Images by Paolo Simi Pitti Immagine Uomo is a world apart from the rest of Florence, locked up inside the 16th-century fortress Fortezza da Basso. There are neither drawbridges nor guards, but that’s not to say it’s easy to get in. Access to the citadel is restricted. Yet the moment you cross the threshold, you [...]
Author Archives: Giulia Pagnin
In Conversation with Sylvia Pichler, a.k.a. Zilla
May 9, 2011 – 1:36 pm
An architect by education, Sylvia Pichler has moved from designing buildings to transforming everyday materials into visionary bags, which she sells under the name Zilla. Combining cork, sponge and other unconventional objects with more traditional textiles, like leather, the bags recall her native northern Italian region’s (Alto Adige) artistic traditions and reveal a progressive view [...]
Salone Internazionale del Mobile
April 22, 2011 – 8:22 am
Image by Paolo Simi Milan’s annual Design Week, comprising Salone Internazionale del Mobile, is a little like a real-life version of Alice in Wonderland. It’s as if the city has been passed through the Mad Hatter’s magical hat and emerged as a fantastical version of itself, with big steel ants, carpet monsters, floating cars, ostrich [...]
