Rattan Bonacina – about the future of shapes that never existed

«We invented it ourselves; machinery capable of creating the shapes used in this design did not exist». In conversation with Elia Bonacina

Carlo Traglio: a collection, to be a good one, must include a mistake

«Making art is like making love; it is carnal, physical—we all make love, but not everyone makes art». In conversation with the owner of Italian jewelry house Vhernier

The color of stones can’t be changed – Bruno and Iacopo Lastrucci and the last workshop

«You have a picture in your mind and in your eyes, but it might take four or five years to complete». Father and son and the search for stones for Florentine inlays

Les Lalannes — originality in an era of covers and revivals

For François and Claude Lalanne, a hippopotamus becomes a bathtub. Whether at an exhibition or an auction, this is how collectors’ obsessions start

Studio Peregalli — between technology and harmony, the latter comes out on top

“An artisan makes a mistake with their first samples, tending to replicate something they’ve done already. We don’t copy the past. We reinterpret it every time”

Manufacturing – The Crafted – Editor’s Letter

As her fashion show came to a close this September, Miuccia Prada spoke with journalists: she said she had wondered whether launching a new collection was the right thing to do at a time when people already own too much and should be learning to make do with less — for the good of the planet.

The art of piqué — a decade of art in the age of the enlightenment

In Naples workshops across the Royal Palace, craftsmen created the Art of piqué in gold and mother-of-pearl