The architect Mario Bellini is one of Italy’s greatest designers, with a 40-year career of industrial design behind him. Over the years, he has worked for the highest profile corporations, winning several well-deserved Compasso d’Oro [...]
From design “by and for the few” to design applied in every imaginable sector. That is the fundamental difference between the first and the twentieth edition of the ADI Compasso d’Oro, a difference made clear [...]
This issue's Industrial Design section is devoted to a couple of sectors that have proved their ability to move with the times and adapt to evolving functional demands on them. The first of these is [...]
Colour, transparency, as well as a great deal of black and white, revisitations of classic models and sophisticated decorations: the latest proof of the closing gap between design and fashion. These were the main trends [...]
Espresso machines, artefacts that are exquisitely Italian in function and in design and the star designers who transformed them into works of art. Alberto Bassi reports on key moments in their history, as well as [...]
Alberto Bassi traccia un ritratto di Antonio Citterio, architetto italiano di spicco che da tempo firma progetti per alcune delle maggiori industrie dell’arredamento internazionale, tra cui Kartell, Flos, Arclinea, Ansorg. Dalla formazione sul campo a [...]
Per realizzare un bagno - impresa già di per sé ardua - non basta più scegliere fra i diversi modelli di lavabo, water, bidet, vasca, rubinetterie, accessori. Perché il bagno non è più solo il [...]
The 2003 edition of the Milan Furniture Fair could hardly have opened at a gloomier time (Iraq War, Sars epidemic, economic downturn). Even so, a few days before it ended, the organisers, Cosmit were calling [...]
Alessi will never settle for creating "things which have become so much a part of our everyday lives that we hardly even notice them any more; that just fade into a neutral and tranquillising domestic [...]
The Design Award that bears its name is one of the most eagerly awaited events at Smau, Italy's biggest Information and Communication Technology Fair. Now in its 35th edition, the Smau Industrial Design Award aims [...]