Anything can happen in Milano this week
This interview by Marcus Fairs, was filmed as the city geared up for the Salone, the world’s biggest design fair, which, together with hundreds of events that take place across the city, transforms Milan for a week each April.
“Anything can happen in Milano during this week,” … Fabio Novembre
Fabio Novembre uses furniture design to tell intense and fascinating stories in which the protagonist…
Inside and outside the show which presents the new book by Fabio, “Il Design Spiegato…
3 x Part interview with Tom Dixon conducted by Fabio Novembre for Abitare Magazine Unlike…
Martini & Rossi has officially started the celebrations of its “first” 150 years presenting to an exclusive FuoriSalone ” Martini Pop Art Gallery ” inspired by the values that have marked its history: Italian spirit, a vocation for art, love for young talents.
Milan Design Week has become the Biggest Design Meeting in the World
Copy Nature is an exhibition of 11 designers’ work exploring reproduction at the metal casting workshop The Beeldenstorm. The designers, invited by project initiator Max Lipsey, were provided with space and expertise by The Beeldenstorm to come experiment in the workshop.
Design and craftsmanship continue to be at the heart of Mindcraft that, in its tenth edition, presents a project curated by Ditte Hammerstrøm.
In this year’s exhibition, the objects on display take centre stage, with an emphasis on the hands-on engagement with the material and the visual, aesthetic and sensuous qualities of the objects.
Belgian furniture maker Maarten Van Severen devoted himself to the rigorous exploration of basic furniture typologies and in the process developed a formal language of uncompromising simplicity and beauty.
Maarten who died from cancer in 2005, aged 48, left behind an extraordinary collection of furniture and several important architectural projects.
Replacing the Light Bulb with a Bubble Dutch design company Booo! Studio asked Swedish design…
Florence Knoll Bassett established herself as one of the most influential American interior planners and designers of the second half of the twentieth century.
Her belief in “total design”—architecture, manufacturing, interior design, furniture, textiles, graphics, advertising and presentation—meant that she integrated all aspects of spatial planning, furnishing, and decorating into one seamless package.
Her application of design principles in solving space-planning problems were radical departures from the standard practice in the 1950s, but were quickly adopted and remain widely used today
Florence Knoll changed the world’s conception of how to decorate an office space with her innovative, art-centered and Bauhaus-inspired notions about functional design
The “Toiletpaper Lasagna Party” was held at Sala Venezia in Milan – a 1950’s, old style ballrooom and restaurant,
The mood was “Italian seaside resort circa 196o’s” with a live band, an accordion player, and a glitter ball— and hours of sweaty, silly dance revelry ( euro style ! .