Nendo noticed that Marsotto, ( which specializes in marble furniture ) , make a lot their products a single material in either “black” or “white”, without combining any other materials.
So in order to utilize the rather unsightly regularly spaced pillars and the spatial feature of the entrance being in the middle of the Spazio Bigli venue space, it was decided that the exhibition space would be divided right and left using “black” and “white”.
Japanese designer Nendo, has set up his show at one of Brera’s most magical spaces, the Chiostri di San Simpliciano, staging a comic story starring chairs.
With this exhibition, Nendo abstracts archetypes of manga comics. the chairs are happy, distressed, embarrassed, surprised; they leap and bound, zoom past, or slowly slink away. each chair has its own personality, allowing it to stand on its own or, when placed next to the others, to become part of a collective narrative.
It all started in December when Luca Nichetto and Oki Sato met in Stockholm for a coffee in Vetekatten, where they spoke about design and collaboration between designers of the past such as Ettore Sottsass with Shiro Kuramata.
Japanese design company, Nendo is really dramatic piece of furniture! The fadeout chair’s legs seem…
On show at the Jil Sander showroom in the Brera district of Milan, the Invisible Outlines exhibition brings together 16 of the brand’s projects, all exploring what happens when boundaries are blurred or – conversely – enhanced.
The exhibition stretches across seven rooms, largely with an all-white colour scheme and a soundtrack of meditative music.
The next generation of the ‘cord chair’, with its 15mm diameter legs of stainless steel…
Seventeen futuristic visions of Australian cities in 2050 have been chosen for the ‘Now + When’ exhibition at this year’s Venice Architecture Biennale.
For Tom Dixon raw materials are a veritable obsession.
Marble, wood, plastic, glass, iron, brass and copper are the basic building blocks that have defined Tom Dixon’s products from the outset.
This year, Tom took a step back and looked at his biggest influence and the underpinning inspiration for what he does – his materials.
Renault unveiled a striking blue concept car by Ross Lovegrove at the Triennale in Milan for the 2103 Salone.
This concept car is the result of close collaboration between Renault and Lovegrove, and brings together two worlds where Design plays an important role ie the world of furniture and that of the automobile.
The line between ‘work’ and ‘life’ is becoming blurred…The ability to work from home is…
If you’re familiar with the Wombles, then you probably encountered underground architecture at any early…
London-based three piece band the Tiger Lillies premiere their new ‘post-punk’ neo-Brechtian opera Cockatoo Prison (2010) about crimes and society’s attitude towards them.