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welcome home. milan design week 2015.
In one of the more successful brand interventions at a Milan Design Week that was criticized for being too commercial, airbnb partnered with Fabrica to create Housewarming. 19 international designers were invited to interpret the theme of “welcome” and the results were displayed in Palazzo Crespi, a private home never before opened to the public, that was originally built to celebrate the coronation of Napoleon Bonaparte, along with the other buildings on Corso Venezia.
Nikita Bhate’s Samai took inspiration from the Indian ritual of lighting candles. It is a mark of honor to ask a guest in your home to light a candle, and Nikita asked all those visiting Housewarming to light one. “This is my own interpretation of the piece,” said the designer. “I wanted this object to grow with time, so as you see now as the guests come it will keep on getting better.”
The lights were made from ghee and handmade cotton wicks. “Every morning the ladies of the house prepare all of this because we do this ritual every single day,” Nikita said. “This ritual is about the victory of light over darkness – it symoblizes the victory of knowledge over ignorance, and reminds us to be more humble and be detached from material world.”
Digital designer Alex Rothera went completely analogue and transported his childhood game of ‘stickball,’ played with the handle of a broom and half a tennis ball, from the streets of Philadelphia to the Palazzo Crespi courtyard.
Australian designer Aaron Gillet was creating plant cutting in tiny cork-capped test tubes. “When you go to someone’s house or garden in Australia, and maybe in Britain too, you might take a plant cutting,” he said. “So that’s what I’m doing today. Australia is such a young country – younger than this house, so I wanted to talk about the environment that people are in, and avoid some of the stereotypes.”
He made a clipping from a native Australian monster for each visitor who could take it home and watch it grow. Mine is on my desk as I type.
Angelo Semeraro’s From Outside to Inside was a motion-sensitive set of wooden hands that welcomed visitors from the outside courtyard into the main house. “The idea is to interpret the non-verbal languages and body language and how passive it is and how you can say something without saying a word,” said the designer. “You get straight to the point and invite people to come from the outside of the house to the inside of the house.”
The Welcome Carpet, made from real rose petals by Chandni Kabra was inspired by another Indian ritual. “When we know guests are arriving we make a fresh flower carpet just outside our house door,” explained the designer. “The reason is that when someone comes from outside, their mind is occupied with a lot of thoughts. As soon as they look at something really striking and beautiful, they stop thinking for that moment, and that makes them fall into the present moment, so before they enter the house they’re a bit more grounded.” Being an interaction designer, Chandni added a moving element to the pattern to absorb visitors further.
Fabrica’s current design resident Pascal Hien created Foldhanger, coat hangers made from a single sheet of folded plywood, which can also be used as coat hooks when upside down. “I’m from Germany and what we do in Germany when you enter the house as a gesture of welcome is we say, ‘Hey, take off your jacket, put down your bags,” and we hang their coat on a coat hanger, and then the guest feels welcome.”
Another Australian, Thomas Fethers, had created typographic advice and then broken them down into jigsaws. “I’m completing the puzzles with the guests throughout the four day period to make them feel welcome. My personal favorite is ‘Get drunk on boxed wine’,” he said.
Following the idiom that the best way to see a city is to get lost in it, Coralie Gourguechon was making bespoke maps to help visitors do just that. “This is a map, but it’s not a map to find your way – it’s a map to lose your way,” she said. “I fill it with different information created at random for every guest.” By rolling dice, asking guests to name something that might interest them, and assigning letters, she creates directions that can be followed in any city.
Lisbon-based designer Mariana Fernandes collected postcards from all over Milan and screen-printed graphics that connected Milan to her home city over the top. “The graphics talk about simple facts, simple stories,” she said. “For example I’m printing the rosemary because we use a lot rosemary in cooking in Portugal and the same is true in Italy so these kind of simple facts, when overlapped, create a story.”
Marlene Wolfmair’s Jausensackerl is based on a typical picnic handkerchief and the tradition in her native Austria for a late afternoon picnic or Jause. “I was inspired by the north of Austria where I’m from,” she said. “We enjoy food together with family and friends at tea time and we eat a lot of heavy food, drink beer and sausages, so there’s also this image of the hiking person with the stick with carrying food – it’s very typical.”
British designer Daniel Rous played with the traditional tea-drinking ritual, creating an intricate hand-blown glass tea station to provide people with refreshment on their visit to Palazzo Crespi.
In Japan it’s customary for guests to bring a gift for the host, but also for the host to give the guest something in return. Japanese designer Tonomi Maezawa
made rubber stamps symbolizing a deconstructed Japanese alphabet, and taught visitors how to print her name and their own onto a cloth bag as a gift for them to take away.
“I start with these paper trays that are like welcoming symbol in Italy – we use them offer pastries,” said Giorgia Zanellato. “I personalise them from papers from Venice, the city where I am from and two mirrors to create a new object and so it becomes a welcome mirror.”
With a spot right outside the (very beautiful) toilets, Marcello Venturini was making scented soaps to signify the special soap that is reserved for guests in many homes. “I like it when people leave one soap for the guest because it’s not just to give something a present to the guest, but it’s also a nice way to say something to the guest: ‘Take your time, refresh yourself, stay a little bit in this intimate space as the bathroom is, we wait for you, no problem’,” explained the designer. “It is also an homage to the city of Milan because I choose three ingredients for the soaps that are connected with three recipes that came from Milanese traditional cuisine, rice for the risotto, yeast for the pannetone and wheat germ for the michetta – a traditional and iconic kind of bread that belongs to the Milanese tradition.”
Housewarming was one of the highlights of Milan Design Week and on a rainy, cold morning, I felt very welcome indeed.
design miami 2014 preview #2.
[ perrier-jouët ] exclusive champagne sponsor of design miami/, continues bringing to life its art nouveau heritage with its new design partnership with the vienna based duo mischer’traxler. the project, perrier-jouët presents small discoveries by mischer’traxler, will be revealed at design miami/ 2 – 6 december 2014 with ephemerā, mischer’traxler’s master work of small discoveries, marking the starting point of a year-long artistic residency.
studio job | chartres | carpenters workshop gallery< |2009 -2012 | limited edition of 5 + 2 ap
[ carpenters workshop gallery ] presents studio job revisiting the world’s most beautiful monuments. the tour begins with big ben aftermath- a functional sculpture incorporating mechanical clockwork. we are then transported to historical france with inspiration from the famous chartres cathedral, then a quick stop to paris with eiffel tower lamp, which although made of hand-painted bronze appears to bend like rubber. finally, the journey becomes more far-flung and takes us to india with taj mahal table.
franz west| divan | unique | carpenters workshop gallery< | 2003
additionally, the gallery will show furniture pieces by franz west.
trapèze table | jean prouvé | laffanour – galerie downtown | 1954
[ laffanour – galerie downtown ] / paris presents an exceptional lineup of rare work by french masters. the highlights include pieces by jean prouvé, charlotte perriand, serge mouille, and jean royère. the gallery’s display is reflective of its commitment to promoting architects’ furniture designs and its vision rooted in the rapprochement between different art forms and shared by artists and designers of the 1950s.
bibliothèque bookcase | charlotte perriand | laffanour – galerie downtown | 1957
catch ceiling lamp – 10 glasses | lindsey adelman | customizable | nilufar gallery
[ nilufar gallery ] is pleased to invite you at the 10th edition of design miami to discover its selection of important pieces by lindsey adelman, fulvio bianconi for venini, lina bo bardi and carlo pagani, maas-fjetterstrom and barbro nilsson, martino gamper, nicholas hughes, vibeke klint, massimiliano locatelli, xavier lust, gio ponti, roberto giulio rida, sergio rodrigues, paavo tynell, nanda vigo.
bisazza wears emilio pucci
luxury italian mosaic company bisazza and legendary fashion house emilio pucci will showcase for the first time in north america bisazza wears emilio pucci, a new collection of bisazza mosaics inspired by historic emilio pucci prints, including new never-before-seen designs, into large-scale bisazza mosaics. the collection will be on view in miami at the bisazza (3740 ne 2nd avenue), and emilio pucci (155 ne 40th street) showrooms, both located in the design district.
[ welcome to the future ] an installation by new york-based artist daniel arsham explores this interplay between technology and the passing of time. he’s created a fictional archaeological site filled with 20th-century media devices—nintendo controllers, boom boxes, electric guitars, slr cameras, blackberry phones, vhs tapes, walkman players, film projectors, portable televisions, radios—all rendered in ancient geological materials, like volcanic ash, crystal, and obsidian. to create the site, arsham dug an excavation trench 25 feet in diameter into the concrete floor of the gallery and filled it with his new-old sculptures. [ kickstarter ]
>locust projects | 3852 north miami avenue miami design district
[ 2014 exhibitors ]
ammann gallery – cologne
antonella villanova – florence
caroline van hoek – brussels
carpenters workshop gallery – london & paris
carwan gallery – beirut
casati gallery -chicago
cristina grajales gallery – new york
demisch danant – new york
edward cella art + architecture – los angeles
erastudio & apartment-gallery – milan
galerie jacques lacoste – paris
galerie kreo – paris
galerie maria wettergren – paris
galerie pascal cuisinier – paris
galerie patrick seguin – paris
galerie vivid – rotterdam
galleria o. – rome
gallery diet – miami
gallery seomi – seoul & los angeles
hostler burrows – new york
jason jacques inc. – new york johnson trading gallery – new york
jousse entreprise – paris
laffanour – galerie downtown – paris
louisa guinness gallery – london
magen h gallery – new york
moderne gallery – philadelphia
nilufar gallery – milan
ornamentum – hudson
pierre marie giraud – brussels
priveekollektie contemporary art + design – heusden aan de maas
r & company – new york
southern guild – cape town
victor hunt design art dealer – brussels
volume gallery – chicago
[ special exhibitions ]
of the 35 galleries at design miami/ 2014 11 are among those that participated in the first year of the fair in 2005. several of these founding galleries present special exhibitions that celebrate the growth of the collectible design market over the past decade. these include a display dedicated to public commissions in france from the 1960s and 70s from demisch danant; an exhibition on the functional, durable furniture created for universities by charlotte perriand, jean prouvé and le corbusier from galerie patrick seguin; a monograph on rick kauffman’s new york art et industrie gallery and the creative crossover surrounding it from magen h gallery, and newly commissioned works debuting at the fair with cristina grajales gallery, galerie kreo, r & company and nilufar.
[ special commissions ]
design miami/ 2014 features a significant number of special commissions, including works in glass, stone and acrylic. ammann//gallery presents the sakala vase by satyendra pakhalé, his first work in blown murano glass; galerie vivid presents commissioned works by finnish-born designer janne kyttanen, which take the designer’s 3d printed aluminum sedona bench as their point of departure; max lamb creates a granite lamp for johnson trading gallery made over six days using stitch drilling, and jeweler ted noten unveils a table – his first foray into furniture – at ornamentum.
[ a bronze age ]
it may have associations with the earliest days of human craft, but bronze is very much the material of the moment at design miami/. from artist jewelry to monumental decorative works, via furniture and lighting, the cast metal is deployed across multiple formats at this year’s fair. casati gallery introduces the work of chicago-based designer steven haulenbeek with a collection of bronze mirrors, furniture, lights and objects all distinguished by the ‘chaotic texture’ produced by casting in ice. carwan gallery debuts furniture pieces combining bronze, onyx, mother of pearl, resins, fine inlaid wood and silver-plated brass by italian architect vincenzo de cotiis. carpenters workshop gallery shows a new collection of iconoclastic architectural-themed bronzes from studio job; and new furniture pieces and jewelry by claude lalanne are exhibited by louisa guinness gallery.
[ cabinets of curiosity ]
spanning the twentieth and twenty-first centuries, design curio/ presents four immersive environments of objects, textures, artifacts and ideas that truly challenge and contextualize familiar design narratives. this first edition, in celebration of the fair’s 10th anniversary, emphasizes surprising installations of scientific research alongside handcraft and creative production. these include oceanic art and design endeavor coral morphologic’s blue room, offering a coral-eye view of miami’s aquatic waterscapes; beijing’s gallery all presenting naihan li’s latest installation from her i am a monument series, recreating beijing’s cityscape to a scale of 1:100 with billowing smog rising amongst buildings reimagined as furniture pieces. koenig & clinton and joe sheftel gallery partner to present a collection of sottsass objects interacting with works by the memphis group in a jewel-box space; patrick parrish gallery invites visitors to experience the vertiginous grid-based exhibition: surfaces on which your setting and sitting will be uncertain, displaying a group of sculptural furniture objects by ro/lu with matching clothing designs by various projects.
event> design miami/ 2014 @designmiami #designmiami
dates> 3 – 7 december 2014
venue> meridian & 19th street miami beach, usa
december 3-4/ 10am-8pm
december 5/ 11am-8pm
december 6/ 12-8pm
december 7/ 12-6pm
haute living video experience. milan 2014.
thank you [ haute living ] chicago / video: nate ross
design days dubai.
17 > 21 march 2014 | downtown dubai [ details ]
London design festival 2013.
The London Design Festival is an annual event, held to celebrate and promote London as the design capital of the world, and as the gateway to the international creative community. This year’s Festival will be held 14 > 22 September 2013.
london design festival identity | domenic lippa | pentagram | @pentagram
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>19 greek street | 19 greek street W1D 4DT / 14 > 22 sept | @19greetst
>100% design | earls court exhibition center | warwick road SW59TA / 18 > 21 sept | @designlondon
>a doll’s house | domus tiles | 23-25 eastcastle street W1W 8DF / 14 > 21 sept | #dollshouse @DomusTiles
>alessi | v&a museum also 22 brook street W1K 5DF | 14 > 22 sept | #alessi
>alias | poltrona frau group showroom | 150 st john street EC1V 4UD / 14 > 22 sept | @Alias_Design
>sebastian bergne | bread & butter | 2 ingate place SW8 3NS | 9a > noon during ldf13 | @SebastianBergne
>boffi | 254 brompton road SW3 2AS also 25 wigmore Street W1U 1PN / 18 > 22s sept | #boffi
>carpenters workshop gallery | rick owens | 3 albemarle street W1S 4HE / 12 sept > 29 nov | @CWGParisLondon
>darkroom | 52 lamb’s conduit street WC1N 3LL / 13 > 22 sept | @Darkroom_London
>decorex international | perks field & the orangery, kensington palace / 22 > 25 sept | @decorex_intl
>decode | 49 hackney road E2 7NX / 18 > 22 sept | @decodelondon
>designersblock | southbank centre belvedere road SE1 8XX / 13 > 22 sept | #designersblock
>design museum | carbon fibre chair & twin z electric concept car | 28 shad thames SE1 2YD / 14 seept > 1 oct | @DesignMuseum
>platform at habitat | graphic africa | 208 king’s road SW3 5XP / 14 > 20 sept | @HabitatUK
>ligne roset city | art:i:curate | 37-39 commercial road E1 1LF | 13 > 24 sept | @lignerosetcity
>andy martin | california sunshine | 10 northington street WC1N2JG / 14 > 22 sept | @andymartinstudi
>molteni&c | 119 shaftesbury avenue WC2 8JR / 14 > 22 sept | @MolteniCDadaLON
>royal college of art | flow gallery | 1-5 needham road W11 2RP / 16 > 21 sept | @FlowGallery
>scp east | 135 curtain road EC2A 3BX / 14 > 22 sept | @SCPLtd
>tate modern | endless stair | bankside SE1 9TG / 13 sept > 10 oct | @Tate
>tent london & superbrands | gallery 13, old truman brewery, elys yard E1 6QR / 19 > 22 sept | #TentLondon
>tom dixon | portobello dock | 344 ladbroke grove W10 5BU / 16 > 22 sept | @TomDixonStudio
>tord boontje | 23 charlotte road EC2A 3PB / 13 > 22 sept | @tornboontje
>wrong for hay | 16 queen anne’s gate SW1H 9AA / 13 > 22 sept |
Unique design and gastronic destination. 2013 london design festival.
Wrong for Hay & Hay have teamed up with the critically acclaimed Peckham Refreshment Rooms to create a destination pop-up restaurant for the 2013 London Design Festival. [ details ]
PAD paris. Carpenters workshop gallery.
sebastian brajkovic
27 march > 1 april 2013 | tuileries | booth 44
Carpenters Workshop Gallery presents: Atelier Van Lieshout, Sebastian Brajkovic, Andrea Branzi, Fernando et Humberto Campana, Ingrid Donat, Johanna Grawunder, Mathieu Lehanneur, Robert Stadler.
CWG aims to position design as contemporary art by narrowing further the boundaries between contemporary art sculpture and ‘functional sculpture’. The gallery develops, with its artists and designers, projects where the artistic dimension is fundamental: furniture as “functional sculpture” which is directly connected to senses, emotion and intellect. Based in London and Paris.
marais | 54 rue de la verrerie | paris
mayfair | 3 albemarle street | london
chelsea | 2 michael road | london
[ pad paris ] [ carpenters workshop gallery ]
alma. Christian reyes.
Alma, a collection of many interchangeable parts, including a birch table, an ash chair, felt, steel rods, and wing nuts. The collection needs only a dining table and shelves to completely furnish your space. Alma represents two months of work from the recent graduate in order to participate in Feria Habitat Valencia 2012 > Nude he was invited to.
Colors 2013/14. Heimtextil 2013.
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Heimtextil 2013 presents color trends visually and emotionally, being mindful how they affect people’s behaviour, influence our society and our lives, and give us reason to invest in concepts and products that represent clear values. With the help of an international team of specialists that looks at the past to see the future. The themes are presented using four representative personalities, each with his or her own hopes, desires, aspirations and ideas. [ details ]
[ the historian ] (above) A treasurer of the past, seeking value and discovering ways to make history relevant to contemporary life. Partial to noble products of supreme craft and artisanship with aristocratic élan. key terms: craftsmanship, enchantment, storytelling, richness, embellishment, opulent, ornate, detailed, quilted, embroidered, metallic, gold, armour, embossed, ornaments, lace, openwork, filigree, silk sheen, jacquard, pearlescent, futuristic crafts, laser-cut, carved, oriental flavour
[ the eccentric ] A hunter and collector, chasing the exquisite and the unique, cherishing and mixing discoveries with daring eclecticism. Assembles flamboyant concepts that have a timeless quality and an extremely decorative character. key terms: flamboyance, passion, decorative, arts & crafts, curiosities, unique, origin, folkloric, exotic, tribal, poetic, eclectic, timeless, light-hearted, humour, suiting-inspired, herringbones, flowers, chintz, oriental, patterns, accessories, patina, trims, floating yarns, feathers, gobelin
[ the inventor ] An intelligent free thinker, experimenting and researching solutions to make life fulfilling, fun and exciting. Fond of concepts in which function meets fun, wellness and entertainment. Eager to leave a personal trace on designs. key terms: challenging, performing, smart, wellness, entertainment, sensorial, kinetic, interactive, fun, play, experiential, decorative, dimensional, tactile, openwork, grids, bonded, welded, comfort, soft, foamy, moulded, padded, technical, iridescent, featherweight, illuminative
[ the geologist ] A nature lover, preserving as well as exploring the deepest layers of the earth and digging down for the unseen and the unexpected. Values the precious imperfections of geological textures, the science of nature and its surreal quality. key terms: explore, imperfections, geological, organic, erosion, oxidation, science, surreal, distorted, gradient, venomous, marled, viral, iridescence, metallic, crystals, reflections, plissés, jacquard, leather, paper, bark, mineral, ores, copper, raw, rustic, traces, granulated, crackled