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Maison&Objet is delighted to announce that Mathieu Lehanneur’s has been named as “Designer of the Year 2024”.

In 2024, Maison&Objet marks 30 years of French-inspired excellence in the home décor, design and lifestyle industry. Marking this occasion, the show will take visitors on a journey to a re-enchanted future, where technology and nature exist in harmony.

In collaboration with the design studio Tellurico, The Good Plastic Company created a large installation titled An Iceberg in the Desert, an oxymoron with a focus on the future of humankind and the environment.

The 40th Cersaie fully lived up to the expectations of the exhibitor companies that chose to invest in the event. A total of 633 companies participated, occupying an exhibition space of 145,000 square metres in fifteen fully packed out halls of the Bologna exhibition centre.

Tile International took part in the exclusive press preview held in Milan this summer, at the studio of the famous architect and interior designer Andrea Castrignano. We took the opportunity to interview Stefano Storchi, Marketing Director of Cerdisa Ricchetti Group.

With a letter of intent signed on 18 July, the Italcer Group, one of Italy’s leading manufacturers of ceramic floor and wall tiles and bathroom furnishings, has initiated the process of acquiring 100% of the Terratinta Group, a company specialising in high-end furnishing surfaces based in Fiorano Modenese.

In keeping with its annual tradition, TILE INTERNATIONAL is publishing a preview of of the 2022 REVENUES of the leading Italian ceramic tile manufacturers.

As part of its drive to make cooking a safe, enjoyable, intuitive experience, RAKCeramics is proud to present CookingRAK, a unique hidden induction cooktop, designed to create a multi-functional kitchen space that is ideal for everyday use.

“MyCera. Application of mycelial growth within digitally manufactured clay structures" published by Shape Lab - Institute of Architecture and Media, Graz University of Technology (TU Graz)

A conference will be held on Thursday 28 September in the Palazzo dei Congressi in Bologna as part of Cersaie’s Building, Dwelling, Thinking programme to celebrate the 50th anniversary of Jørn Utzon’s Sydney Opera House (1973-2023), one of the most important works of modern architecture to make extensive use of ceramic tiles.

To mark the 40th edition of Cersaie, the exhibition space will feature a fascinating route reliving 40 years of its evolution, focusing on design, technology, products and companies that have made history. Route 40 takes the visitor through the defining moments of these four decades, illustrating the major changes that have taken place in culture, society, design and production.

CRA breathes new life into a crumbling monastery within a UNESCO World Heritage Site in Northern Italy. The project employs 3D scanners to convert the decaying ruin into a digital point-cloud. Then prefab timber skin is fitted into the old structure, preserving the trees and ivies that have grown amid the bricks. The design proposes a new framework for restoration, bridging the natural and artificial worlds.

VERSO, the year-old interiors and design gallery launched last summer by Amauri Aguiar and Bryan Young, once again embarks on an aesthetic residency at Six Square House in historic Bridgehampton.

Schlüter-Systems has significantly expanded the MyDesign by Schlüter-Systems programme for customisation: Customers can now apply their own artwork to numerous Schlüter profiles with digital printing.

TUBES exhibiting at the 4th Venice Design Biennial, from 19 May to 18 June, in parallel to the first month of the Architecture Biennale.

On the occasion of Salone del Mobile 2023 Studiopepe took part in CAMPO BASE, a Manifesto project together with five other Italian architecture studios, examining the state of interior design in a collective exploration of the concept of intimacy.

“Spaziale. Everyone belongs to everyone else” is the title of the Italian Pavilion at the 18th International Architecture Exhibition – La Biennale di Venezia, promoted by the Directorate-General for Contemporary Creativity of the Ministry of culture and curated by Fosbury Architecture (Giacomo Ardesio, Alessandro Bonizzoni, Nicola Campri, Veronica Caprino, and Claudia Mainardi).

A dreamlike fantasy setting was created using tiles by WOW Design, with surprising results able to transport visitors to a whole new dimension.

The Essential Homes Research Project by Holcim and the Norman Foster Foundation was inaugurated in Venice at the occasion of 2023 Biennale of Architecture launch. In this partnership the Norman Foster Foundation designed the housing concept to meet essential human needs, providing safety, comfort and wellbeing for people in displacement, who can live in temporary settlements for decades.

The Pritzker Architecture Prize presents The Role of Practice, the 2023 Laureate Lecture and Panel Discussion, on Tuesday, May 23rd at 3:40PM EEST, in partnership with the National Technical University of Athens, and with the participation of the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, University of Patras and Technical University of Crete.