Milan Marginalia The really important facts from 4 days of Salone and Fuorisalone, which no-one else will tell you about.

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The Milan Quodlibet – part one Just as a quodlibet combines different melodies that essentially having nothing to do with one another, but now resound simultaneously, Milan's Salone del Mobile brings together all manner of things. One set of objects seem to be art, another a matter of banalities - and here or there you may sense the sounds of the future.

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The calm after the crash The automobile industry is continually developing new safety systems to prevent crashes from happening at all. Art, however, as shown in Ricarda Roggan's photographs, uses the crash to make commodities things again.

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U.F.O. of the day Mona Hatoum
"Paravent"

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View from the Strip Robert Venturi and Denise Scott Brown first opened their archive of photographs that formed the basis of their thesis for the Museum im Bellpark in Kriens, Switzerland. A characteristic selection is now on display at Deutsches Architekturmuseum in Frankfurt/Main.

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Fishbones in the living room Inspired by colourful leaves the architects Tham & Videgård Hansson create a bold composition of colours and patterns, which flow between the rooms of a large 10-room apartment in central Stockholm.

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Houdini – a new chair by Stefan Diez for e15 Stefan Diez is also presenting a new chair in Milan, which he has named after the famous American escapologist and conjurer "Houdini".

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More light, better light! Every two years it accompanies the Milan furniture fair: Euroluce. Once again this year numerous new designs and technical innovations will be on display at the light fair. And no doubt visitors will come across this or that answer to the future of the light bulb.

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One for all! Artek launcht das 10-Unit System von Shigeru Ban.

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Kilt and norwegian pullover for the terrace Dedon's "outdoor living room" is to feature another outfit. The Special Edition D.D.C. (Dedon Dress Code), which is being presented for the first time this week, includes tartan and cheekily enlarged houndstooth patterns. Naturally woven.

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The time has come again: Milan calling! To stop you from completely losing your way in the usual hustle bustle of the fair and in order to give you a first look at the many activities and locations that the town has to offer, Stylepark has put together a list of the various hotspots connected with Salone Internazionale del Mobile in Milan.

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Moustaches and furniture designs "Moustache" is the name of the new furniture label that Stéphane Arriubergé and Massimiliano Iorio will be launching at the Salone in Milan.

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The Super-Refined or Hip-Hop, Hybrids and Other Petits Fours Furniture design is increasingly based on the art of combination. Any number of hybrids are generated from a remix of styles, techniques and cultural patterns, like so many petit fours in a confectioner's window.

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Here’s to the new! The time has come around again for the Salone Internazionale del Mobile in Milan to open its doors and for the design world to flock to the northern Italian city. And, as always, the question that's being asked is: who has the most beautiful new things to offer? Here is a small foretaste.

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Selected Exhibitors at Saloni 2009 in Milan The Saloni are almost upon us: from 22nd to 27th April, the Milan Fairgrounds will play host to the Salone Internazionale del Mobile, Euroluce (the International Lighting Exhibition), the International Furnishing Accessories Exhibition and SaloneSatellite, every last centimetre of exhibition space totally sold out.

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Paper and a great deal more What can be created from paper? "Luminaire", the American design platform, invited a team of internationally renowned architects, designers and artists to consider paper as a material and to use it to create a work of art. The proceeds from the auction at Christie's are going to cancer research

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U.F.O. of the day Richard Prince
"Nurse Hat Chair"

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How the elk found its way into the living room In the past, people everywhere disrespectfully dismissed the furniture as "Swedish brand". Today it is exhibited in a museum, and because IKEA products are inexpensive, they are considered to be democratic design. The exhibition at the Neue Sammlung in Munich traces the history and methods of the successful company from Älmhult.

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