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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.
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 few bright lights shine bravely through.
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 stalks and tops.
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 gravel.
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.
Agenda
- COLOUR!
Designhuis / Eindhoven - Pretty Much Everything: Inez van Lamsweerde & Vinoodh Matadin
Foam_Fotografiemuseum Amsterdam / Amsterdam - DDD - Groene Honden presenteert...
City Hall / Utrecht - DNKTNK
ArtFort Asperen / Acquoy - Hardware 2010
Intermezzo / Dordrecht
Selection:
- Dutch Design Double 2010
- Milan 2010
- Design.nl 100th Issue Favourites
- Dutch Design Week '09
- Dutch Design Double 2009
- Salone 2009
- Amsterdam International Fashion Week 2009
- Going Out
- Graphic Design Festival 2008
- Dutch Design Week 2008
- Retail Therapy - Where to buy Dutch design
- FreeDesigndom 2008
- Design.nl Milan favourites
- Amsterdam International Fashion Week 2008
- Design.nl Tokyo favourites
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