FAIRS & EVENTS Tasting the future 4/28/2015This year’s Salone once again blazed many a trail into automotive wonderland. Think tracks made of fine marble, highlights for the senses and dreams on wheels powered by an improbability drive.
FAIRS & EVENTS What only the giraffe knows 4/28/2015This year during there were once again countless items of furniture and special moments during the Milan Salone. A small photo album of memories.
FAIRS & EVENTS Light emotions 4/22/2015The Euroluce and the events accompanying it in Milan showed how light and luminaire makers are tackling the challenges of the electronic age: with a specific mixture in each case of tradition, technology, and private equity investors.
FAIRS & EVENTS Clerics meet Matrizia4/22/2015“An impure tongue does not taste; dulled senses only notice the sharpest stimuli, or they chew more than they feel.” – Johann Gottfried von Herder
FAIRS & EVENTS Milan Marginalia4/22/2015Blue is the new black, morning engagements, parties end abruptly, council is sought, and at long last there’s a door handle by Rem Koolhaas.
FAIRS & EVENTS Work like the ancient Greeks4/22/2015Michele de Lucchi is convinced he has found what creative work primarily need. A walk on his installation "Workplace 3.0 - La Passegiata" at the Salone Ufficio.
FAIRS & EVENTS I am a freaky perfectionist4/21/2015Be it at Bosa, BD Barcelona, Ceccotti, Cassina, Fritz Hansen, Magis, MINI or at the Orto Botanico: Almost anywhere you look in Milan you stumble across designs by Jaime Hayon. Uta Abendroth spoke with the all-rounder about his recipe for success.
FAIRS & EVENTS Between Fondue, Copy + Paste4/21/2015Visitors were hard pressed to spot any genuine talent at this year’s Salone Satellite – many young designers were championing products made to shine in the social networks. But we did discover them, those ingenious ideas.
FAIRS & EVENTS From Brianza out into the wide world4/13/2015A 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.
FAIRS & EVENTS Pattern seeks partner4/12/2015“Ottoman” by Scholten & Baijings for MorosoFresh, but not too sporty, leisurely in shape and color, but not too elegant – a truly fine recliner-cum-seat.
FAIRS & EVENTS Sam Son Remo ZigZag4/12/2015Any number of novelties from Konstantin GrcicExcitement’s in the air. Shortly before the Salone opens some news has leaked out as regards what KGID is coming up with.
FAIRS & EVENTS On the sunny side4/11/2015Stefan Diez turns Yard into a family for EmuThink of “dolce vita” and of the American way of life. Sun and fresh air are musts, with the sea, the beach, the pool or the patio close by.