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Product news: Berlin-based designer Werner Aisslinger will unveil brightly coloured chairs and a set of modular furniture for Italian brand Moroso in Milan next month (+ slideshow).

Werner Aisslinger’s Bikini Wood dining chair and swivel chair for Moroso come in a variety of bold colour gradients. The backs of the wooden chairs are covered by a slim piece of leather or fabric.

The Bikini Island collection comprises a range of modular units, including tables, poufs, cabinets and sofas in various fabrics.

The angular sofas can also be matched with round tables, bookshelves, clothes rails and plant pots.

The furniture will be presented at Salone Internazionale del Mobile in Milan between from 9 to 14 April.

Aisslinger recently presented a storage system for German brand Flötotto that’s held together by plastic clips as well as a swinging sofa for the office – see all design by Werner Aisslinger.

Other products created for the brand include a Le Corbusier-inspired armchair and sofa by London designers Doshi Levien and Tord Boontje’s plywood furniture held together by thread – see all design from Moroso.

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Milan 2011: Japanese designer Tokujin Yoshioka has filled Moroso‘s showroom with mist to present his new Moon chair for the Italian brand in Milan.

Called Twilight, the installation comprised artificial smoke hanging in the air with beams of light streaming through.

More information about the Moon chair in our earlier story.

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The following text is from Tokujin Yoshioka:

Twilight

Nature is beautiful, yet the unimaginable energy inheres behind its beauty. Its beauty uplifts our emotion, and resonant in our heart, yet sometimes shows its threatening expression.

We have witnessed nature’s threats with our own eyes, and we have been reminded by the the importance of living with nature. I would like to think deeply about the nature and continue persuing the creation that seeks and express its elements of the beauty. With the deepest hopes in our future, I am presenting an exhibition “TWILIGHT-Tokujin Yoshioka” at MOROSO Showroom.

Creating the space with the light and the aura, I will display a new chair series “MOON.” “MOON” is the chair as if sculpted from this beautiful rounded shape of the Moon.

In this exhibition, the light reflects on the surface of the chairs and reveals the beauty of the various textures exist in the different kinds of white materials, such as plastics, and unique fabrics.

The space would remind people of the natural phenomenon, known as the angel’s ladder, and will bring visitors the celestial experience as if embraced by the natural world.

I hope the light of “TWILIGHT” will glow within people’s heart all over the world.

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Snow by Tokujin Yoshioka	Rainbow Church by Tokujin Yoshioka	Snowflake by Tokujin Yoshioka

Milan 2011: London studio Doshi Levien will present this injection-moulded wooden chair for Italian brand Moroso at the Salone Internazionale del Mobile in Milan next week.

Called Impossible Wood, the piece is made of a thermoplastic composite comprising 80% wood fibre and 20% polypropylene.

Perched on metal legs, the seat shell appears to be made from strips of wood but in fact the shape can only be formed by injection moulding.

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The information below is from Doshi Levien:

Impossible wood

A chair designed by Doshi Levien for Moroso.

We found a mouldable wood material that has very distinct visual and tactile properties. It is a thermoplastic composite made using 80% wood fibre and 20% polypropylene and it can be processed using conventional injection moulding machines. The pressure and heat from the mould releases moisture from the wood fibre which in turn burns on the surface of the aluminium tool, creating a random, leather-like tarnished effect.

Inspired by the characteristics of this material, we decided to create a chair that references the genre of light, graceful, bent wood frame chairs but would be impossible to make in any other way than by injection moulding, hence the name “impossible wood”. We were intrigued by the depth and texture of the material that is the opposite of slick, homogenous, surface perfect plastic, currently used for most moulded chairs.

‘Impossible wood’ chair has a used, worn, raw and earthy quality that is timeless and natural. It also smells of wood. We looked at the work of Martin Puryear, an African American sculptor who made a piece called Cedar Lodge in 1977. This installation is constructed using thin, overlapping parallel strips of timber, bound together with horizontal rings. This informed the way we made our first prototypes for “Impossible wood”. We adopted an improvised and constructed language to escape the controlled and fluid process usually applied to generating plastic forms.

The prototype for Impossible wood will be launched Salone and can be found at the Moroso stand. (Hall 16 Stand C23/D22)

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Rocker by Doshi Levien for Richard Lampert	Ananda by Doshi Levien	My Beautiful Backside by Doshi Levien

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