Contributor

Sara Magni graduated in Stage Design from the Accademia di Belle Arti di Brera, and went on to do a master’s at the Istituto Italiano di Fotografia. She is interested in spaces and colour, and in the interaction between people and places. Her work ranges from architecture to design and portraiture. She works primarily for corporations and publishing. In her personal projects, she likes to use her gaze to catalogue, preferring an approach based on repetition, and the use of sometimes theatrical lighting.  

About Cherine Magrabi Tayeb – Professionally

A natural entrepreneur and businesswoman, Cherine Magrabi Tayeb brings together her creativity, specialized knowledge in design, and her business sense to every project she undertakes. With an academic background in art and design, Cherine has become an avid collector, but is also a proactive contributor and key player on the arts & design scenes internationally and has served on judge panels as well as being on the council of many prestigious international museums and design institutions over the years.

Jessica Mairs is a London-based journalist covering architecture, design and interior design. Originally from Northern Ireland, she moved to London in 2007 where she studied Fine Art at Chelsea College of Arts (University of the Arts London) and in 2014 gained a NCTJ Diploma in Journalism. She went on to work for Dezeen from 2014-18, first as a reporter and then as architecture editor, and in 2018 relocated to Milan to join the editorial team at Domus as web editor.

She gained a classical education at the Liceo Parini, a literature degree from the University of Milan (her thesis was on the 19th century stained glass windows in the Duomo in Milan), and a Masters in Art History from UMass Amherst, in America. This was followed by publishing and research experience with Arnoldo Mondadori Editore Publishing in New York, as assistant to the Vice President and contributor to the Panorama publication. She then worked in Milan from late 1992 onwards, as an editor for the magazines Abitare and Case da Abitare.

British-Canadian Philippe Malouin holds a bachelor’s degree in Design from the Design Academy Eindhoven. He has also studied at the École Nationale Supérieure de Création Industrielle in Paris and University of Montreal. He set up his studio in 2008 after working for English designer Tom Dixon. Philippe has also taught at the Royal College of Art in London between 2012-2015. His diverse portfolio includes tables, rugs, chairs, lights, art objects and installations.

Independent art director and curator of digital narratives. Born in Milan.

After his studies in Fashion and Textile Design, he started out as Assistant Fashion Director, subsequently becoming Head of Art and Content Direction, for the independent magazine Unflop – while continuing to work as a consultant for creative direction agencies.  

Hailing originally from the Liguria region, Giulia Marani - journalist, publicist and advertiser – first moved to Milan, then to Paris, where she joined the editorial staff of the magazine Architectures à vivre and failed, despite her best attempts, to grow basil on her balcony.

Paolo Marchi was born in Milan on 20 March 1955; his father Rolly created the Topolino Skiing Trophy and his mother Graziella was a painter. Paolo wrote for the Italian newspaper Il Giornale from December 1979 to February 2011. In January 2004 he came up with a life-changing plan and founded Identità Golose, Italy's first fine dining and pastry-making congress, thanks also to his partnership with Claudio Ceroni, an entrepreneur in major event planning and television production.

danielemari (all one word, as everyone calls him) moved from near the sea in Southern Italy by way of Spain, New York and Paris, to Milan in 2007, where he has made a career out of his passion for photography. His blend of craftsman-like technical skills and his own imagination make for poetics to which he remains faithful in all his projects – from fashion photography to still lifes, travel reportages and creative direction.  

Chiara Massarani is an architect, Senior Project Director of the Milan-based architecture and interior design practice ACPV ARCHITECTS Antonio Citterio Patricia Viel. Graduating in architecture at the Politecnico di Milano in 2007, after a degree in management engineering, she started her collaboration with ACPV ARCHITECTS in 2008. 

At ACPV ARCHITECTS she has led several teams in interior design projects, particularly in the residential sector and in yacht design for international clients, such as the recent interiors project for the Custom Line Navetta 30 yacht. 

Laura May Todd is a Canadian-born, Milan-based journalist. Originally from the Rocky Mountain adjacent town of Calgary, Alberta, she went on to attend the University of Toronto where she studied English Literature and Art History. A dual British-Canadian citizen, she moved to London, England in 2012 to work in architectural editorial for the Arts publisher Phaidon Press. In late 2016 she then relocated to Milan, Italy, where she began freelance writing full time.

Tommaso Melilli is a chef and writer. He has a recipe column in Venerdi di Repubblica, his latest book is I conti con l'oste (Einaudi, 2020) and he is on the editorial staff of the magazine l'Integrale. 

He is the chef of the restaurant Gloria, in Milan.

Tuscan by birth, Milanese by choice. While still an art student, she began to immerse herself in the thousand faces of design, which soon became her world. Today she is passionate about writing (she collaborates regularly with AD Italia and has contributed, among others, to magazines such as World and Icon Design), with an eye firmly fixed on the 2.0 universe and new digital frontiers. Curious by nature, she never tires of asking questions and listening to stories. Words are her superpower, through which she narrates people and projects.

42 years old, she is a freelance journalist and media relations executive with a degree in Sociology from the University of Rome La Sapienza. She began her career in 2005 as a communications account and press officer in the television sector, at the MN - MEDIA NETWORK communication agency. After working as a freelance contributor for a number of youth magazines, in 2007 she worked in the press office of the Green parliamentary group in the Chamber of Deputies and, from 2007 to 2009, she was a journalist, presenter and reporter for the Eco TV channel (Sky 906).

Alessandro Mitola is a journalist and consultant specialising in the field of design, architecture and visual culture. He has worked in the editorial staff of ICON Design and collaborated with magazines such as Domus, Abitare, Rivista Studio, The Good Life, among others. Photography is a constant in his life, an expressive medium that has always gone hand in hand with writing.