Vico Magistretti is one of the designers who best illustrates Italian design's ability to transform very simple ideas into objects of remarkable effectiveness, durability and recognisability. An architect before becoming a designer, he approached houses, public buildings, furniture and lighting with the same attitude: reducing a project to a strong, understandable and technically coherent concept. …
Warm minimalism retains the order, simplicity and visual control typical of minimalist interiors, while replacing a cold, impersonal feeling with tactile materials, warm colours, soft lighting and furniture chosen with greater attention to comfort. In 2026, the concept continues to be widely used by the international interior design press to describe restrained yet materially rich …
Joe Colombo transformed furniture into a tool for imagining how domestic life could change. Between the 1960s and the beginning of the 1970s, he designed enveloping armchairs, modular seating, mobile kitchens, storage units on wheels and complete living systems capable of adapting to the user's changing needs. Elda, Minikitchen, Universale, Tube Chair, Boby and Total …
Travertine in interior design is now used far beyond the classic beige floor: it covers walls, bathrooms and kitchen volumes, but also becomes tables, consoles, washbasins and sculptural elements. Its identity depends on genuine characteristics of the stone — stratification, natural cavities, colour, cutting direction and finish — which can produce very different surfaces. Vein …
