Posts Tagged ‘beauty’

Pure beauty

Magazine -> #25 Innovage

Before being a label, Pucci is first and foremost the name of a family, and what a family! We’re talking about history – almost a thousand years of it – and about a cutting-edge business enterprise based in the family’s historical mansion. Emilio Pucci’s inspired and visionary drawings are simply spellbinding, as acknowledged worldwide. N...

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Profit with culture

Magazine -> #5 The Dictatorship of the Consumption

Swarovski, 14,000 employees, revenue 1.67 billion euro, but also 800 events organised every year in Italy alone. Not only an economic organism, but also a conveyor of culture. How does it feel today to be defined as a multinational company? Proud or flattered? Uneasy. In any case, it’s a word that has been outdated by what is now called globa...

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Beautiful homes for the majority

Magazine -> #3 Weaving relations

LUCEPLAN designs, manufactures and markets lighting appliances for residences, offices, community, government and agency buildings, indoor and outdoor environments. Luceplan's adventure was born from the design-oriented spirit of three young architects, among whom is Riccardo Sarfatti, who in 1978 decided to pursue the goal of "beautiful homes for...

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A starspangled life

Magazine -> #10 Nomadic knowledge

Margherita Hack is virtually a youngster out to discover the world. There’s not an article dealing with her, though, that fails to underscore her chronological age of eightytwo. Probably it’s because the interviewer is amazed to find a person whose curiosity and wit are undimmed and indeed as redoubtable as ever. An astrophysicist of internat...

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Interview with Jannis Kounellis

Magazine -> #9 Coopetition

You've asserted, to use your words, that "a journey, any journey, is essentially an initiation, an affirmative and conscious statement of love for knowledge". Would you say an artist sets out on such a journey alone? Is it necessarily a solitary journey or can it be undertaken with other artists as travel companions? Well, it's difficult to say. ...

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On butterflies’ wings

Magazine -> #21 Senti-mentally

In front a cup of coffee. “I learnt to paint like Raphael, now I have to learn to draw like a child.” Pablo Picasso I’ve often wondered whether art and life are really related. Some artists have indeed turned their lives into their best work of art. But what a price some have had to pay for their commitment and approach to life! Oscar...

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The opinion

Magazine -> #16 Beautiful and well made

Beauty is not an end in itself nor is it merely a semantic concept that may translate into French as “jolie” or into Italian as “bello”. Beauty is something of far greater width, breadth and depth; it may refer as much to individuals as to objects, to ways of doing things, to production processes even. It’s only in the eighteenth century,...

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The beauty of ugliness

Magazine -> #16 Beautiful and well made

Little bodies of Siamese children joined together at the hips and huddled to form a group, arranged so as to appear to be posing: the statues of the Chapman brothers are horrific monstrosities. The statues of very young-looking but already sexually mature adolescents of the Japanese artist Tadashi Murakami are no less unsettling. His manga-looking,...

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Twenty thousand leagues under the sea by Jules Verne (1825-1905). This book is the answer to my thoughts on travel. It certainly anticipated the saga...
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