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
Arik Levy for Baccarat @ Salone Milan 2013
One of the most beautiful new pieces in the 2013 Baccarat collection is Arik Levy’s lighting piece ‘tuile de cristal chandelier’ which made its debut at Palazzo Morando.
Rodolfo Dordoni interview
Born in 1954, Rodolfo Dordoni is a member of the Milanese tradition that generated master designers such as Castiglioni, Zanuso, Magistretti, Citterio and de Lucchi.
Austerity, Autarchy, and Self-Production @ Salone Milan 2014
This seventh interpretation of a museum-in-progress is devoted to “austerity, autarchy, and self-production”, that is how the Italian interior design community has dealt with the dominant theme of recession in recent decades, and how they had done in the past in the 1930s and 1970s and the 2000’s
Kettal Village by Jasper Morrison @ Salone Milan 2013
Kettal Village design by Jasper Morrison – a chair for all outdoor situations, from village house to grand café.
NelBlu by Davide Groppi @ Peggy Guggenheim Collection
On the occasion of the 2019 Venice Film Festival, Davide Groppi presented “NelBlu”, a sensory journey of light and art at the Peggy Guggenheim Collection.
Rossana Orlandi @ Salone Milan 2012
One destination that now is on top of every design-aficionado’s agenda is Spazio Rossana Orlandi…