Hasta La Ideas

Dezeen relocates to Milan during the Salone Internazionale del Mobile next month where we’re setting up Dezeen Studio powered by Jambox at MOST, the multi-faceted design epicentre instigated by Tom Dixon.

Dezeen Studio is being furnished by Dixon to resemble The Factory, the legendary studio established by Andy Warhol in New York in the sixties (above and below).

From 17-22 April, we’ll be using the purpose-built studio to film a daily TV show that will be uploaded to Dezeen Screen as well as being broadcast throughout the show, which takes place in Milan’s Museo Nazionale della Scienza e della Tecnologia.

The daily show will bring highlights of what’s happening at MOST as well as interviews, performances, news, gossip… and even weather reports.

The studio will be powered by Jambox, the wireless speaker system designed by Yves Behar for Jawbone.

The 500,000 square metre museum, which contains everything from full-size trains, ships and submarines to replicas of Leonardo da Vinci’s inventions, will house a temporary range of “the freshest ideas in communication, food, culture, design and the digital industrial revolution”.

Read more about the highlights of MOST in our earlier story.

National Museum of Science and Technology,
Via Olona 6, 20123 Milan, Italy
Entrance through Via Olona 6

Dates: Tuesday 17 April, 10AM – 9PM Wednesday 18 April, 10AM – 6PM
Thursday 19 – Saturday 21 April, 10AM – 9PM Sunday 22 April, 10AM – 6PM
Press Preview: Monday 16 April, 3PM-7PM

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Dezeen Wire: designer Tom Dixon has announced the highlights of MOST at the Museo Nazionale della Scienza e della Tecnologia during the Salone Internazionale del Mobile in Milan next month, including Dezeen Studio powered by Jambox, where we’ll be recording and broadcasting interviews all week.

At MOST, Dixon will install two sheet metal machines to punch and fold chairs and lights on site, plus an installation of new lighting techniques in a series of tunnels.

Studio Toogood will create a hospital for the senses with sound and light installations, clay sculpting, a re-energising elixir and specially-made scent.

Other highlights include the Spring Table restaurant, Yves Béhar‘s free SodaStream bar, and a series of lectures and documentary screenings in the museum’s auditorium.

MOST takes place at the city’s museum of science and technology, housed in a 16th century monastery, from 17 to 22 April 2012. Read more about MOST in our earlier Dezeen Wire story.

Here’s the release from MOST:

MOST ANNOUNCES HIGHLIGHTS FOR THE SALONE DEL MOBILE, MILAN APRIL 17 – 22, 2012

MOST, a new centre for design, food and cultural innovation, instigated by British designer Tom Dixon, announces details of some highlight installations and exhibitions which will take place during the Salone del Mobile, Milan from 17 – 22 April. As well as accommodating a group of leading designers, curators and global brands, the museum, which is housed in a 16th century monastery, will also provide a pop up restaurant, a SodaStream bar and a media centre.

Spring Table is a pop-up restaurant from Dock Kitchen’s Stevie Parle, open during the day for lunches and afternoon tea and private dinners in the evening. Using Italian ingredients sourced from Milanese markets, delicate British dishes, designed for sharing, ignite the Italian tradition of coming together to enjoy food. Spring Table sits within the Cloisters and under the frescos of the impressive Salle Del Cenacolo, the original monk’s dining room, in the heart of MOST.

Designer and social entrepreneur Yves Béhar has joined forces with SodaStream to create an elegantly redesigned carbonating bottle for its home carbonation system which will be on show as part of the SodaStream bar. Set against the dramatic backdrop of an actual cruise liner in MOST, the bar will supply fresh free drinks to all with no plastic bottles on site.

Tom Dixon takes over 4 spaces at MOST. The Via Olona entrance is dominated by Luminosity where 4 interconnected tunnels take visitors on a journey through new illumination techniques, created by brand new Tom Dixon products. In the shop window Dezeen Studio powered by Jambox, set up a broadcast centre furnished by Tom Dixon, holding exclusive interviews and streaming live coverage across MOST of the freshest new content in Milan. A digital industrial revolution is put in full view of visitors, in collaboration with international machine giant TRUMPF, where Tom Dixon will control 2 sheet metal machines which punch and bend exclusively designed steel chairs and lamps live on-site, to be given away to visitors. A futuristic Anglo-Italian gelateria is created in collaboration with the

Carpigiani Gelato University, who will give away free gelato and teach visitors how to make their own flavour.

Studio Toogood will present ‘la cura’ with Nivea, a visual antidote to the chaos of the Salone del Mobile, a hospital for the senses where visitors are invited to rebalance through a series of intimate performances. Whilst experiencing a therapeutic sound and light composition produced in collaboration with Kite & Laslett, visitors are presented with a ball of white clay to mould and shape into something that reflects their own individual expression and mood. These artworks – called ‘The Cures’ – are collected at the end of each performance and clustered together in the ‘Pavilion’ during the course of the week to create a collective sculpture. For ‘la cura’, the Underkitchen by food designers Arabeschi di Latte have prepared a re-energising elixir designed to restore people’s sparkle and spirit. The air is filled with a bespoke scent by perfumers 12.29, which is designed to capture the essence of the colour white in olfactory form. Guests are seated on ‘Spade’ chairs by Faye Toogood, each one bandaged and covered for protection.

To mark the launch of Dror for Tumi, a collection of bags designed by Dror Benshetrit, Theatre Director Jules Wright of the Wapping Project London will present ‘Passaggio’ at MOST. A spectacularly original installation involving original film, photography and a live performance will be located within Sala delle Colonne, once the library of the ancient monastery.

French design duo La Chance make their debut at MOST with a collection of furniture and lighting by a young generation of talented global designers. The installation will be located in the Rail Transport building, a reconstructed late 19th Century railway station.

Another showcase of young design talent will be present at Designersblock, now hosting its 12th annual Milan show within the dramatic Cloisters of MOST, and introducing over 40 new design talents to an international audience.

Also making its debut at Milan is a New Zealand-based furniture company, Resident, which will show a collection of products from five designers within an intriguing interactive area that will illustrate the craft-based nature of the brand.

An inventive multi-sensory installation using paper as a medium has been designed by sound artist Ethan Rose, in collaboration with Stephanie Forsythe and Todd MacAllen of Canadian design studio molo. Rose will generate a composition that will turn the flexible honeycomb paper walls into speakers. At night, the walls will glow golden thanks to an inlaid LED system.

Brussels-based Objekten presents their latest design solutions from Alain Berteau, Sylvain Willenz, Mathieu Lehanneur, Irina Scrinic, Susanna Campogrande, Sébastien Cordoleani, among others. Objekten aims to produce affordable, high-quality and innovative furniture and accessories using local know-how and advanced production techniques.

British furniture manufacturer SCP will showcase original designs and ideas from Matthew Hilton, Donna Wilson, Kay+Stemmer, Ineke Hans and Faudet-Harrison, alongside new versions of products from Peter Marigold, Lee Kirkbride and Gareth Neal. A highlight will be the SCP Workshop, a live showcase of their fully sustainable upholstery making techniques, brought straight from their specialist factory in Norfolk, England.

CAST 001 is the first edition in a range of outdoor furniture designed by award-winning British architect, Sally Mackereth of Wells Mackereth. Formed in reconstructed stone, the table and stools in the collection have a shagreen texture with a bronze patinated finish and are designed to suit all climates.

Together with TAR Magazine, Martina Mondadori will present a series of lectures and documentary screenings throughout the week of MOST, sponsored by Cartier. Held in the museum’s impressive 280 seat auditorium, there will be two talks a day with high profile leaders and designers from across the globe. Speakers include Italian architect and Editor Stefano Boeri, Director of London Design Festival Ben Evans and Lisa Harouni from Digital Forming.

Dezeen, the design and architecture blog, and Jawbone join forces to present Dezeen Studio powered by Jambox, an innovative space where the Dezeen team will base themselves during the Salone del Mobile. Dezeen will record and broadcast interviews via a variety of web channels including DezeenScreen. Adjacent to the studio will be a JAMBOX pop-up shop created by Yves Béhar, where visitors will be able to experience and buy Jawbone’s award-winning JAMBOX speakers.

Finally, FBR in partnership with Tokyobikes will run daily design tours of the Salone del Mobile highlights led by well known design personalities which will depart from MOST.

National Museum of Science and Technology,
Via Olona 6, 20123 Milan, Italy
Entrance through Via Olona 6

Dates: Tuesday 17 April, 10AM – 9PM Wednesday 18 April, 10AM – 6PM
Thursday 19 – Saturday 21 April, 10AM – 9PM Sunday 22 April, 10AM – 6PM
Press Preview: Monday 16 April, 3PM-7PM

www.mostsalone.com

Japanese designers Nendo will present new additions to their 1% products in Milan this April, including this tea set where the lids double as spinning tops.

New pieces also include stacking vases, a coffee-filter holder that mimics the matching cup it stacks with and a stacking set of saki cups that can be combined to make a tumbler, large cup or jug.

100 of each design will be produced and sold.

Critic Alice Rawsthorn’s spoke to Oki Sato of Nendo about the collection in her interview with him here and you can watch our interview with him on Dezeen Screen here.

The collection will be on show as part of Nendo’s solo show at Palazzo Visconti, Via Cino del Duca 8, Milan from 17-22 April.

Photographs are by Hiroshi Iwasaki.

Here’s some more information from Nendo:

new collection of 1% products will be shown
during the Milano Salone at nendo’s solo exhibition

100 is the perfect amount: they’re neither one-off “works of art” nor mass-produced products made in the millions. Whether its the skill of the artisans or new technologies, we want to make things that are only possible because there are 100 of them. Not more, not less. To give owners the chance to experience the joy of owing 1%.

Win-tea cup

This three-piece set consists of a cup, saucer and coffee filter holder whose form mimics that of the cup and saucer.

With its stabilizing form when placed on top of the cup to pour coffee, and a volume of precisely one cup of coffee, the filter holder provides maximum function with minimal fuss.

The saucer doubles as a tray for the filter holder after coffee has been brewed, and the entire set can be stacked for storage at half its height by placing the filter holder between the saucer and cup.

Top-tea set

A teapot and cup set.

The thick wooden lid provides good insulation to keep the tea warm, and its pointed center condenses steam into liquid and directs it back into the teapot, rather dripping down the sides.

The lid becomes a top, and can be spun on the tabletop for amusement while drinking tea.

Block-vase

A set of small bud vases that can be stacked together like building blocks.

The vase comes in four different sizes, carefully measured to fit together without disturbing the vase on the bottom.

With careful stacking, the cases can accommodate a tall flower by running it through the vase on the top.

Stack-sake set

A sake set consisting of pitcher and cups, in the form of stacks of cups. The different sizes correspond to different types of drinks: one cup is a choko small glass, two cups stacked a slightly larger one, and four cups stacked a tumbler. The stack of five cups is actually a pitcher for sake.

Because all of the cups have the same shape, they can be stacked together when not in use, and the one-cup choko doubles as a lid for the pitcher.

When the pitcher is heated, for drinking warm sake, the cups can be warmed simultaneously, too.

Shrink-plate

A design that takes advantage of porcelain’s characteristics. When ceramics are fired, extreme differences in the thickness of the clay make the other side of the clay shrink away. Potters usually try to prevent this through a variety of techniques such as controlling the thickness of the clay and using curved rather than flat surfaces.

The shrink-plate, on the other hand, makes what’s usually seen as a problem into a design feature.

By increasing the thickness of the decorative elements and making the slab of the plate particularly flat and thin, the plate’s decoration stands out in relief.

Place: Palazzo Visconti
Address: Via Cino del Duca 8, Milan
Transportation: San Babila
Date: April 17- 22, 2012
Opening Hours: 11:00 – 20:00