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 2012 Australian Achievement in Architecture Awards (AAAA) were presented at a dinner at the…
The fashion house Moschino has always embraced humour. Some of their previous collections have included T-shirts sporting TVs with the words “Channel No 5” and cashmere jackets embroidered with “Rich Bitch”.
Gallery Rossana Orlandi was opened in 2002 in a former tie Factory in the Zona Sant Ambrogio / Magenta neighborhood
Since then Rossana Orlandi has been forecasting new and upcoming designers and establishing the premise as one of the most revered platforms for avant-garde Design and Lifestyle
KnollTextiles’ Adjaye Collection is a highly anticipated collaboration between David Adjaye and KnollTextiles Creative Director Dorothy Cosonas, a meeting of African aesthetics with the language of modern fabrics.
After collaborating with Knoll on furniture in the past few years, Adjaye brings his many years of travels across the whole African continent into colourful, textural fabrics both woven and digitally printed, comprising of two wall coverings, two draperies and four upholstery patterns.
The circle, an archetypal elementary geometric shape, marks the boundaries of the empty space that characterizes the Lost lamp.
As if sucked into a black hole, every subjective style and technical aspect disappears, leaving in their wake only the silence of the central void.
Surrounded by its refined, consistent light, which makes it suitable for any setting, Brogliato Traverso Design Studio’s Lost is a neutral lamp with a strong identity, whose distinctive feature is essentialism.
This year the Design Academy Eindhoven’s ‘Questions’ exhibition will take place at the Salone What Questions…