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Shaker Logic: How Two Centuries of Subtraction Shaped Modern Design
There's a style that, for two and a half centuries, has kept saying the same thing: less is enough, if it's done well. It was born in 1774, when a group of "Shaking Quakers" — dissident Quakers persecuted in England for their animated way of praying — crossed the Atlantic and founded communities in Massachusetts built on principles that, for the era, were almost revolutionary: common property, pacifism, equality between men and women. They rejected the excess of the Industria


The "As Found" Effect: Why Interior Design Magazines Are Booming
While legacy titles cut their frequency, slash their editorial teams, or abandon print altogether, something is happening that should give us pause: new magazines are being born. Kitchen corner captured in natural "as found" aesthetics, featuring a stainless steel fridge partially open, under a shelf lined with ornamental pots, embodying the serene and candid style of Scenery magazine. Niche, expensive, painfully slow to produce. In the world of design and interiors, titles l


Held in Tension: Gabriella Crespi's Lesson for Today's Interiors
n 1987, at the height of her success, she left everything behind and departed for India. But by then, she had already rewritten the rules of styling — without anyone quite noticing. Gabriella Crespi never ran a brand: she directed a workshop, in the most Renaissance sense of the word. Milanese by adoption, born in Saronno in 1922, she trained in architecture at the Politecnico di Milano, but her true sources of inspiration lay elsewhere: in nature, whose value she grasped in
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