| by Roberta Chionne Designing our living spaces with an awareness of the consequences of our choices is one of the most important things we can do to protect the environment. The planet does not have sufficient resources to enable us to continue to build with materials such as plastic, [...]
| by Alfredo Zappa Italian standard UNI 11493 establishes the requirements that ceramic tiling must meet to ensure that it can be cleaned easily and effectively through periodic maintenance operations. The type, intensity and frequency of these cleaning operations depends not only on the quantity and nature of the dirt [...]
Zehrunisa, a dweller of the Annawadi slum in Mumbai and protagonist of the book “Behind The Beautiful Forevers” by Katherine Boo, glimpses an advert for Italian floor tiles with the slogan “Beautiful Forever” on a peeling wall near Mumbai airport. Zehrunisa, we read in the book, “wanted a more hygienic [...]
