"F" Stone Magazine, The New Magazine with Broad Views
... the Carrarese who dwells beneath, amidst white marble, had a cave for his abode....
Dante Alighieri, The Divine Comedy, Inferno Canto XX
A magazine is being launched, in the heart of the culture of stone and of caves, that wants to recount the facts and significant episodes of the use of stone in architecture, in design, in art. It is to be launched between Carrara and Massa, at the foot of the Apuane Alps, where, for over 25 centuries, sculptors, architects and artists in general have used the precious marble of Carrara.
|
|
01 |
|
|
|
| Marc Newson, born in 1963, is an Australian from Sydney. He began young, stimulated by Italian design, which he devoured in style magazines. Inspired by the streamlined forms of the fifties and sixties, he uses even marble [...] |
|
|
02 |
|
|
|
| How were you influenced by Italian design before starting your career? My mother was a single parent and when I was really young, in the early 1970s, she was the manager of a cool new hotel up the coast from Sydney – [...] |
|
|
|
03 |
|
|
|
| Marc Newson’s design for Aquariva started from a unique concept which uses an equally unique material for the deck and bridge, a laminated fabric (phenolic compound) that mimics wood. The material was developed in the early [...] |
|
|
|
04 |
|
|
|
| “Design of furnishings, upholstered furniture, lamps that I imagine for a simple, natural house, that can be mixed and matched with other elements without affecting their character.” From the poetic to the ethic of design. [...] |
|
|
|
05 |
|
|
|
| For over twenty years a sculptor resident in various parts of the world Born in 1953 in Bulgaria, for over twenty years a sculptor resident in various parts of the world but at home in Avenza, a suburb between Carrara [...] |
|
|
|
06 |
|
|
|
| Goodness knows whether the crowd queuing patiently outside the historic gates of the Nicoli Studio workshop to attend Vanessa’s event had ever seen a sculpture studio before? And who knows if one of the many “Girls of San [...] |
|
|
|
07 |
|
|
|
| POSTMONUMENT THE MONUMENT CHANGES REGISTER Thirty-three international artists, including stars and youthful promises, twenty-six new productions, ten exhibition venues with a section devoted to historical and contemporary [...] |
|
|
|
08 |
|
|
|
| It’s easy to become enamored of Torano. Perhaps because of the extreme kindness of those who, surreptitiously, sometimes water your flowers (which you have sadly neglected). Perhaps because everyone you meet unfailingly [...] |
|
|
|
|
.jpg&he=900&wi=90)
