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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.

New Child is a chair for children conceived by the young Japanese designer Toshimitsu Sasaki. With the many adjustments and some elements removable, this product wood can accompany a child throughout its growth.

Indeed New Children have the opportunity to become high chair, chair (of different heights) and game rocking, solutions that allow him to be a multifunctional object that, although very simple, buys charm when used at various locations.

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.

Adam Amos is a product of the 25 young designers who have exhibited a range of eclectic and innovative projects to Truman Brewery in London, on the occasion of the Product Designers Market, the exposure of the Graduate Art and Design Summer shows the students of Middlesex University of London.

The Snaps Unit Adam Amos uses a modular construction method, which uses magnets to assemble indefinitely the various components, designed to build different units, interactive and functional.

The event covers many other interesting projects that I recommend you to go and watch, sustainable as those proposed by Andreas Nydahl or The Green Aesthetic Nick Bampton, amusing and entertaining as Aim for a size 0 Paula Sola or series of objects office of Menelaos Florides.

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.

Annie Coggan is a young U.S. designers who always has cultivated a dream, to open a bar. The news may seem little related to the matter dealt with in this blog, if it were not for the fact that Annie has decided to progettarsi entirely furnishing its future from the local chairs.

The winning choice was to recover old chairs and assemblarle in a very original creating precious embeddings thanks to skillful use of color and appropriate cuts and incisions to each donate a touch of originality. Obviously the fact that the pieces of chairs chairs come from recycled constitutes an added value throughout the collection.