Going to Milan Design Week is all about innovation in the industry. Introducing new products to the market and doing it in a BIG way. This year, I could attend by scrolling through the many projects that artists and influencers felt were Instagram worthy.
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In a world where influencers rule the day on social media. Two of the biggest influencers in architecture and design have joined forces to outsource the content. They recently did a call for contributors to be one of the founding members to be featured during Milan Design Week. One of the caveats, you actually have to be going to cool stuff and are willing to post it for this channel. Continue reading “Dezeen and Instagram team up for @design”
As another Salone del Mobile approaches, one interesting development is to see how exhibitors and the rest of the industry will respond to a new manifesto that was published ahead of the event. The manifesto calls upon the industry to up its innovation and sustainability, citing specifically the need to embrace the “circular economy” and forge meaningful relationships with cultural institutions in the city. Continue reading “Salone del Mobile – The Manifesto”
MINDCRAFT is an exhibition that presents a new selection of the best Danish craft and design which was held during the Milan Design Week. The exhibition features fourteen new works by nineteen of Denmark’s leading designers and craftspeople. Curated by the Danish-Italian design duo GamFratesi and is shown in a spectacular historical venue in Brera … Continue reading Danish design in Milan – in between mind and craft
Tom Dixon debuts at the Milan Design Week, showcasing new furniture, lighting and accessories under the theme of the CLUB. The conventional Gentleman’s club is reworked into a contemporary version of the historic British members club – a modern day home-away-from-home, a plush and cultured haven where pleasure and work collide. Some overdue additions to … Continue reading Tom Dixon at Milan Design Week
Entrances used to be important spaces, they have now been reduced to their minimum size, or have even been suppressed in some cases. The object is narrow, it accompanies the wall while being fixed on it. Pebble by Allegory offers modularity. A generous metal horizontal bar lays at an eye-height and is ready to receive … Continue reading Pebble by Allegory at Milan Design Week
Bathroom equipments are standardized and normalized, thus the space is almost always organized in the same way. The improvement of ventilation allowed for the bathrooms to be removed from the facades, but also made for them to have natural light, a luxury, which implied for space to lose in quality. Bathrooms are now functional spaces … Continue reading Roundatable by Allegory at Milan Design Week
British design and manufacturing company Tom Dixon has design GEM. Part of the Rough and Smooth collection, presented at this year’s 2013 Salone del Mobile in Milan, Italy, like a mysterious chemistry experiment FLASK is a spherical object made up of two, hand-blown, glass components, with a ridged and rounded base and a smoked-glass hood. Continue reading Flask by Tom Dixon
High-definition images of natural motifs are displayed on a giant screen, giving visitors the feeling that they are actually in nature. Continue reading Projection of Nature
A cube-like structure made-up of piano wires which are arranged in a lattice format. Continue reading Lighting Piano Wire
Richelle Sibolboro 