Archive for April, 2006
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 [...]
Swarovski
No wander why The “Crystal Palace” every year gets more and more admiration, beyond chandeliers, what is shown in Swarovski’s installations are creations, spaces to transport us in a surreal and magic world. Above: “Science and Fiction” by Basso & BrookeAbove from left to right: “Mediterraneo” by Gaetano Pesce, “Hover” by Michael Gabellini, “Crystal Aerospace” [...]
Moroso
With no doubt Moroso is the Italian company that gives more input to the design world.
Materialise
For a couple of years 100%natural-monitor has been following the evolution of design products through “prototyping technologies”. While some of the companies have turned into producers of those “prototypes” using more orthodox materials (ceramics, porcelain, plastics etc.) and loosing their originality, Materialise continues coherent with their philosophy, “materialise whatever you dream”. Here there are our [...]
Corian
Corian DuPont was present during the design week in various locations. Between the most interesting were: “Z. island” showing a kitchen for “Ernestomeda” by Zaha Hadid, and “Layering with Corian”, presenting a bench by Setsu & Shinobu Ito.
Lexus
There are no words to describe the work of Tokujin Yoshioka for Lexus L- finesse. This magic and exquisite installation remind us of the beauty of simple things.
Ingo Maurer – Delirium Yum yum
If there is someone always able to create a certain feeling of wonder and amazement that is Ingo Maurer. His trigger this year was the huge “Delirium Yum Yum”, a vortex changing speed and propelling a ball inside of it. For the same object in smaller scale, the result is a vortex moving gracefully thanks [...]
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 [...]
