Only a week or so late, we’ve been working on some exciting new projects so please excuse the horrific state of updates recently, is our second installment of Milan Design Week 2009 Highlights. Following from our first Milan ’09 post in which we featured experimental materials, the launches of Diesel’s long awaited home range and new French brand, Moustache, along with new work from We Heart Stuff favourites, Form Us With Love and uber-designer, Tom Dixon, this selection of picks from this years event showcases some beautifully simple and elegant work alongside more designers who are pushing the boundaries of interiors.
This elegant chair design for Italian brand Ceccotti from Spanish superstar artist-designer, Jaime Hayón, is simplicity at it’s best.
Dutch designer Guus van Leeuwen showcased his very large-scale animal themed radiators which are made up of steel tubing bent by computer then welded together by the Eindhoven based product designer.
We loved the stark beauty of this, destined-to-become-iconic, lamp by Arihiro Miyake.
Armani Casa in collaboration with Dada unveiled their “disappearing kitchen”, Calyx, a sophisticated, lacquered ‘greige’ giant in which the interiors of the doors and the cladding of the whole interior vertical surface of the kitchen are created in plain silver colour techno fabric, covered with panels of glass.
5.5 Designers’ reimagined box concept for chic champagne brand Veuve Clicquot was the highlight of their Out of The Box exhibition.
You wouldn’t have thought of Milan’s ultra-chic design week as the perfect venue for celebrating Barbie’s 50th birthday, but Kartell, whose famous plastic Louis Ghost Chair by Philippe Starck turned 60 this year, draped their shop windows with suitably kitsch designs and life size models of the legendary doll alongside the iconic Starck chair.
Giorgio Biscaro’s subtle and unique modular room divider is a beautifully crafted 3D mesh that you can expand and fold as you like.
BIG GAME, a Swiss, Belgian, French collective previewed their simplistic BLUR Collection, a vase, two mirrors, three tables and four lamps playing with the notion of blurriness.
Nika Zupanc’s sexy lighting for Dutch company Moooi were both quirky and elegant in equal doses.
Words By;
James Davidson; Editor in Chief
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