milan 2009/
nacho again.. :-) eindhoven-based designer nacho carbonell presented the skin collection for droog during milan design week. the furniture consists from an elastic layer that allows the user to place objects underneath it.
see the story about the preview here
milan 2009/
german-hungarian designer laszlo rozsnoki presented his work with designersblock during milan design week last month. here is his ‘share a chair’ which can be used as 1 or 2 seating options.
milan 2009/
german designer sebastian herkner presented is ‘bell table’ at the salonesatellite during milan design week. I like it when things are different.
milan 2009/
me and robert andriessen from designguide.tv received an invitation for a cosy lunch from fancy van de vorst , account manager creative industry eindhoven, at spazio rossana orlandi, a prestigious design studio in the center of milan.
lovely women served delicious pasta for a good cause. and after all I had the chance to do a quick interview with lidewij edelkoort, dutch trend forecaster and curator of the ‘talent milano’ exhibition about the idea to bring the exhibition to milan design week.
video:
lidewij edelkoort, dutch trend forecaster
at the ‘talent milano’ exhibition spazio rossana orlandi
fatima roos, artistic co-ordinator of the designhuis
jeanne van beers, general manager of the designhuis
jeanne tan, lead writer for design.nl
rossana orlandi
milan 2009/
the eindhoven-based design duo bcxsy presented ‘change’, a series of ten objects handcrafted from foam and coated in rubber.
here are my 2 favourites.
boaz cohen and sayaka yamamoto – itchy nose! : )
squeeze light
stone stool
milan 2009/
max lipsey lives in eindhoven. the american designer was exhibiting his coathooks at spazio rosana orlandi last month during design week.
milan 2009/
dutch brand prooff presented the ear chair by studio makkink & bey at superstudio piu. the chair was designed in 2002 but went in production now. .. I had a look on it at the stand and I just had eyes for the lighting… these were my real eye-catchers. and I don’t even know if they belong to the collection.
milan 2009/
helsinki-based design studio arihiro miyake – this guy is surely blessed with this surname : ) – has designed a table lamp with a polyhedron base which can be set in various angles.
yeah, I know what you think. ‘hey, this is from last year.’ but you know what, I like this light. I like it a lot!! louvre light by klauser & carpenter for established & sons.
milan 2009/
dutch designer maarten baas presented his ‘real time’ project. 3 movies about time. see here what maarten told me and robert andriessen from designguide.tv.
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see previous stories about maarten baas :
drawn interview with maarten and bas den herder here
maarten baas old workshop in weert here
milan 2009/
‘parupu’ paper pulp chairs by claesson koivisto rune for södra cell at superstudio piu. it is a children’s chair made from 100% biodegradable material.
why didn’t I thought about this when I did paper-mâché?
I´ve met a lot people last week during milan design week. I also had the chance to do a drawn interview with ronan bouroullec, shay and yeal from raw edges, pieke bergmans, piet hein eek and some more.
I travelled with the bus from milan back to maastricht, nl. when I got off the bus I had to walk home in the rain. unfortunatly my bag isn´t that waterproof. all drawings got wet. after 2 days of little frustrations about this misfortune I´ve decided to publish them anyway. I mean, it happend and I can´t change it…
milan 2009/
‘remeditate’ is inspired by the medical world – this is a series of items by italian studio ctrlzak at the salonesatellite.
milan 2009/
rotterdam-based studio makkink & bey has launched ‘house of furniture parts’ for droog. it is a cnc cutted house with walls of furniture parts which come out and can be easily assembled. a house for everybody who has enough space in their livingroom : )
milan 2009 /
‘mat, satiné, brilliant’ – the installation of belgium-based fashion designer martin margiela. he recreated his parisian atelier in a large space at zona tortona. beautiful!
milan 2009 /
its sunday and I just got back from the milan design week.
unfortunately I couldn’t find an internet connection in milan. so no posts the whole week. but now I have enough content for the next few months.
here is a little preview from my spontaneous top 3 from last week.
and when I say top 3, I talk about the whole thing: exhibition, presentation, idea, products..
1 – design miami/ fendi present craft punk
design performances by designers at spazio fendi
2 – ‘mat, satiné, brilliant’ by belgium-based fashion designer
maison martin margiela at zona tortona
3 – prophets and penitents by damn magazine, showing chairs in prototype form at the oratorio della passione, a 15th century hall
and you know what, I will stay there the whole week. yeah
– salone di mobile 2009
this picture is taken by my ex-roommate nika rams.
she took one of the zona tortona signs ‘accidentally’ with her in 2007
: )
hasselt/
another design from amsterdam-based aldo bakker – when I look at the low table I ask myself if it could go any lower …
low table, japanese urushi lacquer by mariko nishide
side table, japanese urushi lacquer by mariko nishide
– work in progress
