characters – Starfinancer

Equipped wall at Gio Ponti for Jeometrica by Scavolini

Maybe because he was born and raised in Murano, a small island in the Venetian lagoon where you can witness the magic of seeing a drawing become an object is your daily bread. But exploration into the design world of Luca Nichetto it is so lively that it touches all sectors, from industrial to interior…

The sense of Wieki Somers for the joy of the senses

They met at the end of the nineties in the school desks of the Design Academy in Eindhoven, and have never left each other since. I am Wieki Somers, born in 1976 in Sprang-Capelle, in the Netherlands, and Dylan van den Berg, born in 1971, originally from Eindhoven. Partners in life and in business, in…

Libeskind: I play chess with light and shadow

Author of numerous architectural works, from the Jewish Museum in Berlin to the urban restructuring project of the area destroyed by the attacks of 11 September 2001, the Ground Zero in New York, Daniel Libeskind certainly needs no introduction. Although the public knows him above all for his emblematic buildings, he expresses his creative flair…

Paolo Casati presents Fuorisalone.it and reveals: “Soon a collaboration with the Salone del mobile”

The Fuorisalone. To tell and communicate the subjects and events is a platform created with the ultimate goal of understanding the shared needs in order to continue to think of Milan as the capital of design. It is about Fuorisalone.ita project that was born on the school desks, as he tells us Paolo Casati, creative…

Citterio: “My metropolitan sofa”

In a community as small as that of design, new collaborations always have a background and precedents. Like that of Antonio Citterio with Cassina. «I’m from Meda, where Cassina is based», he says, «I knew Cesare Cassina, and even better Franco Cassina. I had the opportunity to collaborate with C&B, Cassina & Busnelli, but when…