About us

At LoSpremiagrumi [the Juicesqueezer] we do things, we meet people and we love writing about design, architecture, fashion, music, art, events and basically everything that comes up to our mind. Originally based in Italy, our network has taken us to Mexico, Thailand, Cambodia, Switzerland and Greece. Founded on 2005 by Tommaso Maggio and Luca Ubertini. It was the first italian blog in italian language talking about  topics as architecture, design, art, fashion, events etc. On 2010 Mixt has designed the new layout. LoSpremiagrumi [the Juicesqueezer] is a visual platform to exchange incentives, inspirations, but most of all experiences.

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The brotherhood of the Orange juice

Tommaso Maggio . Founder and Editor in Chief [Bangkok, Thailand]
Born in Ancona, an adriatic town, where the sun always rises and sets over the sea. He spent almost ten years in Milan,  first for studying then for working. With a Industrial Design MSC he started working for design and architecture magazines. Moved to Kassel, Germany, for one year he understood how to survive outside his own country. He lived in Mexico City, Monterrey then he moved to Bangkok for an unexpected job at Chulalongkorn University. To live he needs few things as: his sketchbook, his Iphone, some magazines and a kitchen where he can make alchemies.

Laura Perin . Executive Editor [Bangkok, Thailand]
She comes from of a small northeastern italian town where people speak an ancient language “friulan” with a strong attitude to emigrate. She was trained as an architect in Graz, Austria. She has been living around Europe for a while: Graz, London, Ivrea, Turin, Milan then she decided to move in Mexico, Mexico City for one year. At the moment she is living in Bangkok, Thailand. She is an itinerant architect focused in communication field.
Her closet is full of vintage stuff collected around the world with only one rule: her house is a black luggage of 20 kg.

Valeria Racemoli . Managing Editor [Bologna, Italy]
Valeria Racemoli [LaRach] is born in a teene tiny Italian town, where the land is super flat and the band plays Bella Ciao at funerals. Eager to change and to explore the world she ended up studying international relations and human rights in between Bologna, Florence, Brighton and Geneva. She is now based in Bangkok, dividing her time between swamping refugees with music selections and photographies and legally representing loSpremiagrumi … or was it the opposite?!?!?!

Maria Azzurra Rossi . Deputy Managing Editor [Rome, Italy]
The land of Vasari saw her birth in 1984 and her escape to Rome 20 years later. She feels tripartite: 1/3 architects cause of her origins, 1/3 graphic designer for passion, 1/3 editor as a vocation. She developed hybrid projects in the curatorial and editorial fields for several realities such as Abitare, CityVision magazine, TheJuiceSqueezer/MIXT, Dude magazine and Cosebelle magazine. And she strongly believes the world is the most interesting thing around.

Ricardo Rodríguez Elías [Mexico City, Mexico]
Ricardo is multifaceted and hyperactive guy from Mexico City,  he is always experimenting in new fields and constantly creating new ideas and projects to make friends and connections. At this moment Ricardo designs and produces furniture and his passion for bicycles drove him to create and build their own bicycles.
Now he is working as a professional in communication & new media.

Ailadi [Milan, Italy]
She works as interaction & visual designer. She does drawings. She is White. She is Black. She spends her time collecting shades of gray.

Emilio Ades Cohen [Mexico City, Mexico]
Young obsessive mexican architect

Giacomo Butte [Phnom Penh, Cambodia]
Giacomo was trained as a designer/architect in Europe, between Milan, Koln and Helsinki. Then moved to asia and wondered in Japan, China and ended in Cambodia where he is spending his time between urban development and cultural projects.

Marilena Cadau [Geneva, Switzerland]

Michele D’Ariano Simionato [Zurich, Switzerland]
He has a long name, and tells everyone that his grand-grand father was a noble o something like that.
Architect by mistake, he likes to do a lot of thing and then leaving them to try something else.
Italian, has lived in Amsterdam, now lives in Zurich, and he’s plannig to leave for somewhere else.
His nickname, bilebue, means nothing, but sounds cool, or at least that’s what he thinks.

Daniel Mastretta [Mexico City, Mexico]
An irrational, absurd, unstable but happy man that lives in Mexico City who tries to find the pieces of himself that were scattered around all over the place one time he decided he wanted to live out of creative thinking.
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“But I don’t want to go among mad people,” Alice remarked.
“Oh, you can’t help that,” said the Cat: “We’re all mad here. I’m mad. You’re mad.”
“How do you know I’m mad?” said Alice.
“You must be,” said the Cat, “or you wouldn’t have come here.”

Matteo Moretti [Milan, Italy]
Matteo was born and grew up in Milan, getting skilled in years of surviving as social worker, musician, juggling teacher, travelling across West Africa and, of course, working as freelance designer. After university he focused his work on web and motion design, with a generative touch if possible.Now he splits his life between his profession of motion and interaction designer and the lecturing at Free University of Bozen Bolzano.

Dj Solko [Rome+Naples, Italy]

Eleni Papadimitriou [Athens, Greece]
Eleni Papadimitriou is an architect.After finishing her studies in England and Greece she collaborated with a number of architectural practises. Eleni has established her own firm in Athens, Greece since 2009 and takes on a variety of projects.She has a strong interest not only for architecture but also for design, fashion and art. Sometimes she works as a scenographer.

Sveva Pettorino [Napoli, Phnom Penh]
Have a base of Neapolitan culture; Add 4 years in and around Asia; 6 languages (3 of which unusual enough that few people could tell if I can speak them); a passion for fashion and style; a love for Middle Age Asian history; an excessive admiration for Anne Wintour, a desire to do something useful with her life; add a twist of 80′s music; sprinkle everything with pink and orange; shake it well and finally garnish it with a slice of ambition.

Pedro Sanchez [Mexico City, Mexico]

Kaotoo Vacharaprucks [Bangkok, Thailand]
kaotoo kawisara vacharaprucks; 17= 10years in Bangkok + 7years in Phuket, now migrated back to Bangkok to study communication design in faculty of Arch in Chulalongkorn University / likes illustration, conceptual art, film photography, graphic design and hoping for the world to become a better place

Perla Valtierra [Mexico City, Mexico]
Perla Valtierra // Mexico DF// designer // ceramics // tradition // observation // travel // identity // passion // cafts // ceviche // sat nam rasayan // handmade // simplicity // morena // artisans // reinterpretation // ranchera // provocative // magic // coherence // friend // hilarious // enough // never enough.

Andrea Tanci [Rome, Italy]
I’m a young architect and interior designer. I live and work in Rome. I love everythings is creative but I hate write about me.

Gianluca Tesauro [London, UK]
Gianluca Tesauro born in Salerno, south Italy with the sun on the head and wavesound as soul. In love for yellow color and black&white pictures moved to Naples-Milan-London making graphic design and telling stories. now he’s still around and he wants go on.

Giorgia Tolfo [Bologna, Italy]
Giorgia was born in an italian small city where everyone plays chess and where even the square has the shape of a chess board. At the frightening idea of becoming a pawn she “emigrated” to Bologna, where she studied Russian and English Literature with a particular interest in photography and cinema. She is now a phd student working on photography and literature that most of the time takes pictures instead of studying them.

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Disclaimer
Questo blog non è una testata giornalistica in quanto viene aggiornato senza alcuna periodicità. Non può per tanto considerarsi un prodotto editoriale ai sensi della Legge n.62 del 7.3.2001. Tutti i testi, tranne ove diversamente specificato, sono opera della redazione de loSpremiagrumi.

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