04.20.16
Fair Report
The Best of the 2016 Milan Furniture Fair, Part III
The 2016 Salone del Mobile and Fuorisalone — aka the Milan Furniture Fair — was one of our favorites yet, and we were there on the ground, running around like crazy people trying to absorb a year’s worth of new furniture in less than a week’s time. According to our iPhones, we walked about 7.5 miles a day in our quest to scout great design. Here’s the last of three posts chronicling what we found.
Around town
Vessels by Sebastian Herkner for the Columbian artisan–made brand Ames SalaNudo rug by Sebastian Herkner for Ames SalaHeavy Stack ceramic and oak objects by Maria Bruun, presented at the Danish Mindcraft exhibitionThe Cask bottle rack by Sara de Campos, part of an exhibition featuring ECAL students using wood offcuts to create objects inspired by e15‘s Backenzahn stoolThe Awaiting room divider by designer Giorgia Zanellato and artist Coralla Maiuri for Secondome gallery, shown at Ladies & GentlemenVases by Andrea Branzi on view at Clio Calvi and Rudy Volpi gallery
More vases by Andrea Branzi on view at Clio Calvi and Rudy Volpi gallery
One of three rugs by Alessandro Mendini for Joseph Carini presented at Fragile Gallery
Nick Ross‘s new White Lies Slab projectA Klein-blue Herringbone vase by Phil Cuttance, part of Airbnb’s Makers & Bakers installation at Rossana Orlandi’s Marta restaurantTomas Alonso‘s contributions to a new line of home accessories launched by Atelier SwarovskiOne of 8 cyanotype-dyed sculptural objects from Studiopepe’s Out of the Blue exhibitionThe M.C. Escher-esque Higher and Higher rug by Sam Baron for NodusThe quartz glass and dichroic glass Spectra table by Kukka for Frame magazine’s What’s the Matter? exhibitionNew furniture in Corian, plus hand-blown glassware, by Prague-based DechemNendo filled a square with 50 sculptural, mirrored-steel chairs for Friedman BendaNendo also created an optical illusion inside the Marsotto showroom with a half black, half white schemeThe Alba drinking set by Joe Doucet for Turkish brand NudeChamfer vessels by Philippe Malouin for NudeMaarten de Ceulaer‘s rotating aluminum Sundial chandelier for Nilufar GalleryMichael Anastassiades created a spare installation around his new Spot stools and Stasis tables for Herman Miller
Ventura Lambrate
Oslo designers Falke Svatun and Bjorn van den Berg teamed up to create the Aerial lamp for the Norwegian Structure exhibition, styled by Kråkvik & D’OrazioWorks by Kneip (lamp), Vera & Kyte (shapes on floor), and Falke Svatun (round vessel) at StructureVera & Kyte‘s Three Cities Deconstructed set for StructureKristine Bjaadal’s Sfera vessel at Structure
A room divider made with Kvadrat fabrics by Rive Roshan for the Form & Seek exhibitionGradient glass lamps by Sule Koc, also for Form & SeekFerreol Babin‘s under-lit Frost organizer set for bathroom brand Cotto’s annual Another Perspective showThe Pond lamp by Ferreol Babin, with two small accessory holders, for Another PerspectiveDe Intuitiefabriek made a sponge-block building set for Another PerspectiveThe elegant Conesso chair by HDK Academy student Caroline ErikssonSplattery dishware by Spanish newcomers Aoomi Studio
A French studio called Superface showed six large objects meant to showcase materials like artisanal gilded metal and a compressed industrial waste composite (center) they developed themselves
Laura Bilde’s oddly appealing Squeeze Me chair
Rossana Orlandi
New ombre-glass works by Germans Ermics on view at Rossana OrlandiRainbow-y Zinc cabinets by Czech duo Jan & Henry
Part of the new sand-encrusted Drift series of mirrors by New York artist Fernando Mastrangelo
…also part of the new sand-encrusted Drift series of mirrors by New York artist Fernando Mastrangelo Georgian duo Rooms debuted their Wild Minimalism collection of raw-meets-geometric tables and chairsMore Wild Minimalism tables by Rooms
Salone Satellite
The slim Plat lamp by Berlin duo Büro FamosThe perriwinkle Siz chair by Büro FamosA polarized-glass wall shelf by Daisuke KitagawaConcrete and glass Ivy vases by Norwegian studio Domaas HøghMix and match Una lamps by Domaas HøghBarbells in every material and color by young Italian designer Sara RiccardiExpressive kitchenware by Venezualan-born, London-based designer Grace Souky (who once worked for Jonathan Adler and West Elm)Kasper Nyman’s ultra-simple Obby sofaJoin tables byKasper NymanVera & Kyte’s new solo studio collectionThe Divide table by Elina Ulvio, part of the Finnish Luomo Collective Grace Souky’s Planca table