The Art Newspaper - International art news and eve • 6th May 2026

Hotel and art hub Casabianca opens on Italy's Lake Como

“Every step I have taken in my life has led me here, now,” says Paolo De Santis, reading the words on a stone slab that marks the threshold of the two wings of Villa Mondolfo on Lake Como. The villa is home to three generations of the De Santis family, and to walk across the work by the artist Alberto Garutti and into this house is to enter their world. Inside is a large carpet collaged from salvaged offcuts by the Italian conceptual artist Flavio Favelli and a chandelier reconfigured from an ar...

Livingetc • 5th April 2026

In This San Diego Home, the Kitchen Backsplash Set the Tone

"One of the first things we picked out was the kitchen backsplash, it pulls so many colors," California-based interior designer Abbie Naber of A. Naber Design recalls. The kitchen features multicolored zellige mosaic, which has been intentionally repeated in new architectural features like the wall niches created by T7 Architecture. This family renovation project began in the winter of 2023, and ended just as the clients were expecting their third child.Their brief was for a complete makeover of...

Wallpaper* • 16th March 2026

Meet Orfeo Tagiuri, whose cartoons mix humour, melancholy and meditation

A framed A3 piece shows a green snail hugging a person and the text reads ‘Slow down + chill the hell out, you’re doing great!’ The work is by Orfeo Tagiuri, who explains; ‘I like the idea that the characters in my work are not defined, even from a gender perspective. Ideally, they are universal so that people can identify with them.’London-based Tagiuri was born in America to a psychiatrist mother and an architect father. The 34-year-old has lived and studied in both London and the United State...

Humus • 11th March 2026

Purcell Architects: improving heritage buildings and restoring civic pride - Humus

Tom Brigden is an architect and the author of Value in the View: Conserving Historic Urban Views (Riba Publishing, 2018), a comprehensive study of the ideas and philosophies at work in policies of view protection. Brigden studied at the Welsh School of Architecture. He then went on to complete a PhD at Newcastle University before joining Purcell Architects who are notable for their work on iconic heritage projects including the Elizabeth Tower – more commonly known as ‘Big Ben’. “I always knew t...

Wallpaper* • 10th March 2026

Tour this art-filled Jenga Building apartment

Nacho Polo and Robert Onuska live in a conspicuous New York building designed by Herzog & de Meuron in the city's trendy Tribeca. Downstairs, Anish Kapoor's first permanent public sculpture resembles a shiny mirrored balloon, half squashed under the weight of the building.One of their gallery spaces, Studiotwentyseven, is located just opposite the building. The couple's first space is in Miami, where they live part time. 'When we started looking for a home in New York we were initially looking f...

AD Middle East • 19th February 2026

Galib Gassanoff, an Azeri-Georgian Designer, Is Weaving Dresses From Shoelaces and Cotton

There aren't many designer's paying homage to their roots, but Galib Gassanoff is paying close attention. Institution was named a semi-finalist for the 2026 LVMH Prize — the Italian label with Georgian and Azerbaijani roots, founded and creatively led by designer Galib Gassanoff.Last September, Institution founder Galib Gassanoff explained the process behind the dress he was exhibiting at the Kering S|Style Denim Lab show, curated by Giorgia Cantarini. Fresh from the close of his spring/summer 2...

Wallpaper* • 20th December 2025

Perfumery Satinine’s new store is an homage to Milan's entryways

If you've ever entered a Milanese residential building, you'll likely have been impressed by the details that go into the lobby area. From marble walls or rich tapestry, to designer sconces or intricate terrazzo floor tiles. These gateways to people's homes were often crafted with care.When fragrance company Satinine was founded in 1883 in Milan by Lorenzo Usellini, the famous Galleria Emmanuelle II had recently been completed and the Liberty style was about to flourish. For the brand’s 2025 rel...

The New York Times • 11th November 2025

Designing for a Holy Woman Who Was No Slouch With a Hammer

The nun known as Madre Carmen is the first female saint from Venezuela. Carmen Elena Rendiles Martínez was born in 1903, in Caracas, Venezuela. Born to an affluent family of French background, she studied art as a teenager. At 23, she joined a French religious order, the Servants of the Eucharist, and dedicated her life to the Church five years later. She died in Caracas, from influenza, in 1977.

Wallpaper* • 8th November 2025

Dubai Design Week celebrates a new generation of designers, creating beyond the spectacle

The natural makeup of Dubai’s Creek has been a vital regional hub for East and West trade for centuries. And today it continues to be a nerve centre for the exchange of ideas, and culture, too at the Dubai Design Week, which runs until November 9th. Here global creativity converges with local heritage to shape a city’s evolving identity.How does a city known for hosting the world’s tallest building reconnect with its roots, often hidden behind glass and steel in a growing metropolis? At the Desi...

Wallpaper* • 15th October 2025

Inside Michele de Lucchi's vision for yacht company Azimut

When speaking about the design of Azimut Yachts’ new headquarters in Avigliana, Michele De Lucchi began with an unexpected yet fitting analogy: comparing a company to a human body.'A person is an organism made up of different elements, such as the heart and lungs, and just like a human being, a company is made up of essential parts that must be nourished in order to function. It also has an identity,' De Lucchi explains. The comparison encapsulates why De Lucchi and his team at AMDL Circle were...

AD Middle East • 29th September 2025

5 Contemporary Glass Artists to Know at Venice Glass Week 2025

With bold experiments and distinctive styles, contemporary glass artists are redefining what Venetian glass can be today.Legend has it that glass was first discovered in what is now modern-day Syria, but it was in Murano that the craft truly flourished. There, innovation and competition were shrouded in secrecy; what happened in Murano was meant to stay in Murano.At the ninth edition of Venice Glass Week, however, it’s clear that while some traditions remain, others are rapidly evolving. “Histor...

Wallpaper* • 23rd September 2025

Highlights of Lake Como Design Festival

Sometimes, little fragments do offer a clearer view of the bigger picture. At Lake Como Design Festival 2025 – which ran 14-21 September, and was themed ‘Fragments’ – that perspective reflected the state of contemporary design itself, where tested ideas are being reimagined through material innovation. Perhaps Como’s history as a centre of rationalist architecture isn’t just a legacy of the past, but a living influence. It quietly shaped the work on show, revealing recurring themes of adaptabili...

The Times • 23rd August 2025

Welcome to Milan’s new millionaire members’ club

Milan has long been Italy’s style and financial capital. But since Brexit and increased tax on non-doms in the UK — and the re-arrival of Trump in the US — it now has almost as many UHNW (ultra-high-net-worth) residents as London and Paris, according to Henley & Partners’ 2025 World’s Wealthiest Cities Report. Estimated to be home to 17 billionaires and 115,000 millionaires, with numbers fast rising, the city is having to adapt to meet the influx, the latest being a new private members’ club. T...

AD Middle East • 15th August 2025

This Contemporary Courtyard Home in Pune Promises Seamless Indoor-Outdoor Living Without Compromising on Privacy

Natural materials like sandstone and marble elegantly play a role in rooting this courtyard home in Pune, India. Together they deliver a considered, minimalist look where different design details and textures reveal themselves as the sun moves across the sky, choreographing a dance of light and shadows. Named after the Hindi word for a latticed privacy screen, Jali House by Studio VDGA is indeed an ode to the transformative power of light with nature becoming a key protagonist around which the f...

The World Of Interiors • 28th July 2025

Italy’s Most Outstanding Opera Houses

Narrowing down a list of Italy’s best opera houses – the country where the theatrical form was born, and where it remains a cultural cornerstone – is no easy task. The medium’s origins lie in a daring artistic experiment: the quest of a group of Florentine intellectuals to revive the spirit of ancient Greek tragedy through music. The result was Dafne (1597), widely regarded as the first opera, composed by Jacopo Peri – who, like the throng of modern pop stars who have since done the same, first...

Country and Town House • 17th July 2025

12 Environmental Innovations Transforming Our World For Good

From fashion to food, Ifeoluwa Adedeji spotlights 12 environmental innovations transforming the way we live, work and care for the planet Global issues require multi-pronged approaches and collaboration to drive truly transformational change. From the materials we build with to the clothes we wear and the way we produce food, regeneration is becoming a guiding principle. With contributions from Springwise and This Way Next, we explore the practices and innovations that are helping us improve agr...

AD Middle East • 3rd July 2025

Clever Home Renovation Ideas and Storage Solutions Transformed an Old Palm Jumeirah Apartment into a Japandi-Inspired Haven

During the renovation the team had to make the most out of every inch of space of the home and overhaul the outdated mechanical, electrical, and plumbing system to successfully create a truly refined finish.Establishing privacy between the staff quarters was an important element of the design consideration, Studio Urjowan Interiors installed a frosted Rimadesio pivot door, which creates a division between the main living room and dining zone from that of the staff area. Cleverly concealed storag...

Wallpaper* • 15th June 2025

Meet the Palestinian artist putting a candy-coloured twist on traditional glassmaking

Remember display cabinets? Those off-limits enclosed shelves that displayed treasured possessions for all to see? Perhaps there was one in your grandma or auntie’s home, and to touch something before you were of the proper age invited strict reprimand. Jerusalem-based Palestinian glass artist Lameice Abu Aker is all-too-familiar with this experience. In fact, her grandmother’s home and the warm memories of family gatherings have inspired her collections of swirling, candy-coloured domestic objec...

The Observer • 27th April 2025

Inside a jewellery designer’s Brooklyn brownstone

The dining room overlooking the garden: 'Brooklyn is now both peaceful and hip, gentrified yet still energised'“Brooklyn in the 1980s was dicey,” recalls Italian jewellery designer Ippolita Rostagno, now a confirmed Park Slope resident. Perhaps especially so for a trained sculptor who grew up in the Tuscan hills just outside Florence, and whose childhood influences included horse-riding and her mother’s love of Renaissance art.When Rostagno first moved to the US in 1982, she lived in Los Angeles...

Wallpaper* • 17th April 2025

Tour this grand Milan apartment – a celebration of Italian design and craft

‘If I could choose just one piece from the room, it would probably be the table,’ says LA-based interior designer Brigette Romanek, referring to the dining room in a striking 19th-century apartment in Palazzo Donizetti, Milan. She’s one of six designers chosen to style ‘L’Appartamento’, the annual Milan Design Week showcase of Artemest, the online destination for Italian design and craftsmanship.The piece she’s talking about is ‘L’Armando’, a two-piece travertine table with soft, rounded corners...