Favorite: Milan 2010
Milan 2010
(e)Business as Usual in Milan
There may have been fewer new products at this year’s Milan Furniture Fair, but there was a great deal of creativity and conceptual thought to be seen. Many manufacturers turned their attention to more affordable...
Ventura Lambrate big success
Bringing the focus back to content, the new kid on the Milan design block Ventura Lambrate was a welcome breath of fresh air during this year’s Design Week program.
Weltevree
Inviting users to rediscover their environment, Weltevree take to the outdoors for their Milan presentation this year launching a diving board, outdoor oven and a new two-person Dutchtub.
Whatever happened to sustainability?
Really sustainable design seems to be a contradiction in terms as most furniture companies pay little more than lip service to green materials and manufacturing processes in their work. However this week in Milan, a...
Milan Drawn Interview #3: Jorre van Ast
He calls himself a very tall designer. Arco's Creative Director and talented young designer Jorre van Ast draws for Design.nl today.
5 minutes in Milan with…Bertjan Pot
New works from Bertjan Pot were seen all over Milan this week including a knitted sweater chair with six arms for Established and Sons and rotten tomato bean bags for Food Marketo.
Wonderlamp
Studio Job and Pieke Bergmans' first collaboration has resulted in a series of archetypal oversized bronze objects that emit surreal blubs of light.
When Local meets Global
Several shows in Milan this year explore Dutch history, local craftsmanship and manufacturing prowess. Inspiration and funding start on home turf and lead to a wider – and often ultimately global – audience.
The Copper Collection
Aldo Bakker's copper collection for Thomas Eyck gives new dimension and refinement to a much-neglected but beautiful material. Most visitors to the presentation mistook the soy sauce pourer for a smoking pipe.
Milan Drawn Interview #2: BCXSY
Today's subject for the Drawn Interview is BCXSY (Boaz Cohen and Sayaka Yamamoto) who have launched a new series of timber space-dividers crafted in the tradition of Japanese wood joinery.
Autarky: Ode to the Grain
Eindhoven-based Italian duo FormaFantasma launch an exquisite series of tableware and lamps made from flour coloured with natural pigments derived from dried spices and vegetables, and brooms crafted from grain...
Diversity by Nacho Carbonell
Inside the spectacular Palazzo Ferre, Nacho Carbonell unveiled his single largest body of new work: twenty prototypes - iterations of a chair/table- covered in materials such as hair, glass shards, branches and...
5 minutes in Milan with…Scholten & Baijings
We speed-chat with design duo Stefan Scholten & Carole Baijings who are launching three new pieces this year with Established & Sons.
Shaped by Nature
A recurring theme with emerging Dutch designers this year in Milan is how materials, nature and the odd insect - guided gently by the designer's hand - really do the talking for the product.
Design Virus mutates into Monsters
In collaboration with textile company Innofa, Pieke Bergmans' Design Virus has manifest itself into a series of enormous and oddly playful design Monsters.
Milan Drawn Interview #1: Studio Glithero
Every day this week Matylda Krzykowski (matandme.net) will be doing drawn interviews with Dutch designers. First up is Anglo-Dutch duo Studio Glithero who are presenting their process-focused works at various...
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