Salone del Mobile 2008 - Kartell
We've got lots of material from Milan's Salone del Mobile to share with you, let's start with Kartell.
The Italian manufacturer presented nearly 20 new products: the typical transparent plastic, the accustomed outstanding high quality, a set of new beautiful colours and the usual team of star designers with a new entry, Tokujin Yoshioka.
Philippe Starck remains the company's favourite designer. His Hi Cut chair, designed with Eugeni Quitllet, has essential lines and a characteristic top piece in the backrest that plays with shiny fluorescent colours and a vertical texture.
Mr.
Impossible is a beautiful shell chair named after the huge challenge
that meant for the company the use of the laser technology applied to
plastics, by the perfect welding of two semi-spheres and the use of
different colours the chair has a rich deepness effect and the seat
appears to be floating in the air.
Dr. Yes is a characteristic chair devised for outdoors and contract, a pure example of Starck's aesthetical sensibility.
Lou Lou Ghost is the baby version of the very famous Louis Ghost chair, available in brilliant colours including the new trendy green and orange fluorescent colour, children have never been happier.
Misses
Flower Power is a giant polycarbonate vase obtained with rotational
moulding, a technology that has never been used before with this
material and that allows to obtain a one piece product; the imperfect
surface creates an interesting vintage look.
Patricia Urquiola
signs the Frilly chair, inspired in the wavy texture created by pliseè
fabrics the chair has an interesting surface and visual effect, but it
feels a bit weighty. Presented in a beautiful colour palette that
includes fuchsia, orange, turquoise, pink, violet and amber.
Alberto Meda
presented the production version of his Honeycomb chair, a light,
functional and elegant foldable chair that reflects the characteristics
of its creator.
Alberto Meda and Ross Lovegrove discuss Meda's new Honeycomb chair.
Ronan and Erwan Bouroullec sign one of my favorite pieces of this Salone, the Papyrus armchair impeccably conjugates simplicity, memory and grace.
Tokujin Yoshioka,
one of the most prolific designers of the show (he also signed new
pieces for Moroso, Driade, Cassina and Swarovski) in his first
collaboration with Kartell creates
Ami Ami, a chair and a table inspired in the art of weaving. The
interlaced effect is interesting but I'm not sure the result is worthy
the complex manufacturing procedure needed for reproducing it.
Spoon is the name of the foldable table designed by Antonio Citterio that has a peculiar toy look.
The Italian manufacturer presented nearly 20 new products: the typical transparent plastic, the accustomed outstanding high quality, a set of new beautiful colours and the usual team of star designers with a new entry, Tokujin Yoshioka.
Philippe Starck remains the company's favourite designer. His Hi Cut chair, designed with Eugeni Quitllet, has essential lines and a characteristic top piece in the backrest that plays with shiny fluorescent colours and a vertical texture.
Mr.
Impossible is a beautiful shell chair named after the huge challenge
that meant for the company the use of the laser technology applied to
plastics, by the perfect welding of two semi-spheres and the use of
different colours the chair has a rich deepness effect and the seat
appears to be floating in the air.Dr. Yes is a characteristic chair devised for outdoors and contract, a pure example of Starck's aesthetical sensibility. Lou Lou Ghost is the baby version of the very famous Louis Ghost chair, available in brilliant colours including the new trendy green and orange fluorescent colour, children have never been happier.
Misses
Flower Power is a giant polycarbonate vase obtained with rotational
moulding, a technology that has never been used before with this
material and that allows to obtain a one piece product; the imperfect
surface creates an interesting vintage look.Patricia Urquiola
signs the Frilly chair, inspired in the wavy texture created by pliseè
fabrics the chair has an interesting surface and visual effect, but it
feels a bit weighty. Presented in a beautiful colour palette that
includes fuchsia, orange, turquoise, pink, violet and amber.Alberto Meda
presented the production version of his Honeycomb chair, a light,
functional and elegant foldable chair that reflects the characteristics
of its creator.
Alberto Meda and Ross Lovegrove discuss Meda's new Honeycomb chair.Ronan and Erwan Bouroullec sign one of my favorite pieces of this Salone, the Papyrus armchair impeccably conjugates simplicity, memory and grace.
Tokujin Yoshioka,
one of the most prolific designers of the show (he also signed new
pieces for Moroso, Driade, Cassina and Swarovski) in his first
collaboration with Kartell creates
Ami Ami, a chair and a table inspired in the art of weaving. The
interlaced effect is interesting but I'm not sure the result is worthy
the complex manufacturing procedure needed for reproducing it.Spoon is the name of the foldable table designed by Antonio Citterio that has a peculiar toy look.2 Comments
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I just think is ridiculous to simulate the interlaced effect with solid plastic !!! Is the kind of meaningless design that i really hate!!!
R.R.
I don't get all the Yoshioka buzz, I mean he has a nice poetic approach that works effectively for installations and special pieces of furniture, but when he gets to do industrial based objects such as this Kartell chair ... you can just see is not his call!