RAIZ AND CASCAS - New design by Patricia Urquiola

 Cascas tea trolley

I like the soft elegant lines, the beautiful combination of FSC certified Amazonian wood and a top made of Marwoolus - marble waste and wool yarns, made by Marco Guazzini - in the Cascas tea trolley. Patricia Urquiola designed the two collections for the debut of ETEL International, a Brazilian furniture company’s first opening towards non-Brazilian designers:

Raiz console

The two collections were planned to be a part of an exhibition Women and Design that had to open during this years's postponed Milan Design Week. See some more new designs in my earlier posts  

What we missed with postponing Salone2020 - Part 2

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What we missed with postponing Salone del Mobile.Milano 2020 - Part 1 

What we missed with postponing Salone2020 - Part 2

With my earlier post What we missed with postponing Salone del Mobile.Milano 2020 - Part 1 we saw some of the new products that were planned to be showcased during salone 2020. Let's have a look at some more. I notice a trend for soft elegant curves in many of the new furniture pices that we see this year:

Soul Soft" by Eugeni Quitllet for Pedrali

I like very much the new Panda collection by Swedish designer Monica Förster:

source: Dezeen

Moroso presents Ruff, design by Patricia Urquiola

Soufflé mirror by Luca Nichetto for La Manufacture

Tima pendant lamp

by Luca Nichetto for La Manufacture

I like this style - do you?

More will follow :)

What we missed with postponing Salone del Mobile.Milano 2020 - Part 1

Despite the current situation, which has led to the final decision to cancel the 2020 edition of Salone del Mobile.Milano and plan the 60th edition of Salone del Mobile.Milano for 13^th to 18^th April 2021, all the companies and designers who were intending to participate had prepared their new designs. 

So, we have a lot of information about some of the inspiring new products that could be seen there if the annual event to took place as planned and I am going to start a regular theme on my blog sharing all the news that were presented to our international group of journalists during  the press conference for the 59th edition of Salone del Mobile in Milan last February. As well as for all the new information that is coming my way. 

Following the SALONE DEL MOBILE 2020 label on my blog you can find the news that I have shared and plan to share. True, it is not the same as beeing in Milan, but still we can keep the inspiration going :)

Enjoy some of the new products by Antonio Lupi:

MASTELLO 

Raindrop

BINARIO12 Legno 01

Be well

Salone del Mobile.Milano postponed to 2021

The 2020 edition of the Salone del Mobile.Milano has been suspended. The event will now take place from 13^th to 18^th April 2021. The decision to postpone was made by the Board of the Salone del Mobile.Milano in light of the ongoing coronavirus pandemic that is spreading to almost every country in the world. The situation that led to the original change of date from April to June, announced on 25^th February, has fundamentally changed. Although we were determined to keep to the June date, to allow the annual event to take place as planned, the present, unprecedented circumstances and medium-term uncertainties now mean that this year’s Salone can no longer go ahead.

The 2021 edition, which will celebrate the sixtieth anniversary of the Salone, will be a special event for the entire sector. For the first time ever, all the biennial exhibitions will be held in conjunction with the Salone Internazionale del Mobile, the International Furnishing Accessories Exhibition, Workplace3.0, S.Project and SaloneSatellite. This means that EuroCucina, FTK (Technology For the Kitchen) and the International Bathroom Exhibition will also take place next year, along with Euroluce, which was already scheduled for 2021.

Hopefully we shall all go through this difficult time successfully. Good luck to all!

Salone del Mobile 2020 - new dates

Tuesday, 25 February 2020, the Board of Directors of the Salone del Mobile met with a single item on the agenda: cancel or postpone the most important event in the world of Design. The decision was: the Salone del Mobile is only postponed, it will be held from 16 to 21 June 2020, and Fuorisalone from 15 to 21 June 2020.

As a result organizers of Milan Design Week events are frantically revising their plans after Salone del Mobile was postponed to June. But we still are eager to learn more about the new products that are going to be presented there. Enjoy some of the new products:

RITZWELL RIVAGE Lounge Chair

MODUS  Arclinea 

Broom by Stark

More news will follow soon.

SALONE DEL MOBILE 2020 - First News

I was happy to attend this week the press conference for the 59th edition of Salone del Mobile in Milan and to learn some of the first news about this most improtant design event. The press conference was held in the Aula Magna of the Catholic University of Milan:

Claudio Luti, President of the Salone del Mobile, introduced the keyword of this year, which is added to the Manifesto born 2 years ago: 2020 is the year of Beauty, a term that encompasses all the 10 previous words. In this edition of the fair there will be EuroCucina, the International Bathroom Exhibition, S. Project ...
At a special presentation for journalists from many contries a few of the largest and most famous Italian and a few foreign companies presented their new projects and ideas. Enjoy:

Marva Griffin presenting Patrizia Moroso

Moroso stand for this Salone designed by patrizia Urquiola with ucycled materials 

IOC Chaise Longue for work :) - one of my favourite new designs

B&B Tramae, photo by Tommaso Sartori

More detailed information about the new projects and trends for the coming Milan Design Week 2020 are available on request. Check regularly this blog, too, for new updates.