An heirloom for the future by Patricia Urquiola. As Milan shuts up shop for another year, the Comeback chair for Kartell is my pick for best new product at the Salone del Mobile 2010.
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Outspoken Italian designer Fabio Novembre does it again (and not in a good way) with his frankly scary new chair Nemo for Driade. I know I know. If you can’t say anything nice don’t say anything all. And normally I manage to contain myself – at least online. I just wish, this once, that someone had told Fabio Novembre the same thing goes for design.
A designer with attitude (just don’t call her design style ‘feminine’), Inga Sempe‘s new LED desk lamp w103 for Swedish brand Wastberg is now showing at the Temporary Museum for New Design in Zona Tortona during Milan Design Week.
Italian brand Magis will present Ronan and Erwan Bouroullec‘s shiny new take on the classic French bistro table at Milan design week 2010.
Pure and gorgeous. New York designer Todd Bracher‘s latest work includes the flawless Alodia stool for Cappellini to be released in Milan next month.
Still life with bath and bed by Dutch designer Marcel Wanders.
With the on-off switch doubling as a dimmer control for the new-tech halogen globe, this limited edition shelf light is almost as versatile as it is cute. The work of designer Andreas Martin-Lof, the mix of materials is lovely. And with each component part lovingly sourced from the workshops of local Swedish suppliers, the A.M.L Clamp is a piece of home decor with a tail at least as long as its brilliant blue fabric flex.
The new dual brand Moroso-Flos showroom looks so inviting you’d think you were sitting in a loft off Via Tortona rather than an ex-office building in London’s Clerkenwell. Which is, of course, the whole rather ambitious point, with the two Italian super brands setting up house together to sell not only furniture and lighting but the very culture of Made in Italy itself.
In a similar move, Moroso teamed up with Diesel and Foscarini in Milan for this years’s design week but I prefer the more grown up union with Flos. And so it seems might Patrizia Moroso, with plans afoot for more shared flagships (most likely starting with Beijing or Shanghai) in 2010.
via AT Casa
When Wallpaper* includes a category in its annual design awards for best new glass-fronted cabinet, Joyce, from the new collection by London design duo Pinch, has it in the bag.
Would-be collectors of the best new work to come out of studio Bouroullec in the last little while will need to be as quick as they are cashed up, with each of the lamps in the brothers’ new collection for Bitossi Ceramiche a limited edition of 49 pieces worldwide. Lampada is now showing at London’s Vessel Gallery as part of Super Design.
via dezeen