dedece's review of Milan Design Week 2011
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| Paola Lenti - / Link . One of the most captivating exhibitions at Milan Design week 2011 was Paola Lenti’s indoor and outdoor collections, her pieces delight in simplicity and comfort |
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| Minotti - Progressive Style - / Link . Minotti style is something special: it derives from the design system of Milan, constantly experimenting innovative forms and technical solutions, developing its knowledge of tried and tested materials and testing new ones, and implementing projects featuring a strongly individual cultural identity | Kreon + Vektron Architectural Lighting - / Link . Since their foundation and Kreon + Vektron have distinguished worldwide for the creation of lighting design and technology. Many of the lighting solutions of the company soon became the standard for architectural lighting. |
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| Charity Boxes for Japan Fund raising exhibition - / Link . Charity Boxes for the collection of funds were created by 57 internationally renowned designers from Japan, Italy and other countries. These boxes, as well as being objects of design, were also used as “charity piggy banks” in which visitors put their donations | Ingo Maurer at Spazio Krizia + Interni - / Link . An amazing installation featuring : natural sponge green Biotope with butterflies and fairy lights , and two new research projects that represent the firm in the past year: Johnny B. Butterfly , and Spirits Flying High. |
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| PiuArch goes to Dolce & Gabbana HQ - / Link . Dolce & Gabbana opened the doors of its headquarters offices ( for the first time during the Salone ) in via Broggi to host the event Open House – Piuarch Studio. | Skitsch Runs - / Link . Skitsch is now a three time Salone company, and opens up at the Salone del Mobile 2011 with plenty of new items. The collection, expands further its aesthetic touch and accessibility |
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| Interview with Monica Forster at De Padova - / Link . Her work is categorized by a strong sense of pure form mixed with a never ending curiosity for new materials and technology. Always trying to work in a cross-disciplinary way, she invents and renews typologies in industrial, furniture and object design. | Studio Juju Design Report Award winners - / Link . As the international furniture fair in Milan celebrated its 50th Anniversary, the 12th annual Design Report Award was presented to Studio juju from Singapore |
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| Paola Lenti outdoor Cabanne and furniture - / Link . Combining Paola Lenti’s unique style, plus simplicity of form and high tech materials designed to integrate with nature Cabanne is a contemporary architectural structure, designed to be the ultimate protection from the elements. | 3M Infinite Innovation at the Triennale - / Link . “Infinite Innovation” is a masterfully staged installation entirely dedicated to a series of advanced, futuristic and sustainable 3M technologies. |
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| New York Times garden party - / Link . T Magazine hosted a party Monday evening in Milan at the Bulgari Hotel to mark the latest spring Design issue and kick off Salone del Mobile 2011 | Vittorio Bonacina at the Salone - / Link . Vittorio Bonacina’s artisans exhibit true mastery when working rattan. Each piece is made by hand, and using the basic elements of water and fire, in combination with their manual expertise, they create both classic and fresh, new forms |
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| Ercol & Friends at Porta Roma - / Link . In addition to the launch of new collections, Ercol showcased its Ercol Originals, designs from its’ archive which are still in production today - shining examples of great design withstanding the fads and fashions of the consumer age. | Knoll's new Seating Collections - / Link . Knoll, renowned for its collection of classic and enduring designs, presented new seating collections by Jehs+Laub, and Marc Krusin at the Salone 2011. |
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| Studio Drift - Future Fragile III - / Link . Studio Drift presented FlyLight, an interactive light installation at the ‘FOO – flight of Objects’ Dutch designers’ group exhibition at Ventura Lambrate | Minotti Design identity 2011 - / Link . One look at the new Minotti 2011 collection and you immediately understand why such a weighty, and true word was chosen: - identity. |
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| Venin celebrates 90 years at Museo Bugatti - / Link . Venini celebrated its 90 years of history by presenting a fascinating exhibition at the Museo Bugatti Valsecchi. Walking through the charm of its classic artistic glass works, | Penny Craswell interviews Tom Dixon - / Link . Visitors experience a trail of sensations created through six hyper realistic environments. |
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| Minnoti - Comfort then Feeling - / Link . Rodolfo Dordoni imprints the “contemporary classical” stamp on his work for Minotti – rather than the design of each individual piece, it is the materiality and the all-over impression that counts | Rolf Sachs presents "In-Pulse" - / Link . Rolf Sachs added human elements to usually inanimate objects , fusing pieces of sculptural furniture with mechanism of the human body at Studio Giangaleazzo Visconti, and literally giving us a breath of fresh air |
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| Cocktails at De Padova - press preview - / Link . De Padova presented the 2011 novelties designed by Vincent Van Duysen, Monica Forster and Helen Kontouris to the Press, at an informal preview to the Salone | Swarovski Crystal Palace unveils 2 new products - / Link . The Swarovski Crystal Palace collection was expanded by two newly commercialized designs certain to amaze and inspire all those who admire the blending of design excellence with unsurpassed luxury |
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| Peer Lindgreen photographs Minimalux around Milan - / Link . Photographer Peer Lindgreen followed the Minimalux products around Milan – shooting them in areas ranging from the classical central region to the industrial landscape of Zona Tortona, creating a rich and stylistically varied body of exceptional imagery | Paola Lenti at Chiostri dell'Umanitaria - / Link . Paola Lenti presents the 2011 collection at the Chisotri dell’Umanitaria, a historic Milanese former Franciscan convent of 400 yrs in four Renaissance cloisters with hidden gardens and authentic spaces. |
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| Studiocharlie's ala screen for Vittorio Bonacina - / Link . “Isolate not divide, protect without separating.” – this was the project concept of the ALA screen designed by Studiocharlie and now produced by Vittorio Bonacina – the venerable Italian company specialising in rattan and wicker furniture. | John Malkovich's Technobohemian Show - / Link . OpificioJm sponsored John Malkovich's presentation of his Technobohemian clothes collection and to preview his new jewellery line, called Rebecca. |
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| Robert Majkuts's Whaletone piano - / Link . The Whaletone combines high-end musical components with the exquisite beauty of form – spectacular yet elegant, monumental, yet dynamic. It is an interpretation of the shape of a classic grand piano in the language of modern design. | Vincent van Duysen interviewed by De Padova - / Link . Vincent Van Duysen describes the shadow tables as being conceived as an essential table. The image is linear and light. At first glance the form is archetypal but also sophisticated. |
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| Emma Elizabeth's Design Vlog intro and #1 - / Link . Emma Elixabeth's annual pilgrimage to Milan Design Week continues , with a series of video reports from all over the Salone. | Fendi - Hand Made for the Future - / Link . Fendi presented Hand Made for the Future, featuring the performances of UK designer Rowan Mersh, Italian artist Nicola Guerraz, Italian sculptor Sandro del Pistoia, and Fendi artisan Federica Antonelli. |
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| Droog for Download Exhibition - / Link . During the Salone, Droog presented furniture and accessories designed for download by EventArchitectuur and Minale-Maeda, including CNC cut tables, cupboards, desks, side tables, shelves, couches and 3D printed electrical outlets, flowers and charms | Jawbone Jamscapes with Dezeen - / Link . San Francisco based Jawbone brought its cutting edge wireless technology to Milan and set up JamScape: a one-of-a-kind multimedia experience blending audio and design. |
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| Luca De Padova interview and recount - / Link . Luca De Padova explains … “Our parents, together with all the talented individuals who have worked with De Padova created and developed this outstanding business venture .... | Laikinglands FUNction at Ventura Lambrate - / Link . Laikingland investigates FUNction as the unexpected activity for which their beautifully crafted kinetic objects are employed. |
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| Helen Kontouris talks about her Chloe Table - / Link . The Chloe table favors the concept of simplicity to allow the table to be inserted in all kinds of contract applications. | Dirk vander Kooij's Endless Project - / Link . Dirk vander Kooij is exhibiting chairs made from melted down refrigerators using a modified welding robot to "endlessly" create furniture pieces. |
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| Minotti - "Style & Architecture" - / Link . 1,200 sq mtrs on 2 levels and multi-dimensional with a number of full and empty spaces, where the concrete separating elements, chosen to place the accent on the functional division of the settings, alternate with the precious wood panelling, highlighting the contemporary mood of the collection. | Exhibition of Designer "charity boxes" for Emergency Aid to Japan - / Link . The concept of Design for happiness is becoming more to question. An exhibition by influential designers who have designed "charity boxes" for use around the world to raise awareness and funds to Aid the "Nomads in Japan". |
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| Re-Use Design by Fehti Atakol @ Satellite - / Link . Discarded objects are unemployed functions, forgotten things and gifts. Re-design is mainly to see and find new uses in these abandoned forms. | Tom Dixon's 2011 novelties - animations - / Link . Tom Dixon has fun using stop-motion photography for his newly released 2011 Salone products |
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| 9 Mirrors by Ron Gilad at Dilmos Gallery - / Link . Ron Gilad’s mirrors are simple rectangular wooden frames that have been injected with stories. The reflection of the spectator is no longer only objective but contains more than the present | Senses Remix by ASUS - / Link . ASUS presents “Senses Remix”, a combined concert and exhibition which showcases new ways in which technology can energize our hearing, sight and touch |
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| Pavilion by Shigeru Ban + Jean de Gastiens - / Link . Ban and de Gastines have constructed a Pavilion structured with cardboard tubes woven with paper - essentially a nomadic structure with a modular core. | Moooi's Panorama - / Link . The showroom facade is concealed & transformed into a camera obscura enclosing an unexpected surprise: the Moooi Panorama. |
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| Parle Restaurant & Tea Room opens - / Link . Stevie’s first book "My Kitchen – Real Food From Near And Far" was published in 2010, when he was also named Young Chef Of The Year by the UK Observer Food Monthly Magazine. | Capo Chair by Doshi Levien - / Link . Capo, an armchair with a slender yet enveloping form. Its shape and materiality came from the image of a dapper gentleman in a well-cut suit and a felted hat. |
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| Self Discipline by Nika Zupanc - / Link . Nika Zupanc’s installation questions self discipline, or the lack of it. Her pieces focus on distractions of all sorts, presenting an installation that elevates her insightful citations of everyday objects to a painfully new level. | Sounds of Minotti 2 - / Link . The Sounds of Minotti music CD |
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| Poetry Happens - Made in Berlin - / Link . The exhibition Poetry Happens invites all visitors to discover the different ways in which design, art & poetry inevitably intertwine. | Extremism Book by Tom Dixon (on design !) - / Link . Edited by design writer Laura Houseley the book explores seven interpretations of the Extremism theme – these include Extreme Weight, Extreme Craft and Extreme Colour. |
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| Pamar Gem at Palazzo Crivelli - / Link . Alba Lisca and Giorgio Vigna, two jewellery artists/designers and two different languages, translating into a collection of decorative door handles with contemporary souls. | R.I.P Knotted Chairs by Marcel Wanders - / Link . At Cappellini’s Milan showroom, the last production pieces of Marcel Wanders iconic Knotted chairs ( a total of 1001 units have been made since production commenced in 1996) are being offered for Sale to the design lovers. |
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| Droog for Download - / Link . Droog presents furniture and accessories designed for download including CNC cut tables, cupboards, desks, side tables, shelves, couches and 3D printed electrical outlets, flowers and charms | Werner Aisslinger's Hemp Chair - / Link . Werner Aisslinger’s Hemp Chair is the world’s first monobloc chair made from over 70 % natural fibers and produced through a totally organic process that is environmentally safe to produce. |
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| De Padova's Milan showroom makeover - / Link . Watch the De Padova creative team as they prepare one of the Milan Design Week's drawcards - "the De Padova Salone windows" | Tom Dixon's 2011 Catalogue - enjoy! - / Link . Obsessed with honest materials, and a commitment to innovative design, Tom Dixon is on a self propelled mission to rethink and revive the British Furniture industry. |
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| Kartell loves Milano - / Link . Kartell cult products have been reinterpreted and “milan-ified” by designers especially for the Salone 2011. | Di Vasio in Fiori - / Link . The flower vase, an object that is increasingly explored and reinterpreted by designers, architects and artists, was the subject of the first cover for Inventario Magazine. |
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| Porro - the Immaterial House - / Link . Unclear limits, shadowed geometries and suggested ambiances define the Immaterial House, imagined by Piero Lissoni, in co-operation with Elisa Ossino, for the showroom Porro duriniquindici. | The essence of De Padova - / Link . A snapshot of the beautiful design classics making De Padova "the Milanese" Brand of choice |
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| Triennale Design Museum - dream Factories - / Link . The Triennale Design Museum devotes its 4th Salone edition to the men, companies and projects that have contributed to create the Italian design system from the postwar era to the present via its exhibition “Dream Factories: People, Ideas and Paradoxes of Italian design” | De Padova's Chloe Table by Helen Kontouris - / Link . "One day I was sitting in a cafe, enjoying the interesting things in my surroundings, when I noticed that something was blocking my view and preventing me from perceiving the environment as a whole ......" |
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| Oji Design - Good Ideas Never Die - / Link . Visions in black and white, formal nightmares, toy armies attacking invincible ideas: Oji Design introduces the 2011 Design Collection with an outstanding installation-exhbition conceived by Giuseppe Pulvirenti and enriched with photographic interpretations by Stefania Romano | Ekokook & Objet Trou Noir at VIA - / Link . Via Design France’s ”Prototype Creation assistance programme” are windows of opportunity where people can see the designs of tomorrow |
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| Tip Ton chair by Barber Osgerby - / Link . London-based design studio Barber Osgerby, ( Edward Barber and Jay Osgerby,) unveil their “Tip Ton” chair – a product made in collaboration with Swiss Co Vitra. | Baccarat Crystal - / Link . French crystal company Baccarat showcases a brand new collection of lighting solutions designed by eight international designers: Alain Moatti & Henri Rivière, Arik Levy, Eriko Horiki, Jaime Hayon, Michele de Lucchi, Philippe Starck and Yann Kersalé |
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| Ale Lamp by Jaim Telias - / Link . Jaim Telias will be showing amongst other items at Designers Block, his modular lamp Ale – a folded wood veneer pendant lamp at Promise Design during the Fair | Hermes furniture at La Pelota - / Link . The French fashion house will make its debut at the Salone del Mobile with its first collection of contemporary furniture by Enzo Mari, Antonio Citterio, Denis Montel and Eric Benqué, hot on the heels of the pieces it reissued from Jean-Michel Frank in November last year. |
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| real Industry Future Classics - / Link . The Real Industry “Future Classics” exhibition at SuperStudio is the international premiere of the Comforty brand under the artistic direction of Tomek Rygalik. | Monica Castiglioni jewellery - / Link . Rooted in the center of Milan, the fashion capital of the world, the jewellery collection designed by Monica Castiglioni takes shape and inspiration from the natural forms of nature |
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| The Social Cave by NSU Columbia - / Link . The architecture and design Research Lab Non-Linear Solutions Unit of Columbia University has developed a small pavilion project in response to the question – “in what direction is design heading ( 50 years ahead )”. | Giancomo Ravagli's Monumental marble - / Link . Young Tuscan designer Giacomo Ravagli presents his Barometro Lamps made from monunemntal pieces of marble. |
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| Roofer lamp by Benjamin Hubert - / Link . Comprising a system of coloured silicon tiles and differently shaped steel frames, ‘Roofer’ by British designer Benjamin Hubert involves the consumer in the design process of the pendant lamps | Moustache paris Milan video teaser - / Link . Moustache from Paris return to Milan Design Week for their 3rd time |
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| 101% Designed in Belgium - / Link . The programme ‘101% Designed in Brussels’, is meant to internationally promote the most promising and innovating designers, and to highlight creativity in Brussels through their work. A selection of five young designers have been selected to represent 101% Designed in Brussels during the Salone 2011. | French Nouvelle Vague - / Link . Entitled Petite Friture, Moustache, Superette, Specimen and Goodbye Edison. Punchy and easy to remember names chosen to stand out by the plethora of new French furniture and objects editors. Difficult to believe in such a sluggish, but this is reality: France has never known such an entrepreneurial frenzy in the design world. |
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| Origami champagne box for Veuve Clicquot - / Link . Clicq’Up is the first foldable Champagne bucket and is based on a concept of origami on ice, marrying form and function to create a contemporary, reusable design object that can be folded for easy transportation, set up, and storage | Transparent tables by Nendo - / Link . Tokyo’s masters of minimalism, Nendo and their latest work – part of a solo exhibition at the Galleria Jannone – follows their theme of stripped-down aesthetic. Four new furniture pieces will be on show exploring the idea of transparency, but with a difference. |
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| Rolling Stone Italy - hot designers 2011 / Link . To co-incide with Milan Design Week, Italy’s Rolling Stone magazine engaged “contemporary design experts” Alice Rawsthorn and Paola Antonelli, to introduce their "hot list of design talent" from around the world. | Cecil Balmond - Philosopher of Forms / Link . The entire Targetti Milan showroom will be occupied by Nebula, an artwork created specifically for Targetti by Cecil Balmond, the world-renowned engineer and artist. |
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| Design Academy Eindhoven - exhibit & breakfast / Link . British designer and department head Ilse Crawford will be curating ‘This Way’, an edit of the Dutch Eindhoven Design Academy’s graduation projects. After a quick bite at the pop-up café run by current and former students, settle in for a series of lectures and breakfast conversations by prominent alumni. | Andrea Branzi at Nilufar Gallery / Link . Nilufar is known today as one of Italy’s most active and original galleries in the fields of historical and contemporary design, antique Oriental carpets and furniture. |
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| The Other Hemisphere / Link . The Other Hemisphere showcases eight Australian designers, each of which has designed something special that embodies all the qualities of contemporary design thinking | Playing with Tradition by NgispeN / Link . Under the Art Direction of Richard Hutten new products designed by Richard, Jerszy Seymour, Michael Young, Dick van Hoff, Maarten Baas and James Irvine will be introduced. |
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| Roll & Hill (USA) makes its European debut / Link . Since launching in January 2010, Roll & Hill has quickly built a reputation as a leading American manufacturer of compelling, large-scale contemporary lighting | Ventura Lambreta comes alive again / Link . This is Ventura Lambrate’s second year in Milan, based in a former industrial district to the east of the city centre with excellent transport links and a range of exhibition spaces |
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| Ora-Ito's "personal mobiles" for Citroen / Link . Ora-Ïto presents hybrid objects associated to the research and innovation department of the dynastic Citroën | Morgan Motors famous 3 Wheeler / Link . Morgan, the venerable bespoke English car maker, has rediscovered its history and joined the trend towards disposable income 3-wheel road toys. The success of the Morgan Motor Company was founded on the manufacture of an icon, the Morgan Threewheeler |
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| FOC & Wallpaper* create wallpaper on-site / Link . Together with Wallpaper* magazine FOC ( Freedom of Creation) will have a live 3D-printing performance in which they will co-create wallpaper with the public. | Job Cabinets by Lensvelt / Link . Studio Job – “Our design for them is an archetypal office cabinet with an enormous polished bronze key that fits into an ingenious giant lock: the perfect symbiosis between industrial mass production and the personal object. |
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| Gothic chair by Studio Job for Lensvelt / Link . The Gothic Chair by Studio Job re-interprets the solidity and dark elegance of gothic medieval castles in an ironic way. In the creative process the dark solid wood traditionally featured in gothic chairs is replaced with the lightness of plastic in many different colors | Christian Lacroix's mosaic furniture for SICIS / Link . Wildly inspired by the illustrious history of mosaics in Ravenna particularly in connection with the Byzantine Empress Theodora, Mr Lacroix was reminded of Arles, his hometown and romantic region renowned for well-preserved Roman tiles and sought after antiquities |
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| Connecting the Dots - Dutch Design Year book / Link . Dutch design yearbook – presenting all Dutch presentations at the Milan Design Week 2011 | Tron : Legacy design by Corian / Link . Collaborating with a variety of designers from around the globe, Corian has crafted a futuristic set of furniture reminiscent of TRON: Legacy |
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| Maarten De Ceulaer's Balloon Bowls / Link . Brussels based design-art dealer Victor Hunt, the blog Matandme.net and collective Mid-studio.eu join forces for the “ Maarten De Ceulaer, Balloon Bowls ” exhibition. | DePadova presents new 2011 collections / Link . DePadova presents new 2011 collections from Vincent van Duysen, Monica Forster and Helen Kontouris |
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| Knoll 2011 / Link . Knoll presents new products from Marc Krusin & Jehs+Laub | Paola Lenti & Enzo Enea 2011 / Link . Paola Lenti will present the new indoor and outdoor collections through an emotional and visual experience at the Chiostri dell’Umanitaria, a historic Milan institution, renowned for its role in promoting arts and culture |
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| Kreon presents a range of new products / Link . Kreon will present - 1. New downlighting – Where integrated light is part of every surface in space 2. Latest LED solutions 3. New concepts & colors | Diamonds by Emma Elizabeth / Link . Looking to the world for a pre-existing form that reflected the intrinsic nature of the world of rugs (either round or rectangular forms), Emma Elizabeth’s instinct pointed her directly to the world of diamonds |
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| Parlement restaurant & Tea Room/ Link . Tom Dixon constructs a pop-up restaurant from which rising star Stevie Parle (Dock Kitchen London) reinvents British cuisine for one week only | Minotti's Design Identity/ Link . Minotti launches its new 2011 Product collections and releases its innovative website upgrades |
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| Tom Dixon Sneek Peek / Link . Here is a sneak peek at some of the new products and additions to the Tom Dixon collection, to be launched at Milan Design Week, next month. | Tom Dixon & Blackberry / Link . Tom Dixon is partnering with BlackBerry for Milan Design Week 2011. Tom will construct a 400 sq.m interactive installation to incorporate both the new Tom Dixon 2011 collections and the Blackberry PlayBooks |
