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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.

Geoffrey Lilge Industrial Designer is a Canadian known for having co-founded and directed Pure Design, a Canadian who boasts collaborations with designers like Richard Hutten, Karim Rashid, Constantin Boym, Scot Laughton, Shin & Tomoko Azumi, Stephen Burks. At dell’ICFF 2008 in New York, Lilge presented to preview its new prototypes Session L40 and L41. Guests also Neocon Chicago, Chair 71 × 61×55 and Lounge Chair 86 × 75×84, comfortable seats are characterized by an eclectic, contemporary design, designed with facilities maple wood and components in solid but flexible Bendywood.

At the Milan Furniture Fair 2008, the company Alias has opened its first store in Milan single and new collections for exteriors, among which stands out cast iron, sitting modular system designed by Riccardo Blumer and the young designer Matthew Borghi . Frequently used nell’arredo urban starting Twentieth Century, the alloy of iron and carbon of cast iron, worked exclusively for casting, is a ductile material old and resistant, used in order to achieve a contemporary sitting for outdoor extremely flexible, consists of two modules basic raggiatura serve as the backbone and allow for change in the form of sitting straight, semicircular or sinusoidal, and two heads that serve to close the ends and projections dangerous.

Everything is held together by diagonals and asseparating steel screwed under the structure, very similar to the grating of a crane, which allows him to use a few points of support to remain stable based disconnected as the urban pavement. The profile ergonomic, along which 11 ribs tapered, with variable width gradually define seat and back, makes it a floating structure capable of proceeds serpeggiando around trees, lamps, fountains. This and the resistance of cast iron laminated dealt with by external finishes in different colors, make it ideal for a sitting furniture, and residential spaces outside.

Jonas Lindvall is an interior architect and product designer Swedish, with customers of the calibre of Japanese IDÉE, DuPont Corian, Skandiform, Vagabond International, Ballingslöv and DeNord, regular visitor from the best schools of Design in Europe and North America. Among his new proposals, Jonas Lindvall has designed and produced Bernard Chair, a chair by the robust and asymmetrical, hand-made walnut and oak.

Each session is accompanied by a certificate, which contains valuable information on time about the process of craftsmanship. Information such as preventive measures. Width 570mm and 795mm backrest height, width 365mm and 445mm depth of the seat.

The Morgen Studio, founded in 1988 by Sabine Mühlbauer and by the artist Thomas Tritsch, works of interior decoration, using skills ranging from architecture design, art crafts. Among the new projects in 2008 is the development of the new hall of Lunge Cocoon Club of Frankfurt.

An area of 550 square meters, characterized by bright pentagonal structures designed by the artist Jörg Obenauer in order to disguise the sound system without affecting the quality dell’acustica. The development consists of several elements of design, chosen from among the most intriguing and functional landscape of interior furniture. Directly from the furniture collection of Morgan Studio, arriving meetings and low tables of oak wood, with rubberized surface and mirror shades.

The tables T-Around the Roses designer Massimo Gardone and Luca Nichetto are Moroso, Barbar stools for the counter of the bar are Arper. The supply of textile Kvadrat, while the mosaic Red Bull is Bisazza. The floor is oak smoked. Every detail was taken care of for harmonize with the new concept of the space, including modern bathrooms and colorful.

The mirror, irresistible icon of the relationship we have with our reflection, it became in the hands of Philippe Starck the ‘vision liquid that opens to the other side’, with the new collection of mirrors Oreille Here Voit designed for the Fasano Hotel Rio . The design of surrealist-shaped ear that characterizes, is proposed by xO coated Silver or black lacquer, in five different formats, 154.5x from 98.9 to 91.5 × 5.2 × 3.7 × 94.7. A new design element to contemplate suggestively, all they see others say.

Motion is the new modular system of flexible shelving, designed by sculptor and designer Elisabeth German Lux for the company Pastoe of Utrecht. Presented at the Salone del Mobile 08, Motion is a system of containers on wheels, the design simple and straightforward, offering a wealth of variations for accommodation and use.

E ‘consists of two, three or four different elements of depth and height, available in seven colors clear, selected by the artist and inspired the frescoes of Italian churches, plus the 66 colors of the collection Pastoe, with the option of contrasting colours . The archetypal form and eclectic is enriched by wheels and hinges, placed so that seem to be no feeling and the intimate and suggestive evidence that when the mobile opening unfolds so enveloping.

Presented at the International Furniture Fair 2008, Angle is a series of containers to form different sizes, overlap and be joined to create sculptural compositions and suggestive.

Inspired by relaxing atmosphere and engaging as the tea ceremony, the designer of Tokyo Kazuhiro Yamanaka designed for Pallucco a new set of elements that can adapt to any space, surface or corner.

Made of MDF processed 45 have opened doors to to push limelight or drawer. The external finishes are available in laquered or opaque, white versions (Ral 9010), black, aluminum and red (Ral 3020), while the interior finishing is always white opaque

Italy: Design_kit is a new initiative to Designerblog, a series of interviews, which aims to create a geography of the landscape of the young Italian design, highlighting what are the icons of reference of the new generation and directions taken by the new creativity. The beauty of this map is that it autogenererà. Each interview will in fact the name of his successor.

The guest today is the eclectic and tireless Product Designer Valerio Sommella, residing here a little ease somewhat, invited by Sandro Meneghello and Marco Paolelli of Studio MeneghelloPaolelli.

Describe who you are, what are you doing and how you like it. I Valerio Sommella, Product Designer graduated from the Milan Polytechnic in 2004. In recent years I had the good fortune to work with two of the most influential international designers. The first is Stefano Giovannoni, which for almost three years I was able to design products for companies like Magis, Alessi, Oregon Scientific, Docomo-Nec, then ranging from Furniture Design all’oggettistica up to ‘Hi-Tech design, to get my current collaboration with the study by Marcel Wanders, for which I followed, for example, the last event Poliform at the Salone del Mobile 08. From January this year I must also add to my resume the profession as an entrepreneur, together with a partner I founded Aquabrik Inc., a company that produces modular water system that I designed in 2004, distributed today in Italy and several European countries. It would be interesting to talk more about this project inspired by the shape and functionality of the famous Lego bricks of modular, but if you are interested I refer you to the site and the blog as additional sources of information.

Inspired dall’astrattismo rationalist of the first nine hundred of De Stijl, Neoplasticismo, and the Russian avant-garde, the designer Matteo Nunziati designed for the company Rapsel, integrated solution for the bathroom Yume.

Presented at the International Furniture Fair 2008, Yume concentrated in a single element, sink, plan, support and a space to contain objects. The solution innovative and functional, exploits the potential of a material such as Nikron, strong, flexible, hygienic and antistatic, presented in a wide range of colors in size 90 × 40×50.