Milan: FF 2013 - Ventura Lambrate Design District. Ventura Lambrate. Ventura Lambrate district offers a stage to the most talented expressions of the international
design world, with a clear focus on creativity, concept, experimentation, high
quality and content.
Above. Luna building designed by architect Mariano
Pilcher in Via Ventura.
Courtesy Established and Sons
Ventura Lambrate
Design District - Established and Sons/Jasper Morrison. The Hitch Bench designed by Jasper Morrison
for Established and Sons. The scooped top surface of this bench is inviting and
seems to suit the form well, but what if it rains? The grooves which cut across
the surface allows water to drain away whilst maintaining the shape and
emphasizing the ‘scoop’ as they turn up at the edges. Its lightly mysterious
character is intended to suggest something left behind from long ago.
Courtesy Established and Son
Ventura Lambrate Design District - Established and
Sons/Ingo Maurer. The Floating Table
designed by Ingo Maurer for Established and Sons.
This innovative piece on first inspection appears to be
an archetypal wooden kitchen table and chairs but on closer viewing the table
is revealed as ‘floating’; without any legs, supported by a simple extending
mechanism, which connects the chairs. Maurer has drawn inspiration from magic,
ethereal substance and weightlessness.
Ventura Lambrate Design District - Established and Sons/Felix
De Pass. A-Bench designed by Felix De Pass for Established and Sons. A-Bench is a versatile indoor or
outdoor, domestic or contract bench. Made from mirroring and repeating two
different components, A-Bench has a symmetry that allows it to be approached
and used from any angle. The bench’s uplifting, striking angles and carefully
balanced proportions are a result of how the materials are formed and the
functions they must serve.
Ventura Lambrate Design District -010-020-Projects/Studio
WM. Studio WM’s Circular Lamp is a suspended ceiling light, which is supplied
with a warm white circular fluorescent tube and an acrylic diffuser. The lamp is dimmable to create any desired
atmosphere and comes in two versions rubber coated and pressed textile by
Kvadrat.
Ventura Lambrate Design District -010-020-Projects/David
Derksen Design. David Derksen’s Copper Lights are made from folding a thin
copper sheet used to construct stable forms.
This principle defines the shape and aesthetics of the Copper Lights.
Reflecting its surroundings, each facet assumes a different tone, ranging from
dark brown, to red to orange. The
material gives warmth to the light that shines from these delicate lamps.
Ventura Lambrate Design District -010-020-Projects/Lex
Pott. Lex Pott’s True Colour Shelf is
made from copper with oxide colors. The
shelves are the result of research on metals and their true colors; a direct
relationship between color, material and information.
Above. Lex Pott and his True Colours Shelf.
Ventura Lambrate Design District/Svenja Keune. Svenja
Keune’s Emotional Dialogue. SvejnaKeune’s project is about interactive, textile surfaces, which manifest
themselves through movement and noises and call upon people to communicate with
them. The fundamental question was if the communication with a textile surface
is possible and if surfaces can trigger human emotions. The focus is not to
develop functional aspects, but rather on the relationship between people and
object and its tactile and visual qualities. It’s about the personality of a
textile surface quite literally.
Freelance interior designer
specializing in hotels, Isabella Strambio and her baby Siena.
Ventura Lambrate Design District/C 12. C12 Books are
Furniture designed by Anita Donna Bianco.
Street Food
Ventura Lambrate Design District/Emmanuel Babled. Emmanuel Babled’s Osmosi vase, 2013, in hand
blown glass and marbled in collaboration with Venini and Testi. Osmosi
is an edition of unique glass and marble pieces, marrying the two materials
into sculptural objects and furniture.
The project combines new technology with traditional craftsmanship. It is characterized by a virtual fusion between marble and hand-blown glass,
the materials are put together in combination with a precision only possible
thanks to high-level digital technology.
Ventura Lambrate Design District/Mindraft Milan 13 exhibition. Danish Crafts presented Mindcraft, the
exhibition introduced new works from fifteen skillful craftspeople and
designers. All works reflected the innovation that is unfolded in contemporary
Danish craft and design and was curated by Kasper Salto and Thomas Sigsgaard.
Above: Relatives by Rasmus
Kaekkel Fex. A series of chairs
combined in different ways to achieve different functions. Relatives is an experiment
about context. What happens when you create a design that has no function
whatsoever – is it then art? When you let go of function and mass production as
starting points for the creative process, new ways of thinking about design
emerge. The works are the result of a long and winding conceptual process.
Most
of his products are developed using the process statement ‘Art with function –
Design without’, a method developed by Fex in an attempt to push his thinking
outside the box. This tool forces his thoughts along new paths and promotes a
conceptual approach to the design craft.
Mindraft Milan 13 exhibition/ Marbelous Wood – Refraction by Pernille Snedker Hansen. A floor and wall
installation inspired by the
refraction of light through a prism.
Marbelous Wood – Refraction is
a series of wood adorned with a marbling pattern, a technique known from old book
covers.
The floor is the largest wooden surface in Scandinavian homes.
Marbelous Wood reinterprets this classic domestic feature with vibrating colors
across its surface. In Marbelous Wood – Refraction, both the form of the
parquet floor and the applied pattern are inspired by the refraction of light
through a prism, a graduating color scale from one color to the next. Its
highly organic yet graphic patterning creates an optical experience as your
feet move across the floor.
Mindraft Milan 13 exhibition/ Barber shop table on a white patterned floor
by Friis and Black. A floor and a table with an evocative pattern that adds
poetry to everyday life. Print flooring
is unusual today, but in the Baroque, floors with painted patterns were common.
All the wooden surfaces have been silk-screen printed in a multi-layered
technique and subsequently lacquered. The silk-screen technique creates a
delicate impression of the simultaneously simple and intricate patterns and
helps give the Nordic wooden floor a new and challenging expression. The barber shop table draws inspiration from
the old barber shop chair that could be raises and lowered, depending on the
barber’s and the customer’s height.
Ventura Lambrate
Design District/Catellani and Smith. Enzo Catellani’s Sorry Giotto lights above “When I create a lamp, I
always start off with a prototype; my laboratory is a workshop where I
continually accumulate materials, components and objects of all different
kinds; and this is where everything was born... I assemble, weld, bend,
shape... I need to feel the materials, to see how they play with light. In this
initial stage there is no real design, the idea must take shape immediately,
becoming an object. Only at this point do I move on to the traditional design
phase: feasibility, technical characteristics and much more; it’s an idea of
light, and the desire to tell about it, which guides me through the
construction. A large part of my production is made up by pieces that require a
great amount of craftsmanship, it’s the hand of the craftsman that builds them,
his manual work that creates the imperfection, making a truly unique object.”
Enzo Catellani.
Wall light by Catellani and
Smith
The Smith of Catellani and
Smith, is the late thoroughbred Logan Smith, above, son of Ercolano (USA) and
Lydia Esteban (F) shoring Italian Champion 1988-89.