Editorial:
Obviously when you begin any process of design you need to sense or anticipate a sequence of operations that will eventually have to be implemented and, consequently, be able to envisage and explain all the various directions in which this process will eventually lead. It should also be taken into account that there always needs to be a very definite desire to alter or influence the future underpinning this kind of intellectual and professional enterprise. Most significantly, both designers and companies need to adopt an extremely positive attitude towards the future when creating objects and systems for industrial/craft production designed for furnishing houses, commonly and, at times, inappropriately referred to as design products. Having said that, when visiting the latest Milan Furniture Show I got the impression that the Italian projects, all carefully aimed at exalting their own indisputable structural-material qualities, have completely abandoned any attempt to be...