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François Berthoud: mistakes are one of the things digital tools can’t offer
Blending traditional tools and contemporary technology, artist illustrator François Berthoud carves linoleum plates by hand, uses vegetable-based ink and plays with net distortions, celebrating process over product
How digital craftsmanship is redesigning the textile supply chain
From Amsterdam, BYBORRE has established a new model of digital manufacturing that blends transparency, precision, and responsibility — proving that technology can help fashion produce less, but better.
Snails as Symbols: from garden pest to cultural mirror
Snail mucin, gardening blogs, Derek Jarman, and heterotopias: a multi-layered reading of the garden as a metaphor for systemic violence
NERO Design Gallery, Arezzo. An archive for the sensorial experience of design
A journey through the language of shape and matter. A way to discover and to advance, on the edge between the past, present, and future. In conversation with Nero Gallery...
Le Cornichon: A Contemporary Palimpsest of Parisian Café Culture
How a Paris café in the 11th arrondissement channels 1970s French design to restore the spirit of neighborhood hospitality
Inside a global boom of snail mucin in beauty
The great snail rush: exploring the global supply chain, ethical farming innovations, scientific research, and the cultural evolution that turned an unlikely ingredient into a cornerstone of the beauty industry
Bomber in Hemp Velvet Chenille
Velvet chenille corduroy hemp bomber jacket. Hemp and cotton fabric in a mud green color, with chenille knitted details.
Avril 50, Philadelphia. A time capsule of 1984 with magazines and journals
Established while he was completing his second master’s degree, Shahidi founded Avril 50 as a response to the lack of stores carrying magazine publications and academic journals that catered to...
Polo Shirt in Embroidered Cotton
Embroidered and perforated polo shirt in sheer fabric with a shamrock pattern and chenille knitted details
Between Roses and Stone: Alila Jabal Akhdar, Oman’s Green Mountain Retreat
Perched two thousand meters above the Omani desert, Alila Jabal Akhdar is built from local stone, powered by sun and wind, and scented by the region’s wild roses
Sander Lak: navigating the industry with deadstock and smaller scale production
A conversation with Sander Lak on leaving Sies Marjan, exploring work beyond fashion, and returning with a label built on deadstock fabrics and creative independence
Forestis and the architecture of reduction in the Dolomites
From untreated larch wood to biomass heating, every design choice at Forestis is shaped by the goal of minimizing impact — an interview with Teresa Unterthiner, general manager and owner...
Sex toys for straight men: even hard boys want to play
Once grooming and skincare defined the so-called metrosexual—today, straight men embrace sex toys as tools for self-exploration and intimacy. From Sonia Rykiel’s duck-shaped vibrators to Harry Styles’ Pleasing Yourself
Contraste: Matias Perdomo Creates a Theatrical Dining Narrative
When cooking is an inventive laboratory, the dining room at Contraste becomes a theatrical set—somewhere between Uruguay and Italy, within interiors reimagined by Debonademeo Studio
Ronin Milano reshaped a Milanese Liberty residence
From street-food informality to a private lounge, Ronin Milano layers gastronomy, music, karaoke and omakase across four floors, reflecting Tokyo echoes in the urban fabric of Chinatown
Bulgari Hotel Tokyo integrates sustainability in a dialogue between Rome Japan
Designed by Antonio Citterio and Patricia Viel, Bulgari Hotel Tokyo fuses Roman geometry with Japanese rhythm, embracing a plastic-free policy and local sourcing at Il Ristorante
Trees and city: Khao Yai Art Forest and Bangkok Kunsthalle
From the reuse of a burnt printing house to a forest-laboratory: Stefano Rabolli Pansera recounts Khao Yai Art Forest and Bangkok Kunsthalle through reforestation, renewable energy, water monitoring, and material...
Who’s afraid of the father? Camille Lévêque rewrites paternal mythologies
Through collage, family archives, advertising images, and political propaganda, photographer Camille Lévêque dismantles the traditional father figure, exposing patriarchal myths in À la recherche du père
Setchu: Satoshi Kuwata on Japanese principles and the leather supply chain
“I traveled to Zimbabwe, met the people, saw the process. I didn’t want an abstract version of sustainability.” An interview with Setchu’s Satoshi Kuwata on materials and transparent sourcing
Norbert Niederkofler and the short supply chain that changes the mountain
From the origins of Cook the Mountain to three destinations: Atelier Moessmer, Ansitz Heufler and AlpiNN – Norbert Niederkofler has built a model rooted in Alpine biodiversity, short supply chains,...
The Kumaon, Binsar. No power for machinery, it took six months to do a job that takes ten days
Cement structures encased in bamboo; hand strung with copper wiring sourced from the neighborhood copper producing village of Tamta Mohalla
Post-plastic imaginaries: Sarah Schönfeld and the ecological politics of cleansing rituals
Ideas of cleanliness frequently conceal underlying cultural fears: anxieties about control, the illusion of purity, and the unsettling reality of the body as an open, porous system. Schönfeld responds to...
Stockholm’s all-wood district: building with wood reduces carbon emissions and stores it
A city of wood: though there has been recent interest in Biophilic Urbanism and the existence of wooden structures, no project of this size has been created out of this...
Durk Dehner – Sex between men is just plain manly, no matter what position one takes
Durk Dehner of Tom of Finland Foundation dissects one of the many elements that define the queer as a community and a tribe, the roots of the sexual attraction the...
Living Archives of Art Deco: How Two Brussels Villas Became Belgium’s Blueprint for Modernism with a Memory
From static masterpiece to adaptive monument, Villa Van Buuren and Villa Empain show how Belgian Art Deco mastered both permanence and reinvention
Pol Anglada on Tom of Finland, Anonymous Johns, and Queer Eroticism
From Tumblr awakenings to Tom of Finland’s ghosts, Pol Anglada’s drawings spit in the face of sanitized queerness and dare to stay raw—hair, sweat, rough bodies and fragile intimacies sketched...
Glyptic: an ancient craft saved from oblivion by one Maître d’Art, Philippe Nicolas
A jewel depends on the level of exhaustion of its creator. Métiers d’art: the art of carving stones and gems in high jewelry – calling it ‘glyptic’ may be reductive,...
Mexico’s cherished artists: Museo Casa Estudio Diego Rivera and Frida Kahlo
Commissioned by the couple from the architect Juan O'Gorman in 1931, Diego RIvera and Frida Kahlo lived in the estate until 1934
Isabelle Wenzel, art and clay: a legacy of feminist and ecological practices
Transforming blocks of dry clay into performative terrain: physical improvisation, self-timer photography, and material friction shape Isabelle Wenzel’s creative process
Chronicles from Reschio: 1500 Hectares of Regenerated Forest
Fifty farmhouses, a castle, an oak forest in Umbria: the Reschio Estate introduced by Benedikt Bolza and Nencia Corsini, where today over two hundred people work
The Tunisian Shepherd – learning to dismiss the luxury of waste
Photographer Akila Berjaoui and Clément LaGuardia uncovered the quiet resilience of Tunisia’s shepherds — revealing a raw portrait of ancestral living, slow fashion
Is preservation without use is another form of decay?
Photographer Allegra Martin explores the contradictions of modern architecture—not as static monuments to an ideal past, but as evolving, inhabited structures shaped by time, use and political change
Romeo Roma — Zaha Hadid’s material tensions within a Sixteenth-century palazzo
From original frescoes to lava stone, oak, and Krion, Romeo Roma reworks historic surfaces through formal restraint, calibrated materials, and site-specific architectural choices
Santa Caterina, Amalfi: The Evolution of Continuity, Senzafine
Senzafine marks the latest chapter in the evolution of Santa Caterina in Amalfi—shaping new experiences in space and cuisine while maintaining the hotel’s dialogue with place, heritage, and family continuity
Troquer, Mexico City. Intellectual architecture reshaping the retail therapy experience
An online fashion retailer selling second-hand luxury. Lucía Martínez-Ostos and Ytzia Belausteguigoitia began a store as a business centered on the two friends’ local network
Louis Vuitton, On the Beach. An ode to the West Coast and the city of Los Angeles
Created by perfumer Jacques Cavallier Belletrud, On the Beach is an expression of a day spent at the beach in the Californian summertime
There’s no room for maximalist lines in studioutte’s work
Patrizio Gola and Guglielmo Giagnotti reject sustainability as a trend: it should be inherent to design. Archetypes, simple forms, and a refusal of decor
Rooted in Mykonos: a family’s commitment to vernacular architecture and regenerative hospitality
The story of the Myconian Collection does not begin with a business plan or a brand identity—it begins with land, stone, and family. Redefining hospitality on an island too often...
Torel Palace, Porto: where Portuguese literature and architecture meet
A Portuguese palace from 1861 brought to new life – scraping away layers of paint from the walls. The stuccoes on the ceilings represent Portuguese writers, who give their names...
Shreeji Newsagents, London. The Marylebone Staple
«Shreeji is part of the social-fiber of the community. During the pandemic it has shown how stores in the locale acts as a sanctuary and how they were supported by...
Refugium Amoris — Reclaims the Fabric of the City
Restored without spectacle – Refugium Amoris, a Hideaway Apartment. Exposed beams, terrazzo floors, and structural honesty guide the renovation by Francesco Pugliese.
A home for art built from the ashes of a volcano: Museo Anahuacalli, Mexico City
Inspired to Aztec temples, the museum hosts a permanent collection of pre-Columbian finds, temporary exhibitions of contemporary artists and a botanical garden
Chanel, Paris. The symbolic value of the lion, the strength of Coco Chanel
The revelation of an untold aspect of the founder's existence. From 'Coco' Chanel’s zodiac sign, to the Lion of Venice which struck a chord with the founder and sealed her...
Sofia Zevi: I don’t use Instagram, I don’t need it
As society chases constant novelty, —yet the value of honest endures. Sofia Zevi and the need to be critical, today when everything seems to have to be 'wow' on social...
Twenty years of women’s art revealing the fractures of our time
From trauma to care, absence to collective memory: The Max Mara Art Prize for Women as a space of production, reflection, and resistance in European contemporary art history
EDIT Napoli: Let’s be fair, a consolidation of what’s been made in the previous years
A panel of international experts is hired to assign a prize for the best ‘inedito’ – the winners can return to display their products the following year at EDIT Napoli...
