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I like this open plan meeting space, tucked at the end of a mezzanine in a Madrid garage conversion. The textures and colours (love the coir entry mat-style carpet and tatty tan leather combination) give plenty of detail for the eye to focus on while sitting and chatting without adding clutter. The floor lamp acts like a beacon.
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.
Jaime Hayon‘s distinctive new jewellery salon in Kuwait is all about the furniture.
British designer Matthew Hilton has designed the ever so slightly offbeat (I think it’s the legs) ‘Hepburn’ sofa for his long-time Spanish production partners De La Espada. The piece is set to grace next month’s London Design Festival.
This new office in the woods outside Madrid is remarkable not least because it doesn’t need to be pristine and people-free to look fantastic… The most soulful and seductive workplace I’ve ever seen is the studio of Spanish architects Selgascano. The highly descriptive photography of Iwan Baan is an added delight.
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I saw the work of Spanish designer Tomas Alonso for the first time only a couple of weeks back and the attraction was instant. I’m thinking it’s a nomad thing. I’ve always had a taste for light, slinky, sensational looking furniture that feels like you could rearrange the whole room (or better relocated the entire contents) single-handed. And Alonso delivers in spades.
The ultra minimalist yet quirky 5 degree series is especially slim and gorgeous. The range includes a billiard green table top resting on the simplest timber trestles bound with a sweet little red cord. Best accompanied perhaps by the 5 degree collapsible stool – regular or DNA edition with a special hand-turned timber leg. Similarly slight and just as adaptable is Mr. Light - a series of lights designed around the new LED T8 fluorescent tubes.
It’s the turn of Euroluce at I Saloni 2009. So as excitment builds and the focus in Milano shifts from kitchens and bathrooms to (some some beautifully restrained) lighting, here’s my shortform collection of the most eye-catching online previews so far…
A new emphasis on classic, vaguely retro forms seems a theme running through much of the lighting (especially pendants) debuting in Milan. Personal favourites include, from the top down, Naoto Fukasawa‘s ‘bucket’ and ‘dome’ for Panasonic Electric Works; ‘Top’ by first time product designers Swedish architectural duo Tham & Videgard Hansson Italian company Zero; and ‘Rem’ by Spanish design studio Yonoh for Almerich. Milan design week and Euroluce open on April 22.
Rapidly shaping up as the young world master of that space between art and design, Jaime Hayon does it again. This time in partnership with Baccarat, Hayon is plying his remarkable talent for transforming the slightly stuffy into the covetable and highly collectable. Helping to preserve traditional craftsman techniques for a new generation into the bargain. The splendid spoils of the Baccarat collaboration are the rather jauntily named Crystal Candy Set. But snappy (and hugely apt) titles apart, for me, the really wonderful side of Hayon’s work – be it with Lladro or Metalarte or Swarovski – is how he seems to bury a little piece of himself inside every vase and lamp and figurine. In the hands of the Spaniard, inanimate objects they most definitely are not.
I love mix of texture in this Barcelona apartment. Especially lovely the play of the polished plaster walls and off-white concrete ceiling.