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Designing Sustainability

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Stuart Walker’s new book, Designing Sustianability, is a continuation of his original and groundbreaking in the field of design for sustainability. It follows his previous two books, Sustainable by Design:…

Gods and Kings

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In the first decade of the twenty-first century, the fashion world was dominated by two very different but equally successful and turbulent figures. But in February 2010, Alexander McQueen committed…
Images © Colombe Clier – VIA 2015

Cool & Easy

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It’s official: furniture can now control room temperature – and save energy by doing so. The climate table – a first release of the Zero Energy Furniture range – can…
Images: Agnese Sanvito

Denim Dudes

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It is a bold statement to say that ‘denim is the most important fabric of the twenty-first century,’ but one that surely must resonate with a world in which half of…
Images: Marco Auber

The Evolution of Clay

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On display for the first time at the next annual Parisian trade fair, Maison&Objet, Cartocci Print and the vases Tulipani and Anemoni make their entrance in society in the neutral…

Let’s Do What the Vikings Did

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The European project Green Village – featured before in Sublime – resulted in an explosion of innovation, giving birth to a whole set of new values, ideas and training materials. The main lesson…
All Images by Francesco Mastalia

Organic, Photographer & Subject

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Organic is a feast to the senses. Much more than just a photography book about farmers and chefs of New York’s Hudson Valley, it is a message about integrity. The individuals…
Images: Sarah Reimann

Learning the Craft

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In the last four years, a European partnership of NGOs, municipalities and public bodies from the UK, Bulgaria, Cyprus, Germany, Iceland, Italy, Romania and Slovakia joined forces to investigate rural…

Sustainable Luxury

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Social entrepreneurship was, to my mind, an ambiguous term that hovered elusively in the distant domain of business and enterprise. Seeing as it has been circulating the public agenda since…