Furniture
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”, [...]
Open your mind
Kazuyo Komoda is the designer of “Lace Door” a beautiful close/open door. By means of a central pivoting element, “Lace door” allows the air circulation and opens a new window into the private/public use of the spaces. Shown at the “open your mind” exhibition, where 8 international designers who have worked on the meaning of [...]
Moroso
With no doubt Moroso is the Italian company that gives more input to the design world.
Driade
Omero by Francisco Gómez Paz is an unique product in it’s category, an innovative magazine rack in injected aluminium and steel legs. Next to it yet another version of Ron Arad’s chaAmong the other designers present in Driade’s collection ‘06, we highlight the presence of Patricia Urquiola who continues her work with natural fibers. For [...]
Aren’t we going too simple?
During their exhibition in “La Pelota” (one of the best venues in the “Fuori saloni”) “Established & Sons” were showing a wide range of projects/products, the majority shown last year, and seldom lacking the standards that the british group intends to communicate.
