Disappearing hood and other kitchen ideas from Milan

Snaidero’s Heritage kitchen (source: architecturaldigest.com)

Gaggenau’s new 200 series visor hood can be completely concealed behind a cabinet. (source: architecturaldigest.com)

Varenna’s Arthena kitchen (source: architecturaldigest.com)

Scavolini (source: architecturaldigest.com)

See more new designs from  Milan Design Week 2016.

Fashion Meets Design

This is one of the most loved themes by my readers here and a definitely popular trend in contemporary interior design. Now I found a beautiful illustration about this trend and cannot but share it with you:

Marc by Marc Jacobs

This is part of this year's Salone, about which I wrote here. Below are two more illustrations about the way fashion relates to interior design, presented at the fair:

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Armani Casa this year presented elegant, deco inspired pieces which are obviously in harmony with the new Art Deco revival trend.

The Fusion Trend

'Fusion' lighting collection by Fernando and Humberto Campana

The Fusion trend started about 7 years ago as a fascinating mix of different styles, materials and approaches to design. It utilizes in the best possible way the achievements of new technologies and ancient crafts. And the Campana brothers are a great example of designers who work in this way. This is their latest collection created for Baccarat:

'Galaxia' ceiling lamp made from bamboo and lagoon blue crystal 
prototype
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'Cosmo' ceiling lamp made from bamboo and madder red crystal

prototype:

I have published during this time here many interesting examples of this trend.

Luxury and fresh ideas from Milan Design Week 2013

I like the luxurious spacious Rayn seating by Philippe Starck for Dedon:

The mood that the colourful Banjooli chair by Sebastian Herkner for Moroso creates:



the elegant forms and fresh idea of Cloud Sofa by Marcel Wanders

the warmth of Studio Besau-Marguerre's copper mirrors for the Limited Edition Design Gallery at Stilwerk

The clean elegant curves of LUCENTE, HandMade
Which variation is your favourite? Or more luxurious?
My personal choice would be the white one.

Fashion Glamour at Salone 2013

It appears that, no matter what the state of design in general is, the connection between interior design and fashion gets stronger and fashion brands continue their invasion in home design market - more and more fashion lables show their home products at Salone.
This is a honey-combed patterned brass  table by Haas brothers  for Versace:

Philippe Nigro for Hermès

Italian shoemaker Fratelli Rossetti  -  a coffee table by Alessandro Gedda

 Foldable Desk by Christian Liaigre, part of the Louis Vuitton's luxury collection Objets Nomades

Marc by Marc Jacobs

Missoni and here also 

Roberto Cavalli's home collection

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Jean Nouvel 's sneakers for Ruco Line

You can have a look also at Lights dressed in high fashion  for another way of invasion of fashion in interior design.

How to make the best from a disaster

Ask Urquiola :)
When the Italian marble specialist Budri’s warehouses in Mirandola, northern Italy, were hit by last year’s earthquake in Northern Italy, the Spanish designer Patricia Urquiola decided to draw something positive from the disater and the result was the Earthquake 5.9 collection of wall and floor coverings, shelving and  tables in marble and onyx, created using hundreds of fragments of quake-struck slabs:


 




A luxury collection born out of the ingenuity of a great designer!

Lights dressed in high fashion

This is the project of Atelier Yooj, located in Milan's Navigli neighborhood, place where the designer Jeong-Ah Yoo gives life to unique and elegant wedding dresses. 


Dressing and re-dressing your light can become an enjoyable game:  Axo Light and the Japanese designers Yuuka Miyazono and Ryosuke Fukusada presented the exhibition Dressing the Light with a collection of lights ‘dressed’ in sartorial details inspired by high fashion.
 
Each light becomes a high fashion outfit sewn around the lamp. Lamp shades of various sizes are dressed with hand sewn fabrics and finished with beautiful buttons, button holes,  visible stitching and – as in the world of children's dolls – you can change and alter the ‘dresses’ as you want. (source)
 

Unusual designs, materials, and combinations at Salone 2013

Coat rack "Song" from Arper

Hanging Canvas furniture by Japanese design studio YOY, shown off at Milan Design Week 2013. Each piece's frame is made out of wood and aluminum, covered in elastic fabric screen-printed with drawings of different types of furniture.

Lu tables by Yuhang Porcelain in porcelain and beech wood (source)

View also these unusual 'Cloud boxes' by studio Maarten Kolk & Guus Kusters for PROOFFlab,  the new  leather stools Anomaly by Front for Moroso, the Dressed TV and this mirror you can sit on.

Re-editions and nostalgic feeling at iSaloni 2013

Bardi’s Bowl chair, designed in 1951 by Italian-Brasilian architect Lina Bo Bardi.

Nao Tamura's "Rings" is the 80th anniversary edition of Alvar Aalto's iconic stool

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Masterhood and Crafts at Milan Design Week 2013

 

I seems that Masterhood and Crafts are highly valued again at Milan Design Week 2013. This revival of craft in contemporary design is not a new trend, but it is getting stronger and that's great - for all of us :) who are going to enjoy the results soon in our surroundings.

Handmade terracotta flower pots in a selection of smooth sculptural shapes from Jaime Hayon's Gardenias collection, part of an ongoing collaboration with Catalan furniture brand BD Barcelona Design.

Donzella

De Lucchi’s Donzella for De Padova is “inspired by the deftness of the farmer/craftsman who made his own work tools and the ingenuity that sees the potential to turn everyday materials, those always before our eyes, into implements. This chair exploits the fantastic joint invented by someone unknown many years ago to resolve the problem of connecting the seat to the legs.”
 While for his Deck chair Luca Nichetto  was inspired by the “great cruise liners of old, with their long sea promenades. The decks were in marine timber, which is resistant to humidity, salt and bad weather, as was the seating that lined them.” It is designed as a seating system that combines the resilience of outdoor furnishings with the elegance of indoor seating.(source)

Jar RGB by Arik Levy for Lasvit

In Hall 20 seek out Mattiazzi, the Italian brand which disproves the modern myth that mechanized manufacturing is not a craft. This year they show the latest addition to the "Medici" collection by Konstantin Grcic, a new furniture collection designed by Jasper Morrison, the 3-legged „Radice" by Sam Hecht, etc. Pictures here is the "Medici" collection:source