I have read, listened, written, drawn, painted, photographed, visited… Everything can be more interesting if you remain curious, if you do not lose the desire to learn and experiment. I pause to observe the contrasts of colors, the different points of view of a shot, the sound of synonyms with which the same thing can be described, the harmony of a painting. A note can also be color, poetry is also melody, an image can scream more than one word. The expression: that's all... it's all here. (Editorial Director - Art Director)
To talk about myself I would use the English concept of Language Enthusiast, with its bad translation into Italian. Years of study, travel and authentic and pulsating passion for what lies beyond the border converge in this expression. I have an indiscriminate interest in any culture and any person with a story to tell. I remain with difficulty compressed in my dimension, I feel the continuous need to push myself further. I can't stand the innuendo, the half sentences and the boredom of waiting rooms. Certainly communicative, analytical, I split reality into a thousand pieces and then reassemble it. I think and write in 4 languages, which I love all of them, because inside they sing me a beautiful song. (Editor - Translator).
What unites Piacentini's Architecture with Greenaway's Cinema, Munari's Design with Tiepolo's painting and Kandiskij's studies? What unites the election posters with the paper tickets we used for the tram? For visual culture, the challenge of the third millennium lies in seeing the red thread that binds each of its branches to tell the image and aesthetics. I would like to do it through a passion that comes from the tradition of classic cinema. After all, what is the history of Design if not the cerebral attempt to give a soul to matter, to plagiarize the form according to its most hidden meaning and all to be revealed? (Editor - Reporter)
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The next few months of 2025 will be characterized by a return to the styles - we use the plural for the multiplicity of these aspects - typical of the Seventies, a decade characterized by strong social and political contrasts on the one hand and by an explosion of new shapes and colors on the other, in a society profoundly renewed compared to the previous decade. Revaluing the Seventies means, specifically, recovering colors such as earthy ones like brown, orange, mustard, ivory and even shades of green, which were rather pop. Combinations of bright colors, perhaps taken a little to excess, characterized the interior design and fashion of those years. Interesting geometric shapes, such as the triangle, are once again at the forefront: the metallic textures of Planium allow you to play by combining them with rectangles, or to create islands of color on the floor or wall or, in a more regular manner, to alternate them with standard, square-shaped tiles. Brass, one of Planium's flagship metals, with an important color in this perspective, came back into fashion but - unlike how it was used in the 1930s - it served and is being revived today with more iridescent shades and less classic and less demanding, more “smart” shapes and installations: combining it with dark Calamine or light stainless steel is a personal style choice that characterizes the interiors in one direction or another, to give now contrast and now a convergence on tones linked to brightness.
Satin Finishing and Embossing for Material Effects
Among the materials, wood, leather and fabrics such as carpet were favored. Even fashion in clothing followed this trend a little, both in terms of colors and fabrics (especially velvet); other imposing decorative elements treated objects such as pendant lamps with geometric designs, psychedelic designs linked to narcotics that suited the excesses of the moment, but even floral motifs were very pop. To retrace this scenario, the satin finish of the Planium textures will be able to obtain surprising material effects; thanks to this treatment, metal is no longer smooth as with brushing, but takes on a different, more elaborate tactile connotation that, even visually, creates an effect close to the design we have described. The embossing of the Planium steel also bears witness to this trend. With the historiated surface, friction and also visual perception change, because the steel alternates its classic brightness with some shadows that at a distance of a few meters give an optical effect of an “artistic” grid.
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17 marzo 2025 - by La Redazione TBlog
