area 109 – art and architecture

          presentazione/introduction around food: ovvero tutto il design che ruota intorno al cibo testo Marco Casamonti dialoghi/dialogues il linguaggio figurato dei sapori la visione dello chef…

13 April 2010 The story of an exploration of taste, inspired by the suggestions of Oliviero Toscani, which touches on the products of Paolo Parisi and the instruments chosen by…

the vision of Massimiliano Alajmo Belonging to an ancient family of restaurateur from Veneto, after having graduated, in 1990  he deepened his experience in different restaurants in Italy and abroad….

the vision of Massimo Bottura After training in New York in 1995 Massimo Bottura opened the Osteria Francescana that becomes a unique experiment in Emilia. In 2000, the Catalan chef…

the vision of Paolo Lopriore Paolo Lopriore is chef of the Il Canto restaurant in the Hotel Certosa di Maggiano in Siena. A warm and welcoming place, rich in history…

the vision of Davide Scabin Davide Scabin’s Combal.zero creator. All times and rhytms about food making are stictly calculated with attention and detail’s care. He also increased the value of…

thoughts and suggestions of 5.5 designers 5.5 designers is a design studio started up in 2003 by Vincent Baranger, Jean-Sébastien Blanc, Anthony Lebossé, and Claire Renard. Far from focusing only…

thoughts and suggestions by Massimo Iosa Ghini Born in 1959. Since 1985, he has been part of the avant-garde design movements in Italy, like Bolidismo which he founded, and also…

thoughts and suggestions by Matteo Thun We need less weight and more light. We need products that tell ideas without words. Products that are mobile because contemporary lives are nomadic….

the interpretation of Alessi company a dialogue with Alberto Alessi, owner of Alessi firm Alessi founded in 1921 are still considered as being handicraft items made with the aid of…

People who follow the evolution of fine tableware and the history of design spontaneously link the name of Rosenthal with the production of porcelain, as well as glassware, cutlery and…

the interpretation of Bulthaup dialogue with Barbara Manganaro, Country Manager for bulthaup Italy bulthaup is shaped by the passion of being ahead of its time and by the will of…

the interpretation of Angelo Po dialogue with Rossella Po owner of Angelo Po factory Angelo Po started out producing cooking stoves, and it was in this sector in particular that…

Samba spice shakers combine functionality and playful elegance. Samba pays homage to the magic of South American rhythm, passion and sensuality – its design being inspired by the principle of…

The Landscape concept table designed by Patricia Urquiola for Rosenthal in 2008 now vaunts new contents: the Shibori decoration. As in Landscape, also in the new decorated version the designer…

Papyrus by Rosenthal Studio-Line is the result of countless creative experiments conducted by the Rosenthal creativity department and the Italian designer Vittorio Passaro. It all began with a paper roll….

The novelty launched in 2009 and presented at Macef Spring is the new ‘Accento’ cutlery set, result of a collaboration between Serafino Zani and  Konstantin Grcic. All superfluous decoration has…

The Tablée cutlery vaunts an impeccable combination of style and nature; it is disposable but completely natural, perfect to the palate, the eye and the hand. Made in natural wood,…

Sambonet has enriched its homonymous collection of professional pots with a range of kitchen utensils, “Tools Kikka” in stainless steel. Seven different utensils ranging from skimmers to spoons for various…

‘Meal tray’ is a ‘formality-free’ object used at places where they need to minimize leftover food, and make meal hour fast and simple such as prison or school etc. We…

“There is no love sincerer than the love of food”. (G.B. Shaw) Relishing food implies an intense, high-level cultural experience: sensing that a natural, primitive substance can be magically transformed…

Could we understand the role or value of Leon Battista Alberti, Brunelleschi, Raffaello, Michelangelo – and the list could certainly go on – by choosing, among their different works, the…

Designed by the Japanese architectural practice SANAA, led by Kazuyo Sejima and Ryue Nishizawa, the Rolex Learning Center is a highly experimental building, designed for new ways of study and…

The building has been subdivided into three blocks, according to the relative structural joints of dilatation. The first block is the Auditorium, the second is the car park, while the…

The VitraHaus project combines two recurrent themes in the work of Herzog & de Meuron: the archetypal house and elements stacked on top of one another. Given the project requested,…

MAXXI Multiple museum MAXXI – Museum of the arts of the XXI century – is the result of ideas and reflections which have developed in the last years of the…

The Atacama Desert museum is located at the foot of the Huanchaca Ruins, South of Antofagasta in North Chile. Inside the museum there are 5 rooms to house the permanent…

Stuck between land and water, along a strip of terrain under permanent change as times went by, human intervention has grounded its most varied settlements. From the 17th Century onwards…

The new Fundación Vila Casas museum is located in the 22@ District, an area where Barcelona City Hall has promoted a full redevelopment of a former factory/heavy industry zone by…

MAD’s design for the Urbanism\Architecture Shenzhen & Hongkong Bi-city Biennale, the Monster’s Footprint debuted in the Citizen Square of Shenzhen. It is a sunken space shade of a giant footprint,…

Marco Casamonti: Oliviero Toscani has, together with the youths of Sterpaia, realized a photo reportage on the opening of the auditorium of Ravello, designed by Brazilian architect Oscar Niemeyer, a…

Paradoxical green Lawn is a visual substitute for soil and mud in an urban environment. It is an all-purpose hatching in urban designer’s / planner’s large-scale master plan drawings. But…

A.A.M. The non-secret archive of Francesco Moschini. None shall sleep. “One of the problems of cultural life is that of establishing a contact between art and public. Considering this to…

School of American Ballet, New York, 2006 – photo by Iwan Baan Rome, November 7th 2009 Guido Incerti: We already know that if we were to ask you whether you…

Architectural Sculpture Cristina Iglesias belongs to a generation of artists who, far from simplified ideological prejudices, has not directly experienced the clear disciplinary separation between art and architecture. On the…

Untitled (Sheats-Goldstein House, #14), 2007.  All photos courtesy of Studio Guenzani, Milano; Thomas Dane, London; Luhring Augustine, New York; Marc Foxx, Los Angeles; Galeria Luisa Strina, Sao Paulo; Gallery Koyanagi,…

In theater there is nothing more powerful than the space. Today, when movies, television, computer – all flat projections on the screen – are dominating our visual world, theatre uniquely…

Bob Noorda. The Measure of Signage Many of the images that characterized Italy’s passage from wartime and gave a recognizable face to its reconstruction and economic boom were the work…