Studio Peregalli — between technology and harmony, the latter comes out on top

«We want to give a flavor, a scent, of a world that is linked to the place we operate from. We’re both students of Renzo Mongiardino»

Diamonds not stone in the washing machine, high jewelry is a matter of choice

Jeweled rhetoric, from the architecture of Rome to the history of cinema, sixteen is the perfect number according to Vitruvius — four by four and back to Bramante, born in 1444

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

Rattan Bonacina – about the future of shapes that never existed

«We invented it ourselves; machinery capable of creating the shapes used in this design did not exist». In conversation with Elia Bonacina

Carlo Traglio: a collection, to be a good one, must include a mistake

«Making art is like making love; it is carnal, physical—we all make love, but not everyone makes art». In conversation with the owner of Italian jewelry house Vhernier

The color of stones can’t be changed – Bruno and Iacopo Lastrucci and the last workshop

«You have a picture in your mind and in your eyes, but it might take four or five years to complete». Father and son and the search for stones for Florentine inlays

Les Lalannes — originality in an era of covers and revivals

For François and Claude Lalanne, a hippopotamus becomes a bathtub. Whether at an exhibition or an auction, this is how collectors’ obsessions start

Manufacturing – The Crafted – Editor’s Letter

As her fashion show came to a close this September, Miuccia Prada spoke with journalists: she said she had wondered whether launching a new collection was the right thing to do at a time when people already own too much and should be learning to make do with less — for the good of the planet.