Hasta La Ideas

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pThursday night ended at a couple of giant parties thrown by a href=”http://www.establishedandsons.com/”Established amp; Sons/a and a href=”http://www.tuttobene.nl/”Tuttobene/a, who both have a reputation for social gatherings. The floors were covered with broken glassmdash;the women’s bathroom and the streets were no exception./p

pEstablished amp; Sons celebrated a fifth year in the old a href=”http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Bo4L83VQjPM”Jai-Alai/a arena in Brera. Their entire collection topped giant bleacher-like plinths, with the newest stuff at the very top: a signature lighting collection, including the ghostly Audrey lamp, and their new “cheapy” line, the worst of which was a molded polyurethane stool named “Butt.” /p

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pemAudrey Light by Michael Eden. Two ghostly profiles./em/pa href=”http://www.core77.com/blog/milan10/milan_design_week_2010_parties_established_sons_and_tuttobene__16394.asp”(more…)/a
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pWe’re in a rush to get to the events tonight at Ventura Lambrate, a new design district, but we wanted to share a peek at some new stuff from a href=”http://www.piekebergmans.com/”Pieke Bergmans Design Virus/a: giant, soft, elastic monsters, “trained to put you in very uncomfortable positions.” /p

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Horror looks you right between the eyes…
You try to scream… you start to freeze.. you’re paralyzed!
You close your eyes and hope this is just imagination…
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pThe project is a collaboration between Pieke and a href=”http://www.innofa.com/”Innofa/Stretch Textiles/a, exhibiting at via Tortona 12, next to Atelier Van Lieshout and Nucleo. /p

pMore images after the jump./p

p a href=”http://www.core77.com/blog/milan10/”View all of our Milan 2010 coverage /a/p

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pThe Core77 team has just arrived in Milan, barely settled in to our awesome apartment around the corner from Zona Tortona (complete with a cold cuts slicer; this is very Italian). Our coverage will happen on a rolling basis: expect field illustrations from Core-toonist a href=”http://fueledbycoffee.tumblr.com/”fueledbycoffee/a, a growing collection of photos at our a href=”http://www.core77.com/gallery/photos_search.asp?context_id=1album_id=124″Core77 Gallery/a, and lots of blogposts and videos. Follow us on a href=”http://twitter.com/core77″twitter/a to keep track of our progress and don’t hesitate to say hello. /p

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pemOur cold cuts machine, nestled right next to the microwave./em/p

pThough Salone del Mobile doesn’t officially start until today, we took a walk down via Tortona, where teams of exhibitors put finishing touches on their installations. Maarten Baas’s crew had clearly been there and gonemdash;nothing to tell you it’s Design Week like fliers for Baas’s new iPhone clock app (which was promptly downloaded by many, we’re sure)./pa href=”http://www.core77.com/blog/milan10/milan_design_week_2010_on_the_ground__16383.asp”(more…)/a
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pa href=”http://www.formafantasma.com/home_autarchy.html”Autarchy/a, a propositional installation by a href=”http://www.formafantasma.com”Studio FormaFantasma/a, envisions the objects of a community where the materials for living are “personally cultivated, harvested and processed to feed and make tools to serve human necessities.” Italian broom maker a href=”http://www.scopesaggina.com/”Giuseppe Brunello/a and French bakery a href=”www.poilane.fr”Poilane/a were invited as collaborators. /p

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pemCo-designing in collaboration with Giuseppe Brunello, Studio Formafantasma added to the traditional straw-broom new subtile details to underline the beauty and the perfection of a timeless object./em/p

pIn this utopian scenario, Sorghum becomes the central aspect. The harvested grain becomes brooms and is milled to become flour, which is baked into bread and transformed into durable vessels and lamps (70% flour, 20% agricultural waste and 10% limestone). The variation in color comes from a selection of vegetables, spices and roots that have been dried, boiled and filtered for their dyes. The pedestals used to display the work also reference Sorghummdash;a drying oven and a mill. The installation is meant not only as an exhibition, but also as a vehicle to share this information, illustrating every step of the production process. /p

pMore preview shots and detailed descriptions follow./p

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pa href=”http://www.formafantasma.com/home_autarchy.html”bAutarchy by Studio Formafantasma/b/abr /
April 14-19, 2010br /
via Matteo Bandello 14/16br /
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pFrom March 30th to April 5th, 9 designers “went back to the furniture.” They lived for a week in the Herefordshire woods and practiced the traditional woodturning craft of a href=”http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bodging”Bodging/a, where unseasoned wood is transformed into chair legs and stretcher bars using a pole-lathe, as seen in Windsor Chairs. /p

pThe nine participants were led by a href=”http://www.greenwoodwork.co.uk/”Gudrun Leitz/a and her assistant; “they all got out of the studio, away from drawing boards, computer screens and mechanised equipment into the hands-on world of the original country-chair makers working without electricity with pole lathes, steam benders and hand tools.”/p

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pDesignersblock will be presenting the resulting nine chairs (plus one by workshop leader Gudrun Leitz) at ema href=”http://www.verydesignersblock.com/2009/2010/02/02/bodging-milano/”Bodging Milano/em/a. Participating designers include Amos Marchant, Carl Clerkin, Chris Eckersley, Dave Green, Gareth Neal, Gitta Gschwendtner, Rory Dodd, Suzanne Barnes, and William Warren. For more information on this and other Designersblock exhibits, click a href=”http://www.verydesignersblock.com/2009/2010/03/08/designerblock-milano-2010-opening-times/”here/a./p

pMore shots of the workshop and its products after the jump./p

pba href=”http://www.verydesignersblock.com/2009/2010/03/08/designerblock-milano-2010-opening-times/”Bodging Milano @ Designersblock/a/bbr /
14 – 19 April 2010; Opening Thursday 15 Aprilbr /
Via Thaon De Revel, 3br /
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