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2 Apr

Living Divani

2 April, 2020
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Perfection and harmony in proportions and understated luxury flavor are the sign of recognition of Living Divani, a family-run company, which has made the padding its trademark. From the early 70s to today, the company traces a precise path, establishes an intense dialogue with modernity and becomes one of the reference points in the design panorama.

Strategic is the collaboration with Piero Lissoni, who since 1988 in the dual role of Art Director and designer, orchestrates its unique style, infusing the company with its unmistakable design figure made of discretion and formal neutrality, lightness and dynamism, with a calibrated design , essential, which combines the clarity of lines and shapes, with ergonomics and comfort.

Over the years, architects Piero Lissoni have been involved with designers of international caliber, who share the trait and the design approach with the company, as well as projects of young talents who have come to the company through a punctual talent scouting work among the new design levers: different visions that although unique in their individuality, have the same common denominator, the theme of harmony and the ‘delicacy’ of the forms, the praise of linearity, formal cleanliness, such as the Family Chair collection by Junya Ishigam.

An articulated offer of sofas, armchairs, beds and accessories was thus created; a gradual creative and productive process, which revolves around the padded system, be it indoor or outdoor, with discrete shapes and volumes, around which stronger-looking accessories are proposed – chairs, armchairs, tables, coffee tables, bookcases, containers and rugs – which adapt and define every environment, from the most essential and rigorous ones to the most eclectic and decorative ones. Among the most iconic models we must certainly mention Extra Wall and Extra Soft, Softwall Bed, but also the Frog armchair, all in their possible variations for indoors and outdoors.

Next to the living area, the sleeping and outdoor areas have harmoniously developed. The beds are the natural development of sofas, also characterized by sober and neutral shapes; these include the Chemise Bed, Extra Soft Bed, Avalon Bed models … For the exterior, on the other hand, dedicated fabrics with a precise and solid touch cover shapes already used for the interior; a double function, which on the one hand emphasizes its versatility, on the other it creates furnishing solutions that allow a greater fusion between interior and exterior.

Living Divani’s proposal is also oriented towards the contract sector where quality, technical performance and customization possibilities make it possible to be present worldwide in different sectors: offices, banks, airports, hotels, waiting areas, museums, restaurants and showroom, always with clear characteristics of sobriety and refinement.

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2 Apr

Baleri

2 April, 2020
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Baleri Italia is an icon brand of the twentieth century, founded by Enrico Baleri and Marilisa Decimo in 1984, and carried on with tenacity and courage, to discover ever new trends and still unknown design protagonists, such as Philippe Starck; Enrico Baleri was the first to understand the great potential of the young French designer and to give him confidence by producing his first projects.

Characteristics of the company are the reflection of the years of sobriety and rigor form / function, the maximum expression of a certain idea of ??design, pragmatic and at the same time utopian and the pursuit of the authentic, non-obsolescent, inconspicuous, coherent, international object . Evergreen objects and collections have always been signed by great masters and debutants from the world of design, which later became style references, giving life to a classic-contemporary universe that today finds vitality, production, communication and commercial strength. The red rooster, wanted by the 2 founders, a Baleri Italia trademark, is a symbol of good wishes for optimism, good humor, luck. The choices of Enrico Baleri, cultured architect and refined protagonist of the history of Italian design, have characterized Baleri Italia’s stylistic choices and corporate philosophy for years, creating a unique brand in the panorama of Italian and international design, free of constraints and free of express yourself with experiments outside the usual framework.

Among the most iconic pieces it is necessary to mention the “Richard III” armchair of 1985 by Philippe Starck, originally designed for the private apartments of the Elysée by the President of the French Republic Francois Mitterand, which incorporates the most consumed type of bourgeois furniture, namely the padded relaxation armchair, emptying it, stylizing it, creating an object effect as a mask in a surprise technological game. Also by Philippe Starck is the “afè” Chair from 1984, designed for the Costes in Paris, the first of a very long series of successful chairs proposed by the French designer.

In the very selective catalog, also the 1992 “Cartoons” screen by Luigi Baroli, winner of the Compasso d’oro in 1994 in self-supporting corrugated cardboard, the “Mama” armchair by Denis Santachiara from 1995, welcoming and domestic, and the collection ” Tato ”, or the poufs and footrests Tato, Tatino and Tatone, by Enrico Baleri and Denis Santachiara, a summary of an intelligent design irony, with generous shapes and colorful coverings.

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8 Jul

Davide Medri

8 July, 2016
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Davide Medri was born in Cesena on August 7, 1967 and graduated from the Fine Arts of Ravenna, the Mosaic Art Institute and the Albestainer Mosaic Professional School, considered one of the best schools in the world for teaching the mosaic technique.

After various artistic experiences and in the world of design, in 1997 the designer began the production of mirror mosaics, entirely handmade with extreme meticulousness. Immediately these highly decorative objects, the result of an aesthetic marked at times maximalist, become design icons, desired all over the world; the shapes are manifold, united or broken down to form different compositions, square or curved, in natural mirror, gold or black glass for an always very spectacular effect.

The work is totally handmade and every single piece of glass is fixed by hand ensuring high quality; each work of art and design is unique.

Parallel to the mirrors, panels and large frames, the designer also creates tables, coffee tables, consoles and lamps with the same characteristics, combining stainless steel with the glass or mirror mosaic, in a pleasant play of glossy-opaque and clear- dark. Among these furnishings we can mention the conical tables with mosaic interior illuminated by light, the long steel table with mosaic inserts and the famous lamps that can be combined with rings in a luminous mirror mosaic.

Many years after their first appearance, the mirrors and their grandiose frames remain the most ingenious, original and recognized product of Davide Medri, now called “the king of the mirror mosaic”. In more recent years, a new ironic and very decorative collection has been added to the famous type of mosaic mirrors, consisting of large mirrors with the enlarged appearance of real or imaginary road signs. This apparently playful collection must not be misleading: each specimen is made entirely by hand, painting, as on a painting, the road sign with its related symbols and colors.

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12 May

Artek

12 May, 2016
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Artek was founded in 1935 by four young idealists Alvar Aalto and his wife Aino, with Maire Gullichsen, daughter of an important Finnish wood magnate and her husband Nils-Gustav Haha, a rich businessman and cultured collector; his name founds the 2 essential elements together according to its founders: art and technology.
The company’s business strategy is very clear from the start: “selling furniture and promoting a culture of modern life with the help of exhibitions and other educational means.” The founders hope for a new type of environment for the life of all days, firmly believing in a great synthesis of the arts and wanting to make a difference in architecture and design, as well as in urban planning.
Thanks to this sophisticated company, Alvar Aalto was able to avoid the inflation and the massification of his projects, which he considered precious as lithographs: his works had to be not too numerous, to contain the effects, and not too limited, not to enhance them in a sense too artistic. All Aalto’s works were carried out by Artek, often following actual needs, or the fact of having to furnish his architectural projects, as in the case of the Paimio armchair, created for the Sanatorium of the same name or the Viipuri stool for the library of the same name. For his projects, Aalto always starts from the construction techniques of snow skis, a product widely used in Finland, coming to exploit in addition to the folding of wood with steam, a technique already used by Thonet, also the natural humidity of Finnish birch wood .
Particularly famous are its stools, which have undergone a significant variation with the passage of time: in the 1940s the model consisted of 4 legs and a seat opposite them, joined with screws, in the 1950s instead the supports in plywood were designed to open up like a fan to form the top of the seat (or table), as happens in nature for some organic and vegetable conformations, without the aid of screws.
Alvar Aalto’s wife, Aino Marsio Aalto, has been the company’s artistic director for many years, designing herself some very elegant objects such as glasses, vases and small accessories, but also graphic fabrics and absolute colors black and white.
Today Artek is renowned for being one of the most innovative and avant-garde for modern design, with the creation of new paths between design, architecture and art. The collection includes furniture, lighting and accessories from the Nordic masters Alvar Aalto, Ilmari Tapiovaara, Tapio Wirkkala, Eero Aarnio and Yrjö Kukkapuro, but also contemporary collections such as the projects of the Bouroullec brothers.

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Artek was founded in 1935 by four young idealists: Alvar and Aino Aalto, Maire Gullichsen, and Nils-Gustav Hahl. The business strategy of the company was â€œto sell furniture and to promote a modern culture of living by exhibitions and other educational means. The founders advocated a new kind of environment for everyday life. They believed in a grand synthesis of the arts and wanted to make a difference in architecture and design as well as in town planning.

Today Artek is renowned as being one of the most innovative contributors to modern design, creating new paths at the intersection of design, architecture and art. The Artek collection comprises furniture, lighting and accessories by the Nordic masters Alvar Aalto, Ilmari Tapiovaara, Tapio Wirkkala, Eero Aarnio and Yrj Kukkapuro.Â Artek also works with leading international architects, designers and artists, such as Shigeru Ban, Konstantin Grcic, Hella Jongerius, Harri Koskinen, Enzo Mari and Tobias Rehberger.

Artek’s collection is based on the original idea of standards and systems, initiated by Alvar Aalto’s bent wood experiments that resulted in the L-leg system. The L-leg, a solid wood leg with a laminated part bent at 90°, was patented in 1933 and quickly became a standard component of Aalto’s furniture designs. The standard and system thinking makes the furniture range versatile and allows it to be customised for individual projects. It’s furniture can be found in various types of spaces: public areas, private homes, museums, schools, restaurants, hotels and offices.

Artek’s headquarter is in Helsinki, Finland, where Artek also has a flagship store in middle of the town. International offices are located in New York, Tokyo, Stockholm and Berlin, where the international marketing team is based.

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12 May

Cappellini

12 May, 2016
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Cappellini is a historic family of Italian design company, founded in Carugo in 1946 by Enrico Cappellini. a synonym of originality, modernity and experimentation, the brand Cappellini produces quality furniture, never banal and able to furnish any residential space and contract. Born as a small firm, the collections are characterized by refined simplicity and personality, dictated by the big names of international design, findings from its talent scout and corporate designer Giulio Cappellini. There is talk of Jasper Morrison, Marc Newson, Tom Dixon, Marcel Wanders, the Bouroullec brothers and Nendo, designers works as Cloud, Knotted Chair, Embryo Chair, Pylon Chair and many more, now become icons of the brand internationally recognized and exhibited in the most museums in the world such as the Victoria & Albert Museum in London, MoMA in New York and the Centre Pompidou in Paris. The collection consists of three divisions, Collection Systems and Project Subject to translate flexibly all requirements of contemporary furniture, and bridge the gap between design and traditional furniture.

The talent of the architect Giulio Cappellini in sniffing out new trends, understanding in advance the evolution of living and discovering first of all new designers on the international scene, has made the Cappellini collection unique, varied and cosmopolitan. In the Cappellini catalog you can find all the most significant design developments of the past 50 years: from Alessandro Mendini’s apparently irreverent projects of denunciation and reflection, such as the iconic Proust armchair, to the poetry and lightness of the works of the Japanese designer Shiro Kuramata, of which Cappellini holds exclusive rights for the whole world.
The long, constant and important partnership with the British designer Jasper Morrison, which every year creates new projects for the brand with the usual minimal and elegant trait that distinguishes it: the professional and friendship relationship between Jasper Morrison and Giulio Cappellini dates back to many decades ago, when the latter decided to put Jasper Morrison’s thesis project into production and in the catalog: the outdoor and indoor metal armchair with sinuous shapes and poetic name: Thinking man’s Chair.
According to Cappellini, the house can be colorful, whimsical, contemporary, but also minimal, bourgeois and reassuring, translating flexibly every need for contemporary furniture, not being able to have any boundaries or limits.

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12 May

Carl Hansen

12 May, 2016
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Carl Hansen, a Danish company founded in 1908, was one of the first industrial companies to believe in the complicity between craftsmanship and mass production . Now, as ever, producing seats, sofas, bookcases and wooden tables inspired by the vintage design.
Craftsmanship can be a lot of things. To us, it is everything and it has been so ever since 1908 when Carl Hansen founded his company in Odense, Denmark.

Carl Hansen founded his company on a strong belief: outstanding craftsmanship and rational serial production could go hand-in-hand to provide customers with high-quality furniture at a reasonable price. Today, we continue to build on this simple but strong idea. We combine traditional woodworking techniques with the latest technology to produce furniture of lasting value. Most of the furniture we produce today was designed by leading Danish architects back in the 1930s and up to the 1960s, but the design, the vision and the craftsmanship behind every piece of furniture is still as relevant today as it was then. If not even more so today. This is why our dedication to working with the best materials and the best designers has and will always be fundamental to Carl Hansen & Son.

At Carl Hansen & Son, we feel a great responsibility to keep bringing this sustainable idea forward of producing furniture with a long life, made of wood harvested from sustainably managed forests and treated in a way that is as gentle as possible for the environment.
Our skilled craftsmen and -women still work with the same pride and dedication and it this passion that helps us maintain the same high quality in every piece of furniture that leaves our factory in Gelsted.

Behind every piece of furniture lies vision, careful thought and skilled craftsmanship. That’s why we say, that every piece comes with a story. And we hope you’ll enjoy making it a part of yours.

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12 May

Moormann

12 May, 2016
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Nils Holger Moormann nel 1982, dopo gli studi in giurisprudenza, si appassiona al mondo del design e decide, da autodidatta e lontano dalle logiche di produzione delle aziende di arredi, di sviluppare mobili che mostrassero un linguaggio formale ridotto e soluzioni molto precise nei dettagli, sinonimo di quella corrente chiamata “Neues Deutsches Design”.

I pensieri principali di Moormann sono la semplicità, l’intelligenza e l’innovazione, che devono essere applicati contemporaneamente per il benessere della società. Il primo traguardo è quello di analizzare le esigenze alla luce dei nuovi modi di vivere e di lavorare, che spesso e sempre di più coincidono all’interno degli stessi spazi; il secondo passaggio è quello di individuare delle soluzioni progettuali concrete, semplici, ma non banali, per risolvere tutte le esigenze. Si arriva, attraverso questo semplice processo, alla realizzazione di soluzioni, in un primo tempo dedicate all’idea di contenere e di fare ordine, individuando un modello di libreria universale, facile nel concetto e nel montaggio, ma di estrema raffinatezza ed eleganza; un pezzo, come quelli successivi, fuori dalle mode e dalle tendenze, intriso di atemporalità per diventare un capisaldoi del design.

Per realizzare tutto questo è stato necessario individuare il luogo giusto, ove poter lavorare, progettare e produrre i pezzi ideali; e quale posto migliore per trovare le radici di questi mobili se non tra il clima di montagna crudo e le vive tradizioni nordiche, tra le bestie dei campi e una sentita attenzione per l’equilibrio ecologico? Il luogo montano e naturale, lontano dai consueti distretti industriali e dalle città, è stato fondamentale per la creazione e l’evoluzione di questa filosofia. Naturalmente tutto il progetto non può più essere ottenuto da una persona sola come all’inizio, ma da un team affiatato e convinto, composto ora da circa 40 menti brillanti.

Moormann non è del tutto facile da classificare. Non è solo design nordico, che risuonerebbe in modo limitativo, avendo all’interno del team molti progettisti internazionali. La sua estetica, seppur vicina agli esempi finlandesi, svedesi e danesi, è più articolata, frutto dell’unione di una tecnologia impeccabile e di uno sguardo attento alle forme accattivanti e sobrie allo stesso tempo. Il legno utilizzato per tutta la collezione è sempre il medesimo, ovvero betulla chiara di alvariana memoria, ma anche mdf naturale, con effetto molto ecologico, ma non povero, spesso abbinato a linoleum o laminati dai colori assoluti, bianco o nero, talvolta rosso. La libreria, poi interpretata nei decenni in molteplici modi e con innumerevoli varianti, rimane il prodotto principale della collezione, alla quale si sono gradualmente aggiunti letti, tavoli, scrittoi, contenitori e piccoli accessori di grande bellezza e funzionalità.

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