Bulrush, rattan, malacca – “It’s the material that creates this style. The big names worked with us because we could make shapes that would have been impossible or too expensive with other materials”

Gianni Biondillo intervista Elia Bonacina, quarta generazione di Bonacina 1889: manifattura del giunco e icone del design, pezzi unici per gli Agnelli, i Mondadori, i Rothschild, ispirazione per Mongiardino

Elia Bonacina, fourth generation of Bonacina 1889: pieces for the Agnelli family, Mondadori, Rothschilds, and inspirations for Mongiardino – rewriting the history of design backwards

Per Cocteau era tutto poesia: un disegno mescolato alle parole, Jean Marais l’amante e attore in Orpheus, l’amicizia con Peggy Guggenheim, la relazione con Natalie Paley, lo spadino di Cartier – e l’oppio

They bought them like we would buy cufflinks, with an eye on how they looked. Obviously, if they chose a shishi they must have been a bit superstitious, but the value lay in the shishi, not in the netsuke

«Chinoiserie possesses a sense of wonder, even if tinged by some sadness. I start from this, to express the amazement it communicates to me» – Richard Saja made the toile of joy from the toile de Jouy

Marcin Rusak combines the dichotomy of the natural and the man-made – «I took something already dead, that was grown for our pleasure, and turned it into a print that would remind you of what these flowers really mean to us»

Gold and mother-of-pearl in the workshops across the Royal Palace: a touch of humor, obelisks, baroque and chinoiserie, ancient ruins and everyday objects

Analysis and consideration of the Milan fashion shows: what direction should fashion take for the Italian industry to remain positive?

Il flusso di pensiero: Nicola Piovani parla di composizione per il cinema, duecento film, il rapporto con alcuni tra i tanti registi con cui ha lavorato: Federico Fellini, Marco Bellocchio, Nanni Moretti