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»

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

When luxury deserves respect: 250 new jobs in a French province, education and culture in a manufacturing district, handmade saddle stitching

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 

From the Goose Game to the Globes for the Sun King, passing through a child’s playroom, phosphorescent plastics, and paints: Homo Faber 2024 on the Island of San Giorgio in Venice

Crescere in un contesto borghese a Milano: il liceo, i comunisti e la poesia: i codici borghesi non producono più reazione, ma consolazione – per educazione civile e imprenditoria etica