Shabby chic alla Milanese. This apartment in Lambrate is in one of the most culturally mixed quarters of Milan. A case of bringing the outside in, by the look of the interiors, and the keeping it real lack of pretension is refreshing.
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An Italian loft house full of really nice details and lighting that sets the mood.
The real deal. Piero Lissoni has designed the new Boffi showroom in Via Solferini to look and feel like a real apartment.
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.
A decidely sexy take on open plan living by Italian architect Carlo Colombo.
A fireside library for one by Italian master architect Piero Lissoni.
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 proper, grown-up, beautiful new light from British designer Jasper Morrison, Smithfield by Flos.
Italian brand Magis will present Ronan and Erwan Bouroullec‘s shiny new take on the classic French bistro table at Milan design week 2010.
Seth Godin talks about finding your own brand essence, your own style, culture whatever you want to call it. And how if you have to search really hard you’re unlikely to find one. ‘Clothes don’t make the man’, he says, ‘the man makes the man’. Clothes simply amplify whatever it is you really stand for.
I’ve hung on to that idea all week. How it works when you swap ‘clothes’ for ‘interior design’. This Rome loft (the home of artist Valentina De Martini) feels like a case in point.