Category Archives: Portachiavi

We continue our survey of “vintage” texts on minor collecting by presenting a text directly connected to our new issue dedicated to key rings. The following was extracted from the famous essay “Minor Collecting” written by Massimo Alberini and published by Garzanti in 1984. The extract reflects on both the dynamics of collecting and the […]

The evolution of both collecting and a collector’s figure in the society is one of the most interesting aspects of our research. How does collecting transform? And how does the interest in objects manage to survive in our progressively more digitalized and virtual reality? In order to find answers to these questions we began a […]