
Vico Magistretti: Thinking With Hands @ Salone Milan 2012
For the Milanese foundations and small museums dealing with design, the Salone del Mobile is…
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”
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
” 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
“The Maison in a room” depicts Maison Martin Margiela’s art direction in one single room….
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 !
The weather might slowly be warming up for many of us, but this beautiful white…
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.