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Roots

Paula — Tue, 28 Jun 2011 10:38:24 +0000

Mut design “emotional design studio” presented its new work during the design week in Milan. Between their projects, I’d like to mention Roots, a modular structure, produced in wood and porcelain, that allows the composition of a biombo like screen or just a mini vertical garden.

Did you see the monkey?

Paula — Thu, 21 Apr 2011 09:50:32 +0000

Because of the oddity of the creations by Gaetano Pesce and Fabio Novembre, Meritalia is not one of the stands I’m often visiting, but because of a “friendly” oddity this time I did enter and to my surprise, there was this fantastic stand wall, full of animals with big white eyes, waiting to be discovered.

Green pockets

Paula — Sat, 20 Mar 2010 18:43:08 +0000

This project is obviously one of the winners in our Bucolic Empowerment category, these simple and beautiful plant pot/tiles by Maruja Fuentes not only allow you to bring nature into your home, they are also made of recycled materials, and can be placed in different configurations according to your vertical garden design.

Bambi Chair

Paula — Sun, 10 Jan 2010 18:38:26 +0000

This “bambi” chair, designed by Tatsuo Yamamoto, clearly is an example of the aesthetics research in our “Bucolic Empowerment” category. A chair with an animal “feel”, while the function or beauty have no relevant importance, the animal approach, the desire of getting closer to a “idea” of nature, of having a bit of what we are loosing outside in our daily life, this is what makes this chair capture my attention.

Antler by Nendo

Paula — Thu, 03 Sep 2009 15:23:12 +0000

Without doubt Nendo‘s low armchair, designed for Cappellini, is one of the best examples, belonging to our “Bucolic Empowerment” category. The choice of the very natural materials: wool or leather for the seat and solid ash wood for the frame; and needless to mention the ”fauna call” evidentiated on the back frame.

Bucolic Empowerment

Paula — Thu, 30 Jul 2009 20:49:39 +0000

“the agricultural community will become the planet’s new elite, dominating our essential needs and inspiring years of farmer styles. After all, the farmers of the future will clothe us, house us, feed us, fuel us and hopefully even heal us. Ultimately they will be able to engineer design and grow furniture in a symbiosis of technology and biology, and therefore rural and urban lifestyles will merge and become one; resulting in an inversed social landscape with a greener city and a more contemporary countryside”

This statement by Li Edelkoort, makes us aware that more than a trend, returning to nature, is a life choice to which we will have to get accustomed if we really want a healthy future.
But, not every one interprets trends, some designers and producers, just follow them, as mere aesthetical rules, giving birth to a very wide range of products, you can choose between honest and responsibly made products and those that just apparently (thanks to there natural aesthetic) satisfy the need to return to the essentials, to respect life and nature.
The next posts will be therefore, be dedicated to this present cycle, with its pure aesthetical trends, and to the different objects that really go beyond the “throw away culture” to become true life companions.