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Design
Jun 2024 · Adam Štěch ·  online exclusive
Gio Ponti: The House Above the City

Discover the history of Villa Planchart in Caracas, Venezuela, as we celebrate the Compasso d’Oro Career Award for Products for Gio Ponti’s D.154.2 armchair.

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Mar 2024
The Kitchen as a Living Space

Kitchens are everyday spaces that exist to meet an immediate functional goal. When well designed, they are highly calibrated to support the convenient preparation of food.

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Mar 2024 · Ellen Peirson
Piero Portaluppi and Contemporary Grandeur

In the centre of Milan, a short walk from the duomo, is Villa Necchi Campiglio, designed by Piero Portaluppi (1888-1967) for the Necchi Campiglio family between 1932 and 1935.

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Mar 2024 · Pete Collard
Documenting Design

How we understand the world of design can depend on the means by which we engage with the subject.

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says Vincent Van Duysen, quoting the archaeologist JJ Winckelmann.
“The home is once again the beating heart: conceived in a new guise - domestic, welcoming, and reassuring - it becomes a place in which to participate and share, on the border between public and private. A home of noble simplicity and quiet grandeur”
Gio Ponti
Mar 2024 · Francesca Molteni
ICONS

Like many of Gio Ponti's other pieces, the D.154.2 was conceived for a private client, the collectors Anala and Armando Planchart, as part of the project for their villa in Caracas, Venezuela.

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Nov 2022 · Riya Patel ·  online exclusive
Gio Ponti: a way of life

“Ponti style” is a lifestyle that emerged through six decades of the creative practice of Gio Ponti (1891-1979).

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Apr 2018 · Debika Ray ·  M MAGAZINE N°12
Ship Shape

Designers as Gio Ponti have long been attracted to the creative and intellectual freedom offered by maritime projects, and that continues to ring true today.

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Jan 2018 · Peter Hefti ·  M MAGAZINE N°12
Gio Ponti’s auditorium for the Time&Life Building in New York
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People
Mar 2024 · Isabella Smith
In conversation with Jeff Burton

The photographer Jeff Burton is known for the cinematic quality of his work: bathers by a hotel pool become a study in saturated colour; tanned bodies are seen at one remove, distorted by mirrored surfaces; a womans glance is glimpsed through a cars rearview mirror.

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Jan 2024 ·  online exclusive
Dragon Year Celebration, Contemporary Craft

Lunar New Year is the most important day in Chinas lunisolar calendar.

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Nov 2023 ·  online exclusive
RITUALS FOR THE FUTURE

The holidays are a time to eat, drink and make merry – the most convivial time of the year. 

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Oct 2023 · Eleonora Raspi ·  online exclusive
Yoshimi Futamura: raw energy of sculpture

Beyond the art of ceramics: Japanese artist Yoshimi Futamura in conversation with KALPA Galleries’ founder Olga Niescier.

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