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The Italian upholstery master and the Spanish designer seem to be done one for the other, their prolific collaboration bring us several new appealing products.
The Tropicalia series is the evolution of her famous Antibodi collection, a geometric frame of steel tubing covered with plaiting, creating different pattern and colour combinations. The materials chosen for the weaving gives every product of the series a different mood: playful and colourful with polymer threads, sophisticated with leather strings, elegant and sober with monochrome polyester cords; a perfect example of Urquiola's eclectic design vision and her meticulous attention for detail.
The Bohemien series is characterized by fluid and irregular shapes interpreted with a modern leather capitonnè and accessorized with a silk shawl and rich set of cushions; the result of the designer's exploration of past and present, of craftsmanship and industrial techniques.
Reverse is a bold plastic chair born after the idea of using plastic as if it was a textile that folds over, to the reverse, to create a continuous pleat along the line of the backrest and armrests.
Ron Arad has got to be known as a designer with a great focus on research, you can love him or hate him but his approach to design is never banal. He signs the Pixel sofa, composed of several rectangular-shaped units of various heights and of different density, the pixels, arranged in different compositions. The result is dazzling but, I have to say, not so comfortable.
Arad's Wavy chair was designed to have the plastic appearing to be a soft fabric draped over the metal frame, but the sensation I had when I first saw it was totally different, to me it appears like a bug cocoon or something like that.
Tokujin Yoshioka presented the final version of his Panna chair and the new Bouquet chair, made of hand-folded fabric squares sewn one by one, with infinite patience, to completely cover the internal surface of the egg-shaped shell.
London based duo formed by Nipa Doshi and Jonathan Levien bring their Indian influenced design with the Beautiful Backside sofa, which has no backrest but a composition of large floating cushions in festive colours and different shapes.
Edward van Vliet signs for Moroso the Sushi collection featuring rich textiles and embroideries, and the Rontonton lamp made of a perforated plastic and allumium sandwich sheet.
Tomek Rygalik designed the Tennis chair, which got that name because like a tennis ball the chair is made of two empty, curving shells joined by heat.
There are many good reasons for me to love this original magazine rack that Driade will present for the first time this week at Milan. Designed by Francisco Gomez Paz, Omero is made of modular injected aluminium cones and steel legs, the result is a stunning simple and sophisticated object I completely fell in love with.
Among the new projects the italian company Domodinamica will display the Mist Table by Milan based designer Rodrigo Torres. Characterised by the tense and fluid surfaces, the table was conceived as the perfect companion for the Mist armchair presented last year. Made of steel tubes and aluminium injected joints is available in black, white and chrome finish and in different sizes, ranging from coffee table to meeting table.
Next week Milan will wake up again for the best period of the year, the Design Week. More than 400 off site events will keep us walking around the city. At the Flying Circus the exhibit Design da Minha Terra will show the latest projects of brasilian designer Rafael Simoes Miranda: the flatpack cardboard coffee table Doca and the new lamp Sfogliata made of multiple layers of acryl.
MOMA presents more than 300 contemporary products and prototypes designed to protect body and mind from dangerous or stressful circumstances, respond to emergencies, ensure clarity of information, and provide a sense of comfort and security.
Core 77 has a a nice gallery on the Design Takes On Risk exhibition. Check it out here.
From May 5 to 16, Berlin-based festival DESIGNMAI host multiple events, offering insights into the contemporary design scene.
The program includes several large exhibitions at a central location and many satellite events throughout Berlin including award ceremonies, parties and happenings.
The exhibition JUNG+DEUTSCH (YOUNG+GERMAN) features the work of emerging german designers from the fields of furniture, product, graphic, fashion and media design. On the spotlight recent projects by Konstantin Grcic, Werner Aisslinger, Stefan Diez, Kram/Weisshaar (in the photo their Breeding Table), Vogt + Weizenegger, Sisi Wasabi and many others.
February 27 is South Africa's first-ever National Design Day. D-Day. A day to celebrate, support, buy, use and wear South African design. Don't miss it.
Design for the World is an international humanitarian organisation that represents a large number of designers (graphic, product, architectural, etc.) who want to use their experience and creativity to help people in need. They want to make available their skills to those who most need them, beyond the confines of the consumer market.
Design for the World believes that people disadvantaged by poverty, war, disability, age or environmental conditions deserve equal access to practical design solutions that will improve their day-to-day lives.
From May to September 2004, Barcelona will host the Universal Forum of Cultures - first edition of a new large-scale international event that will bring together people from all over the world around three core themes: cultural diversity, sustainable development and conditions for peace.
They will show ideas, inventions and objects that contribute to a diverse, equitable, sustainable world. If you wish to participate helping to choose the projects that will be exhibited please send those objects that (already being used or under development) have improved, are improving or will improve the lives of people in need: refugees, people in developing countries, disabled people, marginalized groups, etc.
Send us your ideas from this site, or by e-mail to dw@designfortheworld.org.
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