MacGuffin presents CHAINS, its very first podcast – which bears the title of the latest issue of the Dutch magazine – hosted by Alix de Massiac

“In the five-part podcast CHAINS, Alix de Massiac paints a portrait of the Amsterdamse Stadsbank van Lening, a four-hundred-year-old pawnshop that’s a unique combination of business and social service. The Stadsbank lends money, accepting jewellery as collateral. Payment is immediate, but onward sale or melting down are irrevocable if the loan isn’t paid off on time” - check out here the editorial project by MacGuffin.

Salone Selection

Parametric architecture: what it is, its origins and some examples of Parametricism

From Luigi Moretti at the 1960 Triennale to Patrik Schumacher’s manifesto and the works of Zaha Hadid: a history of architecture that entrusts form to algorithms, and which seeks to evolve from a method into a style

Salvatore Peluso

Exhibitions

Salone Contract 2027: design meets major international projects in Torre PwC

Report of the event on Friday 9 October, the first stage of the itinerary of discussion devoted to the debut of Salone Contract towards the 2027 edition

Salone Selection

ADI Design Museum: the Compasso d’Oro collection reinterpreted from scratch

Five years since it opened, the museum in Milan presents the first new scientific reordering of its Historical Collection. Curator Maite García Sanchis relates how the way of interpreting over seventy years of design is changing, while Domitilla Dardi explains why the “Anthological” study enables the award-winning objects to dialogue with literature