Inspirations.  

Flow

Dining Table "Flow" designed by Mario Gagliardi for Mario and Casa.

Gran Turismo

Lounge chair Gran Turismo, Design Mario Gagliardi for Mario and Casa.

expansion series

“Chaos and Catastrophe unbound, worlds formed thrust together, Colour and light rebounded, befor...

All the Colour Drained Away

On days that the wind blows hard the leaves all seem to align the same way, the clouds roll in and t...

Looking West

Glimpses at sunset, Snapshots of beauty, How deep the sea, Cliffs that soar away. Imaginings of the ...

Casa Sperimentale

One of the most visionary built experiments of 20th century architecture was created through the per...

Discs and Plates

Swirls of colour, lines, spots, imaginary layers of depth brought out into the light by transparency...

Gin is the Thing

While searching for inspiration for sculpture, a friend was talking about the ideal glass for drinki...

PYROLYSIS

Artwork Statement: "PYROLYSIS" What is it about fire? So attractive, So lovely, desirable, reaching ...

SCARABOOK

SCARABOOK is the combination of Scarabottolo and the English word book (but perhaps we ought to say ...

My calendar

I start to make it in 2000, the year in which the future has passed, at the request of Adriano Mei G...

71 views of the magic mountain

In the days of the first lockdown I started making these drawings, remotely inspired by Hokusai´s "...

on paper books and e-books

these drawings were made thinking about what is happening to the books through various titles of cla...

Marqueterie

A contemporary marqueterie effect for a combined side table/console with hidden drawers. © Mario Ga...

The Venice Pavillon

The Venice Pavillon interprets the history of Venice as a point of contact between West and East. Sh...

Alessandro Mendini 1931-2019

For Alchimia, design is a cyle: everything that will have to happen has already happened, and the im...

Digital Biology

Interior studies for public indoor spaces merging digital and biological environments. Wall modules ...

WRECK--Regeneration Experiment of Wasted Daily-use Ceramics from Chaozhou, China

WRECK, the destruction of decorum, the ruin of culture. BENTU went deep into daily-use ceramics indu...

Breathe

The determined breaths of a glassblower are seldom included in the finished product of their labour,...

Charles Tassin

Interior designer Charles Tassin has developed a very personal approach to decoration. Merging the s...

serpentine 2017

exhibition, schauspiel köln, cologne. steelobjects, ceramic reliefs.

BS1

temporary accessible sculpture.

We Ar

University of Sunderland MA Glass and Ceramics Show

Vico Magistretti

Vico Magistretti (1920 - 2006) studied in Lausanne and Milano. He was one of the main protagonists o...

Gaetano Pesce: Abstraction is boring

"Abstraction is boring and limited as a mode of expression. Reducing and reducing designs means that...

Chromatic seating

3 colorful seats by 3 Italian designers: Giancarlo Zema graduated from the Faculty of Architecture o...

Jeff Zimmerman

Jeff Zimmermann is a Chicago based artist. Born in Kentucky, Zimmerman spent his childhood among nat...

The art of improvising art

The recently abandoned administrative headquarters of Austrian Post, an imposing turn of the century...

Books of Memory: Gianpaolo Pagni

Gianpaolo Pagni creates unique, printed, painted or stamped books. His work focuses around memory an...

Memphis Posters

4 posters by the legendary Italian design collective Memphis Milano.

A Flat Named Desire

An inspirational collection of interior objects.

Just Before Paradise

“And just as we learn about our lives from others, so, too, do we let others shape our understandi...

Expression/Information

Painting is seen as a form of practice that—contrary to canonical accounts—in no way shies away ...

Total Automation

In The Promise of Total Automation, artists examine technology in its complexity. They point out our...

German Art since 1960

German ‘paragons of painting’ such as Georg Baselitz, Jörg Immendorff and Markus Lüpertz have ...

Joe Colombo: Total Furnishing Unit

The Total furnishing unit: Bathroom by Joe Colombo, Milano 1971.

Carlo Scarpa: Sketch and Work

There is hardly another architect of the 20th century in whose work the progression from sketch to c...

In Infinity

Yayoi Kusama’s unique imagery spring from the recurring hallucinations that have haunted her since...

E=C=L=I=P=S=E

Cerith Wyn Evans is a Welsh sculptor and filmmaker. He worked as an assistant to Derek Jarman, at th...

Struth: Nature & Politics

Thomas Struth´s work shows us highly complex equipment, structures and constructions. His pictures ...

In Orbit

"When I look at these complex layers of translucent lines and spheres, I am reminded of models of th...

Sislej Xhafa

Sislej Xhafa has furnished the waiting room of a police station in Gent like a grand palace. He pres...

Future Architecture

Future Architecture Platform is a European program which promotes talents in architecture. Future A...

Superstudio, Superproduction, Superconsumption

Superarchitecture is the architecture of superproduction, of superconsumption, of superinduction to ...

Heartbeat, Heartseat

Heartbeat consists of a massive heart glowing to the rhythm of a strong, deep and low frequency hear...

L’ITALIA CI GUARDIA

On the occasion of the 70th anniversary of the birth of the Italian Republic, 40 masters of photogra...

Francois Morellet 1926 - 2016

Since he first began making work in the 1950s, Morellet has been engaged in creating work which has ...

20th Century Italian Tables

A collection of 20th century Italian table designs.

BASILE ARTECO "Monoblocco" design Donata Paruccini

pen-holder design Donata Paruccini

BASILE ARTECO

BASILE ARTECO EDIZIONI logo

BASILE ARTECO "Falce/Scythe" design anonimo

Design Anonimo, Scythe in forged iron handmade in Italy in the occasion of the exhibition of the "FE...

BASILE ARTECO "Ferro/A" design Enzo Mari

DESIGN ENZO MARI: Forged iron fruit-bowl Limited Edition of 4, numbered and signed by the Author Enz...

BASILE ARTECO "Ferro/B" design Enzo Mari

DESIGN ENZO MARI: Forged iron fruit-bowl, Limited Edition of 6 numberd and signed by the Author Enzo...

BASILE ARTECO "Ferro/C" design Enzo Mari

DESIGN ENZO MARI: Forged iron and Murano Glass Vase, limited Edition of 4 signed and numbered by the...

BASILE ARTECO "L´Utopia" design Enzo Mari

ENZO MARI: Original hand written script on paper for Vincenzo Basile exhibition "Ferri Forgiati" Gal...

BASILE ARTECO "Monoblocco/L" design Donata Paruccini

DESIGN DONATA PARUCCINI: pen holder

BASILE ARTECO "Coquetier" design Paolo Ulian

DESIGN PAOLO ULIAN: egg-holder

Amor Vacui

Domink von Moos, born 1990, studied architecture at ETH Zurich.

Carreaux

Turn of the century tile and mosaic samples from the Societe Generale de Carrelages in Paris.

DADAMAINO

“I have always loathed the material and have always sought the immaterial” Dadamaino (Emilia Edo...

Sketching: Bellini, Castiglioni, Colombo, Mari, Magistretti, Munari, Ponti, Sottsass

The essence of a classic design is best seen in its very first sketch. A unique selection of sketche...

AG Frozoni: We need to aim at essential things

“We need to aim at essential things, to remove every redundant effects, every useless flowering, t...

Andrea Guccini: 4A+1

Andrea Guccini, born in Bologna in 1993, studied at the IED in Milan. He is living and working betw...

A+A Cooren

A+A Cooren is a Paris-based French-Japanese design studio founded in 1999 and run by husband and wif...

Radiofonografo RR126

The Brionvega RR126, designed by Pier Giacomo and Achille Castiglioni in 1965, was a remarkable inno...

George Sowden

George Sowden studied architecture at Gloucester College of Art. From 1970 he lived in Milan, workin...

Serge Mouille

Serge Mouille (1922-1988) studied under Gilbert Lacroix at the École des Arts Appliqués in Paris. ...

Damien Coupeté images

paintings

Angelo Mangiarotti

Angelo Mangiarotti was born in Milano in 1921. He graduated in Architecture in 1948 at Politecnico d...

Carlo Mollino: Tables and Chairs

Carlo Mollino (1905 - 1973) studied art history at the University of Ghent and architecture at the U...