Tag Intervista

30-09-2022

Arttenders: combining art with business and social planning

Arttenders is an eclectic young social design agency opened in Rotterdam in 2015 by the enterprising Siobhan Burger and Faye Ellen. Their goal is to create spaces (physical and virtual) for cultural action that are financially sustainable, forging bonds between business and the world of art through co-participation and socialisation of projects.

31-08-2022

Atelierzero: Interior design as landscape

The turning point was the competition for Trento’s Civic Gallery, and then the studio in Milan. With less than 10 years of work under their belt, they already have a strong reputation in interior design and a spin-off furniture brand. Design as a totalising, “democratic” process is the hallmark of the architects of Atelierzero.

14-04-2022

Lissa Carmona and Brazilian design: ‘We are celebrating an anniversary spanning past and future’

One of the world’s leading experts in Brazilian design, Lissa Carmona - the heart and soul of Etel editions - is an international ambassador of this discipline. In the year that marks the centenary of the legendary Semana de Arte Moderna, which took place in São Paulo in 1922, sparking the Modernist movement, she tells us about the prospects for design in Brazil and her passion for sustainability.

12-05-2020

A FUTURE ON RESILIENCE

"The only true realist is the visionary", - Federico Fellini

19-11-2019

ONSTAGE: INTERVIEW WITH EBI MARIA GRASSI, UNIPOL GROUP

"Today Unipol Group manages a heritage of valuable, high quality properties: it is our great ambition to re-launch and restore buildings of particular architectural and historical value, symbol of a collective memory."

27-03-2019

ONSTAGE: INTERVIEW WITH ENNIO BRION

"The term utopia is the most convenient way to liquidate what you do not have the will, capacity, or courage to do. A dream seems like a dream until it doesn’t start somewhere, only then becomes a purpose, that is something infinitely greater”- Adriano Olivetti

11-02-2019

ONSTAGE: INTERVIEW WITH CHANG YONG TER

Even if extremely pragmatic and rational in their approaches, the proposals of the architect, Chang Yong Ter, in the research of establishing a tuneful co-existence between human beings and nature, tend to lose material definition, fading into the abstraction of idyllic situations that resonate in our hearts with the power of utopian visions.

02-01-2019

Interview with Giacomo della Villa: Iris Ceramica Group for Isokinetic

Floornature interviewed Giacomo della Villa, who has designed advanced sports rehabilitation facilities for Isokinetic in a number of cities in Italy and in London. Della Villa designed the interiors of the Isokinetic centres using the Iris Ceramica Group’s high-tech ceramic surfaces.

19-12-2018

Interview with R2K, Olavi Koponen and Véronique Klimine

We talk to Olavi Koponen and Véronique Klimine of R2K about designing long-lasting architecture today. The importance of fully understanding the local climate and the desire to share information with everyone involved in the project right from the start are R2K’s key tactics