INTRODUCING ITALIAN DESIGN IN NAIROBI
INTRODUCING ITALIAN DESIGN IN NAIROBI
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INTRODUCING THE ITALIAN DESIGN |6 STORY
Project and catalogue curated by Karibu Italy
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Editorial coordination Alberto Ghirardello Graphic design ad art direction Arianna Pierri Gian Luigi Minoggio Incentive Power & Events Translations Giulia Buffa Thanks to Andrea Sacchi Arch. Claudio Narisoni
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Elena Bazzica Valentina Cislacchi Twins International (Kenya Ngo) Printed in the month of june 2012 by Graficadueprint All trademarks are property of their respective owners
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KARIBU TO ITALIAN DESIGN
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talian Design arrives in Nairobi today. With the opening of the Karibu Italy’s Show Room in Thigiri Ridge, Italian design gets officially in East Africa. Karibu Italy imports today some of the most important Italian design brands for home furnishing. Furnitures and items created by famous Italian designers and products from the world's leading companies in the field such as Alessi, Kartell, Poliform and Teuco. Companies working on global scale in more than 100 countries as real Italian Design Factories. In order to celebrate its arrival in Nairobi Karibu provided a small book of the history of Italian Design, which means global design. A design that comes from the hands and the genius of few artisans, inventors of new shapes of the modern home comfort.
The craftsmanship slowly flowing to Africa will be as well enriched by the natural and innovative local knowledge. We are proud of our choice and this small book is dedicated to those who want to start comprehending the strength of Italian elegance, quality and taste. One more thing. Karibu Italy also comes from our love for Kenya and its people. For years we have organized two orphanages for 150 children in Utawala and Kariobangi's slum and we have supported a primary school of 850 children in Korogocho with our NGO Twins International (Italy and Kenya) and the support of a local NGO, Grapesyard Organization. A considerable part of the profits of Karibu Italy is going to cover the costs for these initiatives which my wife and I have given birth. Diego Masi Chairman Karibu Italy
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INTRODUCING THE ITALIAN DESIGN STORY
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taly has always been considered the homecountry of design and nowadays nothing seems to change: about the 70% of the world’s design companies are in Italy. It is not a coincidence that the beautiful country is the birthplace of design: as a matter of fact Italy has always been rich in resources and prosperous with its many productive regions, each one of them specialized in processing different and specific materials: with the passage of time all these know-how initially provided by artisans have evolved and moving from workshop to companies was very natural and very easy. The role of the designer has been exercised in the past by architects who have more and more often been requested to project the interiors and the furniture of public and private builings, as well as the façade. Almost every time these designs were customized and tightly linked to the construction's shape, design's philosophy and materials' language. Sensing the creative potential the first collaborations between companies and designerarchitects represented the perfect occasions in which the companies, in order to offer distinguishing products on a competitive scale, put independent designers in charge of the production for their wider and more
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creative perspective, not linked to manufacturing constraints.
three years with the main objective of awarding the design of products.
Initially the Italian design was almost exclusively tied to the world of domestic furnishing or to the decorative ceramics and glass, but soon it became clear that the potential of a good design project was huge, so the next step was to use the same method with other types of manufactures and it worked.
This prize, still considered as a most prestigious honour in the world for design, goes beyond the simple gratification for the winning designer and company. It has the social and cultural duty of indicating the direction that the design systems has to take by awarding the symbol-products of good design's values.
When plastic made its entrance on stage, the first housewares companies started to come up, as ambassadors of a good and “democratic” design , for it was now accessible to all and not just for an élite. If Italy is the coutry of design, the universally recognized world's capital for design is Milan. It was in this very city, in the background of the post-war reconstruction, where the social and cultural melting-pot, fed by a fervent optimism, gave birth to initiatives and movements which laid the foundations for the “design-system” as we know it. The first and most important of all these initiatives was the institution of the “Compasso d'Oro” award: the “Oscar Award for Design”, from an idea of architect Gio Ponti, was established in 1954 and held every
Another extremely important step, also closely related to the “Compasso d'Oro”, was the establishing of ADI (Association for the Industrial Design) in 1956, from an initiative of a group of architects, designers and business people engaged in revolutioning the industrial aesthetics of modern times. ADI's objectives and purposes, equally to the scopes of “Compasso d'Oro”from which it took inspiration,aim to preserve and enhance italian design: the unique characteristic of the association consists in, rather than being a mere association of designers, being considered as an institution that promotes industrial design in all its forms and expressions: not only designers and companies take part in this main project, but also museums, schools, universities and other institutions. As far as it concerns the consecration of Milan as capital of design, another important
element has to be considered, the “Salone del Mobile” furniture fair, event established in 1961: from an intuition of a small group of furniture makers willing to promote Italian furniture export, it has become since then the most awaited international event in the furnishing sector and whose importance has increased year after year turning it into a landmark in the field. But what makes Italian design so unique and enviable? The secret of Italian designing method is that, surprisingly, there is no method at all: a project follows an idea, an inspiration, an event that starts a series of thoughts and reasoning inside a designer's head which finally materialise itself into a product. That is the reason why Italian design is difficult if not impossible to be explained with words, for it can only be told through images. And that's why we decided to publish this small book: who better than the products themselves can tell the story of Italian design? Let the products do the talking, let them testify all the concepts and values which made Italian design so famous all over the globe. This small volume contains a collection of some of the products that literally made the ‘Made in Italy design’.
Above all It is important to clarify that the following book has to be considered as an introduction to Italian Design, a timeline that goes from the 30’s to the present and marking only few notches, approximately one per year, representing the items that constituted Italian history, hoping the observers will be fascinated by and appreciate the history of italian design and, perhaps, go deeper and autonomously inside its evolution process. All the listed products, from the most democratic to the more elitist one, are extremely well known and present all over the peninsula, some of them left a mark on the collective imagination, like “Vespa” or the Nuova 500, others revolutioned the market with new materials and technologies, for example the “Lady armchair” or the “Tizio lamp”, some have literally created a whole new typology of objects like the “Arco lamp”,while others were able to anticipate and define a future lifestyle, such as the “Valentine typewriter” or the “Sacco armchair”. It is quite evident that almost every single listed product is extremely fresh and contemporary, they do not show their age at all and many of them are still produced exactly as in the past, except for a few changes in materials or production techniques.
Italian Design is also this: a fight against obsolescence. It became messenger of a series of values aiming to offer a longlasting manufacture in terms of high standard materials and perfect manufacturing, but also in terms of a formal research not influenced by momentary fashion, willing to offer new shaped, colored and appealing items, also esteemed outside of the contest in which they were generated: these are the requirements for a product to become a “best-seller” and to mantain this status for decades. Now to conclude, the main objective of this “bite” of italian design is to give a frame of its history through its most famous manufactures and to involve going deeper and autonomously inside its vastness and complexity. Italian design constituted by an infinity of more or less popular products which deserve to be discovered and appreciated: as previously mentioned every single item tells a different story, each one of them has a unique creative process within itself and it is well worthwhile to know it in order to have a more complete picture of the italian design-system.
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CAMPARI SODA BOTTLE 1932 Company Campari Designer Fortunato Depero A real breaking point for the aesthetic canons of that time: the bottle was redesigned in the shape of an upside-down stem glass. From then on it has always remained the same and in 2012 it celebrated its 80th birthday.
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MOKA EXPRESS COFFEE MAKER 1933 Company Bialetti Designer Alfonso Bialetti The first coffee machine made in aluminium using the in-shell fusion technology. The roughness of the materials absorb the aroma and for that the more frequent usage of the machine enriches the flavour of the coffee.
VELIERO BOOKCASE 1939 Company Poggi Designer Franco Albini Masterpiece of static equilibrium, it reminds both for its shape and structure of a sailing boat. Two poles made of ash sustain the shelves of glass with a system of steel tie rods: the ethereal structure created makes it possible for the books to literally float on air.
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VESPA SCOOTER 1946 Company Piaggio Designer Corradino D’Ascanio
The scooter that has made generations dream is still beloved. The first two-wheeler that even women could ride (it was impossible for women to climb any other vehicle with skirts), symbol of the beautiful Italy and probably the world's famous product made in Italy.
SASSO FLOOR LAMP 1948 Company Lamperti Designer Roberto Menghi Functionality and decoration coexist in this unexpected and innovative alternative to the traditional base for lamp substituted by a real polished river stone.
ZENITH 548 STAPLER 1948 Company Balma, Capoduri & C. Designer Aldo Balma Pure functionality embodied by an object of extremely sober and clean shapes, so timeless to be still the sewing machine most used in Italy and to be almost unchanged over the time.
INVISIBILE SANDAL 1947 Company Ferragamo Designer Salvatore Ferragamo with the innovative and surprising conception of a continous thread upper made of a stringy transparent element of nylon, Ferragamo gave birth to an “invisible” sandal with which he won the Neiman Marcus Award, the Oscar of fashion. This item is one of the most famous post-war shoe. 10 | Introducing Italian Design in Nairobi
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50’s PIATTO DECORATO DECORATED PLATE 1950 FERRARI 166 INTER CAR 1948 Company Ferrari Designer Aurelio Lampredi The first automobile produced by Ferrari: it comes directly from the racing models of that time, and after sixty years it continues to amaze for its being contemporary and the attention to details. 12 | Introducing Italian Design in Nairobi
Company Fornasetti Designer Piero Fornasetti Fornasetti has created one of the vast production of objects and furniture of the 20th century, not only for the single objects' circulation but also for the different decorations (more than 11,000 decorations were attributed to him). Leitmotiv of his creations is the famous and enigmatic dotted face of woman, presented in many versions. Introducing Italian Design in Nairobi | 13
LADY ARMCHAIR 1951
CICOGNINO TABLE 1952
P40 ARMCHAIR 1954
EGG SWINGING CHAIR 1957
Company Arflex Designer Marco Zanuso
Company Poggi Designer Franco Albini
Company Tecno Designer Osvaldo Borsani
Company Pierantonio Bonacina Designer Nanna Jørgen Ditzel
Lady is the symbol of an absolute stylistic material and technological innovation in the after war Italian design. In fact it was the first armchair to use foam rubber as stuffing system and it was characterized by soft covering and reassuring curves.
Masterpiece of the 50's, this small table had a handle to move it and a separable top that could be used as a tray or as a shelf, with a timeless design and balanced proportions.
Relaxed chair seat with mobile elements, comes from the revision of the deckchair, reviewed to become a most prestigious reclining armchair for working environments. Largely stuffed and jointed in four points, this armchair can adopt different positions to become in the end a chaise longue.
Original and unconventional for its symbolcal egg-shape, this armchair had a light wicker structure, hung with a chain to the ceiling: a brand new type of “to be hung” seat was born.
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SUPERLEGGERA CHAIR 1957 Company Cassina Designer Gio Ponti Not a casual name: this “superlight” chair weighs only 1.7kg, It can be lifted up with a finger and it took almost 8 years to achieve this excellent result: with its original style this chair has become an everlasting symbol of the perfect and still contemporary italian design.
16 ANIMALI PUZZLE TOY 1957 Company Danese Designer Enzo Mari
NUOVA 500 CAR 1957 Company Fiat Designer Dante Giacosa
Dante Giacosa, father of the prewar 500 “Topolino” (Mickey Mouse), created in 1957 the most beloved utility car of the after war, inaugurating the modern fashion trend for popular cars in Italy, highly contributing to the mass motorization.
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A toy for children consisting in a sort of tangram composed by sixteen stylized but still recognizable animal shapes, obtained with the help of the continuous design of a pantograph on a rectangular wooden block.
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TS502 RADIO 1964 Company Brionvega Designer Richard Sapper & Marco Zanuso Defined by history as one of the eternal and the “must-have” design objects for the fans and not only, the “cube radio” brought a breeze of freshness in typology of objects firmly uniformed and defined until then, it could be closed and be transported with its practical handle.
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ARCO FLOOR LAMP 1962
SACCO ARMCHAIR 1967
Company Flos Designer Achille & Pier Giacomo Castiglioni
Company Zanotta Designer Piero Gatti, Cesare Paolini, Franco Teodoro
Arco is the revolution of the living room and the kitchen. This lamp, icon of the italian design, substituted the hanging lamp and made it possible for the spotlight to be movable, creating a new typology of product, the floor lamp.
The basic idea is simple: a sack filled with small balls of polystyrene, light, easy to transport and can adapt to any seated position. Non conformist sitting became the symbol of Italian design. Introducing Italian Design in Nairobi | 19
ECLISSE TABLE LAMP 1967 Company Artemide Designer Vico Magistretti Inspired by the blind lanterns of the minors, Eclisse (eclipse) is the result of a simple technology, not exacerbate, of an aesthestics based on primary and functional forms: the internal hemisphere, can control the light emission by rotating on its axis.
GA 45 - POP PORTABLE RECORD PLAYER 1968
VALENTINE TYPEWRITER 1968
Company Minerva Designer Mario Bellini
Company Olivetti Designer Perry A. King & Ettore Sottsass
This portable record player, characterised for being a one compact unit, is a real cult object of the 60’s: equipped with a handle to transport it, this record player became a messenger of an informal and nontraditional lifestyle. 20 | Introducing Italian Design in Nairobi
One of the most famous projects by Sottsass, a vivid red portable machine, absolutely innovative. The body, containing the real typing machine, could be fixed to the case in case of transportation.
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UP 5 - UP 6 ARMCHAIR AND OTTOMAN 1969 Company B&B Italia Designer Gaetano Pesce The Up5 armchair ratifies the delightful meeting of art and design: combined with the up6 pouff, and conceived as a metaphor of the “woman with a ball and chain”, a real cult piece that represented one of the most sensational expressions of the still contemporary and comfortable radical design.
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COMPONIBILI STORAGE UNITS 1969 Company Kartell Designer Anna Castelli Ferrieri A cult series, appreciated for the quality of the design and its practicality. The concept was simple: assembling a vertical series of elements to compose furniture-cases easily convertible and adaptable to all the uses and to all the different environments of the house.
JOE ARMCHAIR 1970 Company Poltronova Designer Jonathan De Pas, Donato D’Urbino, Paolo Lomazzi 22 | Introducing Italian Design in Nairobi
With the shape of a giant baseball glove (the name is a tribute to the american baseball champion Joe Di Maggio), Joe was an armchair made to relax and characterized by the joyful “out of scale” irony typical for those years. Introducing Italian Design in Nairobi | 23
PRATONE ARMCHAIR 1971 Company Gufram Designer Gruppo Strum With a special regard for a maximum creative liberty to the detriment of functional needs, this decorative element wanted to represent an artificial lawn in which anybody could comfortably lie-down in a totally informal way: a funny alternative to the common relaxing armchairs.
BOBY MULTIPURPOSE CONTAINER 1970 Company Bieffeplast Designer Joe Colombo Boby was the everlasting excellent cart-container. For its versatility, the vertical composibility and its high capacity, it became an everyday product for several uses at home, in the offices, in a laboratory, in shops and so on. 24 | Introducing Italian Design in Nairobi
DOCCIA TONDA SHOWER 1972 Company Teuco Designer Fabio Lenci In a world where a standard shower consisted in a squared ceramic plate or polished white iron with a curtain, Teuco ventured with a very colored and futuristic shower, with a round base made of colored acrylic slabs. A vision that went beyond the future. Introducing Italian Design in Nairobi | 25
TIZIO TABLE LAMP 1972
CACTUS CLOTHES HANGER 1972
Company Artemide Designer Richard Sapper
Company Gufram Designer Guido Drocco, Franco Mello
One of the most famous objects of Italian design. Under an apparent simplicity of form Tizio hides a great technical innovation: this lamp is characterised by a system of joints balanced with counterweights in whichthe arms also provide electricity.
Pop dĂŠcor par excellence, Cactus is an example of the perfectly ironic and criative climate of the design made in Italy during the 70's. A coat stand where functionality comes after the hilarious and surreal designing factor.
SCIANGAI CLOTHES HANGER 1973
9090 COFFEE MAKER 1979
Company Zanotta Designer Jonathan De Pas, Donato D’Urbino, Paolo Lomazzi
Company Alessi Designer Richard Sapper
An idea simple and functional at the same time: eight wooden poles centrally hinged forming a strong clothes hanger that can be closed with a simple gesture.
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The first coffee machine with a click, the first Alessi's item to enter in the Permanent Design Collection of the MOMA in New York. A smart product that absorbed the spirit ot the time, as a result of the union between functionality and original aesthetics.
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TAVOLINO CON RUOTE COFFEE TABLE 1980
FIRST CHAIR 1983
Company FontanaArte Designer Gae Aulenti
Company Memphis Designer Michele De Lucchi
A famous product that overturned the schemes, introducing an industrial element such as wheels into a domestic environment, by using them as an element of a small coffee table.
The sculpture-seat that became a symbol of the whole production of the Memphis group. The bright colours are typical of the group and the postmodernist movement, in the same way of a deep formal impact to a detriment of any effective functionality. Introducing Italian Design in Nairobi | 29
9093 KETTLE 1985 Company Alessi Designer Michael Graves Original mix of postmodern and pop language with a pipe whistle shaped like a characterizing colored bird, a real cult product that opened the door to the recreational design of the 80's Alessi's production. ETP 55 ELECTRONIC TYPEWRITER 1987 Company Olivetti Designer Mario Bellini The elegant Design wanted to differentiate Olivetti from the others to attract a new public, in fact the ETP 55 has a complete innovative character: Elaborate shapes and colors underline the most advanced technology used, which gaves the machine a sort of “casual look�. TOLOMEO TABLE LAMP 1987 Company Artemide Designer Michele De Lucchi & Giancarlo Fassina GHOST ARMCHAIR 1987 Company Fiam Designer Cini Boeri One sheet of glass that folded and cut forms at the same time the seat, the arms and the backrest. Invisible and inconsistent, but in the meantime comfortable and resistant. Ghost is a real icon of working with curved glass 30 | Introducing Italian Design in Nairobi
Tolomeo is a modern reinterpretation of the lamp of the past: the lighting device is sustained ba a light aluminum compass branch that hides the spring linked to the the visible rods. This has been the most popular and sold item ever made.
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EMBRYO CHAIR 1988 Company Cappellini Designer Marc Newson Armchair with three legs completely unexpected and shaped in an unusual and strongly characterizing way, a mix of technology, a bit of avant-garde and an organic and detailed design.
I FELTRI ARMCHAIR 1987 Company Cassina Designer Gaetano Pesce I Feltri is one of the armchairs that gave a contribution to the Italian Design's renewal. Characterised for its snug back, the seat ironically recalls the royal chairs combined with axperimentation, a bit of avantgarde and majesty, without losing sight of the comfort.
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90’s
MISS SISSI TABLE LAMP 1991 Company Flos Designer Philippe Starck Inspired by a classic abat-jour with lampshade, it is although extremely innovative. Made out of plastic material, it combines designing irony and the most sophisticated executive and constructive quality: in fact the body of the diffuser lights up for the effect of the opaline material.
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S-CHAIR CHAIR 1992
ANNA G. CORKSCREW 1994
VERMELHA CHAIR 1994
BOOKWORM BOOKSHELF 1994
Company Cappellini Designer Tom Dixon
Company Alessi Designer Alessandro Mendini
Company Edra Designer Fernando & Humberto Campana
Company Kartell Designer Ron Arad
Unmistakable thanks to its flexible silhouette, the S-Chair has elegance and dynamism for its vertical development on a reduced circular base. The fluid and soft shapes are the focal point of this chair covered with straw.
Who has never noticed the resemblance between a corkscrew and a human body? Mendini gets its inspiration from the looks of artist Anna Gili, creating one of Alessi's best-sellers: it has been produce in many variants for color, shape and in many limited editions.
Best Seller of the company, this seat combines good design and precision manual production: the comfortable seat is in fact realized by weaving manually about five hundred meters of special rope with an acrylic heart and covered in cotton.
Flexible and resistant bookcase. The flexibility is provided by the extrusion, a working technology that guarantees a greater load resistance if fixed with curved shapes. It is possible to set up the bookcase in total freedom.
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BOMBO STOOL 1996 Company Magis Designer Stefano Giovannoni One of the company's best sellers, Bombo has curvy and inviting forms: the ergonomic seat is a fluid continuation af the base, characterizing it as an element that can be used in any kind of environment.
HYDROSONIC WHIRLPOOL BATH 1995 Company Teuco Designer Teuco R&D Long before the avant-garde technologies and patents, the revolutionary ultrasound whirlpool bath by Teuco comes from an accurate study about the principles of hydrotherapy. For this reason Teuco's bath tubs are ergonomic and nothing is left to chance. 36 | Introducing Italian Design in Nairobi
SINTESI BOOKSHELF SYSTEM 1998 Company Poliform Designer Carlo Colombo Day system offering the liberty of composition. Its logic is based on the horizontal planes: bench, shelves, drawers that can be combines with containers and broken up elements, each one of them having a specific function. Introducing Italian Design in Nairobi | 37
CHAIR_ONE CHAIR 2003 Company Magis Designer Konstantin Grcic The symetrical composition of irregular triangles that constitute the chair is the evident result of a compositive logic of subtraction and it is technically conceived using the potentials of die-cast alluminium.
2000 now
MOSCARDINO DISPOSABLE SPOON/FORK 2001
LOUIS GHOST CHAIR 2002
Company Pandora Design Designer Giulio Iacchetti & Matteo Ragni
Company Kartell Designer Philippe Starck
On one side fork and on the other one spoon, Moscardino is a small disposable kitchenware for appetizers. Realized in Mater-Bi, a plastic made out of corn, it is completely biodegradable and compostable. 38 | Introducing Italian Design in Nairobi
This chair, revisited and modernized both for the materials and the formal tidiness, recalls a baroque's classic: a mix of materials and language that made it a best seller.
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TWIGGY FLOOR LAMP 2006 Company Foscarini Designer Marc Sadler Sophisticated and flexible, weightless and discreet: Twiggy is a perfect balance between a good design and cleverness: with its simple contro-weight system, the diffuser can be freely positioned in its height for more possible uses.
BOURGIE TABLE LAMP 2004 Company Kartell Designer Ferruccio Laviani Bourgie combines with intelligence and irony the classical bourgeois' shapes with contemporary and versatile material such as polycarbonate. A best-selling product made elegant and contemporary by baroque volutes and transparent folds.
SNAKE ARMCHAIR 2007 Company Poliform Designer Roberto Lazzeroni 40 | Introducing Italian Design in Nairobi
The captivating S shape, seen from the side clearly shows why its name is absolutely appropriate. It evokes the smooth and thin profile of a snake. Along with the continuous line of the armchair goes a coordinated pouf, curved in a flat C. Introducing Italian Design in Nairobi | 41
PAPER WHIRLPOOL BATH 2009 Company Teuco Designer Giovanna Talocci A bath tub that uses Hydroline, an exclusive patented technology in which the classical bottles are substituted by thin and invisible cracks for a new concept of hydromassage, totally invisible and fascinating that rewards the design without any repercussion on the effectiveness ot the massage.
RE-TROUVÉ OUTDOOR CHAIR 2008 Company Emu Designer Patricia Urquiola The tecnology melts with the vintage stylistic research: revisited in its colour, it preserves in the formal features, the traditional working method, distinguished for the complex patterns and the repetitive lozenges, evoking forms of the past in an ironic and cheerful way. DODO KIDS CHAIR 2009 Company Magis Designer Oiva Toikka A swing seat with the compact and voluminous shape of a bird, realized in rotattional printed polyethylene. Simple and reassuring forms for the furnishing's little users.
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MY BEAUTIFUL BACKSIDE SOFA 2009
WALLACE CHAISE LONGUE 2009
Company Moroso Designer Nipa Doshi & Jonathan Levien
Company Poliform Designer Jean-Marie Massaud
In a perfect aesthetic equilibrium from all angles, it breaks the idea of a sofa “with the back on the wall�. Unusual and contemporary lines balance ethnic details in a perfect combination of the two worlds, the Indian and the European one.
Innovative forms and materials for the sitting, Wallace is an armchair exploring original creative possibilities, the result of a formal research depending on functionality.
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COMPANY PROFILE
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aribu Italy is an Italian Company concept incorporated in Nairobi, Kenya, with the sole purpose of supplying top Italian design brands.
We aim to bring the elegance, quality and excellence of Italian luxurious lifestyle into Kenya and wider East Africa. With carefully selected top Italian brands i.e Alessi, Kartell, Poliform and Teuco. Karibu Italy's main business area is composed by Italian household brands, the very Italian lifestyle: living rooms, bedrooms, kitchens, bathroom fittings, lighting & household accessories . For the latest styles in Design, visit our shop situated in the New Muthaiga shopping mall on Thigiri Ridge off Peponi, Westlands.
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Karibu Italy will take you on a journey into the Italian design. We are going to be operative from the end of the first quarter of 2012 and the Inauguration is set for October. We hope that our services will be of the highest value, for your home, your family and we also hope that they will reach your aesthetic needs. In the meantime visit us and take a piece of Italian Design's history with you. Karibu Italy like any other Corporate body has a CSR program, targeting Alice for Children and where our presence is focused on the sole purpose of assisting the needy and give the orphan children of Utawala, Kariobangi and Korogocho's slums an education and a social welfare.
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Karibu Italy Ltd | New Muthaiga Shopping Mall | Thigiri Ridge | Nairobi, Kenya P.O. Box: 00800 - 66061 | Tel. +254 722 316 477 | E-mail: info@karibuitaly.com | www.karibuitaly.com 48 | Introducing Italian Design in Nairobi
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