salvioni milano durini is a place to explore, a design destination of six floors with the possibility to go and get stimuli with suggestions for your home or your interior design projects, an experience made possible by excellent partners.
• fferrone design, ideal partner for the art of the table and handmade glass objects, accompanies the best italian design products with the same creative force, embellishing contemporary or classic, formal or daily environments.
• kohro is an italian publisher and producer of large-scale upholstery fabrics. the new “wild splendours” collection is the soul of the textile furnishing accessories of the first floor. here the kohro textile coordinated furnishings bring refined and comfortable elegance to the bedroom and living area, to the table and the reading and relaxation corner created in collaboration with chiara provasi.
• roberto molteni interior decoration, inside an exclusive shop in shop, in collaboration with salvioni design solutions and its team of interior designers, this partner proposes its idea of soft decoration, the art of decorating or better dressing the house in its textile component, with curtains, fabrics, cushions and much more, to give each room a unique and personal style.
• the collaboration with wallpepper®, an italian company producing author’s wallpapers, is renewed. the graphics of the new 2019 catalog harmonize perfectly with the furnishings and become one with the different housing projects proposed by salvioni milano durini.
award-winning interdisciplinary design agency rapt studio presents tell me more, their debut installation at salone del mobile featuring rich brilliant willing as their exclusive lighting partner. their immersive, interactive exhibit displays a grand installation of vitis, centro pendants, and crisp sconces along the walls.
tell me more aims to explore the intersection of spatial experience and emotional connection, offering visitors the opportunity to experience a microcosm of a rapt-designed environment. inspired by the feeling of entering a beloved space, the two-part installation consists of an arrival chamber and expansive lounge, which serve as a backdrop to explore human connection.
as guests first enter the space, they are greeted by small circular, drapery-clad “stages” –personal theaters. each stage presents guests with a question posed by the stranger who came before them. upon reflecting, visitors are asked to leave a query for the next guest and transition beyond the mirrored walls into the lounge.
in the lounge, guests gather underneath a living collage created by a shower of lights that hang from the vault ceiling. among the lights hang threads, from which the questions posed in the personal theaters reappear to encourage guests to consider their answers, strike up conversations, and make personal connections with those around them.
#tellmemore #raptxsalone
general exhibit information:
general dates and opening times:
april 9-13 10:00-20:00
april 14 10:00-18:00
design and vitra are practically synonymous. the family-owned swiss company is trusted with manufacturing the works of some of the world’s most respected and renowned designers. think eames, vernor panton, and jean prouvé —these are just some of the iconic names that have entrusted them to manufacture their pieces.
this year, vitra design museum is leading the charge in moving the conversation around design forward through a conference called the politics of design. the day-long affair will address design as a political activity with the idea that designers are constantly making decisions regarding social issues such as inclusion, identity, and sustainability. the aim of the conference is to explore the big question that surrounds this line of thinking: “while design is a powerful took for social and political change does it really have an effect on things?”
taking place on april 10 from 1:45 to 6:30, the day will be broken into three parts with top players in the fields of design, philosophy, sociology, and politics speaking on panels. confirmed speakers include paola antonelli, bruce sterling, danah abdulla, jan boelen, claudia chwalisz, indy johar, amelie klein, and etienne turpin.
the politics of design is presented by the vitra design museum and will take place april 10 at trienalle milano, teatro dell’arte.
inbovisa is a cultural project of aggregation and communication, born from associazione zona bovisa, for all the events and the actors of the bovisa district in milan. the goal is to enhance and implement this neighbourhood producer of innovation and creativity.
la bovisa, was historically an industrial district with a laboring soul. in the last years this neighborhood started an urban renewal process based on scientific research, training, culture development, design and innovation. during the milan design week, bovisa turn into a hub of event related to design and entrepreneurship: various creative and cultural start-ups will identify this area as a reference point and as a district where innovation come alive.
also this year some initiatives of this project will be developed during the milano design week 2019: from the 9th to 14th of april, in/bovisa aims to be the hub and the collector of all the different events and characters which wish to participate in a cultural project during the fuorisalone.
#inbovisa
porta venezia in design, the fuorisalone circuit that combines design and art with the architectural and decorative heritage of the liberty style – of which this area of the city is particularly rich – to make it better known to citizens and foreign guests who visit milan during the design week.
an itinerary divided into ‘three’: showrooms, stores and companies featuring new design and art, the food&wine itinerary, which finds space in some selected bars and restaurants, guided tours of the liberty facades, organized in collaboration with fai – fondo ambiente italiano.
the idea of this circuit is to highlight places, sometimes ‘hidden’ in courtyards, other facing the road: design and furnishing companies, hospitality and leisure with good food and wine, architectural companies and workshops. the cultural corner, linked to the liberty heritage, has always been our focus, by organising free tours, thanks to the collaboration with fai-fondo ambiente italiano.
isola design district is a territorial marketing project created by blank, a young milan-based creative agency, with the aim to give visibility to emerging international designers and local artisans, within one of the most lively neighborhoods of milan: isola.
the event is organized every year during milan design week, in collaboration with 24pr&events and emilio lonardo, and involves the entire area with design exhibitions, installations, workshops and talks, that take place within hidden locations, galleries and private courtyards.
if you want to discover young designers and new design brands, this is the right place to be, just next to contemporary architectural excellences as the vertical forest and gae aulenti square!
next to contemporary architectural excellences such as piazza gae aulenti, bosco verticale, unicredit tower, there is a heritage of hidden places, an incredible landscape of possibilities. within this context, a new system made of typical courtyards, shop windows, indoor and open spaces has been created to showcase projects of international emerging designers and local artisans.
locations are open to experimentation and contamination of different types of knowledge and disciplines, to go beyond the product and its function, continuing the research path that has characterized the event in previous editions.
new wireline lamp for flos will be presented in milano in two different locations.
first as a preview in the collectors’ lounge of miart (5- 7 april), then at the salone del mobile (9-14 april) in the pavilion 24 at new design holding booth .
further elaborating on some of the design principles of the previous lamp wirering, formafantasma is again using the power cable as one of the main design features. flattened to resemble a belt made of rubber and hanging from the ceiling, the cable holds a ribbed glass extrusion containing a led light source.
the lamp, that can be installed as a single piece, or repeated to obtain elaborate visual compositions, is in fact reduced in size once packed.
wireline will available in 2 colors: grey and light pink.
pavilion 24 – c01 c21 e02 e20 – s.project
wonderglass is presenting an exhibition titled shape of gravity of the work of japanese design firm, nendo. founded by oki sato, nendo’s work spans a wide range of disciplines from graphic design to furniture design, to installations and interiors. the exhibition also includes melt, a collection of cast glass furniture, tabletop objects, and a gravity formed glass chandelier created in collaboration with wonderglass.
melt was derived through the complex process of laying hot glass sheets over steel shapes or hanging between steel bars, which then melt downward with the pull of gravity creating a natural form. these forms were then turned into the pieces which make up the collection.
the biggest challenge in this process was timing. the craftspeople had to come to a precise understanding of the exact moment where the gravitational pull would result in the desired shape, and also the exact temperature that would allow the shape to set.
the gogan sofa takes its name from nature and in particular from japanese stones rendered smooth by time and water, which provided the inspiration for this project bearing the signature of patricia urquiola. this is the name given to the japanese stones placed to protect and embellish the banks of rivers and lakes. the sofa’s form in fact reminds us of flat stones sculpted by wind and water, solid yet smooth enough that you can lie on them.
just like in rock sculptures, where stones maintain their balance by being carefully positioned and interlocked, it is the shape that maintains the balance between the elements on the gogan sofa, which is not overly regular. by playing around with gravity and balance, we can make normally heavy shapes lightweight.
its sleek shapes are emphasised by the choice of coverings, which enhance and reinforce the aesthetic, in line with the philosophy of moroso that fabric is never simply just upholstery, but it is an important part of the project. the 70’s inspired fabric, recently rediscovered in the moroso textile archive, gives the gogan sofa’s concept an added value, by reproducing the surface of a river stone through its rich, deep, direction-free bouclé texture, which conceals the sofa’s seams giving to the smooth and organic surfaces an even appearance.
the gogan collection is completed with an armchair and small table in various sizes, which recall organic shapes and are characterized as the sofa for the abutments of the structure. these elements will be presented as prototypes.
stand design by patricia uriuola
lighting by ingo maurer
pavilon 16 stand a29/b22
during milan design week, the international ein&zwanzig competition addresses and supports talented young designers with innovating ideas and pioneering works in the area of interior and lifestyle. an international jury of experts from industry and design selects and awards 21 projects from design students and graduates.
this terrific event sponsored by the german design council.
