…Finally I’m here!
I spend last week in Milan for Design week 2015 and I’m very excited for all amazing news of this edition! This year my attention was focused on the circuit of Fuorisalone that is increasingly branched in many areas of the city.
The first post about the best of Milan Design Week concerns three design studios that made me totally crazy, if you don’t know them yet I think that you will find amazing their work!
Frenc designer Emmanuel Babled presented in Palazzo Litta his limited edition called “Prime Matter”.This collection is a mix of ancient knowledge with cutting edge technology, and is the results of a collaboration between the designer and highest italian craftmens. The italian craft heritage is being revisited in order to propose new unespected results.
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- Etna table are born from a union of pieces of lava coloured with delicate enameling and it puts in value the secular work on lavastone and ceramic in Sicily.
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- These are two examples of Osmosi, an edition of unique glass and marble pieces based on a combination of digital tecnology and traditional craftmanship. It’s really amazing the visual power that these objects convey!
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- The Librastone is a series of low tables made with Carrara marble or brown tobacco stone resting on a curved base, balancing on one point. This allows the table’s top to obtain a perfectly horizontal surface.
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- Quark is a series of low coffee tables that blend exploration of materials and production technique to give birth to unique monolith tables. The realizazion may be in marble or wood but also in plexiglas, bronze or copper. I would like them all!
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- Digit chandelier exposed to Palazzo Litta.
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- Apparatus is a New York based design studio born from playful experimentation with vintage lightling components and is one of my favourite of this Design week. The use of different materials such as aged brass, etched glass, leather and porcelain is one of the things I love in their production, products have a strong visual impact and pure energy…are very clean and so chic! Also the exhibition was very nice, a retro industrial style space in contrast with unique lamps. I really was in love for Apparatus Studio, do you agree?!
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- Few years ago I found Le Broom at Ventura Lambrate, in a short time this London designer has managed to get a high worldwide visibility. His work, as well several collections of lights and furnishing, also includes design of commercial retails, resturants and bars. This collection, called “The Department Store”, incorporates traditional manufacturing techniques in innovating ways to produce a balance between formality and fun with modernism and nostalgia. For the exhibition Le Broom chose a theatrical all gray layout in which the viewer is enchanted by lights and objects. Really very cool collection!
All photos by The Lightline, more information about Apparatus Studio and Le Broom on their website.