Search Results for: raw materials
About Netsuke – carved in ivory or wood, hidden in kimonos
Netsuke are carved counterweights, worn at the waist to balance a pouch tied to a kimono sash. Merchants wore them against silk for decades, and the friction finished the carving
Exploring Hemp in Design: Yasmin Bawa abandons concrete for hempcrate
«When I abandoned concrete, I managed to find something that is the opposite: it is breathable, permeable, not toxic». Yasmin Bawa’s production from concrete to hempcrate
The Algorithm and the Hating: how outrage became fashion’s invisible engine
From Crocs to Balenciaga, ridicule has accelerated trends rather than ended them. Three voices from inside the industry explain why — and what it costs
The value of coconut husk fiber: what to do with the 85 percent we burn
Coir board holds together without synthetic glue, using lignin present in the material. What happens when the waste stream becomes the raw material? Where the sustainability claim runs into trouble?
Sea resources: Bysco’s naturally sourced textile fiber from mussel waste
Bysco developed a textile fiber that comes from mussel secretions. Its technical properties can allow the replacement of synthetic fibers like fiberglass and polyester
What is the difference between sustainable and regenerative agriculture?
Sustainable agriculture can be defined as a set of practices that together aim to reduce the negative impact of cultivation, such as crop rotation, the use of natural fertilizers and...
Verdura Resort, Sciacca: A Coastline Built from Seventy Deeds and a Duke’s Name
Sir Rocco Forte spent seven years assembling more than seventy plots of land to build Verdura Resort on Sicily’s southwest coast and this year completed a redesign by Paolo Moschino...
Aurora Merano: how a family hotel evolves without starting over
A conversation with Philipp Aukenthaler to trace the evolution of Aurora: “Every generation has changed it in its own way.” Looking forward, never erasing: from materials and architecture to music...
Casa del Limonero, the Sevillian house where eclecticism becomes instinct
The deer teaches you to move forward while looking back: the symbol of Casa del Limonero, a Sevillian casa-palacio where a collector turns what she has gathered into a buen...
350 species in one seagrass meadow: how One Ocean Foundation operates
From the Caprera Canyon to Posidonia restoration in Cala di Volpe, One Ocean Foundation builds infrastructure for marine science — the exhibition As Above, So Below in Venice
1 Hotel Central Park: a green façade for Manhattan hospitality
A few steps from Central Park, 1 Hotel Central Park turns reclaimed wood, living plants, low-impact systems and biophilic design into the grammar of contemporary luxury
Bodrum Loft: brutalist stone volumes absorbed into the woodland of Demirbükü bay
Thirty-six stone villas form a village outside time, poised between the ancestral and the futuristic, while two thirds of the 57,000-square-metre site remain native woodland
Lampoon and LabSolue at W Florence for the Greenest Fragrance: Canapa N381
Canapa N381 is unveiled during Pitti Uomo at W Florence as a limited edition Eau de Parfum by Lampoon and LabSolue, bringing hemp back into focus within contemporary perfume research
700 plants in the garden of La Serena, Forte dei Marmi
At Vittoria Apuana, a Sixties building steps into the present as a five-star boutique hotel, its garden filled with citrus, ferns and hydrangeas beneath tall maritime pines It feels like...
Guerlain Vétiver Fauve: eau de parfum, rewriting a classic ingrédient
With Vétiver Fauve, Guerlain hands perfumer Delphine Jelk a difficult raw material — vetiver root — and asks for something the molecule has rarely produced: lightness
Villa Igiea: one hundred rooms where Sicilian industrial history became hospitality
Commissioned by Ignazio Florio Jr. in 1899 and designed by Ernesto Basile, Villa Igiea has survived requisition, institutional ownership, and decades of neglect to reopen under Rocco Forte in 2021
Lampoon Ruvido — editorial identity and the coherence of a message
Lampoon Ruvido — from an American English vocabulary to ten years of publishing: the coherence of a message and the concept of rough
Hemp activewear and denim: higher yield and less water consumption
Robert Jungmann shares insights gained over 30 years, noting advancements that allow for innovative blends of hemp in textiles. Improvements that paved the way for hemp activewear options
Do you need to apply for a license to grow hemp in New York?
A multidisciplinary team at Cornell collaborates to enhance hemp cultivation and resource sharing within the industry, backed by state funding and focused on research and education
Pensione America’s garden restoration recovers the villa’s 1920s and 1930s botany
Banana trees, palms, lemons, bougainvillea, and the original loggia wisteria trace Pensione America's garden back to Forte dei Marmi's Roma Imperiale in the Twenties and Thirties heyday
Correcting, sculpting, selling: Fashion’s permanent construction site
For fashion low target brands, a Ford Mustang, a Coca-Cola bottle, and a female body obey the same logic: form, desirability, and market value. The industry's real economic engine
Textile hemp and industry: why cottonization remains on hold
Hemp can be spun without cottonization, following the long-fiber route and wet spinning, as with linen. This approach preserves the luster and strength characteristic of bast fibers – linen, hemp...
Porn outlasts chic: why Hodakova escapes the boredom of fashion
Between corporate dungeons and tired sustainability, Ellen Hodakova Larsson rescues fashion from beige — discarded materials and fetish imagery to build a world far outside the conglomerates' rooms
Italian hemp woven on handlooms: Gimmi Jeans in Vicenza
Dal seme al capo finito, Gimmi Jeans riesce a ottenere canapa italiana! Coltivando la canapa Carmagnola in un raggio di trenta chilometri, in provincia di Vicenza. Intervista a Francesco Vantin
Laurels Apron: hemp aprons and clothing from a fragmented supply chain
In contemporary clothing, the apron is a functional accessory, often standardized and almost always made from synthetic fibers. Laurels Apron was founded in 2020 with the idea of reinterpreting this...
91530 Le Marais: one hemp farm near Paris is using culture to save the soil
Fifty kilometres from Paris, 91530 LE MARAIS is turning hemp fields into exhibition spaces — and asking whether art might be the most powerful tool we have for saving the...
Ara Maris: how one hotel rewrote the rules of Sorrento hospitality
Sorrento's hospitality has long been defined by scale and history; this property bets instead on material culture, sustainability and a coherent design argument that runs through every space
Why you so obsessed with me? An encyclopedia of fashion obsessions
From Luna Rossa and Triple S to the Baguette and Dior's Saddle Bag, an encyclopedia of contemporary fashion obsessions — examining how repetition, visibility, and circulation build desire
Fashion creativity needs constraints to move forward
When fashion can no longer expand through excess, it turns inward: constraints on materials, production, and image become the new territory where creativity proves its intelligence and its force
Glass, steel and the New York table: how Rivington Milan evolves
A new outdoor terrace overlooking Porta Nuova marks the latest evolution of Hyatt Centric Milan Centrale's New York-inspired restaurant
Humble luxury or quiet luxury? The loudest thing you can do is nothing
Quiet luxury performs restraint. Humble luxury performs virtue – whispering "I don't care" loudly: status is now defined by the coherence of one's position – not its visibility – which brands will...
What “bionic” really means in prosthetics, according to Ottobock’s Corrado Polzoni
Corrado Polzoni, head of prosthetics at Ottobock, redefines bionic not as added power but as reduced cognitive load — the point where a prosthesis stops demanding attention and becomes part...
Smoke Signals San Francisco: Fadi Berbery’s independent newsstand on Polk Street
From Beirut to San Francisco, Fadi Berbery founded Smoke Signals in 1995, a European-style newsstand offering international magazines, independent titles and curated print culture on Polk Street
Maya Stepper: shaping silver between body and autonomy
From modeling to metal, Maya Stepper moves from being seen to shaping her own form, where material, memory and instinct define a practice rooted in reclamation and transformation
Another Italian manufacturer credited as global taste maker: the history of Lozza eyewear
From a mill in Cadore to a global style code: Lozza is an eyewear brand that helped invent the Italian attitude —crafted in-house by historical manufacturer De Rigo
Wood in a circular economy: reclaimed teak to give discarded wood a second life
From Mumbai to Umbria, Baro Design and Laquercia21 turn reclaimed wood into contemporary furniture—proof that sustainability can be built from scraps, not mass production
Between Fire and Fermentation: Inside a Contemporary Culinary Laboratory
Moving through cultures – Yapa beyond Milan with an opening in Antiparos, extending a project built around movement, local relationships and changing landscapes
XYZ Books, Lisbon: endorsing experimentation without compromise
At XYZ Books, the focus is not aesthetics. Pedro Guimarães and Tiago Casanova encourage freshness and support the artists they collaborate with through their insight and intuition in editing
From aero politics to salt architecture: Tomás Saraceno
In Salinas Grandes, El Santuario del Agua by Tomás Saraceno reimagines land art as a community-owned project rooted in water, salt, and Indigenous knowledge
Hannah Levy: why a prehistoric crab makes sense in her sculpture
With Blue Blooded at Museo Nivola, Hannah Levy turns the horseshoe crab — harvested for modern medicine since before memory — into the most coherent subject she has ever chosen
Xiao Yang Bure and the post-human body: a ‘metal’ Manifesto
Model, content creator, and emerging figure in the Chinese aesthetic scene, Xiao Yang Bure turns her prosthesis into a radical fashion system
The Manner, or how Milan learned to live in New York
At 58 Thompson Street, Soho, Hannes Peer composes a design symphony for New York, drawing on Milanese masters and excavating, like an archaeologist, the layered beauty of the world
Scandinavian Minimalism in the Marrakech Medina: The Architecture of Riad No. 37
An inquiry into the structural restoration of an eight-room boutique hotel through the integration of Danish design principles and local Moroccan craftsmanship.
