07/04/2011

THE OTHER SIDE OF PLASTIC - Innovation/Imagination April 12th-17th

The printed rotational plastic, true boom of the outside décor, allowing free and fanciful shapes, changes its looks.
One of the leading companies in this field is Slide, which, among other things, presents also "inside" chairs and small tables in a lacquered and colored version designed by Marc Sadler (see picture).
The designer joins the important names of the brand such as Karim Rashid, Paola Navone, Marcel Wanders, Giulio Cappellini, besides some interesting new up-and-coming names such as Fabio Rotella, Jorge Najera, Stirum Design, Anki Gneib.

www.slidedesign.it

07/04/2011

THE CONTRARY OF ROMANTICISM - Innovation/Imagination April 12th-17th

Reflecting on the violence of urban contrasts and finding a source of inspiration for furniture pieces distinguished by strong implicit messages.
The tour around the world of Innovation-Imagination brings us to Alê Jordão, a Brazilian brand, which goes from the crystal seatings hit by bullets to the sex-addicted lights and to the transparent chair with diabolical dart (see picture).

www.alejordao.com

07/04/2011

CREATIVITIES STORIES - Innovation/Imagination April 12th-17th

Here imagination rules: it is a technological space telling, with the aid of multimedial projections and audio effects, the creativity and the new collections of seatings by Infiniti.
A creativity which calls into action, as it happens to the virtual people moving into the space, who compose a song with the guitar or write a novel or sketch a painting.
The award ceremony of the Infiniti Design DeContest "Still Life. Is your life still or...?", aimed at young international designers, will be on stage on Thursday April 14th.
The images of the winning projects are presented on a multimedial table, which can be leafed through simply by moving your hand.

www.infinitidesign.it

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06/04/2011

A SENSUAL HABITAT - Temporary Museum for New Design April 12th-17th

Outstanding performances are not unusual for the architect Silvio De Ponte, who has been working for years with the La Perla brand, turning its show-room on the first floor of Superstudio Più (via Tortona 27) into an experiential and dream-like space where futuristic habitat proposals are inspired by the sensuality of the most iconic Italian lingerie brand and by the softness of female body.
This year the space becomes NesT | NidO, a nest which connects the concepts of intimacy, weave and softness and creates a sensorial area where you can enjoy a break. Sinuous woods as lianas blown by the wind, spatial sculptures of corrugated wood, samples of the new La Perla Shapecouture collection create a magic atmosphere in a project designed by De Ponte with the collaboration of Andrea Intorella, Zeynep Inanc, Nil Kozan.
De Ponte is also displaying his own habitat at Superstudio 13 in the Home and Spa Design project located in via Forcella 13.

www.depontestudio.com, www.laperla.it

06/04/2011

FASHION-DESIGN NOTES - Temporary Museum for New Design April 12th-17th

The Diesel adventure in the design world consolidates its position with a rich and diversified home collection, called Diesel Home Collection, ranging from lights and furniture to textiles thanks to its collaboration with leading and sensitive companies such as Moroso, Foscarini, Zucchi.
Following the style of the fashion house, the proposals reinvent tradition and create a new aesthetics. From April 12th to 17th at Temporary Museum for New Design (Superstudio Più, via Tortona 27).

www.diesel.com

06/04/2011

OPENING TO NATURE - Innovation/Imagination April 12th-17th

In the wide spaces of via Tortona 54(Face to Superstudio Più), behind which there is still the swarming site of the Museum of Cultures designed by David Chipperfield, Innovation/Imagination opens its doors under the mark of naturalness.
Already in the reception area, a big gazebo, weaved with a material coming from far away, from somewhere poles apart from our civilization, linking the local linen with vegetable plastic, and a new series of lamps of every size are presented by the New Zealand designer David Trubridge under the wise mark of Tipu, the Maori word for blossoming, growing, increasing, developing.
Trubdrige works on his "organic", basic, eco-friendly, self-made design, allowing each one to assemble his huge balloon of light and transparency simply by joining with a click small natural strips until the desired shape is obtained.

www.davidtrubridge.com

06/04/2011

VITAL ENERGY - Temporary Museum for New Design April 12th-17th

The bicycle wheels spin and produce sustainable energy. Metaphor of the energy of the mind which spins and produces products ever more conscious of the environment and of the problems of the world.
The Lifecycle installation is a project by Simone Micheli and Marco Tortoioli Ricci. To present the new Wire system of "circular" tiles designed by  Simone Micheli for Tagina, conceived to satisfy every needs: indoor, outdoor, floor and walls.

www.tagina.it

06/04/2011

ITALIAN WELLNESS - Superstudio 13 - April 12th-17th

Enter the comfort and wellbeing areas after passing the portal designed by Ilaria Marelli. Cross the purity of white and black to reach colored installations, living areas and spaces where you can find the pleasure of being yourself, of getting excited, of being happy in your own domestic universe.

Home and Spa Design is a special and global project, where the living and wellness concepts become 'experiential workshops', sensorial paths pertaining to matter in which you can experiment the new domestic horizons. In the photographer's studios of Superstudio 13 (via Forcella 13), turned into contemporary habitats, you will find 2 company space, Piemme and Mamoli and 14 exhibition installations devoted to the home, the bathroom, the wellbeing and the outdoor.

The designers are important names of the architectural and design fields: Alberto Apostoli Architecture & Design, Baldessari e Baldessari, Dada Architecture & Design, Dapa Studio,  PSA+D De Ponte Studio Architecture + Design, Granese Architecture & Design Studio, Kingsize Architects, Lucchese Design, N.O.W. Architecture & Design, Silvia Stanzani Design, Studio Bizzarro & Partners, Studio D73, Studio di Architettura Luca Scacchetti, Verde Architettura. An event organized by Carlo Matthey for My Exhibition.

www.hsdesign.it, www.myexhibition.it

06/04/2011

SAKE' AMONG LIGHT PETALS - Temporary Museum for New Design April 12th- 17th

Tasting a sakè where usually stands an art gallery comes as a surprise for all visitors.
Even more surprising is discovering its all-Oriental poetry. A modern and evanescent Japanese bar is lit by the OLED (Organic Light Emitting Diodes) designed by  Kaneka, which changes the way the light is projected by adding a new light source. In the project by Suzuno Koichi, of the Torafu studio, the lights float on the walls as delicate petals.
The scene projected for Kaneka interprets and seizes the magic sensation of the 'yozakura', a word meaning 'admiring the cherry blossoms during the night', a springtime habit of every Japanese. A delicate invitation to share this tradition in the gallery located right at the entrance of Superstudio Più (Temporary Museum for New Design, via Tortona 27).

www.kn.kaneka.co.jp

06/04/2011

CONTESTS IN OUR CONTEXT Temporary Museum for New Design and Innovation/Imagination April 12th- 17th

We are all aware that the generation turnover represents the force of our creative system and that young new talents can be found also in the most remote areas of our planet. Many are the companies offering young creative talents the chance to be discovered. Many are the contests and award ceremonies within Superstudio and connected locations.

• Real Industry Future Classics competition promoted by the Polish company Comforty aimed at famous and less famous names of the European scene (Temporary Museum for New Design, Superstudio Più, via Tortona 27)

• The Cristalplant Design Contest "Touchable Emotions", promoted by Cristalplant and MDF Italia, stages the results as holograms; award ceremony scheduled for April 13th (Temporary Museum for New Design, Superstudio Più, via Tortona 27)

• Creative Space Serbia presents the winning projects of the competition promoted by SIEPA, Serbia Investment and Export Promotion Agency (Innovation/Imagination, Face to Superstudio Più, via Tortona 54)

• Premio Demark (Design Excellence Award), the most important award for Thai design is presented within the Slow Hand Design & The Heart Value of Thai Products (Innovation/Imagination, Face to Superstudio Più, via Tortona 54)

• Infiniti Design DeContest (in the picture) presents the competition "Still Life. Is your life still or...?" promoted by Infiniti and aimed at young international designers, award ceremony scheduled for April 14th (Innovation/Imagination, Face to Superstudio Più, via Tortona 54)

 â€¢ Merci Beaucoup!, competition promoted by Gruppo Mash G&T in collaboration with DDN, aimed at the students of the Brera Art School in Milan, whose object is the planning of an eco-sustainable design product (Innovation/Imagination, Face to Superstudio Più, via Tortona 54)

• Award ceremony for the winning project of the concept BabyPitStop, a contest promoted by Unicef Italia and ASL Milano to create micro-spaces in public areas devoted to breast-feeding (Innovation/Imagination, Face to Superstudio Più, via Tortona 54)

06/04/2011

COLANI UNIVERSAL DESIGNER

Luigi Colani is a universal designer who has reinvented almost anything: from the toothbrush to the NASA spaceships, with more than 7000 projects carried out over seventy years.

A forerunner in every field – in following the bio-design path, in the round and streamlined shapes, in the design transversality, in the eco-friendly and highly technological planning.

Luigi Colani, half Italian and half German, citizen of the world, sough-after by China, Germany, United States and Japan, has indeed chosen Milan to present its heritage of cars, motorbikes, trains, furniture, objects, models, designs, in his majestic solo exhibition entitled Il Futuro è a Milano (The Future is in Milan), which will take place over a few months period at Spazio A in piazza Bergognone.

www.colani.it

06/04/2011

THE DESIGN FACES IN A CLICK - Innovation/Imagination April 12th- 17th

It's called Design-book the photographic set which immortalizes the design protagonists for the third year and makes them live on all year around on the web.
Organized within Innovation/Imagination by Tau Visual - National Association Professional Photographers.

www.design-book.org

06/04/2011

VERY GOOD DESIGN - Temporary Museum for New Design April 12th-17th

A selection of interesting, smart, aesthetically valuable pieces, which stand as key elements of a path marked by innovation and quality.
The sofa framework. Quite interesting the solution of the professional sofa designed by Philippe Nigro for Comforty.
www.comforty.pl
Floating chair. Four steel tension bars for the chair floating in the air designed by Andreas Störiko for Lammhults.
www.lammhults.se
Macrochip. A small table with fabricated steel legs recalling in its design the microchips of the several appliances shaping our daily life, designed by Daniel Rohr.
www.danielrohr.com
Enchanted attraction. No rivets, screws, glues nor joints. The straight and angular brackets and shelves stand up as if attracted by a magic and mysterious force. Magnetism is the secret of the bookshelves and equipped walls developed by Ronda design, a system of panels and shelves in magnetic steel, which can bear the weight of an entire encyclopedia. www.rondadesign.it
You will find all these exhibitors at Superstudio Più (Temporary Museum for New Design, via Tortona 27).

06/04/2011

THE HOUSES OF CARDS BECOME A REALITY - Temporary Museum for New Design April 12th-17th

Four rooms simulating a house for the presentation of Seletti, which infuses humor, desire and utility in the everyday objects it produces, which are created by the curiosity, the imagination, the creative freedom granted to its artists, craftsmen, planners and designers. Small dreams turning into reality.
www.seletti.it
Seletti is at Superstudio Più (Temporary Museum for New Design, via Tortona 27).

06/04/2011

XAVIER LUST CONVEYS EMOTIONS - Temporary Museum for New Design April 12th -17th

Cristalplant places a majestic sculpture by Xavier Lust (see picture) to embrace the winning projects of the Cristalplant Design Contest, "Touchable Emotions", carried out in collaboration with MDF Italia. The best projects are virtually presented as holograms; a complex multimedial game allows the images of the proposals to rotate on a full-scale, as if they were real and interactive. Just move your arms. The competition was aimed at the young creative designers born after 1971. The award ceremony for the winners in the category of tables or small tables and functional furnishings is scheduled for April 13th inside the Cristalplant space in Superstudio Più (Temporary Museum for New Design, via Tortona 27).
www.cristalplant.it

06/04/2011

THE DISCOVERY OF FOAM WATER - Temporary Museum for New Design April 12th-17th

Only a Japanese could invent a patent which turns the bathroom into an unusual sensorial experience and transforms water into solid cleaning and relaxing foam, coming out directly from a new concept bath tub with rounded shapes. A proposal by Toshiyuki Kita for Inax.
http://global.inax.co.jp

06/04/2011

A BAMBOO WORLD - Innovation/Imagination April 12th-17th

Only lightweight and flexible rattan and bamboo stems, even where it seemed impossible to imagine their use. The furniture and objects, and even a car, by Kenneth Cobonpue are truly unique pieces, built with these materials which grant strength and at the same time infuse poetry.
www.kennethcobonpue.com

06/04/2011

FROM THE HEART OF THAILAND - Innovation/Imagination April 12th-17th

In search of the roots of living on the other side of the world. The basis of contemporary Thai design, inspired by ancient local traditions, in the art and culture fields. If mixing elements from different places and inspirations is one of the trends of contemporary living and décor, now Slow Hand Design & The Heart Value of Thai Products brings to Milan an interesting overview on Thai creativity, with a multitude of proposals. As a matter of fact, the project designed by the designer Eggarat Wongcharit presents a joint exhibition of Thai designers and the winning products of the Demark Award (Design Excellence Award), the most important award for national design, carried out with the support of the Department of Export Promotion of the Thai government. Among the several not-to-be-missed proposals, do not forget to enjoy the pleasure of a real Thai Spa.
www.thaitradeitaly.com

06/04/2011

THE WORLD IS THANKFUL - Innovation/Imagination April 12th-17th

The Earth: does it need to be completely remade? A joint exhibition and a workshop on how to produce eco-sustainable design. A space which welcomes tangible contributions to examine with a different eye our relation with the world. The space devoted to the event Merci Beaucoup! - in collaboration with DDN, Gruppo Mash G&T and curated by Fortunato D'Amico - forces us to examine in a critical way the production theme of design and consumption. A workshop operating on the recent experiences of design and of the environmentally-conscious cultures, among multimedial tools, photographs, graphics and videos, becomes also the opportunity for a competition aimed at young designers of the Brera Art School. The object of the competition is planning a design product created in full obedience of the exhibition guidelines.
www.gruppomashget.it