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Provoking Italian manufacturing as much as you can
Italian, natural, plant-based supply chain - from farm field to weaving: the transparency of Made in Italy that wants to be not just a label, but a value
100% female Hemp plants – the future is here
One of the most versatile and sustainable plant, hemp could explore mass production entry with NWG’s AMPLIFY hybrid trait fostering hemp populations with up to 100% female plants
Hemp Kamiko: Issey Miyake and the Japanese Craftsmanship
Under the creative direction of Satoshi Kondo, Issey Miyake pays tribute to the kamiko fabric tradition, made from fine hemp fibers and Japanese paper
Industrial hemp in Italy: a sustainable economy in a regulatory maze
Hemp in Italy is a strategic crop for agriculture and industry, but it lacks a stable regulatory framework. Between decrees restricting its uses and laws that fail to evolve, the...
QWSTION weaves hemp and abacá in Switzerland as alternatives to synthetic fibres
QWSTION is a Swiss company based in Zurich that produces backpacks, bags and accessories for everyday use. It was co-founded by Christian Kaegi, who oversees creative direction and material development....
Ambra, a laboratory in Tuscany for hemp inflorescences and solvent-free extracts
Ambra is a Tuscan laboratory integrating organic cultivation and analytical research on industrial hemp, with fields in Maremma and processing in Siena. It processes inflorescences through cold mechanical extraction, without...
Federcanapa and industrial hemp today: where does the Italian supply chain break?
Federcanapa is a federation founded in 2016 that brings together agricultural businesses, processing companies, technicians and associations active in industrial hemp in Italy. It deals with regulatory issues, technical aspects...
Lampoon, rough: from rationalist architecture to sustainable hemp
Under a microscope, a natural fibre, whether animal or plant – wool, hemp, cotton, even silk – displays a morphological roughness that creates friction, providing a mutual grip during twisting...
Primo Piano: a perfume inspired by the unfinished palace of Luisa Casati in Venice
Primo Piano transforms Palazzo Venier dei Leoni into an olfactory project built around tuberose, incense, leather accords, cultural memory, and twentieth-century Venetian lifestyle
All about Hemp: the textile industry, fabrics and yarns, uses and operations
The only vegetable textile fiber that can be sourced in Italy is hemp. Scutching and retting are the two critical agricultural steps in a supply chain that supplies material to...
Whole Lotta Hemp aims to rebuild a hemp supply chain in Emilia-Romagna
Whole Lotta Hemp is a company based in Emilia-Romagna operating in the cultivation and primary processing of industrial hemp. Founded by Emil Cioban and Alessandro Pollastri, it works with a...
Freia and therapeutic hemp: a growing industry without a supply chain behind it
When Freia Farmaceutici was founded in 2009, hemp did not yet have a defined place in the language of the Italian pharmaceutical industry. The plant was associated above all with...
Hemp cosmetics and rural architecture: the Canabetum experiment
Canabetum is an agricultural project founded by Marina De Benedetti in the Padua area, created as an extension of her family’s organic farm, Bio Agrigea. Hemp is at its center,...
Hemp – why now is the best time to invest in the industry?
Canada is able to produce the raw material at a much lower cost than anywhere else, enabling them to see a larger profit market as a result
Hemp in Sardinia: agricultural potential and legislative obstacles
Sardinia Cannabis was founded in 2017 in the province of Sassari with the aim of restoring industrial hemp cultivation in Sardinia. The association brings together around 150 farmers, technicians, researchers...
How agriculture is reshaping professional haircare: the Davines Essential Haircare case
From Italian agricultural biodiversity to the European Regenerative Organic Center, Davines' Essential Haircare shows how cosmetic research increasingly connects farming, formulation and professional haircare
The future of Ukraine: hemp can aid in reconstruction and sustainable growth
Exploring the potential of industrial hemp (Cannabis Sativa L.) cultivation in Ukraine as a tool to improve the economy and support sustainable development in the aftermath of conflict
Wasted Waste: the Czech design project turning textile waste into a systemic question
Wasted Waste began at a waste management facility on the Czech-Polish border – a design project on post-consumer textile disposal, first shown at Milan Design Week
Hemp in animal feed: facts and fiction
Regulatory concerns arise with the integration of hemp in livestock nutrition. A promoter of sustainable agricultural practices? Scientific research results show C02 reduction
Why do horses like hemp too? Agricola Genesi in the Modena area
Agricola Genesi is an agricultural company founded in the province of Modena in 2018. It cultivates industrial hemp light indoors, using hydroponic growing in pots and controlled growing conditions. Its...
Industrial hemp in Puglia: how Canapuglia is rebuilding its supply chain
Canapuglia is a Puglia-based company founded by Claudio Natile in Conversano in 2011. It cultivates, processes and markets industrial hemp. Working with EU-certified varieties, it operates in the food, bio-based...
Hemp, a leading sustainable and zero-waste material
ANAB is an organization founded to develop and promote the principles of natural architecture in Italy. It brings together designers, researchers and technicians working on low-impact materials and the relationship...
From seed to fiber: Assocanapa and the rebuilding of the hemp supply chain
Assocanapa is a company based in Carmagnola, Turin, founded in 1998 to promote industrial hemp cultivation and its supply chain in Italy. Operating as a seed company, it produces and...
Textile hemp in Italy: a broken supply chain between research and a lack of vision
Il miglioramento genetico della pianta con la Carmaleonte, la baby canapa e il complesso processo di filatura: tentativi per facilitare la lavorazione della fibra, la macerazione microbiologica e la trasformazione
Eau des Princes, L.T. Piver: the Politics of Mint
An aromatic built on nineteenth-century mythology, herb-driven composition, and the question of what "heritage" actually means in fragrance
Art Basel 2026: the market wants the first look back
From digital drift to material presence. How everyday matter became contemporary meaning. Art Basel Paris: a new stability
Mapping the geography of Made in Italy beyond national borders
Diana Studio, the Prato-based knitwear producer, opens its factory floor to question what transparency in fashion means — and why production planning matters more than certifications
Which is the best hotel in Italy? Beyond personal opinion
For ethical entrepreneurship, sustainability, and the good Italian lifestyle – it’s not about decoration, opinion, luxury, or marketing. It’s about the best hotel in Italy
Rosa Alpina and the Pizzinini family’s making of a territorial system
From a local inn in San Cassiano to an Aman destination, Rosa Alpina remains tied to the Pizzinini family, Ladin culture and the territorial system of Alta Badia
Ānti: perfume begins with sweat and salt – not flowers
While presenting the fragrance Paura dell’Acqua, the founders of Ānti took us through the chronology of the brand, from the Egyptian “sweat of the gods” to plague-era opulence – how...
Motors, fish and minor disasters: Yuko Mohri scales technology
From feather dusters to magnetic fields, Yuko Mohri rewires everyday objects into unstable systems where error generates knowledge and technology returns to human scale
Fondazione Lampoon
Fondazione Lampoon In short: The mission of Fondazione Lampoon is to prove that creative expression must integrate civic duty, driven by concrete and practical actions. Leveraging a decade of high-quality...
Editorial Identity
Editorial Identity The editorial identity of Lampoon Magazine, text and images: what it is and what it covers Lampoon Magazine is an independent cultural publication based in Milan, addressing an...
Restoring stone and silence: San Corrado di Noto and the rural Sicilian landscape
Nestled in citrus groves and olive trees, the resort maintains historic architecture and landscape, integrating energy-efficient design and local materials in its restoration
Isola Design Festival 2026: ten editions, one neighborhood, new horizons
The tenth edition of Isola brought the festival back to its Milanese roots — and showed just how far an independent design platform can travel in a decade without losing...
Canapa N318 Eau de Parfum: a collaboration between Lampoon and LabSolue
Ambra Martone presents Canapa N318 Eau de Parfum, a fragrance that brings hemp back to the center of contemporary olfactory creation
Six months of infusion, handcrafted oak barrels: Amouage’s challenge to fast perfumery
Renaud Salmon left New York for Muscat, banned the word "launch" from his vocabulary, and started ageing perfume concentrates: the Creative Director of Amouage on the Essences collection
Recycled fiberglass leads Trotter’s first Bottega chapter
Louise Trotter introduces recycled fiberglass as a material language at Bottega Veneta. Milan's Brutalist architecture provides the reference; Veneto craft anchors the construction
The hottest title in Japan? Living National Treasure
First established in 1950, the title of Ningen Kokuhō – “Living National Treasure” – is given to artists who keep Japan’s traditional arts alive: it’s not the object that is...
Uroš Kramberger: at Grünwaschen, sustainability is not a marketing slogan
Greenwashing has become a buzzword – founded by Uroš Kramberger, Grünwaschen in Berlin supports independent designers with ethical fashion and fair labor standards
The slow logic of hospitality: art, identity, and the contemporary Grand Tour
In the Tridente district, contemporary artworks spread across corridors, ceilings, and rooms — part of a hospitality project rooted in Basilicata and embedded in the living texture of central Rome
The lotus plant: much is left to be discovered and not only about the fiber
If silk isn’t the first natural microfiber, then lotus certainly is. Acknowledging the ability to multitask within a community, Samatoa supplies women with work whilst keeping R&D in the fiber...
Modular architecture: Prefabrication is not a limit; it is a discipline
«Prefabrication is not a limit; it is a discipline». In conversation with Valentina Moretti of Italian based Studio More and Zoë and Jonathon Little of UK based, Koto design studio
Mycelium is emerging as a viable material for packaging and textile design
The a sustainable textile research: the option that comes from mushrooms. «We want to prevent as many of our resources going to landfill»
Satinine’s rebirth: a Milanese fragrance legend returns to claim its future
A conversation with Andrea Galletti on reviving Satinine: from chromatographic decoding of 1930s formulas to rebuilding Art déco design codes and a fully Italian supply chain for true in-house perfumery
