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Gio Ponti's tile pattern for the Hotel Parco dei Principi in Sorrento, 1960 to 1962. Photo: Eva Winterer

August 26, 2026 · Eva Winterer

Spazio Gio Ponti: Milan Finally Gives Its Architect a Home

By the end of 2026, the ADI Design Museum in Milan opens the first space devoted entirely to Gio Ponti. Why the city is bringing its most famous architect back now. The Spazio Gio Ponti …

Elsa Schiaparelli reviewing her own designs. PARIS / / FRA Credit: APA-Images / AP

June 19, 2026 · Eva Winterer

Michaela Karl on Schiaparelli: Smart Women Pay for Their Own Clothes

Elsa Schiaparelli treated clothing as an instrument of female financial independence, and biographer Michaela Karl reads her rivalry with Chanel as the argument that still shapes how women dress for themselves. This conversation belongs to …

Lulu Shabell, founder of ÀLKÉ and Operations Director of Brand63Africa.

June 13, 2026 · Eva Winterer

Lulu Shabell on Why African Heritage Belongs to Africa

A conversation with ÀLKÉ founder Lulu Shabell on exposure, cultural intelligence, provenance, and building institutions that keep African creative value at home.

The hands that hold the knowledge. For Lulu Shabell, the greatest repositories of African design intelligence are the elders, the artisans and the communities who carry it. Rings by Lola Fenhirst. | Photo: Courtesy of Lola Fenhirst

June 13, 2026 · Eva Winterer

The Architecture of Sovereignty: Lulu Shabell on Cultural Intelligence

In an exclusive interview with The Silent Luxury, ÀLKÉ founder Lulu Shabell explains why true creative value requires permanent institutional foundations, legal sovereignty, and economic ownership, moving the paradigm from temporary market exposure to deep-rooted …

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