Alain Elkann Interviews

Alain Elkann

Alain Elkann Interviews podcasts are an unprecedented window into the minds of some of the most well-known and -respected figures of the last twenty-five years. Alain Elkann has mastered the art of the interview, approaching the task as somewhere between snapping a photograph and writing a short story. With a background in novels and journalism, and having published over twenty books translated across ten languages, Alain infuses his interviews with innovation, allowing them to flow freely and organically. A small selection, to which we will gradually add, are presented here as podcasts for the first time.

  1. Piero Lissoni on Design, Architecture & Creative Freedom - Alain Elkann Interviews

    16 HR AGO

    Piero Lissoni on Design, Architecture & Creative Freedom - Alain Elkann Interviews

    MILANESE MASTER OF CONTEMPORARY DESIGN.  Piero Lissoni is a multi-award-winning-architect, designer and art director. One of the masters of contemporary design, he has an almost forty-year history in the development of projects the world over in the fields of architecture, landscape, interior, product and graphic design. He is art director for Alpi, Boffi, Living Divani, Lualdi, Porro and Sanlorenzo as well as being the founder and director of the interdisciplinary studio Lissoni & Partners. "When you're born in Milano and grow up in the polytechnic of Milano it becomes quite natural to control 360 degrees of everything." "I think it was a disease, and I became an architect." "We need to live in our own times, even if sometimes they are imperfect." https://www.alainelkanninterviews.com/piero-lissoni/

    36 min
  2. Paolo Colombo on Love, Greece, and Making Time Visible Through Art - Alain Elkann Interviews

    10 MAY

    Paolo Colombo on Love, Greece, and Making Time Visible Through Art - Alain Elkann Interviews

    A PASSION FOR GREECE. Paolo Colombo is an Italian artist and poet. Born in 1949 in Turin, Italy, he lives and works in Athens, Greece. He was a curator between 1986 and 2017 in Philadelphia, in Geneva, in Istanbul, in Torino and in Athens. His works of visual poetry are exhibited widely. "Greece is my world" "Language is very connected with painting, regardless whether I make a painting of a poem or not." "I love the language, I love the music, I love the dances" https://www.alainelkanninterviews.com/paolo-colombo-3/

    39 min
  3. Nathalie Droulers: Architecture, Taste and the Balance of Opposites - Alain Elkann Interviews

    3 MAY

    Nathalie Droulers: Architecture, Taste and the Balance of Opposites - Alain Elkann Interviews

    COMBINING ARCHITECTURE AND INTERIOR DESIGN. Nathalie Droulers and her twin sister Virginie were born in Milan in 1973. Nathalie graduated in Architecture from the Polytechnic University in Milan in 1997. She worked in New York as a Creative Director in product design development and in 2000 returned to Italy, where she collaborated with the Milan-based Dstudio as a Project Manager. In 2005 she founded Nathalie Droulers Studio, developing residential and commercial projects internationally. Her sister Virginie graduated in Graphic Design from Parsons School of Design in New York in 1999. She worked in New York from 1997 to 2000, and when she returned to Italy she founded Kv Design, a graphic and packaging firm. In 2007, Nathalie and Virginie founded Droulers Architecture together, with the aim of creating an international studio developing residential, commercial and leisure projects, now also specialised in architecture and interior design for luxury yachts. Droulers collaborates with a team of specialised and skilled professionals in a concerted effort to achieve these ambitious goals. "Naturally and luckily, we gradually moved into our respective roles." "One of our most important qualities is our ability to listen to what our clients want." "Getting the new generation on board is probably the biggest success we could achieve." https://www.alainelkanninterviews.com/nathalie-droulers/

    39 min
  4. Jay McInerney on New York During COVID: A City Without People - Alain Elkann Interviews

    26 APR

    Jay McInerney on New York During COVID: A City Without People - Alain Elkann Interviews

    COVID REFLECTIONS. Jay McInerney is a well-known American writer, one of the most gifted of his generation. Novelist, screenwriter and wine connoisseur, McInerney recently published See You on the Other Side, the eagerly anticipated final volume of his stunningly accomplished and profoundly affecting fictional tetralogy: Brightness Falls, The Good Life, and Bright Precious Days. "The stories that I'm interested in ultimately are the personal ones." "The people who come here are ambitious and energetic and they come here because it's the biggest stage in America that there is." "There is something special about the voices of people in their 20s, which we need." https://www.alainelkanninterviews.com/jay-mcinerney/

    36 min
  5. Andrew Graham-Dixon: The Hidden Meaning of Vermeer - Alain Elkann Interviews

    19 APR

    Andrew Graham-Dixon: The Hidden Meaning of Vermeer - Alain Elkann Interviews

    LUMINARY IN ART CRITIQUE. Andrew Graham-Dixon is a leading art critic and presenter of arts television in the English-speaking world. With a long history of public service in the field of the visual arts he has won numerous awards for writing and broadcasting. His book "Caravaggio A Life Sacred and Profane" is a Sunday Times Bestseller, and his recent title "Vermeer: A Life Lost and Found" paints a dramatically new picture of Vermeer. Graham-Dixon reveals many of the painter's hitherto unknown friendships, as well as his previously undetected allegiance to a radical movement driven underground by persecution. "Vermeer is the first really great religious painter of introspective post-Reformation religion." "The Dutch Golden Age is probably the worst name ever given to a period in history by historians. It's not a golden age. It's an age of blood." "I'm a profound Collegiant. There's not many of us now. I believe in universal tolerance." https://www.alainelkanninterviews.com/andrew-graham-dixon/

    46 min
  6. Valerie Steele: Fashion Is More Than Clothes, Here's Why - 281 - Alain Elkann Interviews

    12 APR

    Valerie Steele: Fashion Is More Than Clothes, Here's Why - 281 - Alain Elkann Interviews

    TAKING FASHION SERIOUSLY. Valerie Steele is an American fashion historian and the Director and Chief Curator of The Museum at the Fashion Institute of Technology (FIT) in New York City. A pioneer in the field of fashion studies, she has been instrumental in establishing fashion as a legitimate intellectual and cultural subject. "Both the allure and the problematic aspects of fashion attracted and interested me." "Although most people don't get any exercise, they want to look sporty." "The body is central to fashion." https://www.alainelkanninterviews.com/valerie-steele/

    45 min
  7. Alvise Casellati: Can Music Heal? The Powerful Story Behind Opera & Therapy - Alain Elkann Interviews

    5 APR

    Alvise Casellati: Can Music Heal? The Powerful Story Behind Opera & Therapy - Alain Elkann Interviews

    CHAMPION OF ITALIAN OPERA. Alvise Casellati was born in Padua, Italy, from a Venetian musical family with important ties to the top classical music scene in the 19th and 20th centuries. He is currently serving as Artistic Director of the Teatro Massimo of Palermo, one of the most prestigious opera and dance theaters in Italy and in the world.  He is the Founder and Music Director of Opera Italiana is in the Air (OIA), created in 2017 to bring superstar singers and the young talents in iconic locations in the air such as Central Park, New York, to give everyone the opportunity to appreciate Italian Opera. "The locals look at Teatro Massimo as a myth, as the centre of cultural gravity in Palermo." "We wanted to give young people and people who could not afford to go to the Met Opera the opportunity to fall in love with Italian opera" "What I adore about this theater is the investment in the young generation." https://www.alainelkanninterviews.com/alvise-casellati-2/

    33 min
  8. Bianca Jagger: "I Am a Human Rights Defender. That Is My Mission" - Alain Elkann Interviews

    29 MAR

    Bianca Jagger: "I Am a Human Rights Defender. That Is My Mission" - Alain Elkann Interviews

    DEFENDER OF JUSTICE AND HUMAN RIGHTS. Bianca Jagger is the Founder, President, and Chief Executive of the Bianca Jagger Human Rights Foundation (BJHRF), a UK-based human rights organisation that defends human rights and civil liberties, promotes international justice, campaigns to end violence against women and girls, addresses the threat of climate change, and advocates for the rights of Indigenous peoples and future generations. "Being born in Nicaragua shaped my understanding of repression, injustice and inequality." "I have dedicated my life to the defence of peace, justice and human rights." "At the end of the day, what matters is not fame or public perception. What matters is whether you stood on the side of justice when it was needed." https://www.alainelkanninterviews.com/bianca-jagger-2/

    28 min
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Alain Elkann Interviews podcasts are an unprecedented window into the minds of some of the most well-known and -respected figures of the last twenty-five years. Alain Elkann has mastered the art of the interview, approaching the task as somewhere between snapping a photograph and writing a short story. With a background in novels and journalism, and having published over twenty books translated across ten languages, Alain infuses his interviews with innovation, allowing them to flow freely and organically. A small selection, to which we will gradually add, are presented here as podcasts for the first time.

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