bastard store on the book italiArchitettura 4

by jep 19 January 2011

The book italiArchitettura (UTET edizioni) is part of a serie dedicated to italian architecture studios. This fourth volume deals with interiors and consists of more than threehundred pages, fourteen dedicated to the bastard store project of studiometrico.

Until now I think this is the best documentation ever published, with technical drawings and high quality details of the construction of the bastard bowl.

[…] questa quarta uscita di italiArchitettura è dedicata agli interni, che rappresentano un capitolo consistente, forse uno dei più importanti, della produzione architettonica nazionale. In un Paese dove si costruisce poco e si ristruttura molto è infatti inevitabile che parte delle migliori energie progettuali si riversino nel recupero di spazi già realizzati.

– Luigi Prestinenza Puglisi

You can buy the book online.
Watch out english readers as the book is written in italian only!

Imagine a Tree House

by MAS™ 19 January 2011

For a new season, Chérie’s Tree House is blooming in Milan.

Under a renewed autumn mantle you can dive in the woodland dreamish atmosphere of the fairy tale market.

Now to its sixth edition, Tree House will welcome you for the whole weekend at the 247 Showroom in via Pestalozzi, 4.

For those of you still in search of the most creative Christmas gift or the unmissable vintage item, for those who want to taste the all natural specialties of the bar or the now legendary vin brulé, for those who are interested in the istrionic dj set by Giandisco or for those who simply want to spend an afternoon wrapped up in a fantasy world.

I’ll be waiting for you there… as usual with a scoop in my hand and a shade of red wine on my cheeks :)

Olimpia Zagnoli Small Talk

by jep 19 January 2011

We love Olimpia Zagnoli‘s work – in the next bastard Artistuff collection out in march 2010 there is an Olimpia’s artwork on t-shirt – but I knew a little about her hystory. I discovered that she went as a child to the famous Reggio Emilia’s kindergartens, which I met some time ago.

In this video that resumes her recent lecture at AIGA/NY she talks about herself, her inspiration sources and her work in New York.

Bio Left Loft

by davidelp 19 January 2011

Visting Left Loft is always a pleasure.

Last Friday they opened up their offices to Ortaie, the company that usually stocks up their kitchen with biological products. So they turned their everyday offices in a fruit and vegetable market where one could buy fresh and genuine earth products grown right outside of Milan.

This way you can sip an aperitivo while you’re grocery shopping, a great time saving option in a city like Milan.

Talking bastard – Politecnico di Milano

by lorebini 19 January 2011