#8 Place, not place

New Delhi - India Project Place, not Place National Institute of Fashion Technology is a unique institution with multifaceted, multidimensional capabilities, design excellence and time tested educational culture. In creating awareness and setting standards for fashion education, NIFT has done significant and pioneering service. It has taken mo...

The first issue of Domus was published by Gio Ponti in 1928. Since then it has followed and borne witness to the evolution in the field of architecture and design. Today, Stefano Boeri, an Italian, has taken over the magazine’s editorship from the Londoner, Deyan Sudjic. The change was more than enough to start pundits claiming that the Milan-bas...

"During a retreat I was overcome by fatigue and lent my head on my right hand, bending forward to do so. 
The image of Rodin's Thinker flashed in my mind together with two bronze twenty centimetre-high book-ends, replicas of Rodin's statue, which stood on a shelf in my parents' home when I was a child. So far the imagery was quite routine. But th...

It was in the sixties that Daniel Buren barred access to the Apollinaire Gallery by blocking the entrance. The Gallery's owner, Le Noci, was made to promise never to open it again. At the time the artist's concern was to "close down all art venues". Actually, his gesture was meant as a protest and reaction against the separation of art and life, ag...

It's snowing when I meet Daniel Buren at the Press Restaurant of the Bologna 
Art Fair. He's just arrived and despite the clatter of cutlery and din and row of loud voices he's easy and relaxed, and quite willing to answer my questions. After all, any place will do when one meets with the "genuine article". To quote from one of your statements...

When we travel, some of us seek out the reassurance of familiar surroundings, whereas others wish to plunge into the unknown. The hotel is a touchstone in both cases. The meticulous way in which our needs as travellers are met by the staff at an important hotel chain is the subject of our interview with Marjan Libeer, marketing vice-president at Hi...

To speak of La Perla merely as a lingerie or undergarment manufacturer means not giving it its just deserts. That’s because the Italian thoroughbred, Bologna-based House of La Perla can truly be said to have put seduction and sensuality squarely on the agenda. The House was established in 1954 by the mother of its current president, Alberto Masot...

On the one hand a family of entrepreneurs that believes in sustainable development, and a man who has given his art over to the same idea on the other. The family goes by the name of Illy and the man by that of Sebastião Salgado. Salgado’s views were recorded by Anna Illy Belci on 18 December 2003 on site in the Karnatak district. The lands ...