Milan Design Week 2010 snapshots
Due to work and travels I have not been able to upload any images from Milan Design Week 2010 until now. Better late than never though. Voila, here are some of my best moments. Beautiful Nendo installation. Very poetic. And hard work – ten persons have been working with the construction since Christmas. Two images...
Fotografiska museet
As capital of an art-savvy country, keen on recycling and charmed by the honest beauty of nature, there’s little surprise on Stockholm’s first photography museum to soon open its doors in a coastal location, with a privileged city view. The pictures already hang on the red-bricked walls of the old customs house. A stake of...
Milan Design Week 2010 interviews
I went to Milan Design Week with knowledge company Designboost and recorded ten filmed interviews on the theme “Design for Life”. All persons were asked the same ten questions which originate from the key DesignBoost in October. The interviews will soon be released at the Designboost web. Tokujin Yoshioka Marcel Wanders Hella Jongerius Maarten Baas...
Has design reached its sell by date?
We thought it could be good timing to remind about our latest in-depth report called Time to Rethink Design the day before the start of the Milan Design Week. Has Design reached its sell by date? Have we not fulfilled Design’s 20th Century’s mission to market, style, brand, and added value, to innovate and to...
Flap tribute to the Zucchi collection
FLAP is a lamp by Valerio Cometti and V12 Design for Zucchi Collection which will be presented during the Milan Design Week 2010. The exhibition is called “Il Passato Rinnovato 1785-2010” and 10 artists and designers will reinterpret the antique hand blocks from the Zucchi Collection. The address is Via Ugo Foscolo 4. Here some words from Valerio Cometti about...
The new Lomography Slingshot bag
Lomography would only be half the fun without its vibrant colours. It is wonder that the new Lomography Slingshot Bags glow like the favourite Lomographs. A bag that is made for heavy duty lomographic needs. With three compartments, a magnetic closure, two handles, an adjustable strap and a special designed inner lining, the Lomography Slingshot Bag will look...
Foscarini at Milan Design Week 2010
Milan Design Week 2010 offers an interactive installation by lighting company Foscarini. Seems promising. Will take place at Superstudio Piu.
Wallpaper Handmade at Milan Design Week
During the Milan Design Week Wallpaper* magazine will launch one of their most ambitious project to date – “Wallpaper* Handmade…in Italy” in collaboration with Brioni. Exhibited over four floors of the Brioni house in Milan during Salone del Mobile, Wallpaper* Handmade is an exhibition dedicated to the marriage of craftsmanship and design. Acting as patron,...
Isabel Berglund’s knit universe
Isabel Berglund is a textile designer/artist Graduated from The Danish Design School and with a MA from Central Saint Martins College of Art and Design in London. She has exhibited in a wide range of venues, most recently in the exhibition “Hanging wood” at Dansk Fashion and Textile and with the sculptures “Home with a...
Groundbreaking paper lamp
At Milan Design Week 2010, April 14 – 19 at Superstudio Piú, Swedish lighting company Wästberg will launch a lighting fixture made in DuraPulp and developed in close collaboration with Swedish forestry industry company Södra and Swedish architects and designers Claesson Koivisto Rune. Last year Claesson Koivisto Rune and Södra developed the Parupu children’s chair...
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