With this Special Issue 45 + 1, Italian Oxygen, Abitare created an award to Italian inventiveness. It will be an annual award aimed at promoting new Ideas and innovative solutions [...]

One of the most serious pollution problems in cabinet making is the evaporation of the synthetic paint solvents. A medium-sized furniture maker releases tons of solvents into the air every day, [...]

Thanks to research into, and the application of, innovative technologies, Valcucine's products have a high resistance and are thus long lasting. For example, the solid doors have been designed using [...]

In nature, substances circulate, are transformed and, in the end, everything is reabsorbed and reused. We also have to learn how to reduce the quantity of rubbish we produce and [...]

Many years of research into materials and their limits of resistance have permitted Valcucine to gauge the structures of its products down to the essential to create objects that are [...]

The air we breathe in our kitchen can become polluted by the toxic emissions from the stains and glues used to make furniture. At Valcucine, we do sample testing to [...]

“Home delivery: fabricating the modern dwelling” (at New york's moma from July 20 to October 20) takes a look at the past, present and future of the prefabricated house. While [...]

Chicago, June 8th 2008 witnesses the opening of Elogico ‘eco-logical thinking… spaces and products for the next generation'. Elogico is a ‘container' combining events, panel discussions and exhibitions relating to [...]

Each year at the ICFF, a panel of the hippest and most in-the-know U.S. and international editors bestows the ICFF Editors Awards. The awards are among the industry's highest accolades, [...]

Valcucine uses second-hand crates because, for the environment, to reuse is better than to recycle.

Valcucine's exhibition route has been divided into autonomous yet interdependent spaces which, as well as presenting new products, have the aim of defining the company's identity in a non-exhaustive way. [...]

The Riciclantica programme by Valcucine, has been selected by the Osservatorio Permanente del Design (Permanent Design Observatory), an organisation composed of over 100 experts (critics, historians, designers, specialised journalists), and [...]