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On the contemporary trend dell’ecosostenibilità, Studio Narcisiva, founded by Antonella Narcisi and Siva Andrea, gave birth to a line of chairs made entirely of wood and felt, natural materials, warm and emotional.

These sessions characterized by a clean design and essential while the structure of the panels hosts felt colorful and unusual working.

And mixing with each other materials so different and unusual was born on project WOOLD (wool & wood) designed to Crippa Collections: The line includes additions simple in structure and materials, but at the same time in surprising combinations and work which are the result of perfect synergy between craftsmanship and design.

The combination of geometric shapes and organic is the project of the new lamp Alpha & Beta of the Singapore industrial designer Jaren Goh. The desk lamp is characterized by a central body that branches off into two luminaires, separate but joined as Siamese twins, as two halves of the union who need to exist. The set is elegantly estroso and fits perfectly with the more contemporary styles.

The designer Denis Balenko has used a series of stacked plates of different sizes, to provide a lamellar structure and very sculptural with its new Plates Lamp. A light table designed in two versions, sober and sbarazzina, which challenges the force of gravity, giving stability to the usual stack of dishes that is almost always destined to fall, so that for this lamp could find ironic and evocative a slope almost shaky.

Among the latest proposals Inside there Playwood, a wall lamp voltage network composed simply by a thin strip of wood natural multilayer flexible and cerato that sustains elastically relying on the wall tiles in silicone rubber. In this way, the strip of wood can browse at will on blocks so as to take different shapes and sizes.

The light furniture source is shielded by a metal disk black embossed and can be placed in one or more points, to create a different effect at all times regardless of the second and composition of different elements.

The basic model includes a light source and a tape-wood 3.00 metres and can be used as a form compositions very scenic, composed of several points of light.

On June 26 last held the award ceremony of the twenty-first Compasso d’Oro and on that occasion has been given 10 awards Compasso d’Oro, 6 premiums for the career and 2 international awards.

Among the winners also Marc Sadler, author of Big modular library designed to Caimi Patents: The draft has convinced for the perfect fusion between formal and sharp design and great features, even the smallest detail.

Success for Ron Arad, awarded for the rocking chair MT3 of Driade proposing a futuristic design and a production system highly innovative after-depth studies was in fact possible to make the rotational moulding of furniture bicolour.

Nido also honoured in the compact car and particularly safe Pininfarina; Neos, Wristwatches of Culdesac for Lorenz; Mix, the lamp by Alberto Meda and Paolo Rizzatto for Luceplan; Trioli, the multipurpose chair for children Eero Aarnio for Magis; A R606, the innovative session Bartoli Design and Engineering Fauciglietti Segis; Shaka, the sailboat, designed by Wally, Lazzarini Pickering Architects and Farr Yacht Design for Wally.

And the last two awards went to the set of Toyo Ito for the company Horm and the City of Turin, Look of the City 2006 Winter Olympics developed by Italo Lupi, Ico Migliore, Mara Servetto and City of Turin (Directorate Communications Tourism Promotion) .

Among the many inspirations that have been characterized the collection of Moroso to Furniture Show 2008, took note the new collaboration with the Dutch designer Edward van Vliet, who has designed, pouf, sofa, a chaise longue, chair, lamps and carpets, in short, an entire collection, hand-made Morocco and Thailand and characterized by refined and exotic atmosphere that can inspire.

A new collection illuminated by lamps Rontonton, small and large multi from surface structures, made of aluminum perforated with motifs inspired by the Moorish decor Moroccans, that filter the light to return heat emotional and involve almost every area with games of light and shadows suggestive.