Journalism, Chronicles and Reports,
the pragmatic side
of many theories

Telling the story of Columbia from past to present. A glass-making project
‘Suelo Orfebre’. An analysis of the local identity through material choice, working with craftsmen and connecting with communities in the mining community of Marmato by Simón Ballen Botero

Notes on notes with Mr. Frédéric Malle – Smell before seeing
Frédéric Malle’s mother created fragrances at Christian Dior maison de parfums. «I never remember my mother taking me to the park, she took me to the Louvre».

Netsuke, from Ne ‘root’ and Tsuke ‘attach to’, a Japanese art form that needs to be held
Japan, 1600. General Tokugawa Leyasu triumphed in the battle of Sekigahara, and rid himself of the opposition by cutting off some forty thousand heads. In 1603, he was elected shōgun and moved the capital to Edo, today’s Tokyo

Through craft, we continue what we have learned, we educate, we improve: the respect of nature, human beings and altruism
Artistic Director of Hermès, Pierre-Alexis Dumas, and Architect Stefano Boeri discuss the responsibility of larger corporations to lead in the transition towards a mandatory sustainable consideration for the future

Canali’s 85th anniversary – a family’s commitment to the land and its people
Stefano Canali recalls the history of the family, the factory of his childhood, and the priority he was taught to always give to the human handmade

Formafantasma — the biggest utopia of modernity
«We want to understand before designing. This doesn’t mean that a project cannot start by intuition or because we get seduced by the potential of a certain material»

VEJA — transparency is more efficient than advertising
In conversation with French-based footwear brand VEJA founders, Sébastien Kopp and François-Ghislain Morillion

The Power of the Lo—TEK design movement for sustainable and resilient infrastructure
«We cannot look for solutions using the same thinking that created the problem in the first place». Living in symbiosis with nature, examples from aquatic communities across the globe

Cerith Wyn Evans on his Hangar Bicocca show “….the Illuminating Gas”
“….the Illuminating Gas” at Hangar Bicocca, Milan was the largest-ever solo exhibition of Cerith Wyn Evans. The artist speaks to the Rome-based Cornelia Lauf