The design features thin wooden legs, which appear to rest against the sides of the seats.
Longer elements hold the back rests and optional integrated side tables, in a range of heights and sizes.
“The legs that appear to have little to do with the frame are actually the pillars that can be anchored to it and grouped in multiple compositions,” said a statement from Moroso.
Standard two and three-seater sofas can be combined into different arrangements.
Flat and corner back cushions can be added or removed to encompass or separate sections.
A single exaggerated seam runs around the edges of the upright cushions, which are upholstered in wool jersey along with the seats.
The sofas are available in a range of colours with matching throw cushions.
La marque de design Tcherassi Vilató, basée à Barcelone, a récemment sorti sa lampe « Optimus », suspendue au plafond et faite de tubes métalliques. Un objet esthétique par sa forme mais aussi responsable puisqu’elle fonctionne avec des ampoules LED pour réduire l’énergie consommée. A découvrir dans la suite.
Milan 2014: design duo Formafantasma is presenting a collection of engraved drinking glasses that form new patterns when stacked together, at an exhibition curated by Rossana Orlandi in Milan
Commissioned by the MAK Museum in Vienna and produced by Austrian brand J.& L. Lobmeyr, the Alphabet collection of glasses and a carafe by Formafantasma are engraved with twelve different patterns.
The etchings reference motifs found in both J.& L. Lobmeyr’s archive and at the Geymüllerschlössel castle, in which the museum is housed.
Placed upside-down on the table one inside another, any two engraved patterns will combine to form a new pattern.
Delicate gold lines on each glass suggest the correct alignment. The bigger glass protects the smaller one like a crystal dome used to cover a still life composition.
“The design highlights the pleasure of diversity within a set of objects while revisiting the rules of table setting,” said Formafantasma.
The pieces were originally created for a site-specific installation called The Stranger Within for the Dining Room of Geymüllerschlössel.
They will be shown at the Rossana Orlandi-curated Bagatti Valsecchi exhibition, Via Gesù 5, in Milan from 8 to 13 April.
Milan 2014: Venetian designer Luca Nichetto has reimagined a traditional Tyrolean chair for his latest collaboration with Casamania, debuting in Milan this week.
Luca Nichetto‘s La-Dina is a contemporary reinterpretation of traditional wooden chairs from the Dolomite mountain range in west Austria and north-east Italy.
Its name is a pun on Ladin – Ladina in Italian – the language spoken by the people who once built their settlements in the region.
Luca Nichetto has simplified the form, using rounded lines and including a small upside-down triangular hole that punctures the back rest.
The legs are fixed into the solid wood of the seat, which in turn is secured to the backrest using a clamping wedge.
La-Dina is made from ash wood and is available in a range of colours.
The design marks Casamania‘s 30th anniversary and the 10th anniversary of its collaboration with Nichetto.
La marque anglaise Lulu & Co vient de sortir sa nouvelle collection de prêt-à-porter Automne/Hiver 2014-2015 incluant 7 pièces qui ont été produites par le designer et artiste Chad Wys. Pour les visuels des pulls et robes, l’artiste a re-actualisé des peintures classiques avec des couleurs vives qui ajoutent une dimension abstraite.
Milan 2014: Dutch designer Hella Jongerius is launching her first range of rugs as the newly appointed design director for Dutch firm Danskina (+ movie).
Duotone rug by Hella Jongerius
Showing at the Salone Internazionale del Mobile in Milan, the collection includes six designs, four of which are by Jongerius. Her designs are called Bold, Cork&Felt, Duotone and Multitone.
Duotone swatches by Hella Jongerius
“A rug is a two-dimensional product,” Jongerius said. “There is no construction needed, just an expression of yarn and colour. A Danskina rug has clear colour concepts, the colour and texture on the floor is very important in giving a space a certain atmosphere.”
Multitone rug by Hella Jongerius
Each design is created using a different mix of techniques, materials and colours. According to senior designer at Danskina, Edith van Berkel, Duotone took the longest to design. “We worked on this fabric for a longer time. We thought it was interesting to make a nice balance of colours. It was made with a flat woven carpet warp in one colour and weft in the other so that the design appears in squares.”
Multitone rug by Hella Jongerius
In contrast, the hand woven Bold design is created by using just one piece of wool yarn that is dyed in two different colours. This makes the two block colours in the rug appear to grip one another.
Bold rug by Hella Jongerius
The Cork&Felt design is the only unwoven design, instead made of assembled strips of cork and felt. The strips appear randomly in the design making each rug unique.
Bold swatch by Hella Jongerius
The Multitone rug started out as a colour blanket to see how colours mixed and was not supposed to be in the collection at all. “We thought the colours worked so well that it deserved a place in our collection,” said van Berkel.
Lucky swatch by Karin An Rijlaarsdam
The other pieces in the collection are two hand-knotted designs by Dutch designer Karin An Rijlaarsdam.
East swatch by Karin An Rijlaarsdam
The rugs will be on show in Pavilion 16, stand D20 at the Salone Internazionale del Mobile, Milan until 13 April.
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News: the proliferation of computer renderings and prototypes on sites like Dezeen is making real products “look extremely boring,” according to Dutch designer Marcel Wanders.
Furniture brands are struggling to make their products appear interesting in comparison to online fantasies, said Wanders in an exclusive interview with Dezeen.
“You are so able to present every crazy idea as if it is reality, the whole universe of communication is so strong,” said Wanders. “But now it’s difficult for a company to be anywhere interesting in a world that is so dominated by prototypes and great and bright ideas.”
“The Dezeens of this world are extremely inspirational, but have no realistic dimension any more,” he added.
Wanders was speaking to Dezeen in Milan at the launch of the latest collection by Moooi, the furniture and lighting brand he co-founded in 2001 with Casper Vissers.
Moooi has grown rapidly by recruiting a roster of international designers to create unusual products that sit alongside new work by Wanders, who was one of a generation of Dutch creatives nurtured by conceptual design company Droog.
“It’s funny that in the 1990s Droog was doing all this wonderful work,” Wanders said. “It was interesting that we kind of invented something which I call today ‘virtual design’. We started making prototypes as if they were real, we communicated them in Milano as if you could buy them. That was at the same time a kind of communication being invented as a mass medium.”
Today, designers are able to get international attention for products that are not ready for market and in many cases don’t even exist as prototypes, Wanders said.
“Now I think it is so big, this virtual design, the prototypes are so important in the world of design and the alternative ideas are so important,” he said.
“Now you go on Dezeen and you go through the pages and you find a company like Cassina and oh my God, I mean it’s not even their fault, how could they be interesting between all these bright and virtual ideas which nobody is ever going to do? How could a chair or a lamp be interesting?”
“All that is realistic starts to look extremely boring in the world of all this inspirational stuff. It’s a really interesting problem that we’re going to face. It’s a bit difficult to be in such an exciting world because they to start to feel really boring.”
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