From April 13th to April 19h 2010, Milan held the Design Week.
Modem staff realized reports, inteviews, pictures of new products and major events of the design week...
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LUCE DAL LINO BY MASTERS OF LINEN – Linen getting into a state
Milan Design week april 13th 2010
Under the artistic direction of Teresa Sapey and Ornella Bignami, 50 international designers (Sam Baron, Paola Navone, Noe Duchaufour Lawrance, Francis Azambourg Matteo Thun ...) and companies (Home Missoni, Max Mara, The Perla ...) interpret their vision of the lampshade. The result is a magical hook set in Via Montenapoleone in Milan from April 13th to April 19th. We met Soverin Dimitri, head of communications of the CELC (European Confederation of Linen and Hemp) whose Masters of Linen is a subsidiary. Masters of Linen is the interface between the European linen and other stakeholders.
He explains that linen, noble and ancestral matter is mainly produced in France, Belgium and Holland and it is processed in Europe. Linen is « bio-green ». In fact, it grows on a crop rotation (every seven years) that aerates the earth, it just need sun and rain (unlike cotton, which requires a lot of irrigation) and doesn't requires fertilizer or pesticides.
Linen is therefore a dimension of sustainable development. The product is viable and healthy. Not pollutant. But did you know? We can do anything with this material. 30% of production goes to the lifestyle and decor, 60% is used in fashion, 90% of the outcome is for textile industry. The 10% remaning is for the growth sector of innovative and composite materials. The federation of linen aggregate 10,000 companies, who believe that linen could become an alternative to synthetic fibers, specially in furnitures. The example of Frédéric Morand in collaboration with the designer Francis Azambourg for DCS (Composite Design Solutions) is a clear demonstration. Their Lin 94 chair is made of 94% of plant fiber.
Another example is the first tennis racket in linen fiber : created by Artengo, the artengo 820 Flax Fiber will be distributed at Décathlon stores. Light and easy to hand, the flax ( mixed with a composite carbon fiber) absorbs vibrations and shocks during the stroke. The global textile crisis impels to find new markets, and this look like just the beginning...To be continued.
via Montenapoleone 12, Milan
www.mastersoflinen.com
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HOOK PAR JEAN NOUVEL - Superstudio Piu
Milan Design week April 13th 2010
New coating systems for applications in architecture and interior design.
At a time when technology can remove spaces, Methis wanted to renovate workspace contexte.Hook Partition Wall System produced by Methis and designed by Jean Nouvel presents: an architecture of metal as a quote from Jean Prouvé over a wall, a true system of continuous construction in junctions which disappear into the folds of the metal. And its skin, wrinkled like paper, punched with regularity and lacquered, becomes a wall. A wall with a "wrinkled skin built to capture light and to give life to places" a wall that goes beyond the presence and boundaries of the horizontal and vertical seam.
Thanks to the collaboration with Jean Nouvel, Methis anticipates the future of the division septum. It offers a high impact project including a summary of extreme performance, aesthetics, environmental sustainability and security. The wall becomes a continuous wall and the wall itself, a complete device. Innovative and unique.
via Tortona 27, Milan
www.superstudiopiu.com
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CAMPANAS BROTHERS for eCosentino – Superstudio Più
Milan design week april 13th 2010
"Campanas for eCosentino" is project for ECO par Cosentino ®, world leader in the production and distribution of quartz surfaces, stone surfaces and natural recycled. All the solutions of the collection were imagined for architecture and decorative, consisting of 75% recycled porcelain, glass, mirrors and innovative eco-resin that contains vegetable oil 22% . In response to the growing demand for environmentally friendly materials and sustainable, Cosentino launched the label ECO par Cosentino ®. This product can be used for countertops, cladding and internal flooring. It is available in several colors and finish. The stand, designed by the Estudio Campana (Brazil) creates a textural space with the accumulation of materials. The recycled surface layers Eco by Cosentino ®
are built to create an appearance of sediment rock, which recall the natural stone.
via Tortona 27, Milan
www.recyecology.net
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EXQUISE ECAL -
Milan Design week aprile13th 2010
The ECAL (University of Art and design Lausanne) presents at the Istituto Svizzero di Roma in Milan projects carried out within the Master of Advanced Studies in Luxury & Design (MAS-Luxury).
<sld(ecal)|right>Pierre Keller, Director of the ECAL, is proud to presents new projects by students in the the Master of Advanced Studies in Luxury & Design (MAS-Luxury) launched in autumn 2008 supervised by Augustin Scott de Martinville. Under the guidance of world-renowned designers such as Edward Barber and Jay Osgerby, Ronan Bouroullec, Humberto and Fernando Campana, BIG-GAME and Alexis Georgacopoulos.
The results include music boxes for Reuge, modular jewels for Audemars Piguet, tea-sets and various objects for Christofle, Swiss army knives for Wenger and a chocolate aircraft designed for Tag Aviation...Luxury, Calm And Voluptuousness.
From april 14th to april 18th 2010
{Via Vecchio Politecnico 3, 20121 Milano
www.ecal.ch
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SWAROVSKI CRYSTAL PALACE 2010 -
Milan Design week april 13th 2010
A sensory journey into a crystal ball...
Swarovski Crystal Palace 2010 has opened its doors on April 13 during the design week offering five different interpretations of the crystal. Directed by Jules Wright, installations of Yves Behar, Tokujin Yoshioka, Gwenael Nicolas, Vincent Van Duysen, Tokujin Yoshioka and Roger Van der Heide offer very different experiences of Swarovski crystal and an alternate poetic dimension to a playful imaginary ...
Focus On DREAM CLOUD - Rogier van der Heide
In a darkened room a cloud of light, like a shooting star, surprises the visitor.... The installation of Rogier van der Heide for Swarovski 2010, a proposal that enhances the natural properties of the crystal...
How did you conceive Dream Cloud ?
Rogier van der Heide : “I imagined the Swarovski Crystal Palace of Milan as an evanescent crystal cloud, a 3d sculpture that expresses the nature, the magic, imagination and beauty...Dream Cloud consist of thousands of small untrated pure crystal, fluctuating in the air and trasforming the black space giving a point of gravity on which focus the viewer's attention...On the floor a magic and surreal carpet of clouds in motion while above crystals fluctuate, bathed by a bluelight of the moon...
via Tortona 32, Milan
www.swarovskicrystalpalace.com
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BLACK EXHIBITION // Studio Ora-ito -
Milan Design week aprile 13th 2010
At Magna Pars in Zona Tortona, the presentation of Ora-Ito unfolds in different "moods" in a rhythmic succession of coherent objects, furniture, models, carpet.
From sofas and chairs for {{Steiner) to knives for Laguiole, from Idylle bottle for Guerlain to the candelabra for Christofle and even the model of a room for Hotel O.. The full Ora-Ito is unveiled during this {design week. Strictly black.
Very different creations
“The challenge was to bring together all its proposals in a single exposure and i was very pleased that everyone has agreed. It's really interesting to have generated much partnership whit brands who are icons, myths in their field.
Scenography
"I conceived it myself with a very little budget. All the pieces are very different and have a strong personality, but we feel there are linked and we understand that they comes from the same mind. The idea was to make it organic and rational. "
Black
“The black color gave me the possibility of flattening products and put a chair, a refrigerator and a table at the same level...It was a question of hierarchy and homogeneity...I like the timeless side of black...which allowed me to give a thread, a consistency. To me it is a timeless color that transcends eras and trends.
via Tortona 15, Milano
www.ora-ito.com
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JUST B FLEX BY MARINE PEYRE //Galeria Isarte -
Milan Design week April 14th 2010
Compose and decompose a set at infinity is the will of Marine Peyre (designer and editor) with the system B-Flex: eight modular elements in Kvadrat® fabric. The collection Custom Made, presented in Milan at Isarte Gallery, unite design, materials and colors to your liking. Seats and small furniture are custom made according to custom specifications, from the unique piece to a small series. The design is based on principles of modularity, made to play with the space to which is intended. A large choice of quality fabrics Kvadrat®, Elitis® suggest to customize forms. The furniture set is made exclusively to order and warrants a special attention to installation.
2 Corso Garibaldi, Milano
http://www.marinepeyre.com/
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ZANOTTA+CRISTALPLANT® DESIGN CONTEST-
Milan Design week 14 avril 2010
<sld(zanotta)|right>The elegance of Zanotta brand joins the innovative potential of Cristalplant®, for the second edition of Cristalplant® Design Contest.
The Temporary Museum for New Design hosted the winner’s projects: the «White Shell» bedside table by Salvatore Indriolo, the «Francesca» table by Jacopo Zibardi and the «Naica» table by the MA.A.MA designer group (composed by Manuela Busetti, Matteo Redaelli and Andrea Garuti). A world of fluid and organic forms while geometrical and faceted by original and absolutely comtemporary pieces. The selection included, in addition to the winners, the «Special Mention of the Jury».
From April 14th to April 19th 2010
Superstudio Più, via Tortona 27
http://www.zanotta.it
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MOUSTACHE -
Milan Design week april 14th 2010
The new french Furnitures brand Moustache, founded in 2009 by Stéphane Arriubergé and Massimiliano Iorio unite the designers François Azambourg, Big-Game, Matali Crasset, Ana Mir + Emili Padros, Inga Sempé and Bertjan Pot.
After the great success of their first collection, Moustache adds new categories of products, by welcoming new objects.
<sld(moustache)|right>Perle, a clock designed by Francois Azambourg, which has three hands decorated with Swarovski crystals creates a playful light in motion. The Petite Gigue chair mixes nautical and cabinet-making. With Big Game, the Bold chair collection welcomes the Bold arborescent coat rack. The collectif also designed two luminaries : Link a construction made by anodized aluminium tha multiplies and connect to infinity and Smallwork, a desk lamp with a variable geometry and equipped with LEDs. Matali Crasset designs Istant de vie, a birch made small round table with extensions that can rectract after use to save space...
The Dutch designer Bertjan Pot, inspired by photographer's umbrella lights and cinema's lights reflectors
used in cinema propose Fold Up, a collection of lights and devices in motion that unfold space. Suspended in an articulated carbon fiber canes, light and flexible, this textile lightining bell exist in table, floor and suspension version. Inga Sempré increase the vapour collection, with the Vaporetto light and presents the Guichet clock..
via Tortona 50, Milano
http://www.moustache.fr/
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GALERIE CLIO CALVI & RUDY VOLPI
Milan Design week April 14th 2010
<sld(cliocalvi)|right>At the frontier of art and design, the gallery Clio Calvi & Rudy Volpi has always produces limited editions and supported research and creativity. During this year's Design week, the gallery presents Epigrammi, the last work of Andrea Branzi. Iron frames populated ceramic figurines, frutis, pieces of wood. They look like fragments of a mysterious universal memory. On the walls the epigraph of Filodemo and Asclepiade, written in ancient greek, the interrupt « the monologue of design » and narrate the history of people and their objetcs over a suspended time. Past and unreadable, yet so incomprehensibly familiar.
These twelve pieces express for Andrea Branzi « our relationship with the ancient world, not just an outward...Because this relationship is not just about the style but the misterious nature of the objects that have a soul and still dialogue with the man ».
Interview with Rudy Volpi - Between art and design
We have always produced limited editions and tried to offer our space to researc, a lavoratory for designers. We opened in 1197 but before we had another space, an art gallery. In the 80s we worked with Alchimia, Memphis...
You are now in the Milan design scene since 30 years. How the concept of Fuori Salone has changed in years?
Well, at the beginning of the Fair, the Fuori Salone brought together different proposals that were ouside marketing and business requirements. There were projects and ideas with a real research dimension. An open approach between art and design
Via Pontaccio 17, Milan
www.cliocalvirudyvolpi.it
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SPAZIO ROSSANA ORLANDI
Milan Design week April 14th 2010
The dutch designer Pet Hein Eek, unveil at Rossana Orlandi his new personal work around light, created by an assemblage of differents old glass lampshaed from the fifties and sixties: {We don't make massive non-personal products, but we try to produced unique pieces made from no value materials recovered from industry and nature. We treat this matter with the patience of an angel, while that care is part of our work. The materials we use are rare. Because of this; the products arise and are a always a surprise for me.
via M. Bandello 14-16, Milan
www.pietheineek.nl
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COPPER COLLECTION by Thomas Eyck
Milan Design week April 14th 2010
<sld(spazio)|right>The Dutch editor Thomqs Eyck presented a collection of objects designed by the minimalist designer Aldo Bakker. Hin innovative approach consist to incorporate ancient and new techniques of production of copper as casting, galvanization and gloss paint. This stunning collection includes a stool, a watering can, candlesticks, bowl and pot.
via M. Bandello 14-16, Milan
www.thomaseyck.com
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SAVE BY DROOG -
Milan Design week Parul 14th 2010
<sld(droog)|right>Objects saved by designers and artists or the art of sampling and recycling by Droog. The company brings together for the collective edition 2010 in Milan : Atelier Remy & Veenhuizen, Atelier Ted Noten, Ed Annink, Eric Klarenbeek, Studio Makkink & Bey, Maison Martin Margiela...This huge playful installation was obviously for sale.
via Alserio 22, Milan
www.droog.com/
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INGO MAURER @Spazio Krizia -
Milan Design week April 14th 2010
<sld(ingomaurerok)|right>Ingo Maurer designs and produces lightining for over forty years. Nearly 70 lamps or lmap systems punctuate his work The motto of Ingo Maurer and his team is only one : anti-conformism. The goal : establish an emotional connection between the aesthetic and functional potential of a lamp. Distributed, fragmented and broken the light gushes and splashes space. The genius, the sensuality and poetry are united together.
via Manin 21, Milan
www.ingo-maurer.com
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MICHELE DE LUCCHI -
Milan Design week April 14th 2010
We arrived at the studio of Michele de Lucchi<sld(delucciok)|right>. The titles of his exhibitions are often injunctions to live, to love, to do. He presents the latest glass productions by Produzione Privata : vases, bowls and lamps. The Spettra and Spettrina, in blown borosilicate glass, are made with an elegant simplicity, is distinguished by its installations without screws or metal structure. The transparent column of the base supports the translucent dome in a single point, proving the perfect balance and delicate... After the lemon trees, olive trees, orange, Michele plant a different forest with cedars of Lebanon and pins. Cut out from blackened iron, they form a grove. The architech decides step by step to represent the world with trees... Micro-architecture pieces and wood curved and chiseled trays Vassoi da Muro to put on the wall. Realised with Alberto Nason it's a small collection produced the traditional way with the utmost care
Once again the Maestro cultivates and encourages experimentation craftsmanship know-how. Dazzling.
To enjoy the interview with Michele De Lucchi, click here
Via Varese 15, Milano
www.micheledelucchi.com
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DISCO SEVRES – Petite histoire des formes
Milan Design week Aprile 15th 2010
After the Capitol Museum of Rome and the international museum of ceramics of Faenza in 2009, Sèvres - Cité de la céramique is in Milan for the first time, during the international furniture fair. Invited by the French cultural centrer of Milan, the exhibition DISCOSÈVRES, une petite histoire des formes offers a rare glimpse of contemporary creations of Sèvres porcelain manufacture, from April 15th to May 7th 2010.
<sld(discosevres)|right>The question of the form a long history in the Manufacture de Sèvres, since its inception in the eighteenth century. Jean Claude Duplessis, King's goldsmith and fist great « designer » rooted in the fundamentals of Sevres concerns of contemporary design : the functionality of the object, adaptation to the aesthetics of his time, find the appropriate form to the decor. Jacques Emile Ruhlmann is one of his brillant successor, paving the way for numerous research, conducted both by designers and artists. Creating a form at Sèvres Manufacture remains a curious exercise, witha a specific ritual : create a blank page, integrate the forms of Sèvres heritage, renovate it and let another creator re-appropriate it.
The exhibition offers a walk through wo opposite perspective : the continuity of the blank form, from Duplessis to Pierre Charpin and ruptures (which are only apparent) proposed by several artits and designers such as Pierre Soulages, Ettore Sottsass, Arman, Christian Biecher and many others. After an idea by Adrien Rovero, nearly 70 works are exhbited to illustrate the impulse that each new collaborations gaved. Animated vases, roses in porcelain bisque grows in a greenhouse, the actions of ceramists mingle with those of dancers...as an invitation to discover the poetic repertoire continually enriched and the excellent know-how of this City.
Exhibition commented by David Caméo, directors since 2003 of Sèvres – Cité de la Ceramique.
"We have an exhbition policy that i will describe as ambituous, offering a look at the production of Sèvres, with an obvious reference to our history, our heritage of shapes and designs foundation which have built our success, our image, but replacing it whenever we can, in a dynamic perspective. It is very important to remember that both the institution still exists, as it always produces with traditional manual techniques passed down from generation to generation since 1740 and that, at the same time, it breaks new ground by working in concert with guest artists."
corso Magenta 63, Milan
www.sevresciteceramique.fr
www.culturemilan.com
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SAM BARON – Interview with the director of design departement Fabrica
Milan Design week Paril 16th 2010
At the Palazzo Borromeo Fabrica show an interesting collection of wooden furnitures which aim to redefine the possibilities of form, of the function, perception starting from the extreme simplicity of four wooden crates.
Which was the idea of the project?
The idea was to consider this question : What means present furnitures today? The occasion of Salone del Mobile was very appropriate and we reflect on the drawiing, the production with presentation as objective.
Read the full intervieuw at our interviews section.
piazza Borromeo 10, Milan
www.fabrica.it/
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LOUIS XXI-PORCELAINE HUMAINE//ANDREA BRANZI & SOPHIE MAINIER JULLEROT
Milan Design Week 2010
Since 1740 porcelain manufacturer of sèvres continued its work on porcelain deploying through its centennial expertise and strictly manual techniques, a world of objects and figures at the frontier of art, crafts and design. At the last design week of Milan, two galeries unveiled the visual poetry of this universe, where language draws and sublimate the delicate fragility of the material.
Louis XXI-porcelaine Humaine, is an outcome of the collaboration between porcelain manufacturer of sèvres and Mouvements Modernes gallery, set in the new Van Cleef & Arpels's boutique, will present a collection of eleven sensual and organic shaped pieces – glasses and flutes- signed by Andrea Branzi.
Read the full intervieuw of Andrea Branzi and Sophie Mainier Jullerot, directors of Mouvements Modernes gallery, at our interviews section.
via Pietro Verri 10, Milan
www.sevresciteceramique.fr
www.mouvementsmodernes.com
www.vancleef-arpels.com
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VENTURA LAMBRATE - A new area in the heart of the Design Week
Milan Design week 2010
More than 20 exhibitions and 30 designers from different organizations and schools, were exhibited in Via Massiamiano, Via Arrighi and Via Ventura, close to the historic Lambretta factories.
In a relaxed atmosphere, visitors can see the old farm chosen by the Zuiderzee Museum to exhibit {Kiki van Eijk’s Zuiderzee Settings, the take over of an ex-garage by Autofficina, where different dutch designers propose a «Dutch Still Life composition» or can buy a 99 cts drink at Marten Baas}'s flat while he is measuring Iphone Real Time. Visitors will also discover the modern table linen collection Flat Design or the eclectic works of Frederik Roijé.
The In Residence project presents « Design Dialogues, Ten Small Atlas » in an annual workshop set in Turin, which gathers both young and confirmed designers, and also students in the park Residence.
<sld(lambarte)|right> The LAP – Lambretto Project Art – proposed 13.798 Grams of Design a 40 designers exhibition who measured the « weight » of designers projects while developping new researches on materialsn aesthetics and ideas.
A new breathe for this new design district, directed by Margo Konings and Magriet Vallenberg from the dutch design studio Organisation on Design. A really good start fot Ventura Lambrate that remember the birth of Zona Tortona, conceived ten years ago as a non commercial creative alternative to the Salone and becamed an amazing showcase for importants brand...
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