April 1, 2015, Wednesday 2:00 PMPhiladelphia Museum of Art - Benjamin Franklin Parkway and 26th StPhiladelphia, Pennsylvania 19130 Lino Tagliapietra in conversation with Elisabeth Agro, The Nancy M. McNeil Associate Curator of American Modern and Contemporary Crafts and Decorative Arts In the late 1970s, noted Italian glass artist Lino...

by Irene Gallucci   Commercial Director U.S.A - For an italian design industry company, we are searching for a Commercial Director for North America Territory. Full responsibility for managing and supervising of the branch's trade side. English fluent.   Availability to relocate in U.S.A. Coming from design/forniture/architectural fie...

The first event organised by the Institute of Art History (Giorgio Cini Foundation) in 2014 – the 60th anniversary year of its foundation – is an international conference to commemorate the great 20th-century architect and designer Tomaso Buzzi.   The Institute of Art History will stage the conference through its own Centre for the Study of...

by Silvia Simonetti   On Wednesday, September 17, the GRAYE showroom in Beverly Hills hosted an interesting round table on contemporary design and architecture trends, with the participation of a special guest: Italian architect and designer Piero Lissoni.   He was invited to share his views and knowledge with other representatives of...

The fifth Natuzzi Italia store opened in South Florida in the Miami Design District on February 12, at 3818 N. Miami Ave. amid grand opening festivities. The new franchise joins stores in Aventura, Ft. Lauderdale, Boca Raton and Orlando with two other stores in the development phase in Pinecrest and Naples.   "Natuzzi Italia is the most pres...

by James Barron   It wouldn't be a Santa Fe Concorso without a theme, and this year's will come swooping in like a Ferrari. The sixth annual event of what the Concorso calls "The Southwest's premier automobile gathering" will have a blend of Italian and American style when it commences Sept. 25-27. "Ferrari in America" is one of the cen...

  WTI Magazine #36    2014 June, 25Author : Martina Siega      Translation by:   The Italian designer Piero Lissoni is the winner of the XXIII edition of Compasso d'Oro. The Door L16 LUALDI has been rewarded as Compasso d'Oro 2014. The awards ceremony took place on May 28th, in Milan.    

by Terence Cullen   An Italian cabinet-maker is moving into a ground-floor space at 50 West 23rd Street in the Flatiron District, Commercial Observer has learned. César, a kitchen cabinet company based in northern Italy, inked a deal on Monday for 3,200 square feet at Two Trees Management Company's only Manhattan commercial building, ac...

Costruire un ponte tra l'eccellenza del Made in Italy nel creare bellezza e la capacità industriale e tecnologia della Silicon Valley. È questo il fulcro del progetto Making in Italy-Making in Usa: Artisanship, Technology and Design. Innovating with Beauty, che si terrà dall'11 al 24 giugno a San Francisco nell'ambito dell'Anno della Cultura Italia...

Massimo Vignelli, an acclaimed graphic designer who gave shape to his spare, Modernist vision in book covers and shopping bags, furniture and corporate logos, even a church and a New York City subway map that enchanted aesthetes and baffled straphangers, died on Tuesday at his home in Manhattan. He was 83.   His death, after a long illness,...