Matteo Guarnaccia’s project challenges the global standardization of chair design: postures, materials, and practices shared between artisans, designers, and local communities

La cronaca cattolica e Louis Vuitton al Palazzo dei Papi: la vita in un centro di provincia è un percorso di sostenibilità – Avignone, sito dell’Unesco, filiera corta e occupazione locale

Maria Grazia Chiuri ends her tenure at Dior with a show at Villa Albani and a string of Roman references: Mimi Pecci Blunt, Teatro Cometa, Pietro Ruffo’s zodiac, and the Torlonia Foundation

An implied contradiction: Formafantasma’s reflection on consumerism and Technological Obsolescence takes place in Venice at the Olivetti store—a primary reference for the purpose economy

The palazzina took shape within the milieu of a prosperous upper-middle class: the architects and key figures who reshaped the Eternal City between the 1930s and the 1980s

The rawness is being willing to take an L and take a risk and change something. Maybe it’ll make you less popular than you were before, but you’re trying something new. Interview with Amanda Ba

In the garden that served as a laboratory of Neoclassicism—where Winckelmann and Cardinal Albani reinvented the dialogue between ancient art and nature—the show is a tribute to the cultural ties that have linked Italy to the Maison since 1947

Introduction to Carlo Ratti’s Architecture Biennale: the lone subject is sustainability—a “mind-boggling” number of trees, humanity on its knees, sweat, heat, and a bacterial population boom

Roundness is the oldest gesture in design, and yet it still finds fresh ways to speak. In this series Eduard Sánchez Ribot wanders that endless curve, pairing icons of craft with the quiet insistence of the circle

Weaving a bookshop, a publishing house, and a spirit of serendipity into an ever‑shifting cultural laboratory – Yvon Lambert is currently showcasing Distances, the new exhibition by photographer Romain Laprade