A lot of wood at Milan furniture fair 2011

The trend for using more and more wood in furniture and interior design continues this year at Milan Furniture Fare, too:

Reclaimed furniture at Spazio Rossana Orlandi by designer Piet Hein Eek: "I bought 600 to 1000 cubic metres of wood some time ago which needed to be used up. The simplest way to make a seat is by stacking wooden blocks to form a chair or sofa... "via

I suppose that Fan (left) is Tom Dioxon's answer to Urquiola's last year remake of the classical Windsor chair - Comeback (which is plastic). As he writes:

"Fan is a modern take on the classical Windsor chair. A British archetype converted to a contemporary silhouette, Fan makes an exclamation mark in any environment. The process involves spindles of wood carefully turned, thinned and steam bent to create the slatted silhouette. The wood is then stained in our new highlight colour, Indigo. Fan has a black leather seat pad." 

But I like very much its natural wood version above, image from designapplause.com.

The Bouroullec brothers ‘Osso’ (engl.: ‘Bone’), a new solid wooden chair for the small, family-owned company Mattiazz. They say:

 “We were particularly interested by the fact that all the equipment is powered by solar energy and that the wood is coming from the surrounding areas to be carefully selected without the use of any chemical treatments. They came back to the basics and this is precisely what piqued our interest and our fascination for the Mattiazzi family’s endeavor”

Raw Edges benches at Dilmos gallery

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'Pl(a)ywood' coffee table by Silvia Knüppel, on show as part of Design Deutschland