Interni 2024 / 05

The cover of this month’s Interni is the result of the creativity of Atelier Bingo, the duo of French artists, designers and illustrators who have left everything and moved from Paris to the Nantes countryside, where they engage full-time in artistic research. In constant training, for ten years now Maxime Prou and Adèle Favreau are united by a way of creating that developed where their different artistic approaches met, two inclinations that gave rise to a veritable ‘Atelier Bingo method’. Underlying everything is experimentation and the use of collage, which distinguishes the couple’s art in a dialogue between forms and colors capable of giving rise to abstract images and illustrations inspired by everyday objects and situations. Silhouettes and figures that we come across casually every day, in a post on…

Restyling Guests of Philip Johnson Wolfhouse, a modernist jewel in Newburgh (NY) by the American master of architecture, returns to its former glory. With a precise cultural project and a special kitchen. The building shares a Miesian design vocabulary with the contemporary Glass House, but not the same fame. Today it is reborn as a cultural center presenting physical and virtual art and design exhibitions. But it is also a residence you can rent: a dream on Airbnb for over $1000 a night. Purchased in 2020 by two creatives, Jiminie Ha (director of Graphic Design at the Guggenheim Museum) and Jeremy Parker (art director), it has been subjected to a meticulous restoration. The owners have extended their approach to every aspect of the renovation of the property and its interior…

“BARBECUE MAY NOT BE THE ROAD TO WORLD PEACE, BUT IT’S A GOOD START,” said Anthony Bourdain. Indeed, this culinary art, with its millennia-old origins, promotes socialization and sharing. It’s a lifestyle that embodies conviviality and creativity. A story that has traversed countries, eras and cultures. Even Homer in the Iliad mentions this technique, speaking of civilizations that used fire to cook - and preserve - meat and fish. However, it is in the Southern area of the United States that BBQ found fertile ground to develop, becoming an integral part of local culture. Americans have the habit of thinking they invented barbecue, especially in states like Texas, Carolina, and Tennessee, where African American slaves, with ingenuity and skill, perfected smoking and slow cooking techniques, transforming initially cheap meats into…

A.I. IS A PROJECT THAT, METAPHORICALLY, RESOLVES THE ETERNAL DILEMMA between reason and feeling: the reason of the machine, of industry, and feeling understood as creative thought, the very essence of the human spirit, in this case Philippe Starck’s. The result: two million A.I. chairs sold in four years. These are the numbers of a “success in terms of both image and sales, also independent of the innovative concept of design with the help of artificial intelligence,” explains Lorenza Luti. A success “that has prompted us to develop an entire family that now comprises, in addition to a chair and stool, also a console, a new type for the company, and an indoor-outdoor lounge chair.” Presented in its final version at the last Salone del Mobile in Milan, these two…

LANA IS A RADIATOR FEATURING AN EMBOSSED FINISH and a pleated surface that interact with light, making the object vibrant, with a mutable appearance. It is an elegant sculptural presence in space. The modular radiator has been designed by the studio AMDL Circle of Michele De Lucchi, interacting for the first time with Antrax IT. The choice stems from the objective of the Treviso-based company to move forward in its collaborations with outstanding designers – such as Rodolfo Dordoni, Piero Lissoni, Marc Sadler and Matteo Thun, in the past – with the goal of exploring the aesthetic potential of heating elements in interior design, not just in the bathroom but also – increasingly – in the living area. Lana develops from three modules of a square 33-cm tile, convex and…

FROM THE SMALL TO THE LARGE SCALE, all the way to the sky dotted with thousands of drones as a way of reimagining historic architectures and monuments, Drift is the international studio based in Amsterdam that has contributed to setting the highest standard of contemporary multidisciplinary design, substantiating it with technology and a distinctively scientific approach. Famous worldwide for the drone dances with which they captivated the Burning Man festival, and for ‘completing’ the Sagrada Familia with an army of suspended lights and rebuilding the Colosseum, Lonneke Gordijn and Ralph Nauta, founders of Drift in 2007, are also the authors of Materialism, a research project that ‘dismantles’ the material and visual complexity of objects to represent them in juxtaposed blocks of matter and color. An operation that recalls Malevich’s or…