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
Street Style Fashion @ Salone Milan 2018
Milan Fashion Week and Milan Design Week both unfold here – which makes the possibility a visit will coincide with a global convergence of the design community highly likely, making it one of the few cities that can truly claim Fashion and Design are part of its’ cultural and civic DNA
Ron Arad’s “Last Train” @ 55th Venice Art Biennale
Presented at the 55th Venice Art Biennale ( 2013) at the Palazzo Cavalli Franchetti, San Marco, Ron Arads’ “Last Train” is an interactive work in which the London-based creative has designed a Steinmetz diamond ring which features the precious stones in an ‘X’ formation.
Studio Smack
Breda, The Netherlands Studio Smack has existed since the dawn of time. Since its foundation…
Kreon Ceiling Systems – Tenno invisibility
LED developments tend to follow the trend toward ever more miniature units that deliver ever…
Salone Milan 2010 – Andy Rementer @ Skitsch
SKITSCH released a 24 page A5 catalog. The booklet features comics and illustrations ( by Andy…
Pritzker Prize 2010 winner – Architects Ryue Nishizawa, Kazuyo Sejima SANAA
“For architecture that is simultaneously delicate and powerful, precise and fluid, ingenious but not overly or overtly clever, Kazuyo Sejima and Ryue Nishizawa are the recipients of the 2010 Pritzker Architecture Prize.”