Milan Design Week - "It’s become the biggest design meeting in the world"

That's how famous British designer Tom Dixon describes it in short in a very interesting interview for Design Week and tells about his show where they will be serving British High Tea in his new Eclectic Form Tea Set without really 'displaying' it.

Another not to miss show is „Nichetto = Nendo" at Dilmos Gallery with several new products to be launched:

If you like glass as much as I do, these new products are for you:

BRUNO LAMP for Verreum by Karim Rashid 

And here below this is coloured silever glass:

Containers by Sebastian Herkner

The SHELL stool in vacuum metalized polycarbonate - available in a bronze or aluminium finish - by Jake Phipps. To be launched at the Milan Furniture Fair next week.
And these strange animals are the new  leather stools Anomaly by Front for Moroso, made by stretching natural leather over a wooden mould and stuffing the insides with foam.

And that's just part of all the interesting new products that will be launvched in less than a week in Milan.

A Dressed TV at Ventura Lambrate during Salone 2013

"The average telly is a technical black shrine constructed of hard plastic. And the worst part is: its uninspiring form is dominating our interior." explains his idea designer Robert Bronwasser from  SMOOL.

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SMOOL's Homedia TV concept is "dressed in fabric in order to give it a natural position within the larger interior design." 

One of the top secret collections to debut at iSaloni 2013 is

that of furniture and lighting created by Studio Jobs for Lensvelt. They have already succeeded to attract attention with their  preview images of celebrities with Tycho Brahe-esque noses:
  Which obviously aim to hint at the use of  nose-shaped hardware.

Yes, what we see here is 'Job Office Desk' which has a drawer with a nose handle and you have to stick your fingers up the nostrils in order to open it :)
The other products from the collection include Job Buffet, Job Table, Job Desk Lamp. 

Konstantin Grcic’s Medici armchair now has a company:

Now it is a family: side table, stool and armchair "Medici" - you can be seated comfortably, with your legs up and your drink next to you on the table :). Good idea! I like especially the colour of the armchair.

Clever new designs at Milan 2013

BOUCHON - high and low cork stools, design by Andrea Radice & Folco Orlandini design studio

"Thanks to the superior craftsmanship of Conde House, a wood furniture manufacturer in Asahikawa in northern Japan, the joints appear seamless, as though single boards have been bent and interwoven like paper chains or a woven textile," says Nendo. "It's virtually impossible to know, looking at the shelves, how the parts are connected."

Fold by Nendo for Japanese producer Conde House is made of interlocking wooden boards and has a zig-zag form. source

A mirror and a chair in one!

Have you ever thought that you can use your mirror as a place to sit and take of your shoes? May be this is the inspiration behind Japanese studio Nendo's Mirror-chair which will be exhibited at Rho Fiera during Milan Design Week 2013. It si a result of their first collaboration with design brand Glas Italia.

 "Progressively darker frosted gradations emphacise the fusion of these two functional elements while softening the chair's reflectivity, giving it a stronger physical presence", explains the designer.  

Euroluce 2013 - a Preview

of some of the most interesting and unusual new designs that are going to be launched at ts 27th edition:
A seaweed "Marine light" table lamp by Tel-Aviv-based designer Nir Meiri - made of real seaweeds!

Botti suspension lamp by Delightfull 

ARIANNA by Michela and Paolo Baldessari - you know the Greek myth of Ariadne?

Stick, by French designer Matali Crasset for Fabbian:

Greek glamour by Viokef

Soft organic forms at Milan design week 2013

The 'Biophilia' collection produced using roto-moulding is developed by Ross Lovegrove for Vondom 
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'Gardenias' - a set of benches and chairs created by Jaime Hayon for for BD barcelona with soft curvaceous forms.