From 8th – 13th April 2014 Milan held the international furniture fair Salone del Mobile for the 53rd time, which presented new trends in furniture, kitchen and kitchen appliances, bathroom, garden furniture as well as the ideas of young designers at the Salone Satellite fair. 357.212 visitors from around the world had the opportunity to […]
“Our goal was to make this the best Salone del Mobile in the world and the results have far exceeded our expectations,” Claudio Luti, president of the Salone del Mobile said. “Buyers, journalists and designers have seen at first hand just how superlative and creative our production chain is, recognising the value of Made in […]
Kitchens have now taken on the “status indicator” connotation that sitting room furniture had previously enjoyed. This means that many of our observations on furnishing are not relevant to EuroCucina 2014. There are no kitchen “reeditions” for example: futurity and technology remain insuperable goals for this deeply functional space. There is some attention to vintage […]
If luxury has predominated for years in furniture construction and materials, today we are seeing a trend towards a frugal use of resources that represents the birth of a new style, ‘pauperism’, not the only progeny of the crisis we continue to face, and sire of a new ethos of chaste, sometimes severe product design, […]
Names of the projects and designers and the jury’s rationale 1st PRIZE – Euro 10,000 Volta lamp, From (Italy) (Directional LED lamp) The technical approach has been skilfully worked-out and beautifully expressed in a concrete, simple and intuitive formal and functional design. 2nd PRIZE – Euro 5,000 Atmos, Arturo Erbsman (France) (Atmospheric lamp) A narrative […]
The space of the bathroom, increasingly cozy and domestic thanks in part to the influence of the adjacent furnishings, tends to mutate into a little spa, definitively leaving behind that patina of austerity that derives from assigning to it a merely functional role, a space where one quickly conducts one’s private business without the barest […]
The exhibition is organised as part of the Art Brussels event and Design September. For the second edition of Artview, the Atomium invites you to discover the work of artist Arik Levy. The original ambition of ARTVIEW is to look to both the contemporary art lovers as well as to the creators. With this exhibition underneath […]
The KI collection combines the prestigious Italian craftsmanship of Scavolini and the distinctive approach of Nendo, the Japanese studio headed by Oki Sato, which interprets design as surprise, experimentation and refined details. Designed for kitchen and bathroom environments, the proposal aptly reflectsScavolini‘s current international strategy, already apparent in other recent proposals of the brand designed by prestigious designers, such as Ora-ïto, Diesel […]
Walk the line, the exhibition designed by Luca Nichetto and Lera Moiseeva, illustrates how the Sucabaruca coffee set and Cheburashka table set were born. The two collections, which are produced by different companies in different parts of the world, geographically and culturally very far from each other, share the same craftsmanship characterizing the production processes of porcelain and […]
The next exhibition is coming up soon: From April 8 to 13, the design scene is gathering in Milan for the Salone Internazionale del Mobile. Within the scope of Berlin Design Selection tour, a series of successful Berlin designers is going to be there as well. Due to the high density of other high-quality exhibitions and […]