At the Galleria Nazionale d’Arte Moderna e Contemporanea, design enters the scene as an architecture of experience. Through iconic seating, luminous atmospheres, and new strategies of cultural branding, art becomes an environment, while the visitor becomes the protagonist of a contemporary aesthetic way of inhabiting space. Design as an infrastructure of vision At the Galleria …
Why handmade ceramics still fascinates us (and more and more) There are materials that never stop talking. Even when the world is moving towards total dematerialisation, even when everything seems fluid, smooth, polished by algorithms and 3D rendering, artisanal ceramics remains there, reminding us that beauty comes from fire, from earth, from hands. It is …
There are objects that do not simply perform a function: they tell a story, express a thought, mark an era. Italian design has always been an inexhaustible source of brilliant ideas, functional beauty and intelligent provocations. Some projects, born from visionary minds and artisan hands, have become famous design objects all over the world , …
The moka is a stovetop coffee maker that prepares coffee by letting hot water rise, pushed by steam pressure, through a ground coffee filter. The model that has defined the collective imagination is the Moka Express , invented in 1933 by Alfonso Bialetti : an octagonal shape, in aluminium, designed to bring the ritual of …
