Apr 18

Milan Design Week 2014: The Quietly Colorful Home: Nacreous and matte takes on the pastel color palette found in a variety of furnishings

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Milan Design Week 2014: The Quietly Colorful Home


From fashion to photography to furniture, recent years have seen a shift in the creative world’s overarching palette from highly saturated primary colors to a soft range of light corals, sea foams, baby blues, pale yellows and pinks. Some tones lean toward a more shimmery, nacreous vibe that melds well…

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Apr 16

Casamania 2014 Highlights: Steel, leather and glow-in-the-dark wood from the Italian furnishing brand, as seen during Milan Design Week

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Casamania 2014 Highlights


Italy’s Casamania really understands the value of presenting a comprehensive brand aesthetic across all avenues—including products and media. We recently saw the latest collection of handsome home furnishings at Salone del Mobile during Milan Design…

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Apr 16

Simon Legald of Normann Copenhagen: Our brief chat with the young Dane about his methods for designing on a diverse scale

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Simon Legald of Normann Copenhagen


Each year during Milan Design Week we look forward to checking in on brands whose work we continuously admire. Normann Copenhagen is always an inspiring stop, and during our visit to Salone del Mobile in 2013, newcomer ,…

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Apr 15

Milan Design Week 2014: Six Colorful Sofas : Vibrantly hued settees poking out from the mass of furniture found at this year’s fair

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Milan Design Week 2014: Six Colorful Sofas


Delicate, subtly hued earth tones pervaded seemingly every facet of design in almost every pocket of Milan last week. But the Salone Internazionale del Mobile and its numerous offshoots weren’t wholly packed with rich pastels and copper-congruent colors; like Americans’ favorite (and impossible to find in Italy) gelato topping, bright…

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Apr 15

Something Good: A look at how one young studio views the future of Italian design, as seen during Milan Design Week 2014

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Something Good


While the “Made in Italy” moniker may not mean quite what it used to, Italian design is still alive and well. And, thanks to forward-thinking design groups like Something Good, it’s becoming more responsive to reoccurring…

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Apr 14

Interview: Marc Newson: The acclaimed Australian designer on his collaboration with Safilo and how all design is problem-solving

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Interview: Marc Newson


Recently, we reported on the launch of a new collaboration between Safilo and acclaimed Australian designer Marc Newson, meant to celebrate 80 years of activity for the historic Italian eyewear…

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Apr 11

TOG: All Creators Together: A simple, yet innovative approach to home decor, customization and great design

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TOG: All Creators Together


The dream of many a design enterprise—the best designers, meaningful materials, Italian production, a community of fans, reinterpretations made by artists—TOG is all of this, and more. “All creators together” is the idea behind this new design…

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Apr 09

ROOM Collection : A modular storage system by designers Erik Olovsson and Kyuhyung Cho

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ROOM Collection


By taking an unconventional approach to the relationship between object and space within the typical home environment, designers Erik Olovsson and Kyuhyung Cho…

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Apr 09

Moroso Banjooli Collection: Brightly colored furnishings made with fishnet and inspired by ostrich mating dances

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Moroso Banjooli Collection


While the latest in material tech is sure to generate buzz for your brand, sometimes taking a step back and looking to nature will work wonders for inspiring new designs. Italy’s Moroso did just this with…

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Apr 09

ECAL: Delirious Home: A playful look at our relationship with electronics in a modern dwelling

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ECAL: Delirious Home


As one of the world’s top design universities, it comes as no surprise that the Industrial Design and Media and Interaction Design students from Lausanne’s ECAL would wow the crowd in Milan with their creative prowess. But their group exhibition, aptly entitled “Continue Reading…

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