Vico Magistretti: Thinking With Hands @ Salone Milan 2012
For the Milanese foundations and small museums dealing with design, the Salone del Mobile is…
Design also means Looking at Everyday objects with a Curious Eye
“It is always the conceptual detail that attracts people’s attention”
The Vidun “Screw Table” by Vico Magistretti
Vidun = “big screw” in Milanese dialect
The “big wooden screw” sets the height of the tempered glass top – and this way Vico Magistretti converted the typical support of the old workbenches into a domestic element.
Vico often said: “It is always the conceptual detail that attracts people’s attention”.
If a person chooses a lamp in a shop, say a lamp designed by me, picks it up, buys it and then takes it home: well that will have some sort of influence on his life
My Magistretti @ Salone Milan 2013
” If a person chooses a lamp in a shop, say a lamp designed by me, picks it up, buys it and then takes it home: well that will have some sort of influence on his life” ….Vico Magistretti
Salone Milan 2010 – Maison Martin Margiela
“The Maison in a room” depicts Maison Martin Margiela’s art direction in one single room….
Arik Levy – Giant Rock Sculpture
Giant Rock is part of a series of pieces entitled “bigger than man” where Arik Levy created an object which counterbalances in space, a new gravity of both visual and emotional parameters.
It’s like putting ham and cheese, between two slices of bread and calling it a design sandwich !
Salone Milan 2010 – Sugar Lamp
The weather might slowly be warming up for many of us, but this beautiful white…
George Nakashima and Knoll: The Making of an Object
George Nakashima and Knoll: The Making of an Object, at the Design Center at Philadelphia University 2009 – explored the history of a single chair designed by George Nakashima.