The Volume Number

06/08/2026

I spent months building this archive, one object at a time.
Every piece carries a trace of ordinary life, a forgotten ritual, or a memory worth preserving.
For me, value isn’t measured by rarity, but by the stories these small things continue to hold.
Together, they become an archive of everyday life.

Discover all 63 objects on MONUMENTUM.
A small reminder: Archive of Small Things was first published in The Volume Number Issue 004, released on April 27, 2026.

04/08/2026

Laís by Umberto Gorra Photographer & Anna Agostena | Makeup Artist using BYREDO

From BYREDO SURFACES
A chapter from MONUMENTUM, the first Hors Série by THE VOLUME NUMBER.

What we keep.
What we carry.
What quietly remains.
BYREDO

Photography — Umberto Gorra Photographer
Art Direction — Gianmarco Chianese
Hair -- Giuseppe Sestito HAIRSTYLIST
Casting Director — Ruxandra Andreea Coroiu
Hair Assistant — Luca Pagani
Production & Set Design —
THE VOLUME NUMBER

03/08/2026

For the third chapter of Open Studios by TVN, curator and writer Giulia Blasig sits down with Linda Carrara to explore the quiet rituals behind her practice. Through memory, repetition, and observation, landscape becomes more than a place, it becomes an inner experience.

28/07/2026

Don’t tell people your dreams.
Show them through what you build, what you protect, and what you carry forward.

Photography by Sara Zanoni Walter Schupfer Management
Styling & Set Design by Adri

From THE VOLUME NUMBER 004 / MONUMENTUM

27/07/2026

Nariah by Umberto Gorra Photographer & Jessica Iorio | Stylist in total look Loro Piana

Model: Nariah Fabbrica Milano Management
Make-Up: ValentinaAchilli The Green Apple Italia using M·A·C Cosmetics
Hair: Mamrez Abbasi The Green Apple Italia using STYLE. SUBSTANCE. SIMPLICITY.
Casting & Production: TAKE NOTE STUDIO
Fashion Assistant: Giorgia Grasso, Angelita Franco
Hair Stylist Assistant Alice Donadio

23/07/2026

17/07/2026

Nikita by Filippo Tarentini & Loreto Mancini

14/07/2026

“Olivier Rousteing’s creative vision is bold, magnetic, and deeply connected to the energy of today. His unique ability to create fashion that celebrates confidence and self-expression makes him a natural choice for Rabanne. With Olivier, we are opening a new chapter for the house.”
Ana Trias

Photo: Francesca Beltran

10/07/2026

ARCHIVE OF SMALL THINGS

Over the past few years, the word archive has become increasingly present in contemporary culture. It is used to describe collections, visual references, personal memories, databases and, at times, almost anything that survives the present.

Yet an archive is not simply a place where things are stored.

For this project, I collected and photographed sixty-three everyday objects, removing them from their context and looking at them as fragments of a larger story.

Together, they form an archive.

And perhaps this is the simplest way to describe what THE VOLUME NUMBER has always been.

“YOU COLLECT THINGS,
WE TELL THE STORIES BEHIND THEM”.

- Gian

Concept, Photography & Archive

08/07/2026

Independent publishing is an act of persistence.

Issue after issue.
Page after page.
Conversation after conversation.

Issue 004.

Via della Spiga, Milan.