Turin is a city of profound cultural contradictions. Its bourgeois image, understated and unassuming, has always concealed an underground world of innovation and originality, a soul that rebels against the gray and beige facades of its buildings. Thus, bourgeois Turin has always nurtured a cultural ferment that over time has given rise to creative and […]
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In the realm of woodcraft, one encounters a masterful figure who seamlessly marries the traditions of Turin’s cabinet-making heritage with a contemporary artistic vision – Ivan Paradisi.He is the natural heir to the legacy of Turin’s ebonist tradition, a crown ideally passed down from the legendary Pietro Piffetti, the wood virtuoso of yesteryears. Today, Paradisi
CABINET MAESTRO – Ivan Paradisi’s harmonious creations in wood and music. Read More »
In the world of supercars, where innovation is the lifeblood and aesthetics are paramount, the unlikeliest of sources can become a wellspring of inspiration. A recent Instagram post has shone a light on the remarkable confluence of art and automotive design. It’s evident that the Mercedes-Benz AMG Design Team has drawn inspiration from Shalemar Sharbatly’s
Shalemar Sharbatly: the unaware muse for Mercedes AMG GT Coupé’s Striking Design? Read More »
What makes a classic? The inherent quality of telling something new and relevant across time. Add technology and the quest for speed, and you get a true classic car; nobody has interpreted this formula better than Ettore Bugatti, the Italian car genius of a family trio of creative masters, with the designer Carlo and the
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With the Bentley Bentayga Hybrid. Bentley was once famously accused of building the world’s fastest trucks, by Ettore Bugatti of all people who, at times, was also a manufacturer of large and fast cars like the 6.4 metre, 12.7 litre Bugatti Royale. That seems rather unfair. Bentleys may be large (the Bentayga SUV is over
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In the moment of his final goodbye, Force One pays tribute to one of the most sophisticated fashion designer of the golden age. What follows is the interview we made in 2017. A brand steeped in history and tradition, a world made not simply of apparel, but of lifestyle, celebrated for the prestige and sophistication
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Milano Unica for Spring Summer 2023 restarts from the most representative place of a holiday: the hotel. A Resort called “Mu Hotel”, a symbolic expression of the need for a “re-departure” to distant destinations and an attitude towards life that leads to embrace a new style of “Resort Wear”. A true rewriting of the aesthetic
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Poised between art and design, but between different cultures as well, intersecting to breathe life into a new concept of style, Nina Yashar is a patron of beauty celebrating new talent on the international art scene. In Nina Yashar’s hands, the specific language of each individual object transforms into a blazing arrow in the firmament
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There is something quite super-human about the ability to draw. Especially if that ability makes it hard to determine whether it’s an illustration or a photograph. With realism as his super power, award-winning illustrator Mike Thompson has found some of the most powerful characters in the universe at the end of his pen; with commissions
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Through its manifesto, Pineider shows how time can be sung by a chorus of whispering pens, on reams of luxurious paper. The space we dedicate to handwriting in our everyday lives has increased enormously during the course of this strange pandemic, bringing us back somehow to our origins through the use of pen and paper.
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