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Salone del Mobile 2013: Cassina & Karl Lagerfeld / Cassina 2013
The latest Cassina collaboration was with fashion designer Karl Lagerfeld. The fur seat featured above is one of the pieces Karl created for the occasion.
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Salone del Mobile 2013: B&B Italia
Salone del Mobile 2013: Maurizio Cattelan’s Toilet Paper Mag & Seletti
Seletti alongside Maurizio Cattelan’s Toilet Paper Magazine teamed up to create a collection of tableware with their most iconic images of Maurizio’s high-brow art cult magazine. These pieces are sure to quickly become collector’s items of Cattelan’s fans.
Salone del Mobile 2013: Resident in Via Olona
Resident is a New Zeland contemporary furniture and lightning company that will be presenting their creations in Via Olona during Salone del Mobile 2013.
Salone del Mobile 2013: Shop Saman
Salone del Mobile 2013 Palazzo Durini: Windfall Contemporary Crystal Lighting
Roel Haagmans and Clarissa Dorn presented “Jewels of Light” by Windfall made of filigran glass pannels ornamentally painted with Swarovski stones in various colors.
Marni Chair Collection – Made by Former Prisoners
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Marni is entering the furniture business with a line of chairs — but instead of plush chaise lounges upholstered with its signature prints, it hired ex-prisoners to make metal chairs covered in multicolored plastic netting.
The Italian fashion house designed the 100-chair collection for this month’s Salone del Mobile in Milan (April 17 to 22) and hired a group of former Colombian prison inmates to produce them with the aim of helping them readjust to social and working life.
Marni will use the chairs as props this Spring when it photographs its employees in Milan for a photo exhibit by filmmaker Francesco Jodice and in its offices and stores around the world. The chairs will only be sold at the Marni boutique in Milan — with proceeds donated to the institute ICAM of Milan — but you can take a look at all of them in the gallery.
(Via Fashionologie)
Benjamin Hubert: juliet – Poltrona Frau centenary armchair.
[dropcap]J[/dropcap]uliet byBenjamin Hubert is the winning design of italian furniture company Poltrona Frau’s international competition whose brief asked participants to utilize traditional upholstery techniques under the theme “A chair to spend time in”.
To celebrate poltrona frau’s centenary, the brand selected twelve promising young creatives from across the globe including nendo, stephen burks, nina zupanc, constance guisset and daphna laurens, to compete in the challenge of designing the company’s ‘centenary chair’. the entries were judged under the categories of formal appearance, representation of the given theme, use and interpretation of leather and comfort.
Hubert’s winning piece is influenced by the italian renaissance fashion detail of the ‘juliet sleeve’ which tightly fits the arm and has a large deconstructed ‘puff’ on the shoulder. with ‘juliet’, the british designer wanted to communicate the properties of leather upholstery. The outside of the chair utilizes the flexibility and tensile strength of leather to describe a fluted traditional timber framework where the shape of the timber can clearly be seen through the tight leather covering. this is contrasted by a ‘tri-pleated’ generous sitting area with a soft and loose appearance. the de-constructed area is used to describe the comfort of the chair. the shape of the sitting area is ‘wide screen’ allowing the user to rest in multiple positions in line with how people really use and misuse furniture.
The competition’s nine judges:
- Livia peraldo matton – editor in chief of elle decor italy
- Giulio cappellini – creative director of cappellini
- François-henry pinault – chairman of ppr group
- Jean nouvel – architect
- Vanessa friedman – financial times, fashion editor
- Anne-sophie von clear – lifestyle le figaro, deputy director
- Walter de silva – head designer of the audi brand group
- Ratan naval tata – chairman of tata group
- Thomas maier – bottega veneta
karim Rashid: Float for Sancal.
[dropcap]P[/dropcap]resented at Salone del Mobile 2012, ‘float’ is a sofa composed of soft rounded, colorful shapes which intersect, creating a single composition.
Created by new york-based designer Karim Rashid for spanish furniture brand Sancal, it features a high back, with a seat which appears to be floating above the ground. supported by turned wooden legs, the curved, gentle form of ‘float’ offers a natural and welcoming feel.
The sofa is composed of soft, rounded, colorful parts which intersect with one another.
The sofa is supported by turned wooden legs.
Collection on display salone del mobile 2012
Image © designboom.
Bottega Veneta Home collection 2012
[dropcap]B[/dropcap]ottega veneta’s collection for the home continues to grow. for the salone del mobile 2012, creative director tomas maier presented two new furniture groups, numerous new styles added to the existing, and the introduction of a home fragrance, called ‘boisé’. the scent is redolent of wood and spices, notes of violet, bergamot, and vetiver lend freshness to the warmth of cedar and sandalwood. it comes in a room spray and a candle. the new additions to the line will be available in store beginning in september 2012.
New to bottega veneta’s trunk-inspired furniture is a tall bookcase with multiple shelves. the dimensions and design of the bookcase allow it to be set against a wall or used as a room divider. now available with cuoio leather profiles and corners.
The tassello system is a family of modular furniture pieces developed in collaboration with Poltrona frau. inviting, unusual, and ingenious, it acknowledges and addresses the reality of individual needs and particular spaces. the furniture is soft and slouchy, like a bottega veneta bag, and made of plump cushions. broadly speaking, each piece consists of two cushions: one cushion forms the seat while another leans against a leather-clad metal sheet to form the back. the tassello modular seating system is available in suede or soft, grainy leather.
The camp furniture line is a folding chair reminiscent of a director’s chair and a table-height folding stool. available in suede with bronze metal as well as the original cuoio leather and linen with gunmetal or brushed metal.
The ‘floating’ furniture is made from a combination of glass, thin bronze bands, and lacquered, ‘intrecciato’ parchment leather. visible screws connect the glass to the metal frame, from which drawers sheathed in parchment are suspended– viewed head on, the drawers appear to float in thin air. pieces include a desk with a glass top and two sets of three drawers; a woman’s dresser, with four drawers; a night table with two drawers; and a refined console with a single floating drawer. available in laquered parchment in the colors pergamena and cigar, with bronze metal, and also in VN leather.
Bottega veneta presented also the refined porcelain service made in collaboration with the legendary german porcelain manufacturer koenigliche porzellan-manufaktur, or KPM. first introduced in 2008, it is named ‘intreccio svanito’ (fading weave). every piece is shaped by hand and meticulously hand-painted.
BOTTEGA VENETA INITIALS.
[dropcap]I[/dropcap]talian luxury goods brand Bottega Veneta has officially launched its new personalization service – Botte Veneta Initials. Launched last week during the Salone in Milan, the new service is available for both men and women. The slogan of the campaign is ‘When Your Initials Are Enough’.
Offered are tote bags, belts, wallets and more, all in the iconic signature woven leather style that the brand is best known for, in a series of colors. You can visit now bottegavenetainitials.com to order your own personalized version of their products.
A few examples follow after the jump.
Lenny Kravitz and Philippe Starck for Kartell – Furry Chairs.
[dropcap]K[/dropcap]artell is really letting it hang out for the Salone del Mobile furniture fair going down in Milan right now. The iconic Italian maker of fine furniture has given aging-gracefully rock star Lenny Kravitz free reign on an upholstery update of the Mademoiselle chair originally designed for Kartell by Philippe Starck . These re-imagined Mademoiselle chairs are on display inside the Kartell flagship store, on a black set suggestive of a stage ready to host a performance.
Not a huge surprise that Kravitz slathered the chairs in exotic fur, leather, and python but they look surprising nonetheless. “The Kravitz design take on the Mademoiselle chair is haute couture meets rock and roll,” the rocker informs, speaking in semi-third-person. We are guessing that our first though on these furry fineries was shared by Kravitz at some point along the design process: It would feel good to sit in this naked.
Photography by Designboom.
