The importance of Mingei craftsmanship in an industrialized world Mingei, literally “people’s art”, was born in Japan in the 1920s under the impetus of the philosopher Yanagi Sōetsu. Faced with incipient industrialization threatening craft...
Furniture geography and cultural codes To travel today is to discover that behind the seemingly globalized façade of contemporary furniture lie deeply rooted cultural codes. A hotel lobby in Tokyo, New York or Paris may seem to obey the same aesthetic rules, but a...
The shadow of giants When contemporary designers struggle to escape the legacy of the 50s and 80s In the showrooms of Milan, the design galleries of London or the workshops of Paris, the same reality is apparent: the creations of Arne Jacobsen, Charles and Ray Eames,...
