Elle Decor

["","DECORSCOUTING Photos Andrea Riva, Carmen Colombo, @aboutforte Vibrantly eclectic \u2014 South American and Italian craftsmanship meet through projects by Natalia Criado Colombian and a little bit Italian, talented designer Natalia Criado (a graduate of IED in Milan now based in Bogot\u00e1) creates accessories with simple geometric shapes that materialise in the hands of expert craftspeople and are inspired by pre-Columbian artefacts. An example of this, are the objects of the Joya en Casa and Mucura collections (pictured), presented at Milan\u2019s latest Design Week. Like in a surrealist game, at first glance they appear to have lost their intended function, in fact, it has doubled. Made of sandblasted and silvered brass, they are embellished with glass and natural stones, green quartz and lapis lazuli which, depending on the use, turn into decorative or structural elements. Cutlery, mugs, coffee pots, teapots and centrepieces, but also glass vases and goblets (from the Ambar series designed alongside Tuscan artisans) are transformed into unique pieces. Table jewellery. nataliacriado.com 52 ELLE DECOR","","DECORSCOUTING Photos Paola Pansini Concrete coverings with a steel strip that unfolds along the sales spaces. We\u2019re in Fabiana Filippi\u2019s boutique, in via della Spiga 42, Milan. Bright spaces and neutral colours define the architectural box created with strictly sustainable materials. The project\u2019s designer? It\u2019s Patricia Urquiola, who thus has interpreted the fashion brand\u2019s green soul. patriciaurquiola.com 1950s inspiration and a compact shape define the Tangeri sideboard by Etro Home Interiors, distributed by Oniro Group. The Canaletto walnut frame is embellished with golden detailing. Dimensions 180x52x90h cm. etrohomeinteriors.onirogroup.it A wide and irregular shaped top for the Jupiter coffee table by Sicis. Made of black Aziz or Calcatta Gold marble, it\u2019s also available in painted timber or glass. The polished junction in the metal frame provides a decorative accent. sicis.com 54 ELLE DECOR","","","DECOR Designer forms In the hands of the chameleon-like Valentina Cameranesi Sgroi, matter is transformed into anthropomorphic objects. Poetic, whimsical and functional accessories. To be used every day words by Murielle Bortolotto Photo Dan McMahon for Jacqueline Sullivan Gallery Glass Pitcher \u2014 Under the direction of the creative artist, glass is transformed into small masterpieces with rarefied contours. Made in a workshop in Paderno Dugnano, Milan, run by craftsmen Massimo and Federico Pagnin, they were commissioned by the Jacqueline Sullivan Gallery. The New York design space, which opened last September, presented the new collection of vases, jugs, oil cruets (pictured) and incense holders. 57 ELLE DECOR","DECOR Iris \u2014 A Noir Antique marble vase with anatomical, sinuous lines. Photo Camille Vivier Part of The Avalon Collection, comprised of three sculptural pieces, it has a strong aesthetic impact and was designed for Bloc Studios, a brand based in Carrara. The complex curves defining it, as well as its the geometries and volumes, are handmade to emphasise veining and colour variations typical of the stone. 58 ELLE DECOR","","DECOR Superficie \u2014 An ultra-graphic, self-produced table made of beige Abet Photo Leonardo Scotti laminate with black profiles. The design is inspired by the Dutch art movement De Stijl (1917) and Piet Mondrian\u2019s work, but also by the office furniture produced by Olivetti in the 1970s. The base is characterised by an interplay of solids and voids and can hold books and small items of choice. Dimensions: diameter 114x72h cm. 60 ELLE DECOR","","DECOR \u201cMy work starts with a tactile idea which then develops visually. From surface to object\u201d Valentina Cameranesi Sgroi Above, a glass from the Etere To call her multifaceted might seem reductive, Photo Charles Negre, portrait Enrico Pompili Collection, the mise en place because Valentina Cameranesi Sgroi (a Libra, Roman by designed for Silvia Fiorucci birth and Milanese by adoption) navigates with ease many including forty-six pieces. Below, different fields: illustration, art direction, set design, image a portrait of Valentina, art consulting. After a past in fashion industry, in the product design director, set designer and creator department of Diesel, she began to explore other sectors, of unusual objects. Roman by designing furnishing accessories, dealing with photography and birth but based in Milan, in 2012 video, and becoming passionate about the relationship between she founded a creative direction the natural world, materials and design. Suggestions come from studio with Enrico Pompili. ancient Rome, the Viennese Wiener Werkst\u00e4tte (1903\u20131932) founded by the architect Josef Hoffmann, the painter Koloman 62 ELLE DECOR Moser and the industrialist Fritz W\u00e4rndorfer, who elevated the artistic and aesthetic value of everyday items. Ranging from William Morris (artist, decorator and father of British Arts&Crafts) and Odilon Redon (French engraver and painter) to the cinematic imagery of 1980s fantasy and horror films (favourites include David Cronenberg\u2019s \u2018Dead Ringers\u2019 and Jim Henson\u2019s \u2018Labyrinth\u2019). In her mind, matter \u2013 whether it be marble, ceramic, glass, wood or stone \u2013 is transformed into objects with ancestral, poetic, sensual forms: from accessories produced for private collections to pieces created in collaboration with Bloc Studios, Pretziada or Sem Milano. The extremely thin borosilicate glass, used in chemistry laboratories for its ability to withstand climatic changes and thermal shocks, once moulded in the small Remark workshop in Paderno Dugnano (Milan) by Massimo and Federico Pagnin, takes shape in jugs, vases, goblets, candlesticks and glasses with undefined contours and fantastic proportions that recall the marine world. Precious objects to be jealously guarded, such as the Etere series (commissioned by businesswoman and collector Silvia Fiorucci), comprising forty-six unique pieces, or the brand-new glassware on display in the new Jacqueline Sullivan Gallery (it opened its doors at the end of September and brings together contemporary and vintage design furniture). In 2012, she and Enrico Pompili founded a creative consultant studio for design and fashion brands. Their work includes the art direction of advertising campaigns and catalogues for Cassina, Ferragamo, Tod\u2019s, Versace, Glas Italia, Kerakoll, among many others. They also curate the concept and scenography of photo shoots for Italian and international magazines. But Valentina, tireless, also finds time to develop new projects as a solo artist. In the near future, her focus will be on Bohemian crystal and the world of light, with a brand- new collection of lamps. All still top secret. \u2014","","","PROJECTS Private view Bellagio. Guests for a day and a night at Villa Melzi d\u2019Eril. Where the Calvi Brambilla studio designed two exclusive pieces. A bed and a daybed that reinterpret the history of the place by Francesca Benedetto and Murielle Bortolotto \u2014 photos by Alberto Strada Alongside the rows of trees and shrubs delimiting the garden paths, one glimpses the magnificent Villa Melzi d\u2019Eril, a private residence designed by Giocondo Albertolli in 1808, in Bellagio, on Lake Como. 65 ELLE DECOR","PROJECTS From above, a glimpse of the 19th-century residence from the ancient park designed by Luigi Canonica; the bed, with a wooden base and leather rollers, is a unique piece created by the studio Calvi Brambilla and manufactured by Poltrona Frau. The colour of the metal tubing references the frescoed ceilings and the angled doors, tailor-made so as not to slam in a draft. Below, brass detail with the coat of arms of the Gallarati Scotti family. 66 ELLE DECOR","","PROJECTS Clockwise from left, the spectacular view of Lake Como from the terrace; the orangery adjacent to the residence is now a museum. Below, the Japanese pond built in the second half of the 19th century, with red maples leaves in the foreground; next, the living room is enhanced by a fireplace and a decorative ceiling; the daybed designed for the mansion by Fabio Calvi and Paolo Brambilla. All bed linens by Society Limonta. 68 ELLE DECOR","","PROJECTS Above, a bird\u2019s-eye view of Villa Melzi d\u2019Eril with the adjacent orangery. The residence\u2019s magnificent gardens are open to the public from late March to late October. The second-floor windows frame the views of Lake Como, which attracts visitors from all over the world. \u201cWe\u2019re in the place of Italian Rationalism and for us, lovers of architecture, referring to the avant-garde designs of that era was instinctive\u201d Fabio Calvi and Paolo Brambilla We arrive in Bellagio on a clear October morning. Milanese studio Calvi Brambilla, to purposely design them The boats, quieter and more discreet than on crowded summer for the place: \u201cIt was a unique experience, in some ways a weekends, draw perfect diagonals on the surface of Lake Como, challenge, as we mainly deal with interiors and fittings\u201d, they making us appreciate all the poetry of the landscape dressed in confess. \u201cThe project rereads and connects two emblematic autumn foliage. We are the lucky protagonists of an exclusive visit moments in the history of architecture, Neoclassicism and the through the villa designed by Giocondo Albertolli in 1808 for Modernist architecture, which in different eras defined Lake Francesco Melzi d\u2019Eril, Duke of Lodi and vice-president of the first Como\u2019s identity. Thus, we referenced the shape of 19th-century Italian Republic under Napoleon. The residence, a jewel of beds with the roller cushions and reinterpreted the idea of curved neoclassical style, was declared an Italian National Monument in tubing so dear to Giuseppe Terragni, master of Italian Rationalism. 1912 and, together with the spectacular garden designed by Luigi Given the architecture enthusiasts that we are, it was natural to Canonica, represents a harmonious ensemble of architecture and draw from that moment of great experimentation in creating two art, history and nature. Wrapped in so much beauty and guided unique pieces\u201d. A proposal shared enthusiastically by the by Prince Fulco Gallarati Scotti, heir and homeowner, we traverse proprietor, who saw the development of a daybed and a double vast halls with elegantly decorated ceilings, imposing staircases bed. The designs are distinguished by a curvilinear metal frame, and long corridors filled with paintings and sculptures, until we painted light blue and referencing the colour of the ceiling reach the sleeping quarters. Here, he informs us, famous people frescoes and the original period doors. But also by the careful such as Stendhal and Franz Liszt have slept. The mansion, consideration to the golden ratio and meticulous attention to which over time has remained in the same family, has been kept detail: from the soft leather selected for the headrest rollers, to the in perfect condition, including its original furnishings. fluid design of the support comprising three elements, and the Only the beds of two rooms have been lost and, instead of precious brass stud bearing the family crest engraving. The new replacing them with other historical pieces, the owner asked his furnishings, perfectly in tune with the pre-existing, thus add a fresh designer friends, Fabio Calvi and Paolo Brambilla, from the and cultured page to the history and charm of the place. \u2014 70 ELLE DECOR","","","","The Italian art historian portrayed in the \u2018Room for one colour\u2019 in \u2018Olafur Eliasson. In Your Time, the exhibition he curated at Palazzo Strozzi. In Florence, until 22 January 2023. \u00a9Studio Olafur Eliasson, Courtesy Fondazione Palazzo Strozzi","PEOPLE Arturo Galansino The revolution promoted by the director (which is unequalled in the world), is now a destination for of Palazzo Strozzi, who draws from the past contemporary art\u201d, he says with satisfaction. \u201cA virtuous model to tell the present. And transforms Florence that through culture reinforces its political role: it can and must into a contemporary art centre address the urgencies imposed by current events and animate public debate\u201d. The renowned Olafur Eliasson, whose exhibition by Paola Carimati \u2014 portrait by Gianmarco Rescigno \u2018In Your Time\u2019 has already exceeded 30,000 admissions in just a few days since its opening, proves that politically and socially From Ai Weiwei\u2019s life rafts moored at the fa\u00e7ade, active art attracts the public. The Icelandic author\u2019s installations, with which the Chinese artist has brought attention to the fate that Galansino integrated into the building\u2019s areas and floor of refugees and migrants, to the NFT revolution promoted by, plan, plays with the perception of space and invite the visitor to among many others, Turkish creator Refik Anadol, an expert in reflect on the idea of shared experience. generative technologies. From the floating spheres that Argentinean Tomas Saraceno anchored in the courtyard of the \u201cEvery project we carry out is the result of a sought-after historic Renaissance building, ready to hover in the sky propelled and fruitful relationship between artist, architecture and city\u201d, by the mere force of the temperature excursion, to the luminous thus success depends on method. \u201cPalazzo Strozzi is the first sculptures that Marinella Senatore scattered in a Florence made Italian foundation to be an experiment in governance and spectral by the fury of the Covid pandemic. It is all thanks sustainable innovation\u201d. Since it was established in 2006, to the strategic and revolutionary mind of Arturo Galansino its aim has been to contribute to the economic and civil that Palazzo Strozzi has become a popular destination for development of the local community: exhibitions, cultural events contemporary art, for both the public and insiders. Each artist and activities supporting the enhancement of assets of historical is carefully selected: \u201coften never-before-seen in Italy, and artistic interest are the chosen way to educate and at once they are all undisputed masters of recent art history\u201d, says promote conscious tourism. \u201cThe museum is an independent and the Director with satisfaction. private institution: we have maximum freedom of expression. And with only 15 per cent of the public funds paid to us, we \u201cFlorence has always been perceived of as a city tied to create and disseminate social welfare\u201d. Palazzo Strozzi can the past, where experimenting with new languages seemed an therefore count on many supporters including citizens and impossible challenge: we have shown that there is room for companies, patrons and banking institutions: \u201cOurs is a virtuous innovation and that it is fertile ground\u201d, points out the curator, family that believes in the project. A community keen on an expert on 15th- and 16th-century painting. \u201cDespite the fact conveying a well-rounded image of Florence\u201d. Able to draw that our museum is known as an avant-garde centre in Italy and on the past, navigate the present and project itself into the future. the world, I have a very classical education\u201d, he says revealing the short-circuit, curriculum vitae in hand. From the Louvre in Paris \u201cOf the 185,000 visitors recorded in three months, to the National Gallery and then the Royal Academy in London: a quarter are Tuscans, who are increasingly passionate about before 2015, the year he settled in the Tuscan capital, he was contemporary art, a quarter are foreigners, and two quarters mainly concerned with Renaissance art. His recent interest in are non-Tuscan Italians\u201d, a figure of which Arturo Galansino topical issues is the result of precise reflections on the state of is particularly proud. \u201cBecause it marks a politically, culture: \u201cin Italy there was a lack of a generalist institution culturally and economically important step: our projects create capable of staging exhibitions that were important both from an annual average of around 50 million EUR, with a significant a scientific point of view and in terms of production, and at the economic impact on the Florentine territory\u201d, demonstrating same time accessible and comprehensible. The contemporary art that culture, when well produced and disseminated, not only programme was weak\u201d, people don\u2019t fly across the world, as shapes consciences, but also increases the GDP. \u201cTurning to they do for museums like the Pompidou in Paris, the Tate in today\u2019s issues, I believe that women\u2019s claims and views are London or the MoMA in NY, for a niche event. increasingly central to the artistic debate. And in the future, but I cannot reveal it yet, we will host important projects\u201d, \u201cUsing the past as a starting point to say something the Director concludes, \u201cThe present demands action and important about the present, and not as a sterile showcase in attention\u201d. It\u2019s time for \u2018artivism\u2019. \u2014 which to drop contemporary pieces of art with a wow effect, is a necessary project\u201d, explains the director who, drawing on his training, has chosen to use history as a repertoire of cues to talk about today. \u201cFlorence, a city where cultural competition is not lacking, given the concentration of museums per square kilometre 75 ELLE DECOR","","THINKING Living matter The architectures healing the world are shared projects undergoing transition: they reclaim the past, transform the existing and design the future by Paola Carimati \u00a9 Ensamble Studio In Menorca, Ensamble Studio\u2019s architects convert a stone quarry and ex armoury of the Spanish civil war, into Ca\u2019n Terra: a concept home reconnecting the roots of domesticity to the earth\u2019s essence. 77 ELLE DECOR","THINKING \u00a9 Ensamble Studio A return to the origins \u2014 Ca\u2019n Terra by Ensamble Studio is an off-grid home project, i.e. autonomous and self-sufficient: it occupies the belly of Menorca island, the most untamed among the Balearic Islands with its raw and primitive environment. Inside a sandstone quarry, accessed through a threshold as fragile as it is symbolic (image on previous page), the architects tell a new story about rescuing this space, dug from the bowels of the earth, from dereliction. From refuge during the Spanish civil war, to manifesto of \u2018living in the future\u2019, in his introverted landscape a family of architects and a team of geologists have transformed their lives into a documentary about a new kind of domesticity: authentic and in balance with nature, as the cave welcomes and fulfils all activities. A project so visionary to attract the interest of Anastassia Smirnova, curator of the \u2018Visionaries\u2019 exhibition at Lisbon\u2019s Culturgest (VI Architecture Triennale, until 4\/12). 78 ELLE DECOR","","THINKING Photo \u00a9 Kurt Hoerbst, portrait by Giovanni Battista Righetti Form follows love \u2014 \u201cArchitecture is a means to support local economy, nurture individual awareness and promote ecological balance\u201d, German architect Anna Heringer notes on the occasion of \u2018Waiting for peripheries\u2019, the lecture days organised by the Politecnico, the Triennale and the city of Milan in view of the next edition of Milan ArchWeek. METI (Modern Education and Training Institute) is an example of best practice: a handmade school, created with earth and bamboo, built by the community in Rudrapur, Bangladesh. To prepare students to learn, the building is conceived as an organic system of \u2018caves\u2019: an unconventional design solution, tailored to the landscape. Eyal Weizman \u2014 The director of Goldsmiths University of Forensic Architecture, the research agency founded in 2010 investigates state violence and human rights abuses using digital visualisation techniques, and examines how colonialist architecture \u2013 from border walls between countries (16 still in existence, the latest erected in 2016 along the Hungarian-Serbian border), to refugee camps and types of housing in city outskirts \u2014 impacts community building. \u201cMy team\u2019s focus is on the Middle East, Israel, Palestine and the West Bank\u201d, says the expert on the occasion of On Forest, the symposium organised by Formafantasma at the Biblioteca Braidense and sponsored by Prada at Milan Design Week. \u201cTogether with NGOs we testify before the international tribunal about how a certain type of coercive design coincides with forms of kinetic violence\u201d. 80 ELLE DECOR","","THINKING Bridging projects \u2014 \u201cAnupama Kundoo is an exemplary case Parasite balcony \u2014 Such is the of the changes underway in the gender geography of architecture\u201d, name of the structural graft designed by the says Pippo Ciorra, senior curator at MAXXI, who with the talk \u2018The group of young Venezuelan professionals architecture of ferrocement. Beyond Nervi\u2019 recently introduced her work. and activists, Pico Colectivo. The founders, \u201cRaised among the radical urban experiences of Auroville, India, and Marcos Coronel and Stevenson Pi\u00f1a, graduating in Mumbai, she developed a work methodology capable of among the participants of the \u2018Retroactive\u2019 combining attention for the materials and techniques of the Indian exhibition curated by Loreta Castro Reguera tradition with the ability to reach a global audience\u201d. In Pondicherry, and Jos\u00e9 Pablo Ambrosi at Lisbon\u2019s MAAT, India, she designed a reinforced concrete children\u2019s home with walls hacked the fa\u00e7ade of an overcrowded made of terracotta screen blocks; a solution that negotiates tradition with building at the heart of Caracas to open the innovation to enhance interior ventilation, enabling the children to interior to light and air. The team, operating remain visually in touch with the outdoor garden, and reducing in South America for over ten years, is construction times. known and appreciated for its hybrid and participatory city building practices. \u201cA third of humanity still lives in vulnerable and forgotten places; the architect\u2019s task is to examine the potential for transformation expressed by each marginalised region and to transform it into an opportunity for redemption. For the sake of the community and the discipline\u201d. Photos by Jos\u00e9 Bastidas, \u00a9 Javier Callejas 82 ELLE DECOR","","THINKING Gentle revolution \u2014 \u201cAll the projects by the studio Collective redevelopment \u2014 At the centre Lacaton&Vassal in Paris, formerly Pritzker Prize 2021\u201d, of the reurbanization project promoted by the City of explains Nina Bassoli, curator of Architecture, urban S\u00e3o Paulo\u2019s Department of Housing, is the Sap\u00e8 favela; regeneration and city, Milano Triennale, \u201care based on the the objective entrusted to the collective, Base Urbana, was principle of generosity and saving, at the service of people, to improve the living conditions of over 2,500 families with great focus on social impacts\u201d. One such example is the forced into insecure housing. \u201cOur architectural project housing project for the elderly in Rixheim (Mulhouse). The transforms the space at different levels through a two-room apartments, complete with gardens, terraces and personalised, creative and participatory process\u201d, say the access to common areas, exploit the principles of bioclimatic team of architects. \u201cThe fragility in which citizens find design: accumulating heat in winter, they provide protection themselves invites us to transform the practice of architecture from the sun and natural ventilation in summer. Paying into a tool of inclusion; every upgrade is thus perceived as attention to the climate is one of the characteristics defining an opportunity to connect and exchange experiences\u201d. the work of the French professionals. A means to care for public spaces. \u00a9 Philippe Ruault, Pedro Vannucci 84 ELLE DECOR","","THINKING Neo-vernacular \u2014 In the coastal area of Photos by Asif Salman, City Syntax, portrait by Giovanni Battista Righetti Bangladesh, where the country\u2019s three main rivers converge, every year the waterways swell and the riverbanks burst, leading to catastrophic flooding. As writer Amitav Ghosh reminds us in his books, the monsoon can cause irreparable problems for the population. The damages caused by global warming do not spare the Himalayan glaciers, which in melting transport torrents of sediment. For the local communities these are new strips of land called \u2018chars\u2019, where the Bengali architect and teacher, Marina Tabassum, has placed the Khudi Bari, small houses made of bamboo, a local material. The population can inhabit them while waiting for the waters to recede. Amitav Ghosh \u2014 The Indian journalist and anthropologist has penned one of generation Z\u2019s seminal texts. Everything in his narrative revolves around mankind\u2019s inability to acknowledge the warnings of scientists and researchers about the catastrophic effects of environmental change. A legacy of the colonialist culture that still affects us: in \u2018The Nutmeg\u2019s Curse: Parables for a Planet in Crisis\u2019, he explains that if our future as a species is in danger, the causes can be traced back to the crimes perpetrated onto the peoples of the New World. \u201cIndigenous communities represent only 15% of the planet\u2019s inhabitants, yet altogether they care for 50% of what is pristine\u201d. Let us protect them. 86 ELLE DECOR","","THINKING To boldly design even with scarce resources available and Everything therefore seems to revolve around the notion of to build by hand alongside local communities (indigenous, to \u2018landscape\u2019 and it seems clear that today\u2019s instances \u2013 not only in reference anthropologist Amitav Ghosh). To draw on traditional view of the Venice Biennale of Architecture, but also the World knowledge to best utilise raw earth and bamboo, as well as the Congress of Architects in Copenhagen, a city UNESCO science of construction to secure what appears precarious, and to designated World Capital of Architecture for 2023 \u2013 reclaim experience the building site as a place of knowledge sharing. a return to an architecture that is no longer just an icon, a Nowadays, adding value to the discipline of architecture is an landmark or a starchitect\u2019s whim. \u201cBut rather the transformation of urgent requirement of the environmental crisis and climate justice: the existing, somewhat, if not at all monumental, but rich in life\u201d, in Europe, as in the rest of the world (Eyal Weizman teaches us points out Nina Bassoli, curator of Architecture, urban this), to transform the existing is a mending process combining regeneration and city, Milano Triennale, who organised \u2018Waiting past and present, tradition and innovation, memory and vision for peripheries\u2019, two days anticipating the next edition of Milan for the future of the Planet. Early October saw the news of the ArchWeek. \u201cFor those architects who now come back to learn as \u2018Declaration of San Marino\u2019 \u2013 i.e. the signing by the governments a group, innovating means using natural, biodegradable and attending the 83rd session of the UNECE Committee (United zero-miles materials, and working on optimising them. Without Nations Economic Commission for Europe) devoted to urban renouncing large-scale builds\u201d, doing more with less. As thought development, housing and land management \u2013 regarding the by German activist, Anna Heringer, who in 2021 was awarded \u2018principles for urban design, and sustainable and inclusive the European Prize for Architecture Philippe Rotthier and whose architecture\u2019. It\u2019s an actual manifesto, pursuant to which the life is deeply intertwined with her profession. \u201cFor her, designing 56 member states are committed to acting responsibly and in Bangladesh and Thailand means building relationships with the conscientiously from building to masterplan. A historical fact in places and the people\u201d, emphasises Bassoli, \u201ccommitment and itself, which \u201cStrengthens the activity of orders and categories in listening, self-building is a means to regenerate through the ensuring healthier, socially inclusive and climatically circular process\u201d. Different in form, but related through the substance of housing, infrastructure and cities\u201d, says Stefano Boeri who, the concept, is the spirit of the French Lacaton&Vassal. with Lord Norman Foster, was among the first signatories. For the winners of the Pritzker Prize 2021, bringing the marginal \u201cSustainable housing, land management and urban development areas of the developed world closer together means are the cornerstones for achieving our goals\u201d, says Olga redeveloping. \u201cWorking on the existing and densifying; the Algayerova, Executive Secretary of the UNECE. The testimonies upgrade devised for the Bordeaux ensemble is a replicable collected in \u2018Terra\u2019, Lisbon\u2019s sixth Architecture Triennale focused model\u201d, explain the designers. \u201cBasically, it consists of replacing on the relationship between extractive activities and socio- a fa\u00e7ade to breathe new life into the building, allowing the economic inequalities, are transferable best practices recognised tenants to stay in their homes during the works\u201d, a solution that by authoritative international awards; among them the names of reduces costs and inconvenience. Renovating is cheaper than Marina Tabassum, winner of the Soane Medal in 2021, and demolishing: \u201cIt accounts for about half of the costs\u201d. Anupama Kundoo, who this year joined the Global Award for We Italians should remember this, given we allocated 2.82 Sustainable Architecture community. Even in Rome\u2019s MAXXI billion euros to \u2018Pinqua\u2019, the national programme for the quality the attention is focused on the need for a fresh dialogue between of living: \u201cIn Milan the districts involved are Giambellino and matter, technology and structural lightness; reinterpreting the Gratosoglio\u201d, concludes Nina Bassoli quoting Anne Lacaton: language of tradition to come up with a free educational model \u201cEveryone has the right to a home, because without a home one connected to the body and its movement through space. can\u2019t be happy\u201d. It\u2019s not ideology, it\u2019s real life. \u2014 Empowerment \u2014 Prompted by \u00a9 Sameer Chawda the Indian Government\u2019s sustainable development goals, which by 2030 aim to have achieved literacy for a substantial part of 750 million adults currently lacking any basic literacy skills, the architects of studio Nudes have designed the \u2018BookWorm\u2019 pavilion. The open plan architecture can be traversed and explored; here, young and old can play, read and swap books. Because learning is fun. 88 ELLE DECOR","","","BOOK Milan in sight A book reveals the \u2018secrets\u2019 hidden behind the doors of the city\u2019s most beautiful homes, between historic palaces and contemporary design words by Paola Maraone \u2014 photos by Guido Taroni Madina Visconti on the balcony of her Milanese home, one of 40 residences portrayed in \u2018Inside Milan\u2019, the book by Nicol\u00f2 Castellini Baldissera with photographs by Guido Taroni. 91 ELLE DECOR","BOOK Clockwise from the top left, Clemente Tivioli in his home in the Quadrilatero neighbourhood, standing before an artwork by Pistoletto; Martina Mondadori in the living room of the apartment devoted to colour and d\u00e9cor that she shares with her partner, Ashley Hicks, interior designer and artist; an indoor space of Casa degli Atellani, historically the family home of Nicol\u00f2 Castellini Baldissera; a view of Emiliano Salci\u2019s living room, who with Britt Moran founded Dimorestudio: the house is dominated by warm, natural tones and deliberately avoids the use of primary colours. 92 ELLE DECOR","","BOOK The living room of Osanna Visconti\u2019s home, located above her showroom, features a mix of objects, styles and cosy old velvet-covered seating. Opposite page, the residence of Clemente Tivioli\u2019s central hall is filled with art. All rooms are connected by iron walkways and stairs. 94 ELLE DECOR","","BOOK 40 historic residences reveal the hidden charm of a private Milan. Inside classic interiors, we discover unprecedented creativity A project with bold ambitions \u2013 yet without the pretence Fornasetti\u2019s, Lapo Elkann and Emiliano Salci (cofounder of being exhaustive \u2013 tells the stories of the most fascinating of Dimorestudio), artist Luca Pignatelli as well as architect houses of the city, with words and images. \u2018Inside Milan\u2019 Hannes Peer. \u201cThe book is just a taste of the abundance of talent (Vendome Press) is the succesful product of a joint effort by living in a city that is only apparently grey and able to enchant photographer Guido Taroni, nephew of Giovanni Gastel, and day after day; in which history has left indelible marks in the Nicol\u00f2 Castellini Baldissera. The great-grandson of architect architecture and the hidden gardens\u201d, and the dwellings that Piero Portaluppi, an interior designer by trade with a jet-setting today belong to the heirs of families such as the Trivulzios and the lifestyle and a penchant for beauty, set foot back in Italy, in the Beccarias, or prominent names in art, design, fashion and Lombard capital, after a long stint in Africa. \u201cSo much so that I\u2019d architecture. From the historic buildings to the homes of Martina already published a book called \u2018Inside Tangier\u2019, which revealed Mondadori, JJ Martin and Coco Brandolini, to the studio of the secrets of some intriguing Moroccan mansions\u201d, Polimnia Attolico, the author vows he was struck by every house, he explains. But if in that instance the houses portrayed were 24, each in its own way. \u201cThe avant-garde style of Clemente Tivioli\u2019s here they reach 40: \u201cI started by asking some friends and then home, the grandeur of Palazzo Crespi, the enveloping the project spread like wildfire. There\u2019s a curious common thread atmosphere created by designer Madina Visconti: in each there between the two cities because Milan, like Tangier, does not is an element of charm, even though each one belongs to a reveal itself immediately or welcome you with open arms, but different planet\u201d. In fact, the goal of \u2018Inside Milan\u2019 is to reveal must be patiently discovered. Because there\u2019s a lack of natural \u201cthe eclectic style and creative abundance lying behind beauty, it has to work hard to achieve it. It\u2019s a city of doers, the doors of these dwellings. To better convey the attitude of who where even the aristocrats are entrepreneurs, where industry inhabits them, we added a portrait of the owner next to the moves fast, where even fashion and design fairs intrude in images of the interior\u201d. Another common thread, the author everyday life\u201d. It\u2019s no mystery that these worlds are linked reveals, \u201cis the massive presence of books, in hallways as and it\u2019s not coincidental that the houses photographed for \u2018Inside in the sitting rooms. The Milanese consider them objects to be Milan\u2019 provide a cross-sectional look at both spheres: we access enjoyed, but also to be displayed and valued\u201d. Just like the one the private rooms of Veronica Etro as well as Barnaba we\u2019ve discussed in these pages. \u2014 96 ELLE DECOR","","","ARCHITECTURE Fashion factory In the Tuscan countryside, an architecture that blends into the landscape houses a famous fashion brand\u2019s new manufacturing centre. A space blurring interiors and exteriors to work amongst the greenery words by Laura Maggi \u2014 photos by Andrea Ferrari The offices of the new Fendi manufacturing centre in Capannuccia (Bagno a Ripoli), near Florence, connect inside and outside. To emphasise the brightness of the natural light filtering through the windows, the furnishings were chosen in neutral white tones. 99 ELLE DECOR","ARCHITECTURE Interior and exterior are seamlessly connected through the full-height windows visually linking the workplace to the outdoor areas The Factory, sealed by a flat green roof, spreads across a single level; the spaces open onto a sequence of nine internal courtyards with small gardens populated by plant species from the Mediterranean scrub. The concrete and earth structure in warm terracotta tones features large, glass walls that flood the interiors with light. The Welcome seating, designed by Chiara Andreatti for Fendi Casa, references the Maison\u2019s famous Pequin motif; the Five To Nine sofa is by Studio Pepe for Tacchini. 100 ELLE DECOR"]