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Llabb creates The Hermitage cabin overlooking Italian mountains

November 20, 2022 Jon Astbury 0

Italian architecture studio Llabb has perched an off-grid wooden cabin for “contemplation and introspection” on the edge of a hill overlooking the Trebbia valley near Genoa. Surrounded by the dramatic landscape of the Apennine Mountains, The Hermitage is just 12 square metres in size and contains a single space designed to be anything from a

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Marc Wilson photographs remains of war forts in the Italian Alps

November 14, 2022 Amy Frearson 0

British photographer Marc Wilson has produced an image series exploring the ruins of forts and trenches from the first world war, in the mountains of northern Italy. The photographs feature in Remnants, a book that Wilson has published in collaboration with Italian architect and researcher Marco Ferrari. The project is a follow-up to The Last Stand,

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NOA extends Alpine hotel with wellness area resembling an upside-down village

September 14, 2022 Lizzie Crook 0
Hub of Huts by NOA at South Tyrol hotel

Network of Architecture referenced reflections in water when creating the Hub of Huts, a well-being area that appears to defy gravity at the Hotel Hubertus in South Tyrol. Supported by large tree-like columns, the structure sits close to a projecting glass-bottomed pool that Italian studio Network of Architecture (NOA) created for the Italian resort in

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Cocktail bar “suspended between sea and sky” draws upon nearby Mediterranean

August 4, 2022 Katie Last 0
Civico 29 cocktail bar by Gae Avitabile

Architect Gae Avitabile has designed the interior of Civico 29, a sea-informed cocktail bar in the coastal town of Sperlonga, Italy. Located halfway between Rome and Naples on Italy’s western coast, the bar features colours and materials informed by the nearby seafront, with blue motifs and wave-like forms dominating the space. Avitabile transformed the oceanside building, which previously contained

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MAD designs “monumental gateway” for Milano Innovation District

August 2, 2022 Lizzie Crook 0
The exterior of MAD's MoLo complex near Milan

Plants and polished-metal staircases will animate the exterior of the MoLo entrance building and multi-storey car park that Chinese studio MAD is designing for a neighbourhood near Milan, Italy. The MoLo, otherwise known as the Mobility and Logistic hub, will be built on the western boundary of the Milano Innovation District (MIND) – a neighbourhood dedicated to

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Frama designs apartment for filmmaker Albert Moya in Renaissance villa

July 25, 2022 Ali Morris 0
Assorted Frama chairs in wood panelled living room of Villa Medicea di Marignolle apartment by Albert Moya

Copenhagen design brand Frama has contrasted modern furnishings against dark wood panelling inside this hybrid apartment and workspace in Florence, which belongs to Spanish director Albert Moya. The self-contained residence occupies a number of rooms inside the Villa Medicea di Marignolle, a Rennaisance villa and estate nestled among the hills of Florence’s southwestern suburbs. The

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Fabio Novembre launches first concept store in Milan dedicated to his designs

July 21, 2022 Ali Morris 0
Fabio Novembre stool on yellow display plinth in IoNoi Gallery in Milan

Italian architect and designer Fabio Novembre has opened IoNoi Gallery, a hybrid retail space and gallery in Milan with “strongly postmodern” interiors designed to showcase his work. Located on a street corner a few steps from Novembre’s studio, the shop sells a range of products the designer has created throughout his career for companies including

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Styles and eras mingle inside “unfinished” diplomat’s home in Rome by 02A

July 10, 2022 Ali Morris 0
Bedroom in 02a's Casa del Diplomatico in Rome with mirror in the foreground

Antique and mid-century furnishings are combined with sleek contemporary cabinetry in this intentionally unfinished apartment in Rome, designed by local architecture and interiors studio 02A. The one-bedroom flat belongs to a stateless diplomat, who asked 02A to turn his home into a sanctuary that he could return to at the end of his frequent work

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Stefano Boeri Architetti creates “paper lantern” pavilion at Venice Art Biennale

July 2, 2022 Jon Astbury 0
Hanji House pavilion by Stefano Boeri Architetti

Italian studio Stefano Boeri Architetti has created a pavilion called Hanji House at this year’s Venice Art Biennale with an angular, paper-clad form based on sculptures by Korean artist Chun Kwang Young. Hanji House was designed by Stefano Boeri Architetti for a spot in the garden of the Palazzo Contarini Polignac, a palace overlooking Venice’s

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Triennale di Milano reconstructs room from Ettore Sottsass’s Casa Lana

February 4, 2022 Natasha Levy 0
Dining area with wooden chairs surrounded by built-in wooden shelving and magenta carpet in living room of the Casa Lana installation at Triennale di Milano, Italy

This video, shared exclusively with Dezeen, shows the living area of a Milanese apartment by Memphis Group founder Ettore Sottsass being dismantled and rebuilt inside the city’s Triennale di Milano museum. The apartment, named Casa Lana, was originally designed by the Italian architect in 1965 for his close acquaintance Giovanni Lana, a lithographer and printer. Now,

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