Milan Design Week 2008 - part two
Here’s some further pictures from this years Milan Design Week.
Natural simplicity by Vincent van Duysen and John Pawson at the “When Objects Work” exhibition.
The Milkbar by Finnish producers Marimekko and Artek.
Yours truly at the Egg chair exhibition at Corso Como 10. Which by the way still is one of the worlds best concept stores…
Japanese baths. I was told they are made by three hundred years old trees…
“Seeing the light” in the Bulgari hotel garden. I liked the conceptual idea behind this exhibition a lot. The objects on display in the boxes were the standard ones.
Further images tomorrow from the Tortona Area and Konstantin Grcic exhibition at the Triennale.
Earlier post about Milan Design Week 2008.
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Tuesday 6 May 2008, 12:52
The Egg Chair was designed by Arne Jacobsen in 1958 in his typical style, where there was no fear of pushing the material to its limit, and often using entirely new materials to make his designs come true.
The Egg Chair is a strikingly organically shaped upholstered seat on slender metal bases.
The Egg was designed as a couch also - though the actual piece was thought to be a figment of someone’s imagination. But only a handful of Egg-couches have ever been made. A few were made for the Radisson Hotel, and a few years back, some were made as a “special edition” couch.
The Egg chair was featured in the movie Men in Black and briefly seen in Back to the Future II, as well as shown in a promotional poster for Chicken Little as a reference to Men in Black.