Tuesday, April 26, 2011

A colorful party


The 800-square-meter  of the Dedon showroom, at Via Savona 50, is located in the
exclusive designer district of Zona Tortona, Milan, a magnet for eccentric
design shows and innovative presentations during the Design Week-I Saloni.
The light-flooded  rooms of the Milan showroom featured last week the new collection with an eye to far-away (or not so far-away anymore) countries. A colorful display of accessories creates the ethnic atmosphere.
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I love this chair, quite decorative in its simplicity,
it has two versions as you can see above around the long table.

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A special highlight is the 500-square-meter garden, a green oasis in the middle of the city,
 inviting visitors to relax on the comfortable furniture.
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Photography© Albarosa Simonetti

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Sunday, April 24, 2011

Extravagant lights


An extravagant lady with her new lighting creation.

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I love Paris.

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Gone fishing!

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Not for every space…

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I found this fascinating!

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It is called Ortenzia and it looked like candies wrapped in golden foil.

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Chips is the appropriate name of this lighting.

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Just for fun!

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One of my favorites.

What do you think about these images? All these extravagant lights, some in my opinion really “too much”… were exhibited at I Saloni in Milan and I will show soon many more, since this year Euroluce was part of the Design Week and I saw gorgeous ones.

All images ©Albarosa Simonetti

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Tuesday, April 19, 2011

Inout collection


One of the most enjoyable collection of furniture I saw during the Design Week in Milan was the one designed by Paola Navone for Gervasoni.
“INOUT” says it all…many are versatile pieces, great for either indoor our outdoor use.
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Essential lines, great comfort.

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A fresh approach, vibrant colors mixed with graphic strokes of black and white.
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Gervasoni booth at the Fairground of I Saloni 2011

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Monday, April 18, 2011

Manito Silk give-away winner





We have a winner…
Since I am in Milan I decided to use an Italian system instead of True Random Number Generator so this is the Italian version:

Un numero a Caso (a random number)

Minimo: 1

Massimo: 37

1   

I numeri sono generati utilizzando l'algoritmo Mersenne twister 19937.
Valid XHTML 1.0 Strict CSS Valido! i Copyright NumeriaCaso.it, 2009

The winner of the silk robe by Manito Luxury Silk & Linen is

Number 1

which correspond to the first comment received and guess what, Joni Webb from Cote de Texas… the busiest designer-blogger… was the first one to comment!
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Congratulations Joni, now please send me your address and
the color
the lenght
and size of your choice
and thanks to Manito you’ll soon receive a great silk robe.

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Sunday, April 17, 2011

Meet Patricia Urquiola

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Today I was walking in the centre of Milan admiring the various exhibitions of the Fuori Salone (part of the Design Week)  while directed to the magnificent Palazzo Durini, built in 1648 in pure Baroque style. Above is the courtyard inside, facing toward the street.

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There was an installation I wanted to visit, titled  “Ricognizioni” and organized by Nilufar Gallery.
Up the stairs we went…

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First encounter was “Apparita” a sculpture by Andrea Salvetti, quite a contrast with the beautiful floor, affreschi on walls and ceilings and various decorations.

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Again a contemporary piece, a console by Studio Nucleo titled “Presenze

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Admiring the frescos on the ceiling a few steps away was a large room with  a lighting installation … and… who did I see coming toward me? No less than the “estrela” or star of design Patricia Urquiola.

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She had a room for her fascinating projects:

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The vases were created from about 150 other broken ones she made before, the table was designed only for the installation.

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The suns on the wall she said were put there to give warmth to the room.

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You can’t imagine how thrilled I was to see her and even more of having a chance to talk to her, actually SHE did the talking, being a volcano of ideas but also a very warm, open person, and she started to explain  every single piece in the room.

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She was very proud of the large extraordinary project on the wall, made mostly of sequins creating figures, the most intriguing part of which was that touching it you could change the image.
“Waste, no waste” is the theme of her installation and she was happy that many people responded positively to the theme.

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Patricia Urquiola and Ross Lovegrove


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Really an interactive piece of art, see how you can make words appear or disappear.
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These chairs are a prototype, not in production and it is clear that she has great fun working, inventing new things all day (and probably night too).


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Urquiola was born in Madrid from a Milanese mother and she decided to finish Architecture in Milan writing the thesis with Achille Castiglioni, who said to her that being a designer is being full of active curiosity, interested in what other people don’t see or even discard. She always looks at daily objects with a desire to change them into something else.
From the brief conversation we had she said that every object created by a designer must also transmit emotions, people need to love that object, and keep it even when it is faded or worned out. Sustainable design is definetely what inspires her lately.
In her free time (does she?) she loves to be with her partner (in life and at work) and the two daughters, week-ends she loves to sleep eight hours (not seven she said!) and she loves food (unfortunately she said!)
Her team is made of 25 young and talented people from all over the world and laughing she said that when she travels she is sure they all say: “Great, she is away for a few days…!” she knows she is a physical person, needing to be with others, to exchange ideas, to work in team, even literally constantly touching the other person (the Spanish side of her personality). When I asked her why she does not even have a website she said “everyone has one, for me is enough to have my contact information and everyone can be in touch with me”.
What can I say? she is unique and she is pure fire, warm and sparkling!

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Did I touch the steps going down or was I just flying over them thinking about the lucky encounter?

All images ©Albarosa Simonetti


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