Stories The design, photography, architecture and cookery books of the year Add to bookmarks Lucy Styles, Home Sweet Home, YAP Rome at MAXXI 2020. Credit: Valentina Vannicola, Courtesy of MAXXI. Buone Nuove exhibition, on show until 11th September 2022 What do we at the Salone del Mobile.Milano read? A selection of reviews published over the last few months in one of our best-loved columns: BOOK CLUB Vertical Living. Compact Architecture for Urban Spaces Architects conquer the urban space in the book Vertical Living. The housing crisis in increasingly densely populated cities has led to some surprising solutions, generating new volumes despite the limitations. With an eye to sustainability, what’s more. Sim Plex Design Studio, Photo by Patrick Lam, Vertical Living, gestalten 2021 Silicon Valley. No_Code Life. Silicon Valley, a region narrated through the words and images of the photographer Ramak Fazel. One hundred and twenty eight images trace the inside story of one of the most secret places in the world. The latest step in Tod’s No Code project, assigned to an anthropologist with a camera slung round his neck. Poliform: Time, Light, Space Poliform and Paolo Roversi, beating new paths together. Starting from this book. Looking through the eyes of others. To celebrate its 50th anniversary, the legendary Brianza-based company gifts itself a photographic book by one of the masters of fashion. Frame da video di Federico Floriani Mid-Century Modernism and the American Body. Race, Gender and the Politics of Power in Design The Illusion of the perfect life. This book investigates what lies behind American Mid-Century Modernism’s aesthetic seduction. Hilda Longinotti of the George Nelson Office, posing on a Marshmallow Sofa, c. 1956. Courtesy of Herman Miller Archives. + - 160 Let Years. The origin and expansion of bentwood furniture from Bystřice pod Hostýnem Like a family album: 160 years of TON and bentwood furniture. In a book that is as atypical as it is enjoyable, the theorist and design curator Adam Štěch tells the story of TON, the Czech company that has been making its mark on the sector for six generations.
Exhibitions Salone del Mobile.Milano 2024: outdoor furnishings combine research, experimentation and innovation C. S. Bontempi Sciama
