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Humanities

The rebel pianist of France – Sofiane Pamart is mixing neoclassical with rap music

Childhood and adolescence split between conservatory and street, this is how Pamart’s love for classical music and rap grew and gave results

Claudia Galal

Como

Lake Como Design Festival: from Neo-Nomadism to Pliny the Elder’s Naturalis Historia

Curated by Butti, the 5th edition of Lake Como Design Festival offers an updated reading of Roman author and naturalist Pliny the Elder’s encyclopedia

Editorial Team

Tuscany

In San Giuliano Terme a microclimate invites relaxation of body and spirit

During the Renaissance, the baths were owned by the Medici family and were frequented by many famous artists and intellectuals of the time, including Galileo Galilei

Matteo Mammoli

architecture, zurich

The Dolder Grand, Zurich: curves and spires in dialogue with nature

It became reality in 1899: 175 rooms and suites, world-class restaurants, an art collection with over 100 works, including originals by Takashi Murakami and Salvador Dalí

Matteo Mammoli

Buenos Aires

Casa Cavia, Buenos Aires. A concept store in a building of 1927 in Palermo Chico district

A restaurant, cocktail bar, Ampersandpublishing house, bookstore, and flower shop housed in a rationalist villa belonging to Argentina’ s heritage – under the creative direction of Guadalupe García Mosqueda

Matteo Canetta

Amsterdam

De L’Europe, Amsterdam: 620 piles of red bricks and natural stone

Het Rondeel stood in the center of Amsterdam as a reminiscence of protection for the city, until it was transformed into a hospitality building – today French antiques sit alongside abstract sculptures

Anna Polgrossi

Milan

Rediscovering Milan’s Historic Citadel of Art and Culture through The Portrait Hotel

Leonardo Ferragamo’s mark is revealed in the sketches of shoes that look like plans for futuristic architecture, resolved in skillful ergonomic structures

Cesare Cunaccia

Lampoon issue 27, palermo

Black Palermo, White Palermo – a Sicilian story with Vanessa Beecroft

Palazzo Abatellis played host to VB94, a performance by Vanessa Beecroft: hieratic movement between statues and models dressed in white created in her Los Angeles studio

Cesare Cunaccia

Design & Architecture

The awakening of the giants. Industrial buildings shine again with new functions

Tate Modern, Prada Foundation, Hamburger Bahnhof, Hangar Bicocca. A tour of Europe’s leading cities in the field of culture show a new trend in architecture: the renovation of industrial buildings

Samantha Ruboni

Exhibitions

Fondazione Prada in Milan presents Useless Bodies? a human-centered show by Elmgreen & Dragset

Immersive installations and dystopian settings challenge the visitors’ perception of their own bodies and the way they relate with those of others

Agnese Torres

Handmade, Lampoon Issue 24, Perfumery

Musings on porcelain. Ginori’s history and manufacturing facility. Between poetry and powder

From Ginori’s manufacturing facility, exploring the creation of an artisanal product between poetry and powder, and insects over errors

Editorial Team

Porto

Torel 1884 Suites, Porto. Environments discovered by the adventurers of the past

A story dating back to 1884 and a contemporary outlook inspired by three continents. In conversation with Ingrid Koeck, one-third of the Torel 1884 team, on how the Porto hotel came to be

Alessio Foderi

Humanities

The Claiming of Modern Milan and what to do with the legacy of a difficult heritage

A regime at the mercy of international and private interests with the persistence of social structures forged in the pre-fascist period — in discourse with Professor Lucy Maulsby

Amelia Stevens

Exhibitions, Lampoon Issue 20

Erik Thomsen – one gallerist cannot deal with the Danish sense of irony

Thomsen gallery specializes in Japanese screens and scrolls; in early Japanese tea ceramics from the medieval through the Edo periods

Angelica Frey

Florence

Stibbert, Florence. An inherited home that blurs the boundaries between romanticism and Japan

Frederick Stibbert was an illegitimate son and a millionaire who amassed a collection that was a forerunner of D’Annunzio. From Egypt to the Alhambra: Monica Becattini talks about his home-museum

Cesare Cunaccia

Dior, Exhibitions

Sam Baron for Dior: lacquered metal and a gradient of pink

«It is about the usage – the way we are going to sit together. I wanted it to be a form of nostalgia. It also recalls the gardens and flowers Mr. Dior showed his reverence for»

Matthew Burgos

call to action

Green Laws and urban forestry — which countries are in the lead?

From the Amazon rainforest set ablaze to the city of Venice being engulfed in water – major climate change events tell us that a green action is necessary

Juliana Norza

Milan

L’Arabesque, Milan. Modernist reverence for the past

L’Arabesque is an ode to that golden era of Italian culture, a love letter to Milan’s history. «Time, in the world of art, fashion and design, does not exist: everything returns in other forms»

Editorial Team

Athens

Shila, Athens. Transformable design for a fictitious world

Each room is a mystery: beds seem to float, bathrooms have swings. Shila Athens redefines what it means to be a boutique hotel in the 21st century

Anisha Khemlani

blockchain, call to action

Malhia Kent: albersesque weaves of block-colored stripes and geometric shapes

Eve Corrigan uses materials that are harder to weave, she has to use much older styles of looms that run more slowly. «I’m not interested in quickly mass-producing five-euro textiles»

Sam Fitzgibbon

Humanities, Lampoon Issue 19

Italian crafting supremacy: Naples and the art of Piqué

Gold and mother-of-pearl in the workshops across the Royal Palace: a touch of humor, obelisks, baroque and chinoiserie, ancient ruins and everyday objects

Cesare Cunaccia

Digital intelligence

San Leucio Silk — fabric manufacturing is beyond a matter of mathematics

A tale of the present and past of San Leucio in Naples — the center of fabric manufacturing and a past dream of an ideal city. Annamaria Alois takes on its legacy while maintaining its heritage

Cesare Cunaccia

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