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Gino Sarfatti (1912, 1985) was born in Venice on 16th September 1912. His father Riccardo, or “Dick”, ran a prosperous business network, while his mother Lucia, known as Micaela, belonged to the Zuccoli family from Trieste. Gino and his brother and...
It was 1967 when a group of architects, designers, carpenters, and alpine guides met in Savoy with the mission to construct the first mainstream ski resort. No longer an exclusive activity for the wealthy, skiing was soon to become the winter equivalent of a vacation...
In 1951 Isamu Noguchi visited the town of Gifu, Japan, known for its manufacture of lanterns and umbrellas from mulberry bark paper and bamboo. Noguchi designed the first of his lamps that would be produced by the traditional Gifu methods of construction. He...