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MILAN DESIGN WEEK The designers’picks Looking upon to the Milan Design Week 2014, architects and designers are giving their suggestions about the best spots: areas and locations to visit, brands and new designers to discover at Salone del Mobile and outside.
MILAN DESIGN WEEK 2014
>> SIMONE MICHELI A company not to be missed at Salone del Mobile
I’ll name those for whom I have designed and who will be presenting my new pieces at this year’s Salone: Adrenalina and Dorelan, but then there are also those companies I have worked with for years, it’s so hard to choose!. An event or an area of the city you suggest to visit.
Lambrate! Without a doubt, they should go see my new studio, a branch of the historical main office in Florence that I opened on via Ventura 6 for the 2012 Salone di Milano. Via Ventura is a bustling area of recently renovated buildings and former industrial plants that have been turned into temporary and informal underground-type meeting places. The studio is not just a workplace, but a great venue for meetings and debates, a place where you can expand your knowledge. It’s a very functional, flexible, hybrid sort of space that came about as a place in which to elaborate, develop and exchange thoughts and ideas through real and virtual propositions.
A designer who has to be discovered
I would love it if it were a young student who had been inspired by my words or lessons. One who I taught to “think outside the box.”. What are you going to present at the Design Week.
As always, it will be a very intense week of networking and public relations. I have several things at the Fuori Salone: 1 – Expolding ( Chairs. 2 – the exhibition/event for interiors at the Statale, where iron chairs will be presented. 4 – Viareggio Design Net. 5 - a show in my studio where I will present prototype opera chairs made by prestigious companies; the presentation of a collection of tables for Classica Design and new system of headboards for beds for Elite.
>> simonemicheli.com
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Milan Design Week 2014
>> ODO FIORAVANTI
An event or an area of the city you suggest to visit.
The exhibition at Palazzo Clerici, Milan. A company not to be missed at Salone del Mobile
Nodus Rug. A designer who has to be discovered
Philippe Tabet. What are you going to present at the Design Week.
This year I will present 2 chairs, Cora and Intro, designed for Pianca, a rug for Nodus, the Bonnet wall lamp for Fontana Arte, a candle holder for Something Good and a bow tie with a 3D print for Maison 203 which will be exhibited at the Rinascente in Milan. We have also expanded the Babila collection we began last year with Pedrali, with a plastic version and a high wooden stool, and the Snow line, again with Pedrali, in a junior version for kids.
>> fioravanti.eu
MILAN DESIGN WEEK 2014
>>STEFANO GIOVANNONI
An event or an area of the city you suggest to visit.
The Tortona district remains the most interesting one for the fuorisalone. A company not to be missed at Salone del Mobile
Over the past years Mooi has been the most interesting new company. A designer who has to be discovered
Andrea Mancuso (Analogia project). What are you going to present at the Design Week.
We will present a line of outdoor furniture with Vondom (sofa, armchair, easy chair, chairs and tables), a new series of products (bathrooms and accessories) for the Alessi bathroom with Laufen, a kitchen for Veneta, a big white marble table (Rabbit Tree) with rabbit-shaped chairs.
>> stefanogiovannoni.it
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>> MATTEO RAGNI
An event or an area of the city you suggest to visit.
GOODESIGN UP at Cascina Cuccagna, even better when you bring along the kids. A company not to be missed at Salone del Mobile
Very Wood, the ultimate expression of made in Italy and passion for beautifully crafted objects. A designer who has to be discovered
Francesco Faccin. What are you going to present at the Design Week.
A group of glass dÊcor items, a wooden bed, brass handles, a tribute to Italy’s greatest cabinetmaker, new textures for wood, cardboard and wooden toys for kids of all ages, a triennial installment with fabulous materials, a stand bursting with chairs, a showroom that brings together the knowhow of many Italian craftsmen, 12 zodiac stools, eyeglasses made of wood and aluminium.
>> matteoragni.com
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MILAN DESIGN WEEK 2014
>>PIETRO FERRUCCIO LAVIANI
furniture collection which, as always, features expertly crafted wood in an innovative way. A designer who has to be discovered
There are so many and I don’t want to name one so as not to undermine the other. Word of mouth during the fair is the best way to find the new and, why not, the old talent too. What are you going to present at the Design Week. An event or an area of the city you suggest to visit.
I personally think that some of the creative energy that was once the guiding force of the Fuori Salone has been lost along the way due to its massive commercial exploitation by elements that have nothing to do with the world of design. They have watered down, if you will, the original spirit of the event. Of course there are still plenty of very interesting events to be enjoyed and it’s certainly worth visiting, but there are now so many of those events taking place that it has become hard to distinguish those that offer real quality and those that don’t. The real synergy here is the fair itself, and the Fuori Salone exists because there is a worthwhile fair that backs it up. A company not to be missed at Salone del Mobile
Emmemobili. They have an all new
I will present three new lamp projects I did for Kartell, a bed – Orpheo – I did for Lema, Bak accessories that include clothes hangers, trunks, tables and other things in bronzed metal, leather and wood for Frag, a desk and arm chair for Veuve Cliquot, the new collection I mentioned earlier for Emmemobili, two new extendable awnings for UnoPiù and a brand new kitchen for the new Rastelli (Aran) brand. Aside from the Kartell, Emmemobili, Frag and Fuori Salone stands, we have C&C Milano (fabrics) with an installment at the courtyard of their headquarters on via Zenale and the Atellani garden, as well as two portals of the Onore alla Statale courtyard, the Foscarini showroom in Brera, UnoPiù on Piazza San Marco with the two awnings I mentioned earlier and, finally, the Kartell in Tavola at the store on via Turati.
>> laviani.com
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>>MARCEL WANDERS
Salone. I am especially excited about my collaboration with Barovier&Toso, the fifth oldest family-owned business in the world! “Light e-motion”, an exhibition at Chiostri di San Simpliciano, is my re-interpretation of the great Murano glass tradition”. MW. What are you going to present at the Design Week.
An event or an area of the city you suggest to visit.
“Milan is a city where I always go back to. Brera’s historical buildings and Fine Arts Academy are remarkable, and a perfect setting for Salone every year. Lambrate is upcoming, with alternative pop-up shows worth seeing. And of course Bar Basso is the place to be after 10.30 pm”.MW A company not to be missed at Salone del Mobile
A”I have dear friends in Milan who I love to reconnect with during
At Fuorisalone: Moooi, Via Savona, 56; Barovier&Toso, Chiostri di San Simpliciano, Piazza Paolo VI, 6; ‘Untold’ an exhibition curated by Rossana Orlandi, Vionnet and Audemars Piguet, Museo Bagatti Valsecchi, Via Gesù, 5; ‘Oh! Furoshiki’ & ‘Ito Jakuchu Inspired’, by Tokyo Designers Week Tokyo Imagine, Padiglione Visconti, Via Tortona, 58; Magis Showroom, Corso Garibaldi, 77. At Salone del Mobile: Gufram, Pavillion 16 Stand F34; Magis, Pavillion 20 Stand C15 D12; Olivari, Pavilion 16 Stand D49; Very Wood, Pavilion 7 Stand G19.
>>marcelwanders.com