«A mid-century vibe. We bought these postcards in California. A classic kind of collage scrapbook thing. Almost like a wishboard based on our longing». Lazoschmidl’s fantasy is a provoking game

«I love this idea of real objects, somehow flattened to be archived. There’s a mix of natural and artificial fibers. Real hair in contrast with the plastic hair of a brush»

From Florence to New York, from fashion model to female artisan Elsa Peretti’s lived an existence of freedom, inspiring the accessibility of her design and creations bought by women, for themselves 

German Expressionism, Egon Schiele, Modernism, Mirò. Rid Burman’s many inspirations draw from a distant, dreamlike world

A military driven mission allowed for an unnecessary production of ignorance of our oceans during the Cold War period – we now face the problems of years of negligence

Milan has many paradoxes: futuristic glass architecture and battered urban spaces: for Paola Valenti and Yosephine Melfi, surviving in modern cities is a question of adaptation – just like a gecko

Irish photographer Eimear Lynch dedicated her summertime probing through intimate lives of young people across a series of portraits, freeing herself from introversion

Bravery, the High Jewellery collection – 90 pieces designed by Francesca Amfitheatrof. It took a global three-year search to source the sapphires, emeralds, rubies, diamonds and gemstones used on the pieces

In conversation with Irish and Italian professors Gareth Doherty and Barbara Boifava, respectively, on Roberto Burle Marx’s landscapes and urban ideologies

Current good taste has eroded an orthodoxy that began to crumble in the Seventies: design is today emptied of its original political militancy – worse still, it can be the complement of a furnishing