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Order as instinct: Milan Design Week 2026 and the focus to raw materials
Captured on analog film, a material reading of Milan Design Week 2026: wood, glass and metal as structural languages, carrying form, memory and spatial intent
Il Capri Hotel doesn’t scream: design, raw materials and the absence of interfaces
No televisions, no digital clocks blinking in the dark, no refrigerator whirring at night. Il Capri Hotel reclaims the island’s soul through a sustainable way of being that refuses performance
Magna Pars L’Hotel À Parfum, Milan. Italian raw materials by Ambra Martone
Each room is dedicated to one of sixty-eight different scents, chosen by an olfactory check-in, solely based on smell: Magna Pars is the first hotel à parfum in the world
Krone Säumerei am Inn, Engadin: Craft, Raw Materials and Upcycling
A Sixteenth-century building in Engadin, restored with traditional techniques and raw materials, aims at setting a model for sustainable travel and contemporary environmental awareness
Fendi Peekaboo Soft – Sculptural Aesthetics and Raw Materials
In dinamiche sociali multiple e frammentarie, le declinazioni della Fendi Baguette e della Peekaboo sono apertura alla pluralità sociale e all’adattamento contemporaneo
Green colonialism: raw materials rush props up
Raw materials – an estimated 100 billion tons (Gt) of raw materials are mined each year. Of these, over 90% came from virgin resources. Less than 10% is coming from...
Fili Pari on bridging the gap between marble and fabric – Italian raw materials
The Renaissance artist Michaelangelo could free an image from a marble block, as he used to say. Italian start-up Fili Pari has turned a material such as marble into a...
NM3 – contemporary modernism: raw materials, geometric rigor and functionality
Milan Design Week 2023 - the Milan-based studio presents Sistema, a collection of lamps designed in collaboration with 6:AM Glassworks
Raw materials: What Goes Around Comes Around, Bosco Sodi, Palazzo Grimani in Venice
Art is not fixed: Sodi’s pieces change according to the environment – and people – they are exposed to. Bosco Sodi unveils the latest show at Palazzo Vendramin Grimani in...
Waste, raw materials and data: industries to re-think their production and logistics
In conversation with Pei Yun Teng, Global Director of Social Impact at A.T. Kearney on how consulting is helping businesses develop their sustainability mission
How can the UK government secure the raw materials needed for the green transition?
The UK’s demand for lithium could reach 550,000 tons by 2050, while the country may use 240,000 tons of lithium and 90,000 tons of cobalt between now and 2035
Södra. Climate-smart products based on renewable raw materials from the forest
Taking advantage of raw materials from the forest to produce dissolving pulp will later close the textile industry loop. The story of Södra and the OnceMore initiative
Vegan substitutes to traditional raw materials in fashion: ethical rose petal fiber
Suitable for blending or nonwovens, rose petal fiber is an eco-friendly alternative to silk, one major environmental polluter
Regenerative agriculture in fashion: the actions for creating viable raw materials
Regenerative Fund For Nature: conservation organization aims at bringing the luxury world closer to the practices in the establishment of raw material production
Lake Como Design Festival 2026 works the border between materials
Waste and biomaterials: the eighth edition reads the border as the seam where one material is worked into another
The SPARE project relaunches hemp in the EU for prefabricated and biobased materials
SPARE is a European project involving Veneto, Friuli-Venezia Giulia, Styria and South Tyrol to work on transforming industrial hemp into a supply chain applicable to construction, prefabrication and other production...
Can hemp become a fragrance, or is it still just raw material?
Canapa N318 by LabSolue uses Cannabis sativa L. as an olfactory raw material, isolating terpenes through low-yield distillation and integrating them into a controlled formulation system
Mogu joins Atrium: hemp and mycelium among emerging bio-based materials
Mogu is an Italian company developing mycelium-based materials for interior design and architecture. It emerged within the SQIM group from Maurizio Montalti’s research into fungal biofabrication. Its activities combine controlled...
“I don’t want Petit h to have a style” — inside the Hermès workshop where materials lead the design
Founded in 2010 by Pascale Mussard in Pantin, Paris, Petit h transforms unused materials from Hermès’ sixteen métiers. In this interview, Godefroy de Virieu explains why materials come first
What you want from your body? Antony Gormley, iron and crawling
An interview with Antony Gormley. In What Holds Us, he stages a physical encounter with sculpture:“to become whole we have to be held. A tree has to be held in...
Patina Osaka and the castle line: architecture framed through light and materials
Overlooking Osaka Castle Park, at Patina Osaka Hotel stone-and-timber architecture and an OJAS analog listening room - the city’s craft heritage and contemporary cultural identity
Charlotte Taylor: drawing the balance between fiction and structure
Between the digital and the built, Charlotte Taylor moves through worlds that mirror and inform each other — where light, weight, and narrative define how we inhabit space
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...
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
Lake Como Design Festival: waste, work, and the life of materials
The seventh edition of Lake Como Design Festival examined waste, material honesty, and circular practices, showcasing how designers rethink resources today
Terraformae and the raw vitality of terracotta: design must get its hands dirty
Terraformae explores terracotta’s circular potential—recyclable, binder-free, and with up to 70% lower CO₂ emissions than cement—through design-led experimentation and process optimization
Jonathan Anderson’s Dior: Merging Raw Edge with Classicism
Collars embodied the split personality: one edge pressed and buttoned with couture precision, the other casually sprung upward. At Dior, Jonathan Anderson brings roughness into dialogue with polish
Piet Hein Eek’s Work with Wood Scrap: “There Are No Poor Materials”
From scrapwood cabinets to masterworks: the story of a Dutch Designer who built a global creative ecosystem around circular design, teamwork, and manufacturing Integrity
The Culture of Curiosity: Global Creatives on Raw Freedom and Responsible Innovation
Seven talents from the creative scene bring their vision to a Chanel special for Lampoon 31: from meme semiotics to feminist fantasy, each voice champions tactile experience and autonomy over...
Michael Lockshin: Raw Reminders Between Two Worlds – USA and Russia
Interview with Michael Lockshin starting from his The Master and Margarita – Russians didn’t reconsider their symbols, they didn't take Lenin out of the mausoleum
The Raw Marks by Sigve Knutson
The best results come from using tools and materials they were not originally intended for – Oslo based experimental designer Sigve Knutson share his creative process and personal vision on...
Ilenia Durazzi: a quest for rawness
A new headquarters and an anti-glossy aesthetic for Durazzi Milano – interview with founder Ilenia Durazzi: «France taught me savoir-faire and what it means to combine tailoring and creativity»
Natural rubber: a raw material linked to deforestation
Between 1993 and 2016, an estimated 4.1 million hectares of forest were destroyed for natural rubber production, with almost three-quarters of this destruction taking place after 2001
Sine by Di Pinto: Neapolitan heritage, organic materials and cultural humor
After traveling the world, chef Roberto Di Pinto opened his gastrocratic restaurant, Sine. Organic and locally sourced products are used to celebrate his Neapolitan roots – and vocation for art
The Working issue:how rough music relates to raw architecture
«I visualize my work as a sculpture that is being refined and polished» – a rough dialogue between violinist Charlie Siem and architect Anne Holtrop on music and architecture
Want to see the world through Ruth Asawa’s eyes? Start from her drawings
Practice makes perfect: Ruth Asawa’s extensive, lifelong drawing production on paper, the fruit of the artist’s daily drawing practice, Through Line' Exhibition is now on display at the Whitney Museum
Drawing performances: Tosh Basco’s evolving artistic experimentation odyssey
Tosh Basco: «Nudity challenges divisions and allows us to see ourselves as vulnerable and authentic beings. Performance art can serve as a reminder of our common humanity»
95 percent upcycled materials at Duran Lantink’s Spring 2024 Collection
Duran Lantink’s journey from Amsterdam to Paris also marked a shift in creative vision, while keeping sustainable practices at the core of the brand
Solitude and sexual innuendo: Georgia O’Keeffe’s paper drawings
77 years later, the NYC MoMA is hosting its second retrospective of Georgia O'Keeffe. Curator Samantha Friedman introduces the Mother of American modernism and her paper works
The rawness of Maximilian Raynor’s practice through his residency in Woolwich
«It’s a make do and mend mentality, an ad hoc way of working, of finding materials - taping together rather than sewing. It’s that crafty, Nineteen Eighties approach to fashion»,...
Restoring peatlands in Finland: the case of alternative filling materials
This Finland-based start-up is looking to replace fossil and animal-based filling materials with a plant-based one: the result includes carbon-negative promotion and peatland restoration
Range of biosynthetic expands to microbially fermented protein materials – Spiber yarn
Spiber Inc. is a Japanese biotechnology company developing synthetic protein material via a microbial fermentation process, that uses sugars
Carbon-insetting through low-emission materials: a game plan by Ganni
Through ‘Fabrics of the Future,’ Ganni hopes to collaborate with five new low-emission fibre innovators per year. This year’s line-up includes: Stem, Mylo, Circulose among others
End-of-life materials: the case of Rester recovery fiber plant
Rester’s recovered fiber plant might not have created 100% biodegradable fibers for every fiber type it produces, but it has prolonged the life of textile and lessen its emissions
3D printed house TECLA – using clay as a raw material will bring us a step closer
«The first project of a house that can adapt to different climates». Architect Mario Cucinella, talking about TECLA, a collaboration with Wasp 3D printing
Is the felt industry sustainable? The case of Voylok shoes made by mono-materials
Made avoiding the use of dyes, bleach, stitches or glues. By-products from production, such as wool scraps and muddy water, are turned into fertilizers for farmers
