Cesare Cunaccia

Oct 12, 2024 | lampoonmagazine.com | Cesare Cunaccia

Daria Reina has made Diana Vreeland’s diktat her own: the eye has to travel. Chez Dédé, in fact, is an emporium in Rome that lays out different worlds, and stylistic and geographical contexts. When the door closes behind you, you feel like you have entered a different dimension.

Sep 18, 2024 | lampoonmagazine.com | Cesare Cunaccia

Demna Gvasalia seems to have grasped much of the Maison’s founder’s personality. This is evident in his most recent project – Balenciaga Music | Mina Series – dominated by the immense shadow and fluid voice of Mina. There’s an affinity that blends with the mystique of the genius misanthrope Balenciaga, who remains the foundational force behind the brand. Mina became an icon in music but also influenced fashion in the 1960s.

Aug 25, 2024 | lampoonmagazine.com | Cesare Cunaccia

In the fifties, Gio Ponti designed a pool for the Hotel Royal in Sanremo, filled with seawater and shaped like a lagoon. On the rooftop of the Royal Continental on the seafront in Naples, Ponti wanted his pool, on the tenth floor of the hotel and again filled with seawater, to dialogue with the view of the gulf, with Pizzofalcone Hill and the insular Castel dell’Ovo opposite.

Jun 14, 2024 | lampoonmagazine.com | Cesare Cunaccia

The urban fabric of Naples is marked by pushes for renewal and utopian signs, sometimes aborted, unfinished, or left at an embryonic stage. Architectural impulses that time, earthquakes, and wartime events, along with the course of human affairs, have transformed into scenic allegories.

Apr 18, 2024 | lampoonmagazine.com | Cesare Cunaccia

From the years preceding World War II to the threshold of the 1980s, a conception of modern architecture continued to develop in Italy with Milan as its epicenter, thanks to the patronage of a cultured bourgeoisie and inspired by values of sharing and renewal. In confluence with this social milieu were architects capable of understanding the Zeitgeist, redacted aesthetics and novel needs of living space in times of strong change, without forgetting traditional forms of representation.