By way of celebrating designer Achille Castiglioni’s centenary Italian lighting manufacturer Flos used Milan Design Week 2018 to launch re-editions of two Castiglioni designs: Ventosa and Nasa.
Objects which in their own, small, ways allow for an insight into Achille Castiglioni’s approach to, and understanding of, design.
We’re great believers in Fate, in the guiding principle that if it is meant to be, it will be: not least because it protects us from the expectations of achievement.
Further proof of the veracity of Fate was provided by our meeting during Milan Design Week 2018 with the project Moorwerk by Jan Christian Schulz.
Whereas exhibitions in which designers show prototypes and discontinued projects by way of explaining who they are, where they come from and how they work, are a, relatively, regular occurrence, exhibitions in which manufacturers do such are much, much rarer: with the exhibition Typecasting Vitra make a very rare and very welcome exception
And in doing so don’t just present an image not only of Vitra past, but also take a look into the future…..
Curated by Carwan Gallery Beirut co-founder Nicolas Bellavance-Lecompte, Unsighted presents projects by eight international designers; the title making reference to the fact that the designers weren’t told for what they were being commissioned, had no external context; were working, as it were, Unsighted.
During Milan Design Week 2018 all became clearer…
As we believe is now traditional at this time of year….. ….. every year at Milan Design Week the Belgian
It’s been a good long while since we last posted about the Hochschule für Gestaltung Karlsruhe’s kkaarrlls collection, and thus
To the casual observer selecting five outstanding products from the Milan Furniture Fair is a neigh on impossible task, so
To celebrate the 50th anniversary of Fritz Haller and Paul Schärer’s USM Haller modular furniture system USM instigated a series
Several visitors to the Milan furniture fair with whom we spoke, including some whose judgement on such matters we value
As is becoming traditional the interregional initiative Belgium is Design used Milan Design Week to present a showcase of contemporary
Privately and professionally we have long complained about, and been deeply saddened by, the lack of side/coffee tables with a
As a general rule, what you don’t say is more important than what you do say: your body language famously
In the late 19th/early 20th century Vienna based J & J Kohn helped establish the Austro-Hungarian Empire as an important
For reasons far too abstract, intangible, and potentially libellous, to go into, we didn’t report on the inaugural presentation of
Given that all we have too many household accessories and our planet too few natural resources to justify continually producing
For us one of the few genuine joys of Milan Design Week is observing visitors to the furniture fair perching
“Okay so is there ANYTHING interesting happening in Milan this year?” asked dezeen founder and Editor in Chief Marcus Fairs
Probably on account of all the wood, upcycling and back-to-basics on show at Milan Design Week 2013, Granoff Sofa by
As we believe we’ve said before it is always especially pleasing when a designer you first got to know as
Before Milan Design Week and Furniture Fair really get started we took the opportunity to relax a little and to
Billed as being an “… experimental, collaborative journalism project that aims to lift the lid on the design world to
As you know we’re no huge fans of Milan. Love the city. Don’t love the size and cost of their
The Triennale Design Museum Milan opened their exhibition “Dream Factories: People, ideas and paradoxes of Italian design” a week before
Burg Giebichenstein graduates Stephan Schulz and Paul Evermann are presenting a joint show at this years Salone Satellite with each