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Elisabetta Rizzato
Grace Davin
Elisabetta is an Italian Architect and
Grace Is an American living
the creator of Italian design blog
in Milan. She has a BA in
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Anthropology and International
Besides being a web content creator, she
Studies from the University of
runs her interior and design studio.
Minnesota Duluth. She has lived
She has contributed to several
in Italy for two years, taking
international publications, forecasting
Italian language and culture
interiors and design, while regularly
courses while exploring the
traveling to the latest design events.
fascinating city of Milan.
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Davide Buscaglia
Martina Pardo
Davide lives in Turin. He started
Martina is an Italian interior
photographing meeting strangers on the
designer living in London.
street once a day and has never stopped
She has worked in the interior
since.
design industry for four years in
His photographic research focuses on
Milan, Beijing and London.
the relational aspects of photography:
She is now based in London and
from interior to street photography, from
works on A Designer At Heart,
portrait to still life, his images are intense,
her online platform.
minimal and evocative.
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Atelier Mave Atelier Mave is a stationery and lifestyle brand, founded by Berry Aktuglu in Milan with a passion for creating playful and colorful illustrations. Every design starts with hand-drawn lines and has its own whimsical character, color combinations which make Mave products unique.
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DIMOR ESTUDIO
Emiliano Salci and Britt Moran of DIMORESTUDIO worked on three different locations for this year’s Milan Design Week. Located heart
of
Brera
in
the
Design
District,
Perfettamente
Imperfetto
displayed signature pieces from the studio’s collections
“Progetto
Non Finito” and “Oggetti”, in an installation of neutral colors which pays tribute to the firm’s creations. Every
piece
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the center of every room, with their sophisticated materials and refined design in contrast with the totally neutral and white setting, expressing purity and essentiality. Furniture is inspired by the early Modernism of the Milanese and Roman salons in the ‘60s and’ 70s.
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SNARKITECTURE
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B R A N D CAESARSTONE
New
York-based
collaborative practice Snarkitecture, with an installation inside Palazzo dell’Ufficio Romana,
Elettorale worked
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together
Porta with
Caesarstone at Milan Design Week. The installation explored the
changing
forms
of
water:
centre of the installation, a large circular kitchen island made of Caesarstone, displaying ice, liquid and steam. Around the kitchen island, an amphitheatre built with 250 pedestals made of Caesarstone and metal mesh. Set at irregular heights,
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a
monochromatic emulate
the
white
to
gradient, appearance
natural landscape.
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2 Sound-absorbing element constructed as an
The Extinct Animal Collection is a new
open weave on a plywood ring, glued together
collection of carpets inspired by an Extinct
of six laser-cut segments. The outside of the
Animal.
ring has 720 laser-cut slits to hold the thread.
The structure, colours and patterns of their fur,
Suspended from a pivot joint, the ring is
plumage or skin comes vividly back to life.
wound around with thread in thousands of
Legends and story that surround these
high-precision movements. The weave takes
creatures from the past also find a place at the
about two weeks to complete. It has to be tight
heart of every carpet.
enough to produce a regular pattern and loose enough not to warp the ring. A metal fitting is embedded between the layers of the plywood.
SUN DISC
THE EXTINCT ANIMAL COLLECTION
BY CECILIE BENDIXEN
BY MOOOI CA R PETS
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4 Inspired by the lush form of a lotus in full flower, the Bloom harnesses the exuberance of centuries-old straw inlay technique in the service of a resolutely contemporary aesthetic. Graphically bold, a kind of post-Pop mandala,
The LimitedEdition is made of 9 pieces
the vibrant colours evoke a 1960s spirit.
designed by taking old furniture from the
The Bloom’s semi-circular doors are composed
18th and 19th centuries, unstructured and
of 4,320 sections of premium-grade rye straw
rebuilt by adding other new materials.
imported from specialty growers in Burgundy,
These include especially bright colored
France. Goodrum and Seigneur have devised
lacquers. hyper-shiny brass, bronzes and
twelve unique pigments to create a gradient of
steels.
intensity across a warm spectrum: from deep noir to cobalt and violet though to fuchsia and pale rose.
BLOOM CABINET
L IMITED EDITION
BY A DA M GOODRU M & A RT H U R SE IGN EU R
BY EMILI A NO SA LCI X DIMOR ESTUDIO
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6 Act III presents a collection in which, for the first time, creative director Gabriel Hendifar
MOON is a new family of tables - round, square
mines personal cultural history as a first
and rectangular - and side tables with a very
generation American born after the Islamic
particular character.
Revolution. The genesis of the collection is a
The ceramic bases are characterised by a
box, intricately inlaid in the Persian Khatam
material and irregular surface that recalls the
style, which his grandmother brought with
moon’s surface - a particular blue moon -
her from Iran to the United States in 1979 as a
obtained with a special hand-finishing process.
political refugee.
In the round tables the central base is a large
The collection includes 20 pieces of lamps, a
sculptural amphora supporting an aluminium
table and homeware mixing different materials
or marble top available in two sizes.
such as alabaster, brass, marble, and the traditional Khatam inlay. MOON
T HE AC T I I I COL L EC T ION
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8 Ruins is a series of furniture including benches,
The Meltingpot table is created with reclaimed
stools, tables and a mirror mirrors inspired
synthetics. Disparate sources maintain their
by elements of the classical and industrial
individual properties through a house-devel-
construction, such as for example beams and
oped extrusion process, puzzled together in a
colums, deconstructed in new shapes.
sprawling landscape.
The designer used a material called Marmo
Refrigerator interiors, lawn furniture, and other
Artificiale di Rima, simulating the look of
discarded synthetics find new life as a new
marble, a material invented in Piemonte at the
material, in a process which reuses plastic in a
end of the 19th century to decorate the palace
new way.
of the Russian Tsar in Saint Petersburg.
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M E LT I NGP OT
BY ROBE RTO SI RON I
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of
level. Being in that environment
ITALIANBARK are mainly Millennials
around so many amazing students
L. There’s been a lot of
and
and tutors opened my eyes up to
dusty pink going around in Milan.
a deeper level of understanding of
I’m quite a big fan of the pastel
the different ways that design can
heaven, and that has been quite
work and impact.
present during the last year and
M. young
The
readers
professionals.
What
were you doing in your 20s? L. Dancing a bit more maybe. I was studying when I was
this year as well.
in my 20s. I moved from Brighton to London which was a big thing
M. Any colour trend?
M. Trends. Love them or hate them?
for me: I had been focused to go
L.
I
don’t
to the RCA since I was 16, so to
make a trend board
It’s about this singular obsession
finally getting to go there was an
as a way to produce
important moment for me. Before
work. Obviously when I
I’ve had with a building in Mexico
I started at the RCA, I had a first
see that certain things
City, called the New Basilica of
period where I worked in a bar
are
and then I did a work exchange
dominant I’m aware of
Our Lady of Guadalupe
with a glass artist. I would do two
them. So I’m aware of
days for him for free in his studio
the context, for example brass and
and I would be able to work in
marble have been materials that
his studio for two days. And that
have come strongly back to design
allowed me to self-produce my
and I’ve used a lot of brass in my
first self produced collection. And
work before because it has a strong
then I started making jewellery
connection to the vintage work of
because it was a scale that I could
the 40s and 50s. But obviously now
make from my room in a shared
that it’s becoming a mainstream
flat. And at that time there was a
aesthetic, you need to be aware of
really interesting period for the
the elements that the materials are
nightlife in London and the dress
associated with.
becoming
more
up. People made amazing efforts
When I’m teaching my
to make eccentric outfits. For me
students for example and they
this was so amazing, I met so many
want to work with a material that’s
people that I am still good friends
seen as being on trend at the time, I
with now, in completely different
always tell them they need to make
creative industries to me, like Gary
sure that is the right material for
Card, fantastic set designer. So we
the context of that project. What
all came there to dress up, kind of
they don’t want is someone to walk
explode our creativity and share
past and go: “Oh, it’s another brass
with each other.
thing”. So it’s also when something
And then there was a
it’s been used within trends you
second period when I went to the
need to be more aware and make
RCA and I had to stop the dancing
sure you are using it for the right
so much and start the working. My
reason and not just because it’s a
tutor really helped me to challenge
safe choice.
my work and bring it to the next
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es bespoke and madeof personal taste and ike-minded people a more intimate kinship. ts will become evermore ks with greater anticipation. er and slower life.
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Faye Toogood
Knit Divisions
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x Japan Creative/Litta Variations
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KivistÜ–Leppisaari & Korolainen-
Soft material installations, which function as large room-dividers
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N Pauline Plus Luis, at Belgium is Design
C O N C E P T The lampshade is a fabric piece suspended by a transparent wire, it seems to levitate
Gervasoni
Paola Navone B R A N D
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C O N C E P T MORE is characterized by the soft and generous size of the modules designed to create a real area dedicated to relaxation, conversation and reading
SOFTNESS
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Kiki van Eijk B R A N D
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C O N C E P T A series of tapestries that show how technology can be integrated into the current reality in a fluid and soft way.
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Yuri Himuro C O N C E P T A new home decoration object like a block toy. They provide new building experience that takes advantage of softness and allow to twist and bend. Salone Satellite 2018 Award
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Felicia Arvid
Series of room dividers and furniture entirely in soft textiles.
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Soft Block
DividĂŠra AddĂŠra
Sunbrella
Marc Ange
Berrtazzoni
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Stories of Italy
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Ludovica Roberto palombe
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GECKELER MICHELS
“WOODY answers a desire and also a need for wood. This collection is not a fantasy becauseit is based on the basic human need to be surrounded with signs reminding nature and predicting the future. After more than 30 years of research, we have finally created wooden seats that really express, thanks to the alliance with plastic, the true essence of wood.� Philippe Starck
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Lepic Republic of Fritz hansen
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Das Ganze Leben
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Volis
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Atelier Insolite
Macchinina - LIDO D E S I G N
Matteo Ragni Pieces of Venice
Aldo Cibic
Inkiostro Bianco
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