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By this point, Bar Basso, the Milan design world’s ground zero of gossip, is practically synonymous with the city’s annual Design Week as much a state of mind as it is a meeting point. It’s where everyone in the industry congregates after a long day of novelty eye candy. And it’s no coincidence: Second-generation owner Maurizio Stocchetto has cultivated the scene with an attentive ear, playing host to the likes of the late designer James Irvine in the 1980s and the rising star duo Formafantasma today.
“When we’re able to open again, we’ll be very busy,” says Stocchetto, who’s had to keep the bar shuttered this year under lockdown restrictions. (Milan was devastated early on in the COVID-19 pandemic. In February 2020, Giuseppe Sala, the city’s mayor, allowed bars like Basso to remain open as the virus ravaged the region.) “The thing I miss the most is the sheer proximity to people,” says Stocchetto. “I think the biggest payoff is the f
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Today’s hype-fueled fashion landscape yields a mountain of fresh menswear every month. Which is why every issue of GQ now includes The Drops, a guide to the best new gear as it hits stores. Unless you count a bathrobe designed by an Acne Studios alum, you won t find any clothes in May s edition of Drops instead, we ve rounded up the most drool-worthy objets d art for your home, from a reissued George Nelson chair to a handmade custom ash tray.
With the seemingly endless variety of color swatches, asking AD100 designers to pick just one go-to wall paint seems like a presumptuous request. And for some, it was. “It depends on the local light,” Ilse Crawford explains. Fellow honoree Miranda Brooks of Miranda Brooks Landscape Design concurs: “Different climates take different colors I can’t commit!”
Thankfully, other designers some 35 of them entertained the idea. A select few designers nominated rich, contemplative colors, but the final palette of never-fail pigments is largely neutral, ranging from white to brown to gray (and all the beiges and greiges that come between them). Find the designer-approved wall paint colors below.
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great outdoors.
Canal, Yellow, and Sand
3. Ikat’s Meow Type II wall covering in Chic Black by Bolta Wallcovering.
4. Ghost Concrete Type II wall covering in Ionian Sea with abrasion- and stain-resistant Aqua-Clear water-based, Teflon-free topcoat by Colour & Design.
5. Laolag handmade 100 percent natural raffia wall covering by Élitis.
6. Specular steel-sheet wall covering in Caxia by Pure + Freeform.
7. Gaspar Saldanha’s Orquidea wallpaper in Folia