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C41 Magazine Issue 19 — Tactile Realities

 

Utility has been sacrificed on the altar of spectacle. But what does the world truly need today?

 

The world needs friction. It needs objects that offer resistance, materials that change over time, that wear out, preserving the memory of the gestures of both their creators and their users. Design and fashion must rediscover the courage of utility—understood not as mere grey, sterile functionalism, but as an ethical responsibility towards the space we occupy. 

 

To touch means exposing oneself to error; tell us, then, if we are wrong.

 

Featured In This Issue: P.18 Sokol, P.54 Takashi Homma, P.79 Chiara Enzo, P.94 Gioconda & August, P.114 Bvlgari Hotel Roma, P.130 Charles Negre, P.140 Audemars Piguet, P.156 Platek At Villa Filomarino, P.175 25kg And Konstantin Grcic, P.188 Eric McArthur, P.207 Walter Pfeiffer, P.218 Dave Masotti, P.239 Salone Raritas, P.256 Victoria Morizono, P.272 Karen Faurie

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C 41 Magazine is a Milan-based magazine of contemporary visual art from all over the world. We’re interested in lifestyle, fashion, design, outdoors, and creative communities. Through our viewers’ lenses, we tell the stories. C-41 is a chromogenic colour print film developing process. Also well-known as CN-16 by Fuji, CNK-4 by Konica, and AP-70 by AGFA, it’s the most popular film process in use, with the most photofinishing labs devoting at least one machine to this development process.