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Jasper Morrison’s “Lightwood” Chair

As we mentioned in our preview, super normal designers Naoto Fukasawa and Jasper Morrison teamed up with Japanese heritage line, Maruni Wood Industry for this season’s collection of beautifully crafted wood furniture. Morrison’s “Lightwood” chair was shown with two different seats—a woven fabric and a solid canvas. Fukasawa, Maruni’s Art Director, included new versions of pieces from the minimalist Hiroshima line, chairs and a table, in natural wood and upholstered with Flanno, a Danish-woven fabric.

Pieces from Naoto Fukasawa’s Hiroshima Collection.

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This year Estd, the in-house, more affordable label that Established and Sons launched last year, adds a series of tabletop goods with platonic forms and geometric foundations. Above, different size pitchers are created by intersecting a pewter cone with its sliced off nose (another cone). The product, entitled “Pour,” takes inspiration from a traditional type of jug where the funnel is connected to the main body. The precisely hand-crafted pourers come in 1/2 pint, 1 pint and 750 milliliter sizes, for wine, milk or water.

“Takeaway,” pictured here, is a container for one’s small things, folded from sheet metal in the form of a fast food container, “highlighting that even the simplest seeming object can be captivating in the right circumstances.”

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This just in from Milan: Moleskine has just unveiled Reading, Writing and Traveling, a new line of stationery and bags, designed by Italian designer Giulio Iacchetti.

The new collection, which marks an exciting new direction for Moleskine, was part of our Milan Preview a month ago:

Moleskine introduces three new collections dedicated to Writing, Traveling, and Reading. They include bags, pens, pencils, reading glasses, cases, reading stands and USB rechargeable booklights. They will join the existing collections of legendary Moleskine notebooks and planners as a complete set of tools for cultural pleasure and mobile living.

Moscardino

As for the designer himself, Iacchetti is perhaps best known for “Moscardino,” above, a biodegradable two-way utensil, which garnered one of the highest accolades in design a decade ago, when it became part of MoMA’s permanent collection.

Read on for the full details, more product photos and an exclusive Q&A with Iacchetti…

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Up above is “Bespoken Dresses for Old Chairs,” a piece by fabric-loving Frederick Farg that we spotted at Milan in ’09. Farg will be back for Milan 2011 with his Succession Collection, below, a series of stools and shelves where it seems the upholstery has somehow spontaneously spread from the seating surfaces to the storage units.

Three of the Succession pieces will be on display at Milan’s Superstudio Piu, but if you want to see more you’ll have to wait for New York’s ICFF in May; says Farg’s website, “The hole [sic] collection will be shown at RH-Gallery during ICFF.” That’s either a typo or Farg’s nickname for these….

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Just as Creativeans have hand-picked the best of Singaporean design at the 50th anniversary of the Milan furniture fair, curator Cédric Morisset presents Nouvelle Vague (New Wave), “the new French domestic landscape.”

Some of the work by the likes of A+A Cooren, Ionna Vautrin, Pierre Favresse and Pool—in particular, the “Souviens Toi Que Tu Vas Mourir” (remember that you will die) chair by the latter, above, has been making blog rounds—has already been getting some press. Here, we preview some of the work by the fifth and final participant in Nouvelle Vague, Studio NOCC.

The “Elements” Shelving system incorporates an innovative construction method: stackable vertical pieces—fabricated with “special laser-cut folding system”—will accommodate any standard 18mm wooden boards for the shelves.

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