Monthly Archives: June 2014

Soon after arriving in Morocco in 1966, Yves Saint Laurent and Pierre Bergé started collecting Berber artworks. After Saint Laurent's death in 2008 their collection was turned into the Berber Museum, located in the studio and garden founded by Jacques … Continue reading →

Let's continue the feminist thread that started on Friday by focusing on Rosa Genoni. Born in 1867 in Tirano, near Sondrio, Genoni was an Italian feminist designer, socialist journalist and lecturer. The Italian delegate of the Women's International League for … Continue reading →

The Heather Marie Scholl Special continues today with four further female artists who inspire her. Remember that you can support Scholl's Kickstarter campaign (running through July 9th, 2014) to help crowdfunding the installation project "Sometimes It's hard to be a … Continue reading →

In a previous post we looked at Heather Marie Scholl's "Sometimes It's Hard to Be a Woman", a fashion installation tackling domestic violence and dating based sexual assaults. As you may remember, Scholl launched a Kickstarter campaign (running through July … Continue reading →

British fashion designer Jamie Bruski Tetsill, founder of Glasgow-based label Shapes of Things Ltd, launched the brand's first official collection of functional kids apparel at the 79th Pitti Bimbo in June 2014. The SOTLTD collection includes casual jackets, shorts, trousers, … Continue reading →

Once upon a time there was a city build in the middle of a land. Since the city had no particular beauty, the local council decided to decorate it with a special wallpaper. Soon its walls were covered with images … Continue reading →

One element inside the Arsenale at the 14th Venice International Architecture Exhibition unifies installations, divides them from the spaces where film clips are screened and provides and interesting backdrop for specific architectural projects – a 316 metre long Tabula Peutingeriana. … Continue reading →

Yesterday's post focused on the mutable architectures of Cinecittà, so let's move today to another place with a urban morphology heavily characterised by adaptable architectures, Macau. "Happiness Forecourt" (Largo da Felicidade), a Collateral Event at the 14th Venice International Architecture Biennale, explores … Continue reading →

Let's close the film and architecture thread that started on Thursday by looking at another installation at the 14th Venice International Architecture Exhibition. Entitled "Cinecittà Occupata" (Occupied Cinecittà), this installation by Ignacio G. Galán looks at the dichotomy between Italian … Continue reading →

Villa Malaparte was mentioned here and there in the last few posts about the 14th Venice International Architecture Exhibition. The villa actually appears also in Liliana Cavani's La pelle (The Skin, 1981). Based on the eponymous novel by Curzio Malaparte … Continue reading →