Milan: FF 2013
– Triennale – Highlights. A few of the
highlights shown at the Triennale, Milan’s design museum, during the Salone delMobile.
Triennale:
Highlights – Gae Aulenti – Objects and Spaces exhibtition.
The Triennale Design Museum remembered
Gae Aulenti through a selection of her most iconic design objects made from 1962 to 2008,
edited by Vanni Pasca with an installation design by studio Gae Aulenti
Associates Architects.
In 2012 she was awarded the Trienniale Gold Medal for Lifetime Achievement.
Triennale: Highlights – Handmade in Hangzhou exhibition. Rong in Chinese means melt or fuse. This notion is at the core of the philosophy of 'Handmade In Hangzhou'. Thirteen designers deconstruct the traditional bamboo crafts of Hangzhou and apply them in contemporary design. The exhibition was curated by PINWU.
Above. On the left, Bamboo
Leaves designed by PINWU. The flexibility of bamboo leaves
and the translucency of bamboo skin combine to form a special bond. Each leaf
is a module. Placing them together en masse enables the designer to build a
structure with remarkable character. On
the right, Pian also designed by PINWU. The paper fan, a handicraft that has
been largely abandoned is combined with modern lighting and brought into the
home. 60 fans are strung together by a spring-like rattan to form a lamp.
Handmade in Hangzhou
exhibition. Designer Zhang Lei is being interviewed behind him Cocoon designed
by Chen Haoru, the bamboo cocoon is a miniature human
capsule. Each bamboo fiber is long enough to wrap around the human body. The
formation of the bamboo cocoon parallels the formation of the silkworm cocoon.
The cocoon is woven from the inside out, and the opening is cut out of the
whole completed capsule.
Handmade in Hangzhou
exhibition. Ren designed by Wang Shenghai, he uses “rong” as
the design philosophy, by melting the wisdom of traditional bamboo weaving
handcraft and annealing it again to form a new material which is both natural
and flexible. This can be used in furniture production, giving a natural look
to industrial materials.
Handmade in Hangzhou
exhibition. Cloud designed by Zhang Junjie, brand: Sozen. Flexible bamboo is used in an interlocking
fashion to achieve the maximal supporting force. It combined traditional bamboo
weaving methods with modern digital software technology. It also inspired us to
investigate other structural designs and materials we could use in the future.
Triennale: Highlights – Bottega Pierluigi
Ghianda. Pierluigi Ghianda, craftsman and designer is
photographed among his designs. He has been defined "the
poet of wood", for the love with which he works, for his expert
knowledge of this living material that never dies, even after hundreds of
years, and the profound respect he brings to it.
Pierluigi Ghianda – Pill Boxes
Triennale: Highlights – Freedom Room. Freedom
Room, by Cibicworkshop, was an installation, a proposal, a product showing real
size module’s prototype and other examples of “in jail” projects, an idea for
temporary housing, spread hotels, hostels.
Aldo Cibic
The plan for Freedom Room by Cibicworkshop.
Triennale:
Highlights – Setsu e Shinobu ito - Frottage – Natural Story. Frottage –
Natural Story exhibition was curated by Setsu e
Shinobu ito. Paper and stone, nature and artifice, were the protagonists of this art
exhibition that was born from necessity to explore a new dimension in the
middle between the inviolability of technology and materiality of nature in a
synthesis of Italian and Japanese spirit in balance between lightness (paper)
and heaviness (stone).
Above. Armchair Kay made
from recycled cardboard.
Triennale: Massimo Iosa Ghini exhibition. The exhibition
Massimo Iosa Ghini is dedicated to the Bolognese architect, one of the most
eclectic personalities of the architecture and international design. It traces,
through a path organized with theme areas, in chronological order, the thirty
year long career of Iosa Ghini, from the 80s until today, showing through a
wide selection of interior design and architecture projects, design objects,
illustrations, audiovisual contributions, which are characterized by the least
common denominator of design, felt by the Iosa Ghini as a steady training and
an essential starting point of all his creative process.
Above: Massimo Iosa Ghini
Massimo Iosa Ghini exhibition- Coffee pot.
Massimo Iosa Ghini exhibition – New Tone sofa
for Moroso 1989.
Massimo Iosa Ghini exhibition – Bus Stop –
Ustra Public Transport – Hannover, 1994.
Triennale: Highlights - Constancy and Change
– In Korean Traditional Craft 2013. Selected for the exhibition Constancy &
Change in Korean Traditional Craft
are sixteen craftsmen whose work preserved traditional values while expanding
the realm of craft. Showcased are eleven
contemporary objects of daily use in a decontextualized manner and are almost
abstract in their concise perfection. The materials are natural, ecological,
and local and are precious in their authenticity and purity.
Above - Line + Line + Line. The traditional dress, made of natural
cotton, was stitched by hands of holders of Intangible Cultural Heritage
titles. It is presented in its impalpable superimposition of nine layers.
Constancy and Change. The exhibition’s curator Sohn Hye-won is
passionately committed to the defense and promotion of historical Korean
crafts. Sohn has chosen six types of
daily like artifacts, each made with different materials (wood, ceramic,
fabrics, silver, paper and lacquer).
Constancy and Change – Tray Table with Peony
Design.
The tray table series, with their lacquered surface and inlaid mother-of-pearl,
are typical of traditional Korean welcoming culture. They have been reproduced
in a most modern shape to demonstrate most colorful mother-of-pearl techniques.
Constancy and Change – Lacquered Chest. The dresser is
inlaid with mother-of-pearl and flower motives; it was made by a government
designated Intangible Cultural Heritage.
Constancy and Change – Korean Bedding. The bedding is made with a handmade patchwork
and has an original kaleidoscopic motif of colored triangles. The composition of branches and flowers that
usually decorate royal feasts at courts, witness the permanence of an ancient
art that is connected with oriental symmetries.
Triennale: Highlights – Jacopo Foggini –
Matrioska Super Hero. Jacopo Foggini reinterprets Russia’s most famous symbol
with a monumental lighting work in a futurist and artistic vision called
Matrioska Super Hero.
Seen at the Triennale, designer Masa Tsumra.
Triennale: Highlights – Prandina – Sand, Fire
and Air. The Prandina installation told the story of glass starting from
its material origins: sand. The space
has a twofold meaning, emotional and narrative: while placing the glass at the
center it unveils, its surroundings, secrets and particulars of the traditional
and contemporary works. It is a tale
that develops along a path meeting the different experiences and experiments that,
between past, present and future, bind the Prandina brand to this material.
Above.
Sergio Prandina.
Triennale: Highlights - Danish Chromatism -
Fritz Hansen. Fritz Hansen was founded in Denmark in 1872 and is among the most
exclusive design furniture brands worldwide.
The company has produced a rich portfolio of furniture now
considered “Classics” and has identified
with design icons like Arne Jacobsen and more recently with international design
stars like Jaime Hayon, Todd Bracher and Tadao Ando.
Fritz Hansen - in the foreground, Dream Chair, Tadao Ando 2013 behind
Shell Chair by Hans J, Wegner.
Triennale: Highlights - Design
Museum - The Syndrome of Influence exhibition.
In Triennale Design Museum the Syndrome of Influence exhibition, until
February 23 2014, is devoted to an aspect that is inherent in Italian design,
which its capacity for assimilation and its curiosity and desire to interact
with other styles and cultures in order to bring about new projects and
developments. Design contributions of a
variety of origins are detached from their original settings and subjected to
unexpected processes. New, imaginative spaces are created out of an
"erroneous" but creative interpretation of precedent. This is where
the "syndrome of influence" comes into action: it is made possible by
the ability of each visual language to act upon any other, in a never-ending
process. The exhibition is arranged in
three parts.
Above: installation by
Formafantasma and Roberto Sambonet in the First part: The Invention of Italian
Design. In this section ten installations
devoted to the masters of the "golden age" of Italian design. The
installations are the work of contemporary designers and each one is dedicated
to a master of the 1950s and 1960s and to their artistic sensitivities,
inquisitiveness, sources of inspiration, travels and encounters.
Triennale Design Museum - The
Syndrome of Influence exhibition. Third
part: A New World. The third part shows how the new design brands found their
place in the world of the "Made in Italy" label. The installations
are designed to illustrate the philosophy of the leading brands, the way they
establish their production strategies and how they choose their corporate image
and their designers. The inquisitiveness and the sense of adventure we find in
the designers of the 1950s and '60s are now transferred to these organisations
in a sort of reversed approach, which aims to examine the inner workings of
Italian design at the point of convergence of all the different aspects that
led to it.
Above. Alessandro Mendini and
Alessi.
Triennale Design Museum - The
Syndrome of Influence exhibition. Third
part: A New World. Benedetta Palle and Artemide installation.
Seen in the Design Café Pierluigi
Nicolin scientific curator of the The Syndrome of Influence exhibition in the
Design Museum section of the Triennale.
The Triennale Design Café and
Restaurant. In the Triennale Design Café and Restaurant. A series of
independent counters contain theme-based displays curated by the Triennale
Design Museum.
Above. Stuf Design creates Ideas for
everyday use, that reveal their function through curiosity, leaving space for
surprise and emotion; qualities able to transform an inanimate object to
something alive, into a “thing” to love.
The Triennale Design Café and
Restaurant. The table setting, a paper
mat advertises the current exhibition The Syndrome of Influence.
We ate:
Saffron Rice au Gratin with a
Blue Cheese Sauce
Chocolate Muffins on a Bed of
Mascarpone
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