Makers
Osvaldo Borsani, Varedo
Osvaldo Borsani grew up in his father's cabinetmaking workshop in Varedo, worked with Lucio Fontana, then founded Tecno. Few designers have crossed so completely from the hand-made to the industrial.
Osvaldo Borsani, Varedo
Osvaldo Borsani grew up in his father's cabinetmaking workshop in Varedo, worked with Lucio Fontana, then founded Tecno. Few designers have crossed so completely from the hand-made to the industrial.
Gio Ponti, Milan
Architect, editor, and designer of everything from a skyscraper to a coffee spoon. Gio Ponti spent sixty years arguing that a well-made object and a well-made building were the same...
Gio Ponti, Milan
Architect, editor, and designer of everything from a skyscraper to a coffee spoon. Gio Ponti spent sixty years arguing that a well-made object and a well-made building were the same...
Carlo Scarpa, Venice
Carlo Scarpa never held a licence to practise architecture, yet became one of the most revered architects of the twentieth century. Before the buildings came the glass - fifteen years...
Carlo Scarpa, Venice
Carlo Scarpa never held a licence to practise architecture, yet became one of the most revered architects of the twentieth century. Before the buildings came the glass - fifteen years...
Our man in Marrakech
An afternoon in Marrakech with Musti, our rug dealer, among thousands of handwoven rugs. No two alike, each one woven as a kind of prayer, and a conversation about vanishing...
Our man in Marrakech
An afternoon in Marrakech with Musti, our rug dealer, among thousands of handwoven rugs. No two alike, each one woven as a kind of prayer, and a conversation about vanishing...
A visit to NasonMoretti, Murano
NasonMoretti has thirty greens. Not thirty shades mixed from one, but thirty separate recipes, each worked out at the furnace and kept, so that a green made this morning matches...
A visit to NasonMoretti, Murano
NasonMoretti has thirty greens. Not thirty shades mixed from one, but thirty separate recipes, each worked out at the furnace and kept, so that a green made this morning matches...
Bridie Hall, London
In eighteenth-century Rome, one of the most popular things to bring home from the Grand Tour fitted in a drawer. Bridie Hall has never taken the Grand Tour. That is...
Bridie Hall, London
In eighteenth-century Rome, one of the most popular things to bring home from the Grand Tour fitted in a drawer. Bridie Hall has never taken the Grand Tour. That is...