Tag Naples

22-09-2022
Patricia Urquiola’s hybrids in Capodimonte
Ropes, moss, flowers and sponges, bark and cotton are the alternative materials Patricia Urquiola and the students of Istituto Caselli in Capodimonte incorporate in the porcelain that was the pride of the Bourbons, creating objects and centrepieces of unprecedented modernity. A creative spark ignited with Edit Napoli to reawaken the spirit of an illustrious tradition which has always had a lot to do with nature.

08-09-2022
Celebration and catastrophe in the ceramics of Diego Cibelli
Naples throughout history - as well as in its modern-day form - is the rich, fertile ground fuelling the work of Diego Cibelli, a ceramic artist who draws inspiration from objects, homes, celebrations and domestic habits to create new stories, intermingling the bittersweetness of the everyday with the nobility of tradition.

13-04-2022
Farewell to artist, architect and designer Riccardo Dalisi
Riccardo Dalisi, an artist, architect, designer, sculptor and painter who had been working on welfare initiatives in various underprivileged zones of Naples for many years, left us on April 9th. He won two Compasso d'Oro awards, one in 1981 for his research into the flip coffee pot, turning it into an icon of the "opera buffa of design", and one for lifetime achievement in 2014. He promoted the “Compasso di latta” award for research in design in the areas of human support, eco-compatibility and degrowth, issues that were always of primary importance in his work.

10-06-2021
Città Sospese - Siti Italiani UNESCO nei giorni del lockdown Exhibition
In the long months of spring 2020, while millions of people were confined to their homes complying with the restrictions imposed by authorities to ensure the containment of the Covid-19 pandemic, photographers from the Italian Ministry of Culture travelled to 11 Italian cities recognised as UNESCO heritage sites, to capture a valuable visual testimony of this unprecedented historical moment experienced by Italy's cities of art, with the typical bustling streets devoid of tourists and locals.

07-11-2018
Escher exhibition at PAN Palazzo delle Arti di Napoli
The ephemeral architecture and visionary works of Maurits Cornelis Escher are the subject of a major retrospective including about 200 works on exhibit from November 1, 2018 through April 22, 2019 at PAN: Palazzo delle Arti Napoli.

14-09-2018
Zaha Hadid Architects Napoli-Afragola High Speed Train Station
Famous architectural photographers Hufton+Crow are behind a new photo shoot of the Napoli-Afragola High Speed Italian train station, designed by Zaha Hadid Architects.

12-02-2018
vulcanica architettura and the Brin69 project in Naples
Brin69 is a redevelopment project for a large, attractive and majestic early 20th-century industrial shed in Naples.

08-11-2017
Brutalist architecture, from Europe to Le Vele in Naples.
Brutalist architecture is enjoying a huge revival, at least on the web and in publishing.

21-07-2017
Italian architecture by Zaha Hadid
With the exhibition at the MAXXI in Rome, her first Italian work, we discover the projects created in Italy by architect Zaha Hadid and presented in the pages of Floornature.