As always, the recently concluded 2009 edition of the Milano Design Week saw numerous exercises in style and many attractive proposals conforming with the new canons of the third millennium (environmentally correct and innovative in [...]
The image that symbolises the eightieth Villa D’Este Concours held at the end of April 2009 is the prize awarded to the historic Alfa Romeo 8C 2900 B, a vehicle based on the mechanicals of [...]
For many years, pedal power has represented a real alternative to the motor car in northern Europe, and interest in the bicycle is now growing rapidly in other countries, too, as it is a sustainable [...]
Created between the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, when the city became a place for a pleasant stroll and a landscape open to the citizen, the park bench offered a vantage point from which to admire [...]
This year, Alfredo Häberli proposes a kitchen perceived as something to taste, something to smell. An invitation to the senses, if you will, of taste and smell, but also a stimulus for our ‘involuntary’ memory, [...]
It is nothing short of a tragedy – a devastating loss for the family and a staggering blow to the illustrious coachbuilding dynasty. This is a trauma for the entire company, which was already [...]
Just when you thought that everything which could be designed already has been, from Thonet chairs to Le Corbusier-esque chair-machines and from Gio Ponti type reinterpretations of the traditional chair to more recent studies developed [...]
Based on the mechanicals of the Maserati Coupé Gran Sport, the A8GCS Berlinetta is a style model built to a design by the director of the Touring style centre, the Belgian Louis de Fabribecker. The [...]
Thirty years in thirty days. Idea Institute celebrated its thirtieth anniversary with the public unveiling of the new pure two-seater Era concept, which was created in just 30 days. Founded by Franco Mantegazza in 1978, [...]
White though it is, his hair is just as thick as ever and, although a little portlier around the waist, the man has retained the same distinctive charm and elegance. Forty years after the first [...]