As times change, so does the idea of craft – an update with Tom Dixon

It takes an engineer to make things in big quantities and a craftsman to produce a wooden spoon. The British designer discusses the challenges on crafting newness

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

Josefin Liljeqvist — buy a shoe and meet the cow who got killed to make it

Highlighting the steps involved in production from farm to tannery, cow to slaughterhouse. Swedish designer Josefin Liljeqvist wants to introduce her supply chain to customers

A Mediterranean bromance — two places of worship and one dialogue that stands as fantasy

An impossible conversation between two main players of 20th-century architecture, Gio Ponti and Alvar Aalto, about their last projects, contrasting ideologies and designs

LES ATELIERS COURBET, GALLERIA DI DESIGN FONDATA A NEW YORK 2013

Melanie Courbet — it’s good to be close to and to be challenged by the naysayer

«There is a subjective selection, whether that’s based on personality or design choices that I respond to». In conversation with Les Ateliers Courbet founder Melanie Courbet

GIO PONTI, BONACINA, ELIA BONACINA 1889 INTERVIEW

Bonacina 1889 — things don’t get thrown away, they fix themselves

It takes at least a year — a year and a half, maybe — to learn how to weave and just as long to learn how to curve. In conversation with Elia Bonacina of Bonacina 1889

Jermaine Gallacher — save your money, buy well

Jermaine Gallacher – the ambiguous design dealer – discusses the mindset of never having something that you don’t want or need, which you’ll eventually consider to be waste

Poetry of a Prototype – Editor’s Letter

It could be chronicle or literature – prototype stands for positive, resilient, operative people – as we are. Prototype is about challenging ourselves with experimental assets, it’s about turning the other cheek – we have cried enough – and face a brave new world.