When Bernardino Sani and agronomist Francesco Monari arrived at Argiano a decade ago, the historic Montalcino estate was making wines vastly different from today. Their approach was methodical: GPS soil mapping to identify optimal parcels, egg-shaped concrete fermentation tanks, shifting from barrique to large botti for gentler aging. The philosophy: respect the fruit, understand the land, don't over-extract. I met Sani at the estate to discuss how his scientific rigour and intimate partnership with nature has transformed a dusty property into an elegant expression of Sangiovese.

Sprouting greens reveal a fading family portrait. As the watercress grows, the image disappears. Spanish artist Almudena Romero works with living plants to create ephemeral organic photographs that question production, consumption, and ownership — art that returns to earth by design. I met with her at Paris Photo.

French visual artist Émeric Lhuisset spent seven years photographing Kurdish fighters as they transformed from battlefield heroes to European refugees. His exhibition "L'autre rive" (The other shore), created during a BMW Residency, questions how perception shifts when someone crosses the Mediterranean. Elaborate staged photographs inspired by Franco-Prussian war paintings sit alongside simple videos of sea crossings and ephemeral cyanotype prints that fade like memory itself.

Chris Bangle believes design is trapped in machine age thinking, serving efficiency over humanity. Speaking at the Pratt Institute Design Symposium, the former BMW design director argues we're entering an era where our debt to the planet demands fundamental change. Design must abandon its worship of precision, speed, and machine perfection — learning instead from practices like Kintsugi that celebrate human imperfection and put people first.

The late Marcello Gandini designed the Lamborghini Miura, Countach, and Diablo — cars so radical they remain icons decades later. The legendary Italian designer never separated mechanics from style, believing the car is a complete object where architecture and appearance inform each other equally. His innovations include the scissor door and a secret 20-year research project on revolutionary construction methods.