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REVIEW – SALONE DEL MOBILE & MILAN DESIGN WEEK 2023

Back to the future

by Anna Moldenhauer | 4/24/2023

What does a trade fair like the Salone del Mobile.Milano currently need in order to inspire companies and guests alike? With which concepts do the creatives of Milan Design Week react to the structural changes that the industry has undergone in the last four years? Our Review.

Boundless pleasure

by Anna Moldenhauer | 7/8/2021

Light, luxury and fluid transitions: Patricia Urquiola has created a modern retreat with the hotel "Il Sereno Lago di Como", which was recently expanded with an exclusive penthouse suite.

Strong heritage

by Anna Moldenhauer | 11/13/2019

Italian family-owned company Olivari has since 1911 been manufacturing door handles and realized in cooperation with famous creative minds such as Gio Ponti pioneering designs. Where is Olivari today? We spoke to Antonio Olivari.

The full Ponti

by Fabian Peters | 10/28/2018

The Musée des Arts Décoratifs in Paris is staging an exhibition on the oeuvre of architect and designer Gio Ponti.

Classy copywriting

by Anna Moldenhauer | 7/4/2018

The media company Condé Nast Germany has moved to the Richard Meier Building in Munich after an extensive redesign.

SALONE DEL MOBILE 2018

A touch of new objectivity

by Fabian Peters | 5/10/2018

Quo vadis, furniture design? This year’s Salone del Mobile reveals a few ideas. An analysis in our glance back at the fair.

SALONE DEL MOBILE 2017

Forza Salone!

by Fabian Peters | 4/6/2017

Off we go! Take a walk with us through trade-fair fairyland, catch the mood at the one or other booth and a glimpse of the novelties at this year’s Salone del Mobile.

SALONE DEL MOBILE 2017

Well strapped in

3/30/2017

As of this year, Molteni&C holds the exclusive rights to re-editions of Gio Ponti furniture – and has immediately brought out the “D.156.3” lounge chair.

IMM COLOGNE 2017

Fitted out or fitted in?

by Thomas Wagner | 1/9/2017

Head now – for Cologne. From January 16-22, it’s imm cologne time again – and there’s a lot to discover round and about the city, too. Not just for the man without qualities. Here’re the most important items.

Déjà-vu in Basel

by Uta Abendroth | 6/27/2016

The Design Miami trade fair takes place parallel to Art Basel – but this year only featured very few highlights. There was a lack of real innovations or an exciting exhibition.

Not only Grillo had a future

by Thomas Edelmann | 5/17/2016

Marco Zanuso was born 100 years ago. The Milanese architect is one of the inventors of post-1945 Italian design and for decades inspired other architects and designers.

Busnelli´s Best

by Thomas Edelmann | 4/11/2016

As B&B Italia turns 50, the company is still helping to kick-start change.

Velvet and yearning

by Sandra Hofmeister | 1/29/2016

Be it new designs or re-issued classics: velvet covers were omnipresent at the imm cologne. But why?

Macchina per il caffè: La Cornuta by Giò Ponti for La Pavoni

by Thomas Wagner | 6/20/2015

At the beginning of the 20th century the Futurists exalted it to the rank of a deity: la macchina.

From Brianza out into the wide world

by Thomas Edelmann | 4/13/2015

A prototypical design company: Molteni, founded 80 years ago in Brianza, now run by the third generation of family members, presents its products in a setting of Modern art.

Small is beautiful

by Martina Metzner | 3/25/2015

They’re back in fashion – small, light armchairs with a wooden or tubular steel frame. In the 1950s and 1960s they came to fame as “easy chairs”; now they’ve morphed into “lounge chairs”. For the office or the home.

Milan’s genius loci

by Sandra Hofmeister | 5/15/2012

Historical settings and paintings formed an atmospheric backdrop for exhibitions on Gio Ponti, Venini and Foscarini during the Salone del Mobile in Milan.

Complete artwork including big game

by Bokern Anneke | 2/24/2009

In 1953, when Gio Ponti was commissioned to design the Villa Planchart, he was not even sure in which country Caracas was located. Nonetheless in the following years on a hill overlooking the Venezuelan metropolis he created a complete artwork of decorative Modernism set. Fifty years later it looks just as fresh as it did on the first day.

Gio Ponti - the indescribable lightness of design

by Vera Siegmund | 2/21/2008

When architects design furniture and utility items, their love of things is often animated by a certain desire for absoluteness. By designing the atmosphere right down to the smallest detail they hope to produce a harmonious whole. This applies particularly to modern architects who, in schools such as the Bauhaus and De Stijl, were aiming for a kind of universality.

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