Home Gardening is becoming an increasingly common activity in our everyday urban culture. We live in small apartments above busy, polluted cities, yet we make a point of dedicating precious time to surrounding ourselves with greenery, creating miniature gardens on our windows sills and balconies and verandas. We make space for storing soil and seeds […]
Read moreLet’s clean up the world: the importance of preserving biodiversity
Those who buy a product are increasingly more informed and conscious of the importance of preserving our natural heritage and increasingly more willing to carry out an active role in environmental protection. These people want to know whether the object they are purchasing has been manufactured in compliance with a philosophy and a production process […]
Read moreValcucine Eco Bookshop is getting greener
From this month, Valcucine Eco Bookshop in Brera Design District, Milan, offers its readers a new section devoted to the literature on landscape and gardens, as well as books on ecology, sustainable design and ethics applied to social context and environment in which we live. A unique environment unique born from Gabriele Centazzo’s thinking, the […]
Read moreDomus with Valcucine at the 12th International Architecture Exhibition (Biennale), Venice
The 12th International Architecture Exhibition, with the title of “People meet in architecture”, directed by Kazuyo Sejima and organized by la Biennale di Venezia under the presidency of Paolo Baratta will be open to the public from Sunday 29th August to Sunday 21st November 2010 in the Giardini, Arsenale and in various locations throughout Venice. […]
Read moreNew Valcucine’s flagship store in Brera Design District, Milan
Valcucine is glad to announce the opening of a new flagship store, in Brera Design Destrict, Milan, the district bearing the same name located the cultural heart and the art and design centre of Milan. In a modern building with glass façades, a gallery of windows in a rigorous architectural style that are all of […]
Read moreEco-friendly packaging is good for the environment and for the brands
Sustainable design is a growing area within many industrial sectors particularly with the rise in legislation concerning product responsibility, which places more emphasis on the way products should be designed. It is widely recognized that radical changes are needed to products and packaging if we are going to move towards sustainability, some researchers estimate that […]
Read more“Hand and Mind”: a lecture by Dan Rockhill Design and Construction
On Thursday June 17, 2010 Pohlenz Cucine Moderne and Valcucine present a Lecture by Dan Rockhill Design and Construction, “Hand and Mind”, the work of Rockhill and Associates and Studio 804 organized in two different locations: Featuring Dan Rockhill 5:00 – 6:30 pm where: Schusterman Learning Center at OU-Tulsa 4502 E. 41st Street Tulsa, OK […]
Read moreValcucine opens first asia showroom in Hong Kong
Chinese Supermodel and actress Lynn Xiong Dai Ling joined Mr. Luca Fraticelli, Consul, Italian Consulate General, Mr. Manuele Bosetti, General Secretary of the Italian Chamber of Commerce and Mr. Leandro Cappellotto, Chief Executive Officer of Valcucine for this special occasion. Showcasing the best of Italian design with the highest level of quality, Valcucine is now […]
Read moreA Lecture by Dan Rockhill at Tulsa Valcucine showroom
Pohlenz Cucine Moderne and Valcucine present a lecture by Dan Rockhill Design and Construction: Hand and Mind the work of Rockhill & Associates and Studio 804. Rockhill, a distinquished professor of architecture at the University of Kansas, will present a lecture at 5:00 pm on June 17th at the Schusterman Learning Center located at OU- Tulsa. A reception will follow at Pohlenz Cucine Moderne […]
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