Milan: Artisan Wardrobe for a little more than half-a-million dollars

It seems that the "Limited edition" trend that started probably at last year's Milan Design Week will continue to grow. Acording to an article At Meta, furniture artisans of 18th century are reborn with panache - International Herald Tribune , these new products promise to be among the highlights of the Milan fair:

You drape your clothes on the branches of a bronze tree in the bronze and silk interior of the Dutch designer Tord Boontje's Fig Leaf wardrobe, created for Meta.

Boontje covered his wardrobe with fig leaves as a visual pun on Adam and Eve's "clothes" in the Garden of Eden. It is one of seven beautifully crafted pieces which are to be launched by a new furniture company, Meta, at the Milan Furniture Fair next month

"Each Meta piece will be made to order. The editions will not be limited,
but the numbers produced will be restricted by the laborious processes and
the
scarcity of materials and labor"

A low table to be produced by Meta in Tula steel - the fine steel furniture made for Catherine the Great in the Russian city of Tula during the late 1700's was the inspiration for this table by the American architects Asymptote.



"Wales & Wales" Glissade writing desk

The Dutch ceramics company, Royal Tichelaar Makkum, has worked with contemporary designers to reinterpret historic production processes for a series of flower pyramids inspired by a 17th-century Delftware pair, which Makkum restored for the Rijksmuseum in Amsterdam. The renovation proved so challenging that Makkum spent two years researching how to do it, and learnt so much in the process that it decided to apply those lessons to new designs.
Makkum commissioned new flower pyramids from the Dutch designers - Jurgen Bey, Studio Job, Hella Jongerius and Alexander von Slobbe. The four pieces are very large, extremely complex, highly decorated and of great beauty. A wax model of Studio Job's flower pyramid design. Like Meta's fantasy wardrobe, Makkum's flower pyramids are expected to be the highlights of Milan fair. The New York design impresario, Murray Moss, has already snapped them up to exhibit in his SoHo gallery in May.


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