondrian-meets-Klimt»

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».

Charlie Siem – violin variations to pay homage to Masters and Legacies

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»

The danger of losing the traditions of ballet to the pace of the contemporary

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

Nudity: the flesh, the body, and the divine in the character of Planthropocene

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»

Streetlife, from the materials to the people – Lorenzo Vitturi and some ephemerality

«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»

Tbilisi, Georgia – could the city join the list of fashion capitals?

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

Diversity is what makes us more equal. Liliane Lijn – 1969 to the present

«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

Ceramics. Formed from the earth, shaped with water, hardened by air and fire

The work of Brooklyn based ceramist Yuko Nishikawa is guided by the Japanese onomatopoeia ‘piku piku’, «an involuntary movement caused by unexpected contact»

Accessories born from clay and realized into a surrealist sculptural form

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

Ne dites pas non, vous avez souri – Susanne Kaufmann

Nature – air from the mountains –, family, skin products and a hotel: Bezau, Austria, is the beating heart of Susanne Kaufmann’s life

Ne dites pas non, vous avez souri – Interview with Antoine Neufmars

Visual and performing artist based in Brussels. Always searching for beauty. «Eyes. They never lie, chico». Scarface

Ne dites pas non, vous avez souri – Interview with Pepe Serrano

«I think beauty is the result of a genuine dialogue between your own personality and your cultural references, it is the self-ruling celebration of identity»

Ne dites pas non, vous avez souri – Interview with Daniel Stokes

«I grew up in Antibes and moved to Paris to join the Paris Opera School and never left» one life that revolves around dancing

Asa Butterfield, interview with the star of Sex Education – his face is an icon

Asa Butterfield’s debut on Netflix marks a breach of the barriers between cinema and streaming platforms. Netflix is focusing on actors borrowed from the silver screen

Charlie Siem – A ‘Guarnieri del Gesù’ whose whole life revolves around the violin

“Music for me is the highest form of art. It is both time and sound. It is perfect, ideal for expressing feelings, the state of mind and different emotions.”