Color capping is a colour technique that organises walls, mouldings and ceilings through tonal variations of the same colour, rather than treating the ceiling as a separate white surface. The most recognisable configuration today begins with relatively light walls, intensifies the colour on cornices or across the upper section of the room, and finishes with …
Marco Zanuso is a key figure for understanding how post-war Italian design transformed technical innovation into a culture of design. Architect, designer, theorist and lecturer, he worked across very different scales: from Olivetti factories to Arflex upholstered furniture, from Kartell plastics to Brionvega televisions and radios designed with Richard Sapper. The common thread is not …
Modern Mediterranean style interprets light, materiality and the relationship with the outdoors without turning the home into a holiday-house set. There is no single “Mediterranean interior”: Mallorca, the Cyclades, Sicily, the Levant and North Africa have different building traditions and material cultures. Yet the most convincing contemporary projects share several principles: mineral surfaces, stone and …
Modern cement tiles work in contemporary interiors when they are treated as a genuine design surface rather than a shortcut to creating a vintage atmosphere. The result depends on material, pattern scale, colour palette, the amount of surface covered and the relationship with the other elements in the room. The first distinction is technical: an …
