The Night Club chair by Alain Berteau was a key feature of the 2015 Design Week, in the "Confronting The Masters" section of Belgium is Design in Brera. Born in Germany in 1971, the Brussels-based architect and designer began producing in 2002. His collaborations include Bulo, ABV,…
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While we wait for the latest innovations at the International Bathroom Exhibition, part of the Salone del Mobile in Milan, we present the "suitcase sink," or rather, My Bag. It's Olympia Ceramica's fun and original solution for a decidedly modern bathroom. The sink system is located…
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A scent triggers the memory, awakens the senses and memories, defines a personality, and is capable of conveying and inspiring true emotions. Each of us recalls the scent of our childhood home, and starting from this ancestral memory, we build our future tastes, surrounding ourselves with those...
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Eclectic and contemporary. Coincasa's spring 2018 collection explores the green trend of upcycling. "What's that all about?" you might be wondering. It's the current mood, focused on reusing materials, transforming them into furnishing accessories and fabrics with a new, natural aesthetic. It's a highly contemporary spirit, with the environment as the primary driving force. A design and stylistic reflection that leads to the creation of objects whose value lies in the story they tell, where craftsmanship is the true starting point.
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In the early 1940s, Charles and Ray Eames spent many years developing a technique for molding plywood into three-dimensional forms to create seat shells that followed the contours of the human body. They succeeded in 1945 with the Plywood Group chairs…
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The Sebastian Conran Gifu Collection 2018 is the result of a collaboration, launched to great acclaim in 2017, between designer Sebastian Conran's London studio and fourteen artisans from the Gifu region of Japan. The craftsmanship of this ancient Japanese prefecture perpetuates a refined and poetic cultural tradition stretching back thousands of years. This year's collection sees four new artisans join the ten already present last year, bringing the total production to over one hundred products. The extraordinary, age-old skills of Japanese designers and manufacturers have produced a kaleidoscope of excellence, including furniture, lamps, ceramics, stationery, and kitchenware.
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By Marta Santacatterina. To describe the antique chairs of Chiavari, one must use terms such as carpenters, masters, tradition, expertise, craftsmanship, but also lightness, experimentation, and formal research. Among the companies that still produce the famous "chiavarine" is F.lli Levaggi, which still crafts the wood by hand in the Ligurian town,…
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Bringing ancient knowledge and traditional techniques to life, Kaori Shiina and Riccardo Nardi, aka Hands on Design (founded in 2015), are a duo of designers and entrepreneurs with a specific mission: to coordinate the work of ancient Japanese and Italian craftsmen with the projects of around twenty select international designers. From…
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I spotted this Danish brand Hubsch during my visit to Tendence—the Frankfurt trade fair showcasing home trends—and was struck by the elegance of their furniture and accessories. Nordic design is typically very clean in its lines and shapes…
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By Marta Santacatterina. It was 1966 when architects Pietro Derossi and Giorgio Ceretti designed a project that indelibly marked the history of nightclubs, from their furnishings to their overall concept: the Piper in Turin – which deservedly became famous for its music, graphics, and performing arts, and which saw, among other things…
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