Design&Trends

In recent decades, design has contaminated a number of sectors of creative work. This series focuses on the scenarios of future trends, investigating their infinite expressive potential through issues of contemporary relevance and discussions with international designers. A window on the future, to understand and describe how much the world of design is changing, from techniques to new materials, from interiors to installations, from experimentation to contamination with art. In the final analysis, a section all about forecasting and trendsetting in design.

Gio Ponti and the 1920s: the ‘ceramic’ debut of a genius

20-09-2023

Gio Ponti and the 1920s: the ‘ceramic’ debut of a genius

In 1923, a young Ponti was tasked with kickstarting the Richard-Ginori ceramics and porcelain factory. In the space of just a few years, the architect changed the course of the company and gave Italian-made ceramics a whole new direction. As evidenced by the one hundred rare, never-before-seen pieces on display at MIDeC in...

Pierre Paulin and other marvels at Château La Coste

23-08-2023

Pierre Paulin and other marvels at Château La Coste

An exhibition shows off the curvaceous modular furniture of Pierre Paulin, set in an Oscar Niemeyer pavilion that perfectly suits the French designer’s vision. But this is not the only opportunity that Château La Coste, an estate in Provence dotted with works of art and architecture, offers this summer: there’s also a spectacular walk-in sculpture about the origins of...

IN’EI, the eastward-looking design gallery

26-07-2023

IN’EI, the eastward-looking design gallery

The clear intention of IN’EI, a new gallery that opened in Venice in March, is to open up a window onto the art and design of Japan, Korea and China by hosting exhibitions of the work of selected designers, featuring productions designed especially for the occasion. Such as The Floating Realm, the exhibition currently under way, on the work of Japanese architect Satoshi...

Mahdavi and Bonnard: making room for art

30-06-2023

Mahdavi and Bonnard: making room for art

Architect and designer India Mahdavi designed the setting for an important exhibition of the work of Post-Impressionist painter Pierre Bonnard in Melbourne, transforming the halls of the National Gallery of Victoria into homey spaces that speak the French painter's own chromatic and poetic...

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