Luca Nichetto’s Notes screens hang from the ceiling

Stockholm 2014: Italian designer Luca Nichetto has created a set of ceiling-mounted office dividers for Swedish brand Offecct (+ slideshow).

Luca Nichetto Notes room dividers for Offecct

Luca Nichetto designed the Notes room dividers for Offecct Lab, a branch of the brand that develops sustainable products and furniture for the workplace.

Luca Nichetto Notes room dividers for Offecct

Nichetto took influence from washing hung above the narrow alleyways in his home town of Venice when designing the screens.

Luca Nichetto Notes room dividers for Offecct

“When kids play football on the street, the clothes hanging over the lines muffle the sound of the bouncing football and screaming kids,” he explained. “So I used that as inspiration and tried to transfer it in to an industrial product.”

Luca Nichetto Notes room dividers for Offecct

Each screen is constructed from two upholstered boards with rounded corners that sandwich a layer of recycled felt.

Luca Nichetto Notes room dividers for Offecct

The felt helps to absorb noise from both sides of the division, but the pieces still allows a visual link between the spaces they separate at seated eye level.

Luca Nichetto Notes room dividers for Offecct

“My brief from Offecct was to create a new kind of sound panel that didn’t have to be fixed on the wall but more like a free standing object,” said Nichetto. “At the same time it should work with recyclable felt made of waste from the upholstery production.”

Luca Nichetto Notes room dividers for Offecct

The panels mount on rails so they can be slid side-to-side to create different arrangements. The collection includes five shapes, which can be covered in a selection of fabrics.

Luca Nichetto Notes room dividers for Offecct

Offecct will present the range at this year’s Stockholm Furniture and Lighting Fair, which starts today as part of Stockholm Design Week.

Luca Nichetto Notes room dividers for Offecct

The brand is also launching a modular table system with plug sockets within the structure, designed by Claesson Koivisto Rune.

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RGB Fabulous Landscapes by Carnovsky

Milan 2013: leafy forests and palatial interiors become visible under different coloured lights in the latest series of wallpapers and screens by Milan design studio Carnovsky (+ slideshow).

RGB Fabulous Landscapes by Carnovsky

The RGB Fabulous Landscapes installation at the Fondazione Adolfo Pini in Milan this month included a wallpaper that reveals various scenes depending on the colour of the LEDs shining on it.

The combination of red, blue or green light reveals the interior of a grand building, a dense forest or a marching crowd.

RGB Fabulous Landscapes by Carnovsky

On the upper floor of the building, Carnovsky showed lacquered wooden screens and a handmade carpet decorated with animals and anatomical drawings, all limited editions produced by design brand Artep Italia.

RGB Fabulous Landscapes by Carnovsky

In the courtyard outside, the designers installed the Atmospherics series of 20 screens depicting landscapes and meteorological phenomena, such as a sun bursting through the clouds.

RGB Fabulous Landscapes by Carnovsky

Created in collaboration with Italian graphics and printing company Graphic Report, the scenes on each screen take on a different mood depending on the colour of the light.

RGB Fabulous Landscapes by Carnovsky

Carnovsky was founded by designers Silvia Quintanilla and Francesco Rugi in 2007.

RGB Fabulous Landscapes by Carnovsky

We first reported on the RGB series in 2010 when Johannsen Gallery in Berlin presented an exhibition of Carnovsky’s work, while in 2011 the studio used the wallpaper to deck out an east London bar and gallery.

RGB Fabulous Landscapes by Carnovsky

Last year we featured a lamp that uses three different-coloured LEDs to cast cyan, magenta and yellow shadows on the walls.

RGB Fabulous Landscapes by Carnovsky

Photographs are by Alvise Vivenza.

Here’s some more information from the designers:


Carnovsky – RGB Fabulous Landscapes
Fondazione Adolfo Pini, Corso Garibaldi 2, Milan
Milan Design Week 9-14 April 2013

Curator: Dalia Gallico
Printing and Set Construction: GraphicReport
Design Limited Edition: Artep Italia

RGB Fabulous Landscapes by Carnovsky

For Milan Design Week 2013, Carnovsky continues its RGB project experimenting with new designs, new materials and new technologies, continuing the journey begun in 2010 on the interaction between printed and light colours. The main theme is the landscape in its different meanings. Atmospheric landscapes, architectonic and perspective landscapes, emotional landscapes, ephemeral landscapes in continuous movement.

RGB Fabulous Landscapes by Carnovsky

In the colonnaded courtyard the Atmospherics series is presented for the first time, a series of sky landscapes and meteorological phenomena. The whole series comprises more than 20 pieces. One giant sky titled Atmospheric N.1, printed with an innovative technique of digital fresco of the Italian company GraphicReport and illuminated by RGB LED lights, creates a magical show of sunrises, sunsets and storms.

RGB Fabulous Landscapes by Carnovsky

Within the space on the ground floor, another large installation that uses the work titled Landscape N.1, in which the viewer is immersed in an enchanted forest, gradually turns in an architectural interior. The exterior reverses in the interior and the vanishing point of the columns and the perspective planes expands the space multiplying it to the infinite.

RGB Fabulous Landscapes by Carnovsky

Finally, in the rooms on the upper floor of the Foundation, a dialogue between antique and contemporary has been created, placing some Carnovsky’s limited editions produced by the Italian company Artep Italia like the screens in lacquered wood with antique engravings of animals and anatomy and the hand made carpets in a historical Milanese building.

RGB Fabulous Landscapes by Carnovsky

Carnovsky has been working on some new limited editions which include a collection of screens (UV digital printing on lacquered wood), a collection of carpets hand-knotted in India and a collection of tapestries woven in Aubusson. Some of these objects including the three screens and a carpet were presented at the first floor of the Fondazione Pini as part of the RGB Fabulous Landscapes exhibition.

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CONtradition screens by MICROmacro Lab

Beijing Design Week: traditional Chinese motifs inspired these screens made of steel that’s normally used to reinforce buildings by design studio MICROmacro Lab.

CONtradition by MICROmacro Lab

Reinforcing steel was bent into shapes and welded together to create panels with a variety of patterns adapted from ancient Chinese designs, then hinged together.

CONtradition by MICROmacro Lab

The designs aim to contrast the intricate forms often found in oriental decoration and the industrial materials from modern day construction.

CONtradition by MICROmacro Lab

MICROmarco Lab exhibited the space dividers in the Caochangdi art district in north-east Beijing during the design week, where lenticular printed maps of the city’s hutongs were also shown.

CONtradition by MICROmacro Lab

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CONtradition by MICROmacro Lab

Here’s some more information from the designer:


CONtradition by MICROmacro Lab

The use of construction materials complicates a dialogue between ancient Chinese motifs and contemporary furniture design processes.

CONtradition by MICROmacro Lab

CONtradition is design research inspired by the reaction generated in the exchange between design identities. Though inspired by traditional Chinese forms, the collection introduces construction materials to furniture design.

CONtradition by MICROmacro Lab

Led by the materials employed, the series instigates a dialogue between the roughness and strength of the materials and the elusive elegance of traditional Chinese design motifs. The apparent contradiction between the essentiality of contemporary design and the preciousness of antique style resolves to show that new and old can establish a deep and meaningful conversation.

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Splitscreen – A Love Story

Tournée avec un Nokia N8, cette vidéo “Splitscreen – A Love Story” a été sacrée dans la compétition Nokia Shorts 2011. Une histoire d’amour scindée en deux, montrant les divergences entre la France, les Etats-Unis et l’Angleterre. Une réalisation soignée par J.W.Griffiths.



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StickingSticks by Kawamura-Ganjavian

StickingSticks by Kawamura-Ganjavian SQ

These screens made of sticks covered in Velcro by designers Kawamura-Ganjavian will be used to divide exhibition stands at Designjunction in Milan next month.

StickingSticks by Kawamura-Ganjavian

Called StickingSticks, the product was designed in collaboration with hook-and-loop fastening company Velcro and is now being developed by British design brand Modus.

StickingSticks by Kawamura-Ganjavian

Designjunction will take place 12-17 April as part of Tortona Design Week and will showcase British designers and manufacturers.

StickingSticks by Kawamura-Ganjavian

Here’s a little more information and a movie about the product from Designjunction:


Brand new stickingsticks will feature throughout the space to create a striking environment.

StickingSticks by Kawamura-Ganjavian

Stickingsticks is a modular partition system, currently being developed by Modus, consisting of a kit of different length tubes wrapped in strips of Velcro.

StickingSticks by Kawamura-Ganjavian

The products flexibility allows the tubes to connect through the use of Velcro making it quick and easy to create room divisions.

StickingSticks by Kawamura-Ganjavian

Stickingsticks is designed in collaboration with Velcro and will pre launch in Milan with Modus and Designjunction.


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