Developed with design studio SBGA Blengini Ghirardelli, the Project Wood collection delivers the warming effect of natural wood along with the durability and performance qualities of porcelain stoneware.
The Project Wood collection is suitable for both indoors and outdoors
The tiles are etched with a delicate wood grain texture that recreates the tactile quality of wood, and are available in five natural-looking medium-brown shades.
The Project Wood collection is available in two formats – one for indoor use with a natural or grip finish, and one thicker tile for outdoor use with an anti-slip finish.
The tiles have a grain-effect texture
The outdoor version makes a good choice for balconies, terraces, verandas or poolsides, and it can also be applied directly to turf, gravel or sand to create walkways.
The two formats of tile can be used together to create seamless indoor-outdoor spaces, and are equally suited to homes, public spaces and contract projects.
Material: porcelain stoneware Colours/finishes: Mesola, Migliarino, Paneveggio, Pollino, Quarto Dimensions: 200 x 1200 x 9 millimetres (indoor), 40 x 120 x 20 millimetres (outdoor)
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Kick Scooters are all the trend these days! They are easy to ride, compact, and also pretty approachable! Weaving through traffic is super easy with them, letting you finally bid adieu to traffic jams. And since they’re usually electric, then you’re also automatically cutting down on fossil-fuel consumption, and being a major support to planet Earth, if you choose to ride them. In an ode to scooters and their immense functionality, we’ve curated a collection of innovative and nifty scooter designs that seem to be slowly taking over the automotive industry.
1. Electric Stand Bike
Named the Electric Stand Bike, this unique design is a personal commuter that is an excellent fit for the city skirts, as well as the outskirts. You can ride about in complete style, without adversely impacting the environment. It is an electric-powered machine with big front wheels and a single rear one to offer maximum control. The front wheels are much larger than the rear wheel – almost triple the size. The rear wheel has its independent dual suspension system which handles bumps with ease.
2. Electric Mobility Bicycle
Designed by YU ID, this electric bicycle has Cake bike-inspired aesthetics, and it takes personal commuting to a whole new level. Since it is a modular ride, it becomes an excellent fit for different kinds of users. You can use the bicycle as a scooter, a Cake bike, or an electric ride. It is inspired by everyday gadgets, and it has a unique sleek form that does not compromise on its robust aesthetics in the least.
3. City Wander’s Foldable Kick Scooter
City Wander designed an old-fashioned scooter with four wheels, instead of the typical two. It is quite easy to drive and doesn’t require much training to operate it. It is designed to be portable, and space-efficient, and you can easily fold it down, and pull it along like a flattened scooter. It also features a nifty storage compartment to hold your stuff in the front. But you need to keep in mind that it holds something before you fold the handle down.
4. Popup Scooter
Meet the Popup Scooter – a two-wheeled electric bicycle that can be transformed into a kick scooter, or the other way round! The transformative design allows the rider to pick a configuration that suits his or her riding needs. The cycle is equipped with a hydraulic cylinder that allows it to move smoothly and swiftly. The mechanism can lift an adult person, so lifting and lowering the rider’s body shouldn’t be an issue at all.
5. Avci’s Scooter Concept
Designed by Fatih Avic, this e-scooter concept is intended for city residents and features a swivel front wheel, smartphone holder, and a handy space to store your belongings. It has a lightweight design and slim nature which makes it a fast and convenient choice. The swivel front wheel and hook for storing items like groceries make it an innovative and refreshing automotive design. It also has an area to hold your smartphone, letting you easily follow GPS.
6. Zipper Electric Scooter
Say hello to the Zipper electric scooter – which is easy, efficient, and convenient to ride. When not in use, you can fold the scooter down, and store it away. It has a 500W motor which can take it up to a top speed of 20 mph, and can even push it up inclined roads with a 25-degree slope. The scooter can support riders weighing up to 125 kg, so it can hold most people. It has a maximum range of 16 miles on a single charge, which powers up the 10Ah battery for four hours.
7. Supersonic Kick Scooter
Dubbed the Supersonic Kick-Scooter, this unique-looking kickscooter features an organic plant-inspired structure. It can haul an adult weight of 110kg with ease and without any fuss. Aluminum was used in the openwork construction of the scooter, keeping the weight down. It is a three-wheeled contraption that can be folded down when not in use, or when you need to put it away. You just need to push the lever by the side of the front wheels.
8. e-Tron Scooter
Inspired by Audi, Daekwang Kim designed the e-Tron scooter. The e-scooter features the cool metallic finish we typically see in Audi models, partnered up with a smooth glacier-gray coating for the scooter’s exterior deck and bar. The deck has a black, non-slip, rubber-treaded grip which ensures that your feet are firmly planted at all times. The accelerating buttons are located on the handlebar, with a smooth silicone grip to provide steady balance.
9. Mjotim
Designed by Yifeeling Design Lab, the Mjotim is a unique scooter to meet the technological standards of today, while drawing inspiration from the charm and beauty of the earlier forms of motorized scooters. Mjotim has the typical form and structure of a scooter, and it is meant to be ridden while standing up. The motor is encased inside, and the gear information is outside the steering column. It is equipped with two handlebars for steering.
10. Smacircle
The Smacircle scooter is designed to address the “last kilometer” problem of crowded cities. The scooter is designed to cover the distance between the subway stop, and your destination. Usually, there is a one or two-kilometer distance between your destination and each subway stop, and Smacircle helps you commute through that distance. You can fold down the scooter when you’re in the subway, and then unfold it and zoom out once you’ve reached your subway stop.
It may have been criticized for flooding the mobile phone market with dozens of confusing designs, but Nokia’s seemingly eccentric designs sometimes hit the right marks when it comes to uniqueness, aesthetics, or usability. From the XpressMusic to the N-Gage to the Communicator, there are times when those designs felt far ahead of their time, which didn’t do their sales any favors. There has been a great deal of interest in revisiting these designs, most of which, however, only make sense for non-smart feature phones like the ones HMD is offering. One particular design, however, might find a place in this modern world that’s obsessed with taking photos and recording videos, especially if it gets a little Nothing-inspired facelift.
Designer: Viet Doan Duc
Flip phones or clamshell designs are nothing new, even if the recent generation of foldable phones has given birth to their renaissance. The Nokia N90, however, did more than just open up in a stylish way to reveal a bigger screen and a large T9 keypad inside. It could also twist its top half so that you could hold it like a camcorder and feel more like a proper content creator. That was 20 years ago, even before the word “influencer” or even “YouTube” came to light. Now smartphones are pretty much pocketable cameras, and this concept design tries to give the Nokia N90 a second chance, with a bit of a twist.
The Nokia N90 design is obviously outdated by today’s standards, so this revision borrows some inspiration from Nothing’s now iconic translucent glass design. The concept focuses on three main concepts: mechanical precision, the spirit of exploration, and minimalist language. The mechanical aspect can be clearly seen from the smartphone’s industrial appearance, revealing details of precision circuity and clear edges. At the same time, however, it still manages to embrace minimalism by keeping the details down to the essentials, eschewing the noisy details that pervaded Nokia’s design language.
The Nokia N90 x Nothing concept is clearly a design that encourages exploration and creativity with its core design gimmick, turning the upper half around for a more immersive photography experience. Not only does it try to convey the feeling of using a camcorder, it also makes some difficult angles more feasible because of the degree of freedom the mechanism offers.
On the technical side, the dreams of some of the best hardware features that the mobile industry has to offer, and not just with the camera that’s installed on the phone’s hinge rather than its back. The physical keypad, for example, is replaced by an E Ink display that combines customizability and power efficiency, while a touch-sensitive D-Pad above it offers more precise control. All these, however, make the Nokia N90 x Nothing even more of a pipe dream, but the design itself is something that could definitely spark interest, and hopefully sales, among today’s generation of design-conscious creators.
Dutch architecture studio Cloud and designer Sabine Marcelis have created scenography for a lounge promoting the design and culture of AlUla, Saudi Arabia, during Milan design week.
Located within a library in Milan’s Brera neighbourhood, the lounge’s main space has a massive seating area with a table at its centre created by French design studio Hall Haus. The studio also created ambient sounds that play constantly from speakers that were covered in fabric to blend into the earthy hues of the space.
Cloud and designer Sabine Marcelis have created the scenography for the AlUla design space in Milan
Marcelis and life partner Paul Cournet, who runs architecture studio Cloud, topped the space with a massive overhead cylinder with a soft light that occasionally changes colour.
The form of the light was chosen to mimic those found in AlUla, which face downward to limit light pollution in the area, according to Marcelis.
It includes furniture made in residency at AlUla
Alongside the sofa are a series of sculptural chairs by French designer Leo Orta and lamps by India-based Studio Raw Material, all of which were created during a design residency held at AlUla.
“We’ve tried to transform this space into something that does justice to the [residency] projects but also gives you a feeling of what AlUla is like,” Marcelis told Dezeen.
“What’s nice for the designers in residency was that they got into the local culture.”
Also included in the space was a massive steel screen created by Bahraini design studio Bahraini Danish. Outside, in the entry courtyard, Saudi Arabian designer Leen Ajlan created a series of wooden platforms with benches, based on the set-up of Saudi folk games.
At the back of the space was a selection of collectible design pieces, curated by Samer Yamani. Each piece utilised materials taken directly from AlUla, such as a couch dyed with local pigments and a lamp created with stacked and embroidered water pouches designed by Zahrah Alghamdi.
Samer Yamani curated a selection of pieces made with local materials from AlUla
Also in the curatorial section were planters made of 3D-printed bioplastics created with materials from fruit husks and designed by TechnoCrafts.
In the surrounding rooms leading off from the main lounge, tables with the raw materials used to created the pieces were displayed to shown as were infographics relating the material with the history of AlUla.
AlUla is a city in the Medina Province of Saudi Arabia, which is located near a series of rock dwellings and tombs that are a UNESCO World Heritage Site. Earlier this year the Design Space AlUla gallery opened in the city with an opening exhibition that presented 10 recent projects from the region.
The photography is courtesy of Design Space AlUla 2024.
Design Space AlUla is open from 15 to 21 April at Mediateca Santa Teresa during Milan design week. See our Milan design week 2024 guide on Dezeen Events Guide for information about the many other exhibitions, installations and talks taking place throughout the week.
Architecture studio MD41 has completed a gymnasium for a school in Merate, Italy, housed in a cubic volume clad in textured concrete panels.
Replacing a former gymnasium on the same site, the building slots in between the school to the north and a sprawling brick piazza to the south created by local studio Archea Associati in 2010.
These existing elements, as well as heritage protections in the area, left a small and constrained site that MD41 sought to optimise with a clear and “rational” building.
MD41 has created a cuboid gymnasium for a school in Italy
“The resulting rational volume has allowed it to fit perfectly into the area and to optimise the construction system, dedicating the highest volume part to the playing field with its stands, and the lower part to other functions,” the studio told Dezeen.
“[It is] intended to be a landmark for the school complex, appearing as a pure and extremely simple volume, where sports areas and closed functions are located and clearly defined.”
The building houses an indoor sports court with bathrooms and changing areas along its northern edge, open for use by both the school and the surrounding community.
The building is located between the school and a brick piazza
To connect the building with the surrounding landscape, its ground floor is wrapped by large windows that overlook an adjacent outdoor basketball court and exercise park.
Above, MD41 clad the building in concrete panels with a horizontal, ribbed texture, chosen to complement the pink-brown shades of the piazza’s brickwork and weathered steel accents.
“From the stands, the park thus becomes the backdrop for the sports scene, visually dilating the interior space and creating a strong relationship with the surrounding landscape,” it added.
Contrasting this grey exterior, the inside of the gym has been finished with a datum of bright yellow across the ground floor level. This matches the height of the windows to help reflect sunlight throughout the interior.
Windows in the gymnasium overlook a basketball court
The Insulator lighting collection comprises pendant and table lamps as well as sconce lights, which share similar ribbed motifs and distinctive polished hardware.
The fittings are made from brass and glass
“Our founder Richy took inspiration from endless train journeys along Britain’s East Coast mainline between Newcastle and London, by the rhythmic lattice of the overhead power lines, and by the intriguing saucer-like pin insulators which adorn them,” said Novocastrian.
Each piece is built using elements made from pressed glass and solid brass, which are machined in the company’s workshop in the North East of England.
Wall, table and pendant lights make up the collection
The lights can be fitted with either North American or European wiring and custom finishes are possible upon request.
Material: brass, pressed glass Colours/finishes: polished or dark waxed brass Dimensions: width in millimetres x depth in millimetres x height in millimetres
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Called a “force of nature” in her citation, Lokko is listed in the pioneers section of the list, while Tabassum, who is described as an architect who “cares for her creations”, is included in the innovators section.
“Her extraordinary trajectory eviscerates the old world”
In DuVernay’s citation, she drew attention to the impact that Lokko was having on the architecture world.
“Her extraordinary trajectory eviscerates the old world that had maintained a dominant perspective in architecture – one that she calls ‘a singular, exclusive voice, whose reach and power ignores huge swathes of humanity… as though we have been listening and speaking in one tongue only’,” wrote DuVernay.
“Now, we hear hers. Lesley creates new landscapes to reimagine access and impact and vision and vibrant futures,” she continued. “Her presence in the world of architecture is the very foundation upon which fresh perspectives and passions will flourish. She is indeed a force of nature. A force for change. A force for good.”
“Altruism isn’t typically a term attributed to award-winning architects – a profession where signature has become a common adjective – but Marina Tabassum isn’t typical,” wrote Harvard Graduate School of Design dean Sarah Whiting in her citation.
“She has developed a practice and a way of being that prioritizes local cultures and values, as well as the perils faced by our shared planet.”
“She has developed houses that are cost-effective and easy to move – clearly, buildings shouldn’t just breathe; they should avoid getting their feet wet,” wrote Whiting. “While she practices very locally, she teaches, lectures, and is recognized internationally, modeling architecture not as an individual signature but as a collective Esperanto.”
A triangular house in a former garage by studio Brown Urbanism is also on the shortlist, alongside an extension by Cairn that is the first structure in the UK to be built from a low-carbon cement called LC3.
It is the fourteenth edition of the annual awards programme, hosted by New London Architecture (NLA), which aims to celebrate “the diversity of homes across the capital” – specifically those that have been renovated or extended.
Cairn made the 2024 shortlist for this extension made of low-carbon cement. Photo by James Retief
NLA’s head of content Federico Ortiz hopes that the 2024 shortlist will become a useful resource for people in the city looking to improve their homes.
“The shortlist for Don’t Move, Improve! 2024 is an extraordinary showcase of innovation and creativity, offering a unique resource for Londoners who want to reimagine their living spaces and keep calling their neighbourhoods home,” said Ortiz.
Other extensions up for the prize include one in Stoke Newington by VATRAA and the Perforated House by Novak Hiles Architects in Wandsworth, which is named after its perforated brickwork.
The projects were shortlisted from over 150 entries by a jury made up of urban design manager at London Borough of Camden Ed Jarvis, architecture director of Wallpaper* magazine Ellie Stathaki, David Kohn Architects associate Jennifer Dyne and Hilson Moran sustainability director Marie-Louise Schembri.
Mike Tuck Studio made the shortlist for Hillside House. Photo by Luca Piffaretti
The jury highlighted the standout trends for 2024 as the use of sustainable materials, bold colour palettes and cost-efficient solutions.
This year’s overall winner will be revealed at a ceremony on 14 May at The London Centre, alongside other prizes including the People’s Choice Award, which is now open for voting.
Named 8 minutes and 20 seconds in reference to the amount of time it takes sunlight to reach the earth, the installation features a full-size silhouette of the brand’s Future Zero-Emission Catalyst concept car made using sheets of organic photovoltaics that rely on sunlight to function.
The installation is showcased in the garden at Superstudio
“In my ideal future, the future is solar-powered,” Marjan van Aubel told Dezeen.
“Where we can generate energy on the location where we need it in a beautiful way, not only aesthetically, but also done in a way that’s thinking about [a] materials impact on our world,” she continued.
“Design week is about showing new things, working with colours and giving this optimistic hope [and] joyful experience.”
A true-to-size silhouette of the Lexus concept car centres the installation
Exhibited in a range of colours, the silhouette of the concept car centres the installation and is composed of a steel structure within which the panels were held – each depicting a different “slice” of the car.
The structure was raised on a platform finished with mirrored acrylic that nods to Lexus’ future use of this technology, and is imbedded with motion sensors that trigger sounds when approached by visitors.
Among the new additions to the installation are four sculptural trees that surround the car and are similarly made using steel and acrylic panels.
The steel structure is raised by a platform imbedded with motion sensors
Situated behind the car, an “interactive sun” – made up of 16 of Van Aubel’s Sunne lamps arranged in a circle – is hosted within a white box with a circular entrance. Inside, a sensor triggers the lamps to change colour when a visitor touches it.
Reprised from Van Aubel’s Solar Biennale, a circular sculptural seating area was also placed within the installation and is finished with mirrored acrylic.
Following its showcase in Milan, the travelling installation will likely be exhibited at another location, although it is not yet known where.
Additionally, the artwork has been designed for disassembly and will be recycled at the end of its lifecycle.
16 lamps are arranged in a circle to form an ‘interactive sun’
“[Recycling] is a very important part of the way I work and design,” said Van Aubel.
“What’s nice with the solar panels [is that] they are not made of toxic materials, or glued together,” she continued. “Even the solar cells can be taken apart and can be reused and recycled.”
The space features a circular seating area finished with mirrored acrylic
8 minutes and 20 seconds is open from 15 to 21 April at Superstudio during Milan design week. See our Milan design week 2024 guide on Dezeen Events Guide for information about the many other exhibitions, installations and talks taking place throughout the week.
The Dezeen team are reporting live from Milan Design Week (15-19 April). Read on for all the coverage from the fourth day (Thursday 18 April) – and follow the live feed for today’s activity!
5:30pm Dezeen co-ceo Ben Hobson reports from a talk that has just taken place in the middle of Dutch brand Moooi‘s Living Room exhibition at Salone Dei Tessuti.
This is Dezeen’s last talk of Milan design week, which means that you’ll be much more likely to see Max – who has been moderating all week – out at Bar Basso tonight! Saluti!
Image by Ben Hobson
5:15pm Luggage brand Rimowa has collaborated with coffee maker La Marzocco on the Linea Mini espresso machine.
Rimowa and La Marzocco have collaborated on a mini espresso machine
To launch the collaboration they have been hosting the Caffe Rimowa all week during Milan design week.
As day four begins to wind up before this evening’s festivities, we’ll need all the caffeine we can get to make it through – happy for it also to be in the form of espresso martinis.
The brands have launched the new product at a pop-up Caffe Rimowa
The Linea Mini is made in La Marzocco‘s factory in Florence and the signature Rimowa grooved panels that can be found on their luggage and clad the coffee machine were made in Rimowa’s Cologne factory, before the two are assembled by hand.
Jennifer Hahn took home one of those little chocolates, which they have custom printed for the collab
“If you think about [a cave], you relate to the light from outside to little openings,” Kéré said.
“This is what brought us to think about using these logs and let gaps in between so that light can come through. That was [going to] create a warm place; a welcoming place.”
Francis Kéré arranges spruce log pavilion around communal kitchen in Milan
4:00pm Dezeen’s Jane Englefield is still in Milan‘s Isola district, where designers from the MENA region are showing at the Routes to Roots exhibition.
A mini, folded aluminium “pavilion” was construed as “a contemporary interpretation of Islamic architecture”
A handful of the designers took cues from various local architecture and materials when creating their pieces.
Saudi Arabian practitioners Abdulqader ALsuwaidan, Hayat Almousa, Lama Dardas and Nawaf Alghamdi collaborated to create a mini, folded aluminium “pavilion” as “a contemporary interpretation of Islamic architecture”.
Manahel Al Qassem has designed handbags from biodegradable materials
Shell Homage made disc lights out of egg and nut shells
Egyptian collective Shell Homage created disc-shaped lighting out of biogradable materials made from egg and nut shells.
3:30pm Around the Table is an installation by Spanish design studio Masquespacio, writes Dezeen and interiors reporter Jane Englefield.
Masquespacio’s simple but effective installation transforms as day turns to night
Curated for Isola Studio, the table setting and tableware pieces were designed to transform the venue into a private space for dinner experiences at night.
The Spanish design studio created all the tableware. Images Jane Englefield
3:00pm British studio Foster + Partners has unveiled its latest chair design for German furniture brand Walter Knoll, the seventh in their ongoing collaboration.
Osuu chairs are a collaboration between Foster + Partners and Walter Knoll
The chair’s front legs, arms and supportive upper backrest are made from solid steam bent dowels.
The Osuu chair comes with removable leather seat covers
The molded plywood seat rests on timber cross rails, gently curving over the top of the backrest and downwards towards the floor.
The chairs are made from bentwood and plywood
Called Osuu, the streamlined which chair features removable leather seat covers, was showcased in Walter Knoll’s spacious Brera showroom – Cajsa Carlson
The chairs are available in a range of wood colours. Images by Cajsa Carlson
2:45pm At the Issey Miyake store, innovative usage of everyday object animates an installation, called Fold and Crease, by the Dutch art collective We Make Carpets.
The “blankets” are made from everyday wooden skewers
Dezeen’s Clara Finnigan reports from the store, where coloured wooden skewers and pins stuck into foam sheets give the impression of cascading, crafted “blankets”.
2:30pm Georgian studio Rooms Studio has created a series of six sculptural beds for an exhibition at Italian arts school SIAM on Via Santa Marta, in the 5vie district.
Rooms Studio’s beds with exhaust pipes
One of the beds includes a metallic mattress and has exhaust pipes on the bottom, perfect for getting a few Z’s while going at the fast pace of Milan design week – Ben Dreith
Six sculptural beds are on show at SIAM in 5vie. Images by Ben Dreith
2:00pm Dezeen’s social editor Clara Finnigan has been to see skincare brand Aesop‘s first partnership with Salone del Mobile.
One of four Aesop spaces is in Piazza Cordusio
They are hosting four activations across the city. At the Piazza Cordusio, the space is clad in tiles made from soap.
The walls are clad in tiles made from Aesop soap. Images by Clara Finnigan
1:15pm Play a game of chair or dog with us from Baranzate Ateliers!
Image by Jane Englefield
Besides the chainmail (see 11:15am entry below), 7,000 square metres of collectible design is on display at the second edition of Baranzate Ateliers presented by Zaventem Ateliers.
Belgian-based Zaventem Ateliers showcases work from “industrial wastelands” in European cities.
Founded in 2019 at an ex-industrial warehouse in the village of Zaventem, near Brussels, Zaventem Ateliers is now home to 21 emerging and established creators “united by their passion for producing and processing materials”.
12:30pm Dry ice, smoke machines, steam – all three have been notably deployed across Milan design week installations to add atmosphere and, arguably, to help soften the edges of newly fabricated installs that can otherwise land in ancient Milanese courtyards with stark contrast.
The glass panels used in Lasvit’s installation were created in Europe’s largest glass kiln
Inherently hard to capture on film, the Dezeen team have seen steam rising from around Samuel Ross‘s toilet for Kohler, smoke machines concealing and revealing the Lasvit installation, and in traditional MAD Architects fashion, billowing clouds of smoke animate their Amazing Walk installation with Amazon.
MAD Architect’s Ma Yansong can just be seen through the smoke, as he stands in his Amazing Walk installation
Showing for the seventh time in Milan, MAD’s huge Amazing Walk installation has taken over the Cortile della Farmacia courtyard of the University of Milan for the week.
For the eagle-eyed, steam rises gently from the base of Samuel Ross’s toilet for Kohler
11:30am At the Acquasanta installation by AATC and Co, part of the Design Variations exhibition at Milan design week, brands showed limited-edition collectible designs made from “200-million-years-old” marble from the historic Breccia Medicea dell’Acquasanta quarry.
Designers were asked to showcase the multiple layers of the stone
AATC and Co art director Umberto Gabriele told Dezeen’s deputy editor Cajsa Carlson that the brand gave designers a three-part brief: to use a very old material but give it a contemporary vision, to create designs that showcase the multiple layers of the stone, and to think of sustainability by using specific cuts of stone that might otherwise have gone to waste.
Designers’ contemporary vision saw marble and metal combined
Among the pieces was design studio Etamorph‘s curvy pink stool, which showcases the stratification of the marble in the mountain.
The Acquasanta installation by AATC and Co is part of the Design Variations exhibition
“It tries to interpret the layers in a way that explores it with geometry, the curves and layers of stone, because this is very sexy,” Etamorph design director Enrico Tognoni told Dezeen.
“This stone might be two million years old – because the entire quarry is 200 million old – it gives us an idea of how small we are.”
Baranzate Ateliers presents the work of 35 studiosSeveral designers presented chainmail piecesDezeen’s Jane Englefield captures Niels Raoul Boone chainmail chair. Images by Jennifer Hahn
10:30am At Super Club in Tortona last night, Dezeen co-hosted an America night party with North American design platform ICFF and others. Dezeen co-ceo Wai Shin Li and US editor Ben Dreith were both in attendance.
The America Night party took place at Super Club in Tortona
10:00am Dezeen’s Jennifer Hahn has also been to see DesignSingapore Council’s return to Milan design week with Future Impact 2, an exhibition looking at material innovation “to create a more sustainable future”.
From designer Gabriel Tan, lamps with 3D-printed skeletons feature shades hand-woven from translucent fishing line, which showcase how tech and craft can collaborate – rather than one supplanting the other.
Lamps feature shades woven from fishing line
A mono material chair by David Lee – made from a single sheet of aluminium so it can be easily recycled once the water-based paint is stripped away – was informed by the shape of the PlayStation logo.
David Lee’s aluminium furniture was inspired by the Playstation logo
Genevieve Ang and Interactive Materials Lab exhibited heat-transmitting ceramics.
Elsewhere, a stool by Christian+Jade was made with a seat of natural rubber derived from the Rubber tree, and a base made of wood from the same tree, which is normally incinerated once the tree no longer produces rubber.
Christian+Jade’s stool used wood and batural rubber derived from the Rubber tree
9:00am Good morning! Kicking off day four at Milan design week with one of the Dezeen team’s favourite projects so far.
The École cantonale d’art de Lausanne (ECAL) is exhibiting cellulose-sponge furniture designed by product design master’s students, to be shipped in the form of flat sheets and expanded at home by wetting them in the shower.
École cantonale d’art de Lausanne presents Under Pressure Solutions at Spazio Orso 16 in Milan
The show at Spazio Orso 16, which is titled UPS – Under Pressure Solutions, is an experimental research project led by five industrial designers teaching at ECAL.
The cellulose-sponge furniture is shipped in flat sheets before being expanded at home with water
The biodegradable material can expand to up to ten times its size and, once dried, can hold even heavy loads – as kindly demonstrated by ECAL graduate Maxwell Ashford.
Once wetted and dried the material can hold heavy loads. Imagery is by Jennifer Hahn
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