23.4.2008
Milan design week 2008
(among the most interesting events …)
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milan design week 2008 | curiosity x tonerico an installation made of illuminated spheres freely floating in the air. 80 white balls are lit from beneath and kept afloat with hot air. the lights are synchronized by computer creating various patterns of movement. |
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milan design week 2008 | hay their ‘spider woman’ chair caught our attention as one of the most innovative products of 2008. the chair’s pattern is extremely difficult to maintain in shape when the shell is molded. many months of experimentation were needed to prevent the cut-out mesh from deformation during the folding process. |
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milan design week 2008 | kartell kartell presented a stagering 20 new products! including works from tokujin yoshioka, philippe starck, alberto meda, ronan and erwan bouroullec, patricia urquiola and others. |
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milan design week 2008 | 5.5 designers / clean the galleria luisa delle piane presented ‘clean’, a project by the french design group 5.5 in cooperation with enkidoo. chunks of three-to-four year old chestnut wood are accurately cut, hand-straightened, molded after a hot steam bath, then dried and finally assembled. |
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milan design week 2008 | BASF+ plank: the making of myto the new chair ‘myto’ designed by konstantin grcic for plank is made from ultradur® high speed, an engineered plastic with extreme flowability, produced by the german chemical company BASF. the chair is the result of a long development process which explored new forms and the limits of this new material. |
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milan design week 2008 | fabio novembre retrospective ‘insegna anche a me la libertà delle rondini’ ‘teach me the freedom of swallows’ fabio novembre – retrospective exhibition curator: beppe finessi exhibition design: peter bottazzi rotonda della besana, april 11th – june 08th |
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milan design week 2008 | ingo maurer OLED panels taken straight from the testing laboratory, luminescent exit signs clamped together glass embedded with LEDs … |
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milan design week 2008 | enzo mari x gabbianelli in 1967 enzo mari was asked by the italian producer gabbianelli to create a new series of tile decoration. this exhibition, through original sketches and prototypes, illustrates the prolific 20-years-relationship between gabbianelli and enzo mari. |
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milan design week 2008 | maarten baas plastic chair in wood – sculpt furniture burn chair and smoked table, the exhibition was held in a car repair shop, the show space was very raw, complete with tools from the garage. |
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milan design week 2008 | spazio rossana orlandi scholten & baijings. karen ryan, front design, ruth gurvich, massimiliano adami, jamie hayon, nacho carbonell, julian mayor, fucina and many more. plus ‘on going’, an exhibition of piet hein eek’s 15-year career. |
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milan design week 2008 | swarovski crystal palace crystal interpretations by tokujin yoshioka, zaha hadid, paul cocksedge, front design, arne quinze, piero lissoni, fredrikson stallard, marcel wanders and studio job. |
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milan design week 2008 | vitra editions vitra editions was conceived in 1987 as a laboratory to give designers, architects and artists the freedoom to create experimental furniture objects. 20 years later, vitra resumed its experimental platform |