Few people know that the motto ‘Less is more’, commonly referred to Mies van der Rohe, was actually invented by another genius of 20th century’s architecture, Peter…
Am I dreaming? In this silence-soaked room, it’s a doubt that often comes to me. I observe the faces of the athletes on the walls, their arms…
2020 has been a turning point. As a Foundation celebrating its first tenth anniversary, it has been fundamental to understand the resources and potentialities we had, and…
Tradition is to keep the fire alive, not worhipping ashes Czech composer Gustav Mahler said once. That’s it: in the year of the health emergency that led…
Thus Pierluigi Rolando started working on the winter line, with his own, special technical skills. The very first step for him was to develop a warm, soft,…
The Italian industrial production in the 19th and 20th is plenty of fascinating realities: anyway, not all of them have been safeguarded in a proper way. When…
Reinhold Messner has never considered mountains as simple peaks, but as vital organisms that deserve care and respect. He has always tried to penetrate rather than climb…
When we launched our Achieve the Archive contest last spring of course we aimed to enrich our archive, but most of all we wanted to create an…
During the Seventies designer Pierluigi Rolando didn’t only reimagine tennis players’ looks, but also another great revolution by FILA: sponsorships. It was the beginning of an era…
In 1980 writer Giosuè Carducci, the first Italian winner of the Nobel Prize for Literature, wrote a poem that generations of Italian schoolchildren would have later studied…
