Salone del Mobile Milano 2016
[Light & Shadow] Tokyo-based studio Nendo – led by designer Oki Sato – created Light & Shadow new sculptural furniture collection and exhibition for Marsotto edizioni at the Spazio Bigli during the Salone del Mobile Milano 2016. The design company specializes in marble furniture, and all of their objects were made from a single material in either black or white, without combining any other materials. Nendo displayed the marble items dividing the room in two symmetrical areas, the left side white and right one black. Then, in order to utilize the rather unpleasant regularly spaced pillars and the spatial feature of the entrance being in the middle of the area, it was decided that the exhibition space would be divided in two using a reflected visual effect.
(Photographer: Takumi Ota)
[All Plastic Chair] Jasper Morrison presented to the public All Plastic Chair as a piece of his Vitra collection on the occasion of the Salone del Mobile Milano 2016. Reminiscent of the classic European wooden chair, now rendered in new material, the chair represents a significant advancement in the feature and functionality of this typology. While the flattened frame components are made of high-strength polypropylene cast in a single piece, the thin seat surface and the backrest are organically modelled and adaptable to the contours of the sitter’s body. This blending of two types of plastic also offers new ways for a colour scheme of two-tone palette pairing frames in a slightly darker shade, with seats and backrests in a lighter nuance of the same tint.
[Color Machine] At CasaVitra visitors met Dutch designer Hella Jongerius‘ Color Machine installation: giant spinning tops rolling on the floor, symbolizing the past ten years of collaboration between Jongeriuslab and Vitra on the company’s colour, texture, finish and material portfolio. All Vitra materials are mapped out in four colour worlds: lights, darks, greens and reds, which form the fundament of the library, organising textiles, plastics, wood and colours in many dimensions and shapes. Over these tops, nine suspended colour wheels revolve in space that celebrate special fragments of iconic furniture by Vitra designers, each in their signature colours. Visitors are invited to combine colours and textures by twirling the wheels and touching the fabrics and materials.
[The Double Dream of Spring] London-based designer Michael Anastassiades has debuted his first collection of furniture for US company Herman Miller, in an installation called The Double Dream of Spring, a reference to a 1915 painting by 20th-century Italian metaphysical artist Giorgio de Chirico. Anastassiades revealed his first collection of stools alongside a selection of tables and huge versions of his mobile-style lights. The stools are composed of matching round seats and bases, with the smallest variant designed to double up as a side table or dining seat. The tallest is for bar seating while the mid-height is for counters. Each has one solid round wooden leg and a second leg made from brass with a cross bar.
It was interesting to try and achieve that really minimal kind of language with very geometric forms almost touching each other with no visible weld.
The stools will initially be available in walnut and american oak, which were chosen partly because they would take on more character over time through natural wear.
What you see here was really trying to understand the engineering system of the construction of the tables that allows us to scale it up and play around with the different sizes and heights.
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