Welcome to Inhabitat, your online guide to the best green design ideas, innovations and inspiration to build a cleaner, brighter, and better future. While Italy’s dynastic family design set might have one foot in the past, it is a past whose legacy has very much helped to shape the present day and will continue to inform the future. Lo spettatore compie un viaggio attraverso la storia del design italiano, navigando in una sequenza d’immagini di oggetti e architetture simbolo di sei grandi maestri. This blending of classic Venetian glass manufacture with the modernist design sensibility of architect Carlo Scarpa represents the link between old and new. A better exchange rate, though, means Italian design will soon arrive in the Southwest, where it works quite nicely. With a focus on Italian craftsmanship, design and style the course explores how Italian manufacturing is exemplary in its identification and use of materials and techniques. The trend for reissuing back catalogue designs is one adopted by many Italian companies. The twenty-first century is increasingly showing a new-found intensity in these design skills.
However, hulls with lots of large spaces in them such as this with the helo hangar, mission bays and forward VLS space (especially with 3 Mk41 modules) always complicate ship design. Joseph Muniz, of Signarama, takes a closer look at the window graphic he installed at Contents Interiors. Italian designers take their inspiration from a special artistic atmosphere existing in Italy, whose roots could be found in Giotto’s painting and Michelangelo’s sculpture, just to mention two of the most known Italian artists of the past. The main output of the project is the creation of an online platform – a dedicated website – that will host an interactive map of the Italian design in Vancouver.
So, before we get underway, I’d like to share with you a few of the driftwood lamp creations that we have recently produced here in our Skipjack design studio located in Olde Towne Portsmouth, Virginia. We decided to design and produce, together with the Nike team, tailored textures that were applied as lampshades. Italian Design Interiors became over the years the designer’s source for fine Italian furniture, all styles under one roof. Italy is too the home of the renowned Salone del Mobile , where every April the country’s biggest family design firms flaunt their wares in design-savvy Milan.
They will be proclaimed by the Consul General of Italy the Italian Design Ambassadors in Vancouver” and will receive a stylish dedicated storefront banner or plaque. Linda’s design work blended the wonderful period items that I love to live with together with a liveable space with traditional upholstered (comfortable) seating furniture and an eye-pleasing color palette that brought it all together.
It’s already September which means the year is winding down, but this month you can take advantage of our proximity to the Industrial Designers Prize – Slow Design Exhibition at the Italian Cultural Institute in New York. The focus of the movement was the design of surfaces and colourful surfaces, the multi-functionality instead of mono -functionality and the communicative aspect of the products. Their online service allows you an opportunity to design your space from the comfort of your home, your office, or even on-the-go using your internet-accessible device! Dolce & Gabbana is a luxury Italian fashion house founded in 1985 in Legnano by Italian designers Domenico Dolce and Stefano Gabbana.