Gubi to launch GamFratesi designs at Palazzo Litta in Milan

Milan 2014: Danish brand Gubi will be launching a side table and updates of existing stool and chair designs by Copenhagen studio GamFratesi at the Urban Stories exhibition during Milan design week.

Gubi to launch GamFratesi designs at Palazzo Litta in Milan
TS Table

GamFratesi will be presenting side table TS, the Beetle Bar Chair and a new swivel base for the Masculo chair.

Gubi to launch GamFratesi designs at Palazzo Litta in Milan
TS Table

The TS side table features a circular marble top in Bianco Carrara, Nero Marquina, Verde Guatemala or Marrone Emperador, atop a geometric lacquered black frame. The tables come in three heights, so that they work together as a group and can also be used separately.

Gubi to launch GamFratesi designs at Palazzo Litta in Milan
Beetle Bar Stool

An iteration of the Beetle Chair introduced in Milan last year, the Beetle Bar Chair offers the same comfort at bar height, something that traditional bar stools often lack.

Gubi to launch GamFratesi designs at Palazzo Litta in Milan
Masculo Swivel

The Masculo chair was GamFratesi’s first design to make it into production. They have now added a swivel base, which gives the chair a new role in business environments and home offices.

Gubi to launch GamFratesi designs at Palazzo Litta in Milan
Masculo Chair and TS Table

Every year curators Caterina Mosca and Valerio Castelli invite selected designers to tell their “urban stories” in unusual locations. This year the event is at Palazzo Litta in Corso Magenta.

Gubi to launch GamFratesi designs at Palazzo Litta in Milan
Masculo Chair

GamFratesi designers Stine Gam and Enrico Fratesi anticipate that the Baroque setting will provide an appropriate backdrop for their work. “We’ve often been inspired by art, whilst also being aware of the heritage of design,” said Fratesi.

Gubi to launch GamFratesi designs at Palazzo Litta in Milan
Beetle Chair

Urban Stories will also feature projects by Alvin Huang, Daniel Libeskind and Emmanuel Babled in collaboration with companies including Volvo and Venini Glass.

Gubi to launch GamFratesi designs at Palazzo Litta in Milan
Beetle Chair

Gubi will be showing new work by GamFratesi at Urban Stories Tuesday 8 April – Saturday 12 April 12noon – 10 pm and Sunday 13 April 12noon – 6 pm. Palazzo Litta, Corso Magenta 24, 20123 Milan.

Gubi to launch GamFratesi designs at Palazzo Litta in Milan
Beetle Chair

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Ronde Pendant by Oliver Schick for GUBI

Product news: these pendant lamps by German designer Oliver Schnick have raised collars that direct light up to the ceiling as well as down to the floor.

Ronde lamps by Oliver Schick for GUBI

The Ronde Pendant, for Danish brand GUBI, was designed by Oliver Schick with a protruding lip as a subtle addition to the traditional pendant shape.

“Only minor changes or unexpected details are needed to give a product a lively character, which sparks the associations and emotions of the user” said Schick.

Ronde lamps by Oliver Schick for GUBI

The designer used hand-turned aluminium to form the rounded shape of the lamp, then named it Ronde, a word associated with circles and rotation.

The surface is coated with an matte lacquer to give it a ceramic-like finish.

Ronde lamps by Oliver Schick for GUBI

Ronde Pendant is available in two sizes and comes in either white, red, light grey, dark grey or black.

Other lighting designs featured on Dezeen recently include a sculptural timber lamp bent to the point of breaking and floor lamps with matching shades and basesSee more lighting »

Ronde lamps by Oliver Schick for GUBI

GUBI sent us the following text:


With its simple yet lively expression The Ronde Pendant has all the qualities of becoming a future design classic and is sure to spark the interest of most design enthusiasts around the globe. Oliver Schick’s modern take on the classic pendant is his first product for GUBI and will be launched in 2013.

The bell-shaped piece has reference to the traditional pendant lamp and the heyday of 1970s lightning design; however, in a modern interpretation. The unique detail of the opening on the top with an overhanging collar, bring forth associations of a jar such as vase or amphora. The hand-turned aluminum lamp shade with an ultramatt lacquer almost makes it look as if it was made of ceramics. The Ronde Pendant comes in two sizes and will available in five colors: Matt white, Rusty Red, Pigeon Grey, Anthracite og Charcoal Black.

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