FBR Europe – A Casa, Possible Objects and Kitchen Tales. For the second
year running during the Milan Furniture Fair (a casa) was back;
artists, designers, thinkers, musicians, collectors and lovers of good food met
in a special place in the heart of the creative ferment of the Salone to relax
in the warm, intimate atmosphere of FBR Europe’s showroom and offices
transformed, yet again, into an apartment where people got together and
exchanged ideas, or took a break and met old and new friends and celebrated
the casualness of these encounters.
Above: Fabriano’s Savile Row notebooks where
placed at each table setting for guests to take home with them.
FBR Europe – A Casa, Possible Objects and Kitchen Tales. Fine food helps define a
location where design and art installations, pieces from memory and curious
objects all suggest unusual journeys and inspire unexpected correspondences
between images, situations, emotions already experienced and people who have
not yet met. There is no difference between experimenting, talking together,
drinking or eating.
Above: The
Colino table designed by Michele de Lucchi and Giovanna Latis and made by Riva 1920 and the Euphoria
chairs designed by Paola Navone for Eumens.
FBR Europe – A Casa, Possible Objects and Kitchen Tales. FBR Europe’s
managing director, Francesca Ballini Richards takes very good care of her
guests and clients. Together with stylist and interior decorator Beatrice
Rossetti, she staged a project designed around her showroom
and office space, where lunch, was served and where fine food
helped define the location where design and art installations, pieces from
memory and curious objects all suggested unusual journeys and inspired
unexpected correspondences between images, situations, emotions already
experienced and people who had not yet met.
FBR Europe – A Casa, Possible Objects and Kitchen Tales. The table
setting: Plates designed by Bodo Sperlein, for Nikko, glasses
designed by Kaj Frank and Matti Klenell, for Ittala, cutlery designed by Anna Castelli
Ferrieri – compasso d’Oro 1994 – for Sambonet, linen napkins designed by
Beatrice Rossetti for Society, silver bread plates designed by Thalia Maria
Georgoulis, additional cutlery by Antonio Citterio for
Ittala.
Graphic
designer Francesco Emanuele Fuca and actress Ana
Caterina Morariu sit on Davide Groppi Silver Sacs.
FBR Europe – A Casa, Possible Objects and Kitchen Tales. Titta whose home cooking is delicious, cooked every day for seven days she is a “chef on call” and brings the traditional cuisine of Puglia into the homes of Milan. With original ingredients freshly arriving according to the season, she brings a breath of southern Italian air to dinner parties and events.
Above: Titta was preparing a Salad with chicory, radicchio, pears and spettinato cheese.
Table from the Leftover collection designed by Alfred Von Escher, Light designed by Giovanna Latis.
The Endless box by artist Valerio Rocco Orlando.
Silversmith Thalia Maria Georgoulis and jewelery designer Francesca Mo.
Silver works of art for the table designed by Thalia Maria Georgoulis.
Earings containing sand designed by architect and designer Francesca Mo.
Product designer and creative problem solver Matteo Cibic, FBR Europe's managing director Francesca Ballini Richards and designer Antonio Piccirilli.
Bloggers: Bobos's Gabriele Stringa and Frizzifrizzi's Simone Sbarbati.
To end the meal, Titta's Ricotta Cream with Edible Fresh Flowers.
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Il Luogo di Aimo e Nadia’s chef Alessandro Negrini cooked the first course.
The ingredients: A surprise the starry blitz by the cooks Alessandro
Negrini and Fabio Pisani,
chefs of the restaurant Il Luogo di Aimo e Nadia, cooked
Ligurian sea bream marinated with Mothia salt, Costiera lemon juice, a
cream of Bronte pistachios and new frantoio olive oil.
Chef Alessandro Negrini’s Ligurian Sea Bream.
No ‘left-overs” - cutlery by Antonio
Citterio for Ittala.
FBR Europe – A Casa, Possible Objects and Kitchen Tales. Titta whose home cooking is delicious, cooked every day for seven days she is a “chef on call” and brings the traditional cuisine of Puglia into the homes of Milan. With original ingredients freshly arriving according to the season, she brings a breath of southern Italian air to dinner parties and events.
Above: Titta was preparing a Salad with chicory, radicchio, pears and spettinato cheese.
Titta’s focaccia with tomatoes, origano and
chestnut honey.
Editor in chief of Vestoj magazine Anja Aronowsky Cronberg.
VestoJ in Esperanto means clothing.
jewelry designer Fiona Wood.
Rocawood jewelry designed by Fiona Wood.
Artist Carla Cardinaletti.
photograph courtesy of the artist
l’opera Ankh, neon sculpture by Carla Cardinaletti.
Bearded designer Alfred Von Escher, Rapture and Roses and Maliparmi's design director Silvia Bisconti and Minimal USA's president and CEO Bartolomeo Bellati.
Table from the Leftover collection designed by Alfred Von Escher, Light designed by Giovanna Latis.
The Endless box by artist Valerio Rocco Orlando.
Silversmith Thalia Maria Georgoulis and jewelery designer Francesca Mo.
Silver works of art for the table designed by Thalia Maria Georgoulis.
Earings containing sand designed by architect and designer Francesca Mo.
Product designer and creative problem solver Matteo Cibic, FBR Europe's managing director Francesca Ballini Richards and designer Antonio Piccirilli.
FBR Europe – A Casa, Possible Objects and Kitchen Tales. FBR in
cooperation with Tokyobike conducted daily design tours seeking out the
highlights of Fuori Salone in. Setting off daily from FBR [a casa] project to MOST –
or visa versa – these tours, led by design personalities, guided visitors around
the city, stopping off at the most important design destinations.
Above: Matteo Cibic and Antonio Piccirilli foul around on Tokyobikes.
To end the meal, Titta's Ricotta Cream with Edible Fresh Flowers.
