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 …
Mario Bellini is one of the figures who best demonstrates how Italian design in the second half of the twentieth century was able to operate across very different scales. Born in Milan in 1935 and trained as an architect, he designed electronic calculators, audio equipment, seating, modular systems, museums, exhibition centres and major public buildings. …
Angelo Mangiarotti (Milan, 1921–2012) was an architect, designer, sculptor and developer of construction systems. To understand his work properly, it is useful to begin with a concrete principle: form, structure and material should share a common logic. In his prefabricated buildings as much as in his marble tables, design often begins with the way two …
Lecce is a city where architecture seems to emerge directly from the light. A warm, ever-changing light, capable of penetrating stone and returning it different every time: golden in the morning hours, almost white under the harsh sun, softer and pinkish at sunset. Here, matter is not merely a structural element, but becomes memory, language, …
