area 127+ colour in design

Any creative act, project, artistic discipline or, more simply, any product of human activities provokes sensations or sentiments that interfere with our senses, stimulating them and rousing us from indifference….

“The way we experience colour is a question of culture. Just as senses and perception are linked to memories and identification, our relationship with colour is solidly rooted in our…

Marco Casamonti: Oikos is synonymous with color and materials for architecture, topic to which this special issue of Area 127+ is devoted. How do these two elements get along together and…

Moroso leather system. Photo by Valentina Muscedra Marco Casamonti: When we look at the Moroso materials, from the leathers to the fabrics, we see that they are not random choices,…

The free standing ceramic washbasin, Le Giare collection, special colored for the Antinori Winery. Designed by Claudio Silvestrin. Photo by Valentina Muscedra. Marco Casamonti: At a time when ceramic for the…

Laura Andreini: Area è una rivista specializzata in architettura e arti del progetto e ogni anno, per il Salone del Mobile, dedica un numero al design ma anche a tematiche…

Katia Carlucci: Are you a painter, an architect or a stylist? Michele Chiocciolini: Painting introduces you to your soul, shows you fragments of intimate architecture; architecture is the shape of…

What is your favourite colour? What colour does your projects identify with the most? Gaudy, rainbow, gradients, pastel colours, bright colours, neon colours but also nice earthy tones.Often we prefer…

What is your favourite colour? What color does your products identify with the most? We have no favourite colour. Every product or space has it’s own quality and therefore we…

Do-Lo-Rez is a union of two pieces, rug and sofa, conceived as a single element: Sofa by Moroso and Rug by Nanimarquina Level(s) in Tandem The Do-Lo-Rez collection, designed by…

What is your favourite colour? What colour does your products identify with the most? The essential idea of the HÅG SoFi design project was to create a shape that could…

Qual è il tuo colore preferito? E quale quello che identifica di più i tuoi progetti? Io non ne farei una questione di colore preferito in senso assoluto, quanto quale…

What is your favourite colour? What color does your products identify with the most? My favourite colour is one of those that it is hardest to use efficiently in the…

What is your favourite colour? What color does your products identify with the most? Red is clearly my favorite color. I try to work with affirmed and joyous colors. I love…

What is your favourite color? What color does your products identify with the most? It depends on my mood and the situation it is used. For myself I like dark…

Røros Tweed are known for heavy duty blankets, woven from Norwegian wool in a nordic modern design.  Photo by Espen Grønli Knut What is your favourite colour? What colour does…

The Pla collection arose from the desire to create a collection of colourful and versatile crockery and cutlery, whilst seeking a valid alternative to the use of plastic. Pla is produced…

The Woods is the second collaboration between the Norwegian design studios StokkeAustad and Andreas Engesvik, Oslo. The inspiration was found in the forests and the lights of the North. A…

“The kitchen is the room in the house where people spend the most time, and more than ever it is the featured area In contemporary architecture, the part of the…

The “Geo Metrica” collection of centerpiece retrieves the graphic signs of Artias, star of French culture in the last century, a friend of Picasso who, after having adorned numerous awards…

What is your favourite colour? What color does your products identify with the most? My favourite colour is green, I like all its nuances; they make me feel serene when…

“Blue pill or red pill?” The Matrix (1999) The concept of utility is gradually becoming more and more nebulous among the objects that surround us. What we now demand of…

What is your favourite colour? What colour does your products identify with the most? We don’t have a favourite color but the green that we used in our first project…

March 1, 2013: Swatch celebrates 30 years.The new Summer 2013 Collection is a feast for the eyes and emotion for the heart. Swatch confirms its style with a wide variety…

          presentazione/introduction Identity of the landscape: less aestethic more ethics text by Marco Casamonti editoriale/editorial Landscape infrastructures text by Stan Allen letture critiche/critical lectures On landscape and…

Archea Associati, Antinori Winery – photo by Pietro Savorelli Among the many Venice Biennials that have been held there are two, more than twenty years apart, whose messages, expressed in…

From the biological to the geological. If mere survival, mere continuance, is of interest, then the harder sorts of rocks, such as granite, have to be put at the top…

I had a dream. When I dream, and I often do, I sometimes decide to fly: it is always a matter of a low flight, topographic, almost like an induced…

ETAR de Alcântara, Lisbon, Portugal (2005-2011). Photo by Diogo Bento A lot has already been written on landscape design, and one often runs the risk of suggesting and accepting simplistic…

Located in the desert-like landscape of New Mexico, Spaceport is the first building of its kind in the world. Its design aims to articulate the thrill of space travel for…

It is therefore clear that the project could not be understood as the construction of a new headquarters or the realization of a new Palazzo Antinori or a new brick…

At some point in the life, not only professional, of an architect he or she will encounter places in relation to which not only the initial reaction, but also the…

The ground surface, the horizontal platform upon which most of our movements in the city occur, is very rarely the generating argument or the spatial support of a project. Perhaps…

The new building adjoins the garden wing completed at the start of the 20th century and itself the first extension of the original museum building, which was built on Frankfurt’s Schaumainkai in…

The project for Pythagoras Museum and Gardens is the result of the international design competition held by Crotone Council with funding from the European Community in its role of encouraging…

The refurbishment and extension of Lycee Marcel Sembat (high school), with its urban location and complex programme, is a combination of architecture and town planning. In close proximity to a forest…

Long, soft curves between the distant valleys of an archaic and mysterious central Italy. Forests with chestnuts and larches and – suddenly – outside the gorges, anticipated by fragments of…

“We shall not cease from exploration And the end of all our exploring Will be to arrive where we started And know the place for the first time.” T.S.Elliot It…

Simple Truth. In the last few decades we have, in contemporary architectural design, been witnessing a brilliant and ongoing hybridizing of the traditional bond between the built form and its…

The building is located on the outskirts of Loja town in marked agricultural character. This project relates to a beautiful plot of cultivated land served by an irrigation ditch and…

A retirement home for a couple of philosophers. In the old days in Peru the selection of the site for a specific Inca building (use) was the most important action…

Shouldn’t it be possible to conceal a house in an Alpine slope while still exploiting the wonderful views and allowing light to enter the building? Surprised that it was permissible…

The design of the house is a dual response to the particular topography of the site and to the rural domestication techniques that in the past shaped the raw ‘Cycladic…

Voronoi’s Corrals is a project located in an isolated natural setting with an area of 60,000 sqm. The overall design strategy was to segregate the rural areas of the landscape…

Fattoria di Celle, one of the most interesting centres of contemporary environmental art in the world, opened to the public for the first time on 12 June 1982. The park…