Posts by: John Engelen

Magis HQ @ Torre di Mosto

Magis HQ @ Torre di Mosto

In early 2010, Magis moved its Headquarters to a new production site near the small village of Torre di Mosto, just an hour from Venice, coexisting with a well-kept agricultural landscape within the Veneto region of North Eastern Italy

This envious workplace, has a generous interior courtyard garden and corridors display the production prototypes that made the house of Magis famous. Magis projects a way of thinking, and offers a place where one is given the courage to dare

The Magis ‘Wall of Fame’

The Magis ‘Wall of Fame’

When designers visit Euegnio Perazza at Magis Headquarters in Venetto,Italy – they now sign the ever growing ‘ Wall of Fame ’, the company’s equivalent of a guest book

CoeLux wins Gold @ 2019 Good Design Awards

CoeLux wins Gold @ 2019 Good Design Awards

CoeLux – ” Experience the Sky “- won a coveted Good Design Award ( Gold ) in the Product Design category in recognition for outstanding design and innovation.

It is a system able to reproduce sun and sky.

InControLuce by Davide Groppi

InControLuce by Davide Groppi

Davide Groppi presented InControLuce, a book that celebrates thirty years of work in the creation of lamps and lighting projects, sharing the vision that inspired Davide Groppi’s first creations, through written ancedotes and illustrations

Vela – Stackable Magnesium Chair @ Salone Milan 2019

Vela – Stackable Magnesium Chair @ Salone Milan 2019

Designed by the young couple, work and life partners, Gilli Kuchik and Ran Amitai, it has a simple and understated shape and the clean lines of three sails in the wind.

Its manufacture however is extraordinary, with shell in die-cast magnesium and the four legs in extruded magnesium – the first chair made using magnesium whihc has been designed, developed and produced in decidedly industrial terms.

Weighing two and a half kilos, it can be moved or stacked on another chair with just one finger.

Interni “Human Spaces” Exhibition @ Salone Milan 2019

Interni “Human Spaces” Exhibition @ Salone Milan 2019

Interni asked the architects and designers participating in this year’s edition of the event to translate the concept of ‘ Human Space’ into experimental installations, starting with the furnishings that surround us and extending to urban mobility.

From the natural environment to macro-system of production, such as the virtuous – and by now necessary – circular economy.

In collaboration with partner companies and institutions, over thirty installations have been created for the show, envisioning a future in which nature and the planet are protected, resources are saved and artificial intelligence is applied for the common good, promoting personal well being.

Broken Nature @ Salone Milan 2019

Broken Nature @ Salone Milan 2019

The theme of the 22nd Triennale di Milano is, as the title suggests, in-depth examination of the ties between humans and our natural environment, now profoundly compromised and, in some cases, completely destroyed, looking at the role design can play in reconstituting these links.

In exploring architecture and design objects and concepts at all scales and in all materials, Broken Nature celebrates design’s ability to offer powerful insight into the key issues of our age, moving beyond pious deference and inconclusive anxiety.

The Room of Change @ Salone Milan 2019

The Room of Change @ Salone Milan 2019

For ‘The Room of Change’ Accurat created a 30-meters-long hand-crafted data-tapestry illustrating how multiple aspects of our environment have changed in the past centuries, how they are still changing, and how they will likely continue changing, addressing many of the topics presented in the exhibition.

With this installation, Accurat questions a communication made only of data and numbers and suggests a change of scale and perspective.