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1 month ago | designwanted.com | Valentina Lonati

Situated on Yumeshima, a man-made island in Osaka Bay, Grand Ring serves as the centerpiece of the six months long international exposition. With a circumference of approximately 2 km, a building area of approximately 60,000 mª, a height of 12 m and an inner diameter of approximately 615 m, it is considered the largest wooden architectural structure in the world (according to Guinness World Records).

1 month ago | designwanted.com | Elina Boeva

A well-disguised turning point of his auspicious beginnings, born in Cortanze d’Asti, Italy in 1893, Battista Farina was the tenth of eleven children and prophetically nicknamed “Pinin” as the youngest brother of the bunch, the little one. Contrary to tamed beliefs, youth extends far beyond a number. Youth is very much a mindset–an outlook on life that fosters and nourishes vitality, imagination, fearlessness.

1 month ago | designwanted.com | Elina Boeva

In an evergreen sea of interior creations that have stood the test of time, Battista “Pinin” Farina’s faithful words that “above all, it must be beautiful” ceaselessly reverberate and simultaneously string them all together. Unparalleled technique, pure elegance, functionality, and the courageous act of humanizing innovation can be identified as the key ingredients that power and sustain iconic Italian design house Pininfarina’s renowned approach to furniture and domestic design.

2 months ago | designwanted.com | Elina Boeva

Mario Cucinella affectionately recalls spending countless hours with his grandmother in the kitchen. Vivid bursts of her warm embrace and gentle wit–and how all those hearty meals she would piece together filled the air of his childhood home with comfort–creep in ever so often. Aptly entitled Memè, the nickname the celebrated Italian architect, designer, and author had for his beloved grandmother, is an enchanting reinterpretation of a timeless kitchen object, the sideboard.

2 months ago | designwanted.com | Elina Boeva

Jenna Basso Pietrobon continuously creates systems of expression and then disrupts them on purpose. In this way, she feels free. Break the Mold is an assortment of captivating customizable and sustainably crafted ceramic vases and lamps in a constant state of evolution that, at its core, battles convention. The latest chapter of its story is the most nuanced one yet.