Furniture
Specular asymmetry
Pond by Nendo, (yes Nendo is always here). This time with a table set for Moroso, at a glance you see only the mirrored surface, but looking carefully all the graphics appear underneath the tops, reflected on the lower part. The black and white decorations contribute to the light and shadow, full and empty contrast, [...]
Ransmeier – turning stool
Despite the fact that I find Established & Sons vain and futile, “Revolver” the stool designed by Leon Ransmeier, is one of the pieces on show during the MIlan’s furniture fair that I’d love to possess myself, not just playful, but simple and elegant.
Magis
In these difficult times for the industry Magis, and its inspiring stand, shone during the design week in Milan. Showing new products, proposing new ideas and even materials. Featured here are a couple of “Cyborgs” by Marcel Wanders, like the original ones, these chairs are the combination of both artificial and natural systems. Zartan by [...]
Wooden-plastic joints.
During the Furniture Fair in Milan 2010, in 3 different locations, 3 different designers, 2 materials getting together, plastic and wood. Not with glue neither with nails, they are joined through a molding process that makes the components interlace each other, creating a unique body. Elastic wood by Gil Sheffi (another Bezalel’s Academy of art [...]
Shige Hasegawa Design
One of the good things about living in Milan is the possibility to follow yearly the Salone del Mobile: the trends, the progress of the design companies and the most rewarding one: the evolution of designers. It’s been three years since Shige Hasegawa appeared on the milanese scene and from that point to follow him [...]
Wood is everywhere
Wood, laminated wood, is always a great option to express your creativity, especially when a reduced budget doesn’t allow the use of particular machinery. The results, depending on the designer can be exhilarating, or just boring. But from a wide range of products, starting with the stand’s decoration, passing through lamps and furniture (these last [...]
Antler by Nendo
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.
Sleek thin layered materials Seats
Three chairs, with a common style: simplicity, not just visually, but going down to materials, oak, ash, raw wool, leather, all disposed in thin layers; nothing to hide, a frame with a very “materic” shell. From left to right: – Brio: by Mikiya Kobayashi for Covo – Bac: by Jasper Morrison for Cappellini – El: [...]
Fuori Salone
The very best of Milan’s furniture fair is what you see during the design week, outside the fairgrounds, the “Fuori salone”. Young designers looking for companies, new companies trying to become visible, and the really established companies doing their best to captivate the public. Above: Pieke Bergmans bases for Rosenthal, and works from the French [...]
Post Mortem
This year the subject developed by the students from the “Design Academy of Eindhoven” was a difficult one, most of us fear death, but the tabu surrounding the “post mortem” situation was not an obstacle for Lee Edelkoort’s pupils, to get the best results. Images above: Bleeding Till Death by Hilde Koenders’s. Below “Coffin covers”, [...]
