Oggi apre il Superstudio! Tra gli eventi più grandi della settimana, raccoglie svariati espositori molto eterogenei tra loro. Ecco la mia personale selezione. Vi ricordo che molti degli eventi segnalati ieri sono ancora disponibili oggi. SuperDesign Show Dove: Superstudio Più, Via Tortona 27 Quando: 16-20 Aprile Ingresso Libero FORUM8 Con il tema Different Design: Think […]
A brief recap of my first day gallivanting around the Design Week and, as you know, the first day’s always an interlocutory one, with many installations not yet open and others still finding their feet. That’s why I walked 10 km, I guess. My original post (in Italian) featured a general selection of what you […]
The Sjöfru is a kind of Rå, a keeper of a particular kind of land in Swedish folklore, and she presides over waterbodies, usually lakes or small scraps of the sea. Her name is usually translated as “Mistress of the Lake”, “Sea Woman” or “Lake Mare”. Technically, her saltwater counterpart should be called havsrå. We […]
Ci sono tante guide e tante selezioni degli eventi che si terranno a Milano durante la settimana del salone, ed eccone un’altra. Il mio taglio è chiaramente tecnologico e legato all’innovazione digitale e sono passati cinque anni dall’ultima volta che l’ho fatto, quindi può essere che mi sfugga qualche canale alternativo. Se avete informazioni su […]
Frances Hodgson Burnett, born in Manchester and relocated to America during her adolescence following the death of her father, swiftly became the breadwinner for her family by crafting fiction for popular magazines. Hodgson demonstrated a talent for transforming clichés about England into captivating narratives tailored for the American mass-market: though she initially focused on creating […]
Alternatively translated “That Which Is In the Afterworld” or “Text of the Hidden Chamber Which is in the Underworld”, and called Kitab al-Akhira in Arabic, the Amduat is a funerary text from the New Kingdom and it has been found inscribed on the walls of tombs such as the one of Thutmose III, whose entire […]
20 minutes between submitting a query to a prospect agent and receiving a form rejection is close to my previous record, so let’s celebrate with a feast of Gothic tales on my Patreon, shall we? Born in 1849 in Scotland, James Hume Nisbet is known for his horror stories mostly set in Australia, a place […]
Lelwani, also spelt Leluwani, was a Hittite underworld deity, but their presence is attested way before the Hittite came to Anatolia. In the Hattic culture, Lelwani was considered a male deity and addressed as a “king” when the Hittites, known for adopting deities from conquered or neighbouring cultures, incorporated Lelwani into their own belief system. […]
Questa mattina aprendo LinkedIn mi è sembrato di essere tornata indietro nel tempo, e nello specifico mi è sembrato di essere tornata indietro di quasi dieci anni, al 2015, quando presentavo in Italiano il primo report dell’NBS circa l’adozione del BIM nel Regno Unito. Il RIBA infatti (Royal Institute of British Architects) ha recentemente presentato […]
Frederick George Loring was an English naval officer born in 1869, an early expert in the pioneering technology of wireless telegraphy and, incidentally, a writer. Born in the Isle of Wight as the eldest son of Admiral Sir William Loring and Frances Louisa Adams, he followed in his father’s and grandfather’s footsteps and served as […]