Headline & Editorial
Last Issue: #31 The Journey
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...Read more
The opinion
Magazine -> #21 Senti-mentallyOver the years, I’ve developed the firm belief that there are similarities between the purpose of a company’s life and that of an individual. They both aspire to that kind of happiness which Aristotle called “eudaimonia”, the perfect union between physical and intellectual pleasures. I think that if this idea can apply to all businesses, it...
continue..The strange alchemy
Magazine -> #23 Emotion and Surprise“The heart has its reasons of which reason knows nothing”, wrote the philosopher Blaise Pascal. People once thought that emotions and rational thought travelled along parallel lines that never converged. Philosophers and scientists dismissed emotions as being of little interest - they were believed to hamper rational behaviour. But for some ti...
continue..Enlightened by error
Magazine -> #26 Re-Evaluate The ErrorThe great Russian woman poet, Marina Cvetaeva, once wrote: “I’ve trained my soul to linger outside the window… I simply wouldn’t allow it into the house, the same way as one wouldn’t let in a stray dog or an exotic bird”. That’s one, and not so infrequent, a way of keeping at bay those silly and seemingly unaccountable tricks played ...
continue..A lot to learn
Magazine -> #21 Senti-mentallyAfter graduating in architecture from Turin Polytechnic, in 1947 Ettore Sottsass jr. (Innsbruck, 1917) began working in Milan, where he opened his first design studio. Son of an architect and an architect himself, from the start he backed up his formal education and training with practical experiences in the visual arts field, trying out his ar...
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