A popular meme is circulating online that accompanies an image of a canvas “cut” by Lucio Fontana with the playful admonition “No, you couldn’t have done that!” With art like with jewelry, with fashion, with design, certain seemingly simple results are actually the result of very complicated processes, techniques that
require years of experience, and of a culture that is quite out of the ordinary. It is the colors, proportions, balances, learned quotations and details that “make the difference,” that make the masterpieces of the great maisons or independent ateliers, and the creations destined to become such, immediately recognizable.
All over the world, for those with a curious gaze open to their present, the past and tradition know how to be a source of inspiration for ever-new values and content. Extraordinary works of design (jewelry, paintings, furniture, clothing, architecture) speak to us daily in the universal language of beauty and help us disentangle ourselves from the complexity of our time.
