Certain names and dates distinguish the life of a company just as they distinguish the life of each one of us:
1889 • Giovanni Bonacina and the tradition of the past
1951 • Vittorio Bonacina and the revolution in design with Franco Albini
1980 • Mario Bonacina and the design for the future
Sometimes a chair is just a [...]
For the Milanese foundations and small museums dealing with design, the Salone del Mobile is always a good opportunity to show the status of their archives and research activity. The Vico Magistretti Studio Museum Foundation set out to provide some input for studies into how models were used in Magistretti’s Architecture and Design firm [...]
Paola Lenti presented several proposals and materials to better explore the world of colours and the sensory dimensions of their new products.
Home Indoor Collection introduced new solutions for the living area like Kimono (design Francesco Rota), a modular sofa offering great comfort, or Pillar (design Victor Carrasco) a sofa featured by countless sartorial details, and [...]
Transparent and open, welcoming and communicative, and with a confidence characterised by concise forms and a dominant bulkhead that edges the stand, wass how Kreon presented itself at Light+Building 2012. In Kreon’s customary philosophy – the light fittings disappeared into their surroundings and concentrated an atmosphere of high architectural quality, integrating [...]
Nendo’s Trial and Error exhibition brought together pieces from the new collection of 1% Products and five collections of furniture designs developed over a series of solo exhibitions: Thin Black Lines, Visible Structures, Scatter Shelf, Farming-net Objects and Object Dependencies.
It was held at the 17th-century Palazzo Visconti in Milan, and showcased new prototypes, limited editions [...]
