design

June 16, 2016
Giovan Battista Filippo Basile , who died on this day in 1891, was an Italian architect based in Palermo.

April 14, 2016
Neoclassical architect and designer Giuseppe Valadier was born on this day, April 14, in 1762.

January 31, 2016
Ernesto Basile was born on 31 January 1857 in Palermo, where he would become chair of architecture at the city’s university.

November 1, 2015
Architect, Urban Planner and Furniture Designer Franco Albini Died on 1 November 1977 in Milan.

October 17, 2015
Architect, urban planner, and furniture designer Franco Albini was born on 17 October 1905 in the Lombard town of Robbiate.

June 2, 2015
Italian architect and designer Carlo Scarpa was born on 2 June 1906 in Venice.

May 27, 2015
Graphic Designer Massimo Vignelli Died on 27 May 2014 in New York City.

October 9, 2014
Piero Fornasetti died on 9 October 1988.

July 21, 2014
philamuseum : The Alessi website calls this cute corkscrew “a tongue-in-cheek homage to a real woman.” However, the curator of “ The Main Dish “ exhibition, Erica Warren, suggests a more literal translation involving the objectification of women: “She’s got her smiling face.

September 1, 2013
Michael Kimmelman reviews the new Cantina Antinori Headquarters designed by Florentine firm Archea in the New York Times .