Tag: Lifestyle
Ara Maris: how one hotel rewrote the rules of Sorrento hospitality
Sorrento's hospitality has long been defined by scale and history; this property bets instead on material culture, sustainability and a coherent design argument that runs through every space
Glass, steel and the New York table: how Rivington Milan evolves
A new outdoor terrace overlooking Porta Nuova marks the latest evolution of Hyatt Centric Milan Centrale's New York-inspired restaurant
Galib Gassanoff: structure is not a style, it is a position
A conversation on discipline, cultural memory, and why a designer who knows how to cut a dress has less and less space in an industry that moves too fast to...
Dolomiti SPA Hotel Fanes: cool air, altitude and body rituals in Alta Badia
From a sixteenth-century farmhouse to a five-star wellness destination, Hotel Fanes reimagines Alpine hospitality through architecture, landscape, and a deeply physical approach to wellbeing
The house carved into the Amalfi Coast between Praiano and Positano
Born as a home carved into the rock, Piccolo Sant'Andrea is curved lines and arches that generate points of observation — an evolving presence in the hotel landscape of the...
Wythe Hotel, Williamsburg: a barrel factory became Brooklyn’s defining address
How an abandoned industrial building became Brooklyn’s first boutique hotel: the Wythe Hotel tells the story of Williamsburg itself, from working waterfront to one of New York’s most visible neighborhoods
The Florentin Frankfurt: an urban retreat in Germany’s financial capital
In Frankfurt's financial landscape, The Florentin by Althoff Collection introduces a different pace: an inner courtyard, greenery, and a design that soothes. The culinary experience unfolds beneath a starry sky
Temple & Chapon: Phantom Relics in Neo-Gothic Flesh
Dining at Temple & Chapon unfolds as a neo-Gothic reverie in the Marais, where mid-century Manhattan grit meets ecclesiastical hush, turning every meal into a wanderer's relic-strewn pause
Preservation becomes creative reimagining at Rome’s Palazzo Talìa
The ancient Aqua Virgo aqueduct still flows beneath Palazzo Talìa: history and myth, cinema and architecture intersect in a Renaissance site restored to the city by the Federici family
Al Baretto Sant’Ambrogio, Speaking Milanese Without an Accent
Between Sant’Ambrogio and Tortona, Al Baretto plays the genius loci through French bistro allure and yacht-style interiors. The bar anchors the room, the kitchen stays visible – and a room...
Eriro Alpine Hide: a mountain refuge for travelers drawn to meaning and beauty
At Eriro Alpine Hide, the welcome is wool socks, not passwords: a high-altitude reset where no Wi-Fi and strong materials – larch, spruce, sheep’s wool – gently push travelers back...
In Munich, an urban hotel drawn to the edge of a botanical horizon
With its curving volume, The Charles Hotel extends the serenity of the Old Botanical Garden into the city’s fabric, pairing rational architecture with biophilic interiors
East Coast Makeover: BLESS’s Quiet Shift in Ibiza’s Hospitality Grammar
BLESS Hotel Ibiza reinterprets Cala Nova’s coastal landscape through monochrome contrasts, modular layouts and dense, curated vegetation
Craft, culture, and conservation: inside Jumeirah Capri Palace
A conversation with Ermanno Zanini, about reviving Jumeirah Capri Palace through the lens of design, contemporary art, and local craft
Island Hospitality Moves Within Ibiza’s Layered Identity
Mediterranean roots and contemporary experimentation: a journey through Ibiza with Island Hospitality, exploring three places where hospitality engages with the land and local community
The Hotel Breathing New Life into Furore, the Amalfi Coast’s Secret Hamlet
Furore Grand Hotel offers a renewed sense of belonging in an Amalfi Coast village long hidden from view — a minimalist design of white and light embraces local craftsmanship and...
Brach Paris casts future heritage through circular design in the capital’s greening west
From industrial bones to Bauhaus-meets-Surrealist alchemy, Philippe Starck turns the concrete shell at 1–7 rue Jean-Richepin into a political statement of circular design, complete with rooftop vegetables
Hôtel Balzac: design and architecture of intimacy in Paris
The renovation of Hôtel Balzac focuses on sustainability through the use of locally sourced materials, circular production methods, and a design prioritizing durability over appearance
Tappi rari, Locherber. Natural does not always mean good
Brigitte Bärlocher takes us through the history of the famiy and how natural does not always mean good: «What we do is find a balance between natural and chemical. We...
Carthusia, Capri. What does the most beautiful place in the world smell like?
Those who land on the island are dazzled by the light and surprised by the orography - but it is the perfumes that get you drunk. Carthusia fragrances encapsulate the...
The echo of Noucentisme and the profile of a changing Barcelona
Noucentisme broke from Gaudí’s Modernist curves, seeking more structured forms – from a 1920s urban vision to a 2024 revival: how Grand Hotel Central on Via Laietana reflects Barcelona’s ongoing...
Antinomie Bois Blanc Pudique: I contain multitudes
In a world obsessed with fixed identity, a Paris-based perfumery dares to embrace contradiction as a form of truth.
Anna Fendi, e quella F che sta per Famiglia
99 anni di Fendi: tra la solidità dell’immagine della famiglia, i cambi ai vertici aziendali e l’apertura di Montenapoleone: alcune parole di Anna Fendi
28 gennaio 2021-2024 – Giorgia Martone e una borsa di Studio
Coltivare il Futuro Olfattivo: Accademia del Profumo lancia la Borsa di Studio e Lavoro 2024 in onore di Giorgia Martone. Lampoon contribuisce al suo ricordo riproponendo un testo dell’Editore
Lorenzo Villoresi: materie prime e ispirazioni, tutto inizia con un Pot Pourri
Il Loto blu scoperto in Sri Lanka proietta Lorenzo Villoresi verso nuove sperimentazioni. Una conversazione sulla Maison, sull'industria dei profumi che cambia, sul valore delle materie prime che resta
Profumi: materie prime e chimica. Ambra Martone e l’industria Made in Italy
A metà tra il mondo chimico-farmaceutico e l’artistico-creativo, gli artigiani, i nasi e chi sa legare le migliaia di materie prime ad acqua e alcol. Intervista ad Ambra Martone, il...
Il profumo che ricorda l’incendio di Notre Dame de Paris è di Filippo Sorcinelli
Filippo Sorcinelli si racconta nel suo store Milano – dalla prima veste sacra per un amico a quelle per i papi Benedetto XVI e Francesco – fino al profumo ispirato...
Rituali pagani, medicina popolare e cosmesi esperienziale: la Sardegna di In Aéras
Alla Galleria Rossana Orlandi sarà presentata in anteprima la collaborazione tra In Aéras e il duo di designer e architetti Palomba Serafini per la Milano Design Week 2023
Ambre Chromatique, Maison Crivelli: Thibaud Crivelli introduces the Slow perfume
Thibaud Crivelli worked with the French perfumier Quentin Bisch to transform the memory of a night trek in a tropical forest into a fragrance – everything starts from a synesthesia
In a beauty salon, a twenty-six-year-old brush continues to do its job – Cim Mahony
Since 2014 hairstylist Cim Mahony has received a limited number of clients by appointment only at his salon, which he opened together with his wife Lotte Barnholdt in the center...
Profumeria e dati analitici: l’intelligenza artificiale potrà mai vincere la creatività umana?
Oltre a statistiche, sondaggi, ricerche, c’è l’intuito - approccio umano di Luca Maffei: la nuova sede di Atelier Fragranze Milano era un laboratorio di panificazione
Not cheesy anymore: the beauty industry is a matter of transparency and agriculture
Agroforestry, organic cultivation, and permaculture, techniques for preservation of local species: an introduction to Chanel’s open sky laboratories
Musings on porcelain. Ginori’s history and manufacturing facility. Between poetry and powder
From Ginori’s manufacturing facility, exploring the creation of an artisanal product between poetry and powder, and insects over errors
The overlay of six different shades of Musk, more about Musk complexity fragrance
The union of a single natural raw material such as musk together with wood, spices, fruits and flowers searches for three-dimensionality in the collection of fragrances
Quando una carta di credito parla di tutto, ma non di soldi
Le fragranze Priceless di Mastercard con ingredienti naturali da produttori locali, per un impatto positivo sull’ambiente. Interviene Monica Biagiotti, EVP Global Consumer Marketing and Sponsorship di Mastercard
Oud dal Medioriente per la profumeria artistica italiana
L’ingegneria di un profumo, dall’estrazione delle materie prime al marbling del flacone: Andrea Casotti sulla genesi di The house of Oud, tra Milano e Giacarta
A 55.55 carat diamond: the 100th anniversary of N°5 Chanel talking with Patrice Leguéreau
The Director of Chanel’s Fine Jewelry Creation Studio describes the journey that led him to Collection N°5 Grasse, its jasmine and May rose fields, and the pink, red and yellow...
Sana Jardin – perfumes from flower waste to give Berber women their own power
Sustainable production as a vehicle for social impact: for Sana Jardin, Berber and Amazigh women learn to upcycle floral waste. In conversation with Amy Christiansen
Fueguia 1833: tracciabilità nell’industria del profumo
La cultura, la storia e il territorio del Sud America imbottigliate in uno stabilimento a Milano, che investe in macchinari per l’estrazione delle molecole
Profumo, ritualità laica, percezioni: parla il naso Sileno Cheloni
La creazione di un profumo ‘su misura’ e la difficoltà nel tradurre le percezioni del singolo: «Essere un profumiere implica un servizio»
Carbon neutral e carbon negative: Giappone e Italia insieme
Materie prime naturali, carta riciclata ottenuta da bioscarti per le etichette, vetro riciclato per i flaconi: la cosmesi di WA:IT, in dialogo con la fondatrice Raffaella Grisa
