Clocking Off: Lève Office Bar in Turin by Fabio Fantolino.Once upon a time, the office borrowed its warmth from hospitality and home. Now the favour's being returned. With Lève Office Bar in central Turin, architect Fabio Fantolino raids the 1960s workplace for its chrome, stainless steel,...
Touched With the Eyes: SensiTerre Surface Collection by Matteo Thun for Florim.The latest chapter in Florim and Matteo Thun's long collaboration, SensiTerre reimagines the world of clays as warm, tactile porcelain. Born from the tenth anniversary of the handcrafted Venere Bianca vases, it offers six earthy colours...
A House That Doubles as a Museum: Lazzarini Pickering’s Casa Museo in Milan.Casa Museo is Lazzarini Pickering's latest: a Milan silversmiths' workshop reworked into a home that's also a gallery. Twin staircases, a conversation-pit-turned-cavea, a hidden vault and a dark pool—built for collectors Ettore Molinario...
Quiet Endurance: Vincent Van Duysen’s Cousy Turns Twenty.Vincent Van Duysen's Cousy for Arflex resolves a familiar tension with ease: architectural lines establish order while generous cushions soften every edge. Conceived in 2006 as a complete seating system—sofas, armchair, chaise lounge and...
Ninety Years In, Bonaldo’s Latest Collection Asks What Furniture Can Do to a Room.Founded in 1936 as a small metalworking workshop in the Veneto, Bonaldo has spent nine decades building furniture that treats objects as active participants in shaping how a space feels and functions. Now in its ninetieth year under...
Done and Undone: Industrial Warehouse Transformed into a Sartorial HQ in Tuscia.When Italian accessories designer Benedetta Bruzziches outgrew her garage, she acquired an industrial warehouse on the edge of Viterbo. Deltastudio's conversion into a 1,600sqm headquarters, workshop, and personal atelier is a study in...
This Milan Beauty Studio Proves the Clinical Wellness Space Is Officially Over.Wellness spaces are finally catching up with hospitality and residential design, and RedDuo's beauty studio in Milan is a sharp example. Custom furnishings, Alpi wood, a vanilla-and-chocolate colour story, and collaborations with Kerakoll,...
Margherita Rui’s Symbolic Clay Installation Transforms Teatro dei Ragazzi in Torino.Margherita Rui has transformed the Teatro dei Ragazzi e dei Giovani foyer for Turin's tennis finals with an installation that speaks through archetypal symbols. The work honours Gea, the primordial mother of Greek mythology, using modular...
Studio Latino’s Gutsy Design Layered Over 1970s Bones in Milan.Studio Latino has transformed an 80-square-metre apartment in Milan's buzzing Nolo, where the deep blue kitchen reads like a piece of statement furniture, anchoring the open-plan space with colour and character. Rather than concealing the...
