Urban Vintage

The first thing that catches your eye isn't the cabinet itself.

It's the light.

At its center, a sculptural chrome spiral wraps around the bulb, almost like the blades of a turbine or the petals of a metallic flower. As the light turns on, it bounces through the smoked glass and mirrored surfaces, creating reflections that shift every time you move around the piece.

It's a small detail, but one that transforms a functional bar into something theatrical.

Here are the barely seen faces but in total chaotic fun mood behind Urban Vintage.

A few days ago, our three-year-old rode his bike past a Cini Boeri Lunario dining table, missing the glass by about 2 cm. Our youngest has already come close to spilling milk on Pierre Paulin's F300.

If something ever gets damaged beyond restoration, it will become the perfect reason to bring it home ourselves. Every mark, every scratch, every little imperfection will remind us of that exact moment and of these hard, chaotic, and incredibly beautiful years of raising our children.

This was our idea of a newborn photo session: photographed at Urban Vintage, with the pieces that have become part of our everyday life.

The most enduring architecture respects the landscape that came before it. It finds ways to preserve it, frame it and make it part of everyday life. Spaces designed with that mindset become places where people naturally feel at ease.

Couple of years ago when we were in Treviso, we missed visiting Tomba Brion, one of Carlo Scarpa’s most important projects, at less than an hour from the city.

The project was commissioned by Onorina Brion in memory of her husband, Giuseppe Brion, the founder of Brionvega. Scarpa worked on it from 1968 until 1978, the year he died.

Tomba Brion spans almost 2,200 square meters and includes an enclosing concrete wall, gardens, reflecting pools, a chapel, family burial areas and a meditation pavilion. Every path, opening and change in level was carefully considered. The experience changes as you move through the site, with each space revealing a different relationship between architecture, landscape and light.

Water appears throughout the project. Scarpa grew up in Venice, and his understanding of water became part of the architecture. The reflecting pools change with the light, mirror the surrounding structures and connect the buildings with the landscape.

One of the most recognizable details is the pair of intersecting circles found across the site. They reference the *vesica piscis*, a geometric form associated with union and continuity, and became one of Scarpa’s signature motifs.

Carlo Scarpa remains one of our favorite designers and architects.

Next time we’re in northern Italy, Tomba Brion will be our first stop, and now, maybe yours too.

Almost 80 years later, this vision is finally becoming reality.
Developed by Eames Office in partnership with Kettal, the new Eames Pavilion System transforms the Eames approach to architecture into a fully modular building system that will become commercially available beginning in 2027.

Some of our favorite dining tables and desks bathing in the rays of sun.

June’s mood board 🌊

One of our favourite examples of brand interiors: Aesop.

Most retail brands pursue consistency through repetition:
the same furniture, the same finishes, the same layout, replicated city after city.

Aesop does the opposite.

Each store is designed as a response to its local context, often in collaboration with different architects and studios around the world. The result is a collection of spaces that feel unique to their location rather than copied from a global template.

The products never dominate the space. Instead, they become part of a carefully composed atmosphere.

In many ways, Aesop approaches retail spaces the same way a curator approaches a collection: every element serves a purpose, and every material contributes to the overall narrative.

Italian bars from the 1970s and 1980s were designed almost like cinematic interiors:
integrated lighting, smoked glass, chrome tubing, mirrors, glossy lacquer, and sculptural geometries transformed them from furniture into atmosphere.

Their aesthetic was deeply influenced by Milanese nightlife, luxury hotel interiors, disco culture, futuristic space-age optimism, radical Italian design movements, and the rise of postmodern architecture.