Italy

4 November 2020

Meet the designer: Pierluigi Rolando – 5

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,…
21 October 2020

Ten years

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…
14 October 2020

Sources: the Biellese Alps

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…
16 September 2020

Creativi in FILA

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…
26 August 2020

Sources: Biella’s chimneys

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…
1 July 2020

Meet the designer: Pierluigi Rolando

But Pierluigi Rolando’s memoirs are flaring, an atlas of words full of self-confidence, energy and passion. This ardour is the same that led him to create the…
24 June 2020

Sources: Biella and water

Because Biella develops on the slopes of mounts and some of them – like Massiccio del Bo or Mucrone – give birth to sources powering rivers in…
17 June 2020

Purple brings you luck

As in all legends, the hero’s origins are humble: born in Argentina in 1969, Batistuta is son of a butcher and a school worker. During his teenage…
15 June 2020

110: A Birthday

That’s how it all began, do you remember? After one month, I can confirm it: sometimes it seems I’m just dreaming. And thinking back to all the…
27 May 2020

Archivissima 2020: here we are!

The COVID-19 health emergency caused the cancellation of numerous international events, but Archivissima is not among these. This year’s edition is confirmed from 5th to 8th June,…