Opening on 21 April at London’s Victoria & Albert Museum is the exhibition “Fashioned from nature”, a medley of clothes and jewellery inspired by nature or created with natural materials … Read more about Fashion inspired by nature
Archives for April 2018
Typologies
The overriding trend at the 2018 Salone del Mobile is the reappearance of furniture typologies: no more wall-units devised to contain everything, but cupboards, chests of drawers, sideboards and writing-desks, designed for specific functions. … Read more about Typologies
Methacrylate embroidery
As usual, Jacopo Foggini, the artist who invented a brand-new procedure for extruding methacrylate (the type used for car reflectors), … Read more about Methacrylate embroidery
Martinelli Luce icons
In 2018 the Tuscan lighting firm Martinelli Luce celebrates the fiftieth birthday of the Cobra table lamp designed by Elio Martinelli … Read more about Martinelli Luce icons