|| A guest post by Jesse Hughes Purchasing your first home is an exciting, yet daunting time. The house buying process can be complicated and there are many things which can be overlooked until after you’ve completed the deal. This is why it is essential to do your research first, if you don’t you may […]

A well designed home office is a lot more than just a desk with a table lamp. It needs to be an entity, a space, where things get done. It must foremost promote productivity. Its layout must have a good flow, so that it’s comfortable with a large enough work surface and good lighting in […]

My previous post was all about adding a delectable dose of mustard yellow; a hot new trend. This month I bring you an equally gorgeous top colour, oh so tempting teal; the darker hue a must-watch colour for 2019. Fancy a dive into the deep? *Disclosure: this page contains affiliate links. This means if you click […]

Happy to share big news with you today: finally we have an online shop and you can find it at this link! In the shop, you can now find furniture, lighting, home decor, ceramics, textiles, items for bathroom and kitchen, but also stationery and books. One category links also to the e-book too. Always from the […]

After investigating the design of the kitchens now and about what people would like in their ideal kitchen with this global survey, we begin now to talk about the kitchens of the future. More specifically, about kitchen trends with a series of dedicated posts, in collaboration with the Italian premium brand for kitchen appliances Bertazzoni. The […]

More and more often I receive questions about how online interior design or e-design works. The interest in this type of interior consulting comes both from clients and from my colleagues interior designers. I think offering online interior design services is a great way to make yourself known beyond your city, as well as to acquire […]

  I will admit it, in the past four years Senegal has been spoiling me with its many beauties:  amazing landscapes, bright sun and mild temperatures, nice people, history and culture. Besides my daily life in Dakar, what I am really enjoying here is visiting around and get to know better the country;  and four […]

Design is the silent ambassador of your brand. Paul Rand The term visual identity identifies all those visuals which represent a brand, which makes a business unique. It may include logo design, fonts, photos, graphics, web, designed in a consistent way to make a brand recognizable. A good visual identity design, in fact, is a cohesive […]

We all know that design is not just about product and interior design. Design is everywhere: in art, in graphics, in fashion, in music, in all creative industries. That’s why I think that sharing this creative trend 2019 report with you may be really interesting. Based on billions of search data across images, videos, and music and […]

The home of the future should be modern, soft, open, flexible. It’s the combination of culturally acquired and individual designs that determines a home’s special character. But it is also up-to-date? Do our homes still conform to our needs, the rhytms of modern life, or just with traditions? “Das Haus – Interiors on Stage” is […]

As you probably already know, we are painting @italianbark Instagram in Mustard Yellow this month. Being a sucker for the colour myself, I just had to pick up the theme and go crazy dreaming up a space that would be entirely made of gorgeous pieces in this sophisticated, yet very spicy shade. Mustard yellow has […]

Hello guys, finally I was able to put together a small trend report from the imm Cologne 2019 furniture fair. This year as well I spotted many interesting news at the fair, which is the first design fair of the year and always full of inspiring brands and settings. I noticed the confirmation of a lot […]

Ok guys it’s been quite a long time since I told you I was going to restyle my home office…but things in the last months of the year went crazy both with the blog and with the studio projects. In Italy there is this proverb: “the shoemaker always wears worn-out shoes” . That’s exactly what […]

Did you ever realise that we already live in the future? At least, the future as Ettore Sottsass and Joe Colombo, among others, used to dream of. It’s been a long way since. Technology has evolved so much that it radically changed the way in which we live today. We are more nomadic than ever, […]

Imagine living in a new world where you could re-design everything: from objects to houses, from business models to economic systems. The good news is: we are already living in this new world. With all the current disruptive tools and technologies: artificial intelligence, internet of things and biomimicry – our design aspirations are limited only […]