Journal
RETRO ITALY · STORIES & CULTURE
Stories of Italian design, everyday life and visual culture from the 1950s to the 1990s.
Featured Stories
ITALIAN DESIGN · 1950s–1980s
How Italy turned everyday objects into timeless design.
ITALIAN DESIGN · 1930s–1970s
How Olivetti transformed typewriters, calculators and everyday office equipment into icons of Italian design.
ITALIAN TRAVEL · 1920s–1960s
How railways, resorts and graphic designers turned Italy into one of the world’s most desirable destinations.
ITALIAN INTERIORS · 1970s
How bold colour, modular furniture and sculptural forms made 1970s Italian interiors feel decades ahead of their time.
ITALIAN LIGHTING · 1950s–1980s
How Italian designers transformed everyday lighting into sculptural objects that still feel contemporary today.
The art of everyday Italy.
Prints, tins, objects and visual culture inspired by Italian life from the 1950s–1990s.
Prints, tins, objects and visual culture inspired by Italian life from the 1950s–1990s.
