Milan: Furniture Fair –
Vionnet Rosanna Orlandi party. The
Vionnet party at the Bagatti Valsecchi Museum, showcased and exhibition called
Untold and was curated by Rosanna Orlandi, it was one of the best parties of
the Furniture Fair. Untold defines a path within the museum revealing
intervals and proximities between the world of today and the authority of
history. One piece by one designer or a contemporary artist were placed in each
room, creating a soft tension with the existing environment. At the center of
this magnificent trip was the impressive installation created by Jacopo Foggini
for Vionnet, an accumulation signs hanging from the ceiling.
Piergiorgio Robino,
Vionnet’s Goga Ashkenazi and Jacopo Foggini
Guido Brugnoni and
curator Rossana Orlandi
Untold: Studio
Formafantasma for Lobmeyer – Still, tools for purification,
charcoal, crystal
and copper shaped to enjoy the most valuable drink: pure water.
Erika Barbieri, Henrik
Olsson with Formafantasma’s Andrea Trimarchi
and Simone Farresin
Untold: Carlo Bach – Cupboard installation. “The aphorism of Saint Augustin has been coming along
with me all the time in my life, because it perfectly expresses the difficulty
of explaining the time with words. If you substitute the word “time” with the
concept of “art” it works the same very well! Words are not my media. That ́s
why I chose “sand” with all its intrinsic characteristics as a medium to
investigate a theme that I have been loving for all my life. Absolute and
parallel syntheses of my work is the poetry “View with a grain of sand” by
Wislawa Szymborska”. Bach explains.
Ron Arad
Untold:
Nacho Carbonell – Cumulus. Detail of the
chair. The chair shows the feeling of being “under pressure” from society,
families, business and even yourself.
Nacho Carbonell and Tatiana Uzlova
Untold: Nika Zupanc in
collaboration with Dormeo – Love Me More. The Forever Bed is inspired by both, beds
that can be folded into cabinets, and cabinets with locks.
Emmanuel Babled
Matteo Cibic
Untold: Wonmin Park – Bloom
Chair
Antonio Monfreda and Ivan
Olita
Photograph courtesy
Jamesplumb
Untold: Jamesplumb –
Cupboard Steps. Fragment of a medieval oak spiral staircase and a Georgian corner
cupboard.
“The most beautiful thing we can experience is the mysterious. It is
the source of all true art and science.”
Albert Einstein.
James Russell and Hannah Plumb’s latest assemblage is one
that defies typical description or explanation, and is best understood with the
knowledge that at the heart of their work there lies an intuitive ‘coupling’ or
‘marrying’ of objects.
Jamesplumb - James Russell
and Hannah Plumb
Lisa Corti
JJ Martin, Tom Delavan and
Tom Dixon
Maurizio Galante
Untold: Salvador Dali produced
by BD Barcelona – Xai Lamb. This project is a hallmark on the long tradition of
BD’s reproductions of Salvador Dali’s furniture that started with the sofa in
the form of lips.
Untold: Desiree Von Pelt
and Maliah Von Pelt with Desiree’s Crystal Myth Collection – Better Than the
Real Thing. Photographed with The Basalt
Columns.
The natural wonder and the fracture of the dark basalt columns on the
Irish coast have been the spark to create the three piece installation.
From
the austere hexagonal pieces, arises an eruption of volcanic ash and light.
Like molten magma, gorgeous lava light beams from within the core.
Tlyer Hays and Uberta
Zambeletti
Untold: Marcel Wanders –
Delft Blue Tattoed Arms. Designed for world-renown Dutch pianist Iris Hond,
‘Fragile Fingers on a Grand Piano’ carries Wanders personal design signatures
of play, poetry and fantasy. Whilst performing, Iris Hond’s hands and arms
tattoo symbolize and spread Dutch tradition and beauty to all corners of the
world.
Yuki Tintori with Baciamano
chair designed by Nigel Coates and Barnaba Fornasetti.
Marc Hostier and Lorenzo
Montagna
Renata Rehbinder
Marta Marzotto
Untold: Maarten Baas for
Carpenters Workshop. Detail of Grandmother Clock.
Fabio Bellotti, Daniela
Morera and Tom Delavan
Jordan Stone
Untold: Enrico Marone
Cinzano. “I continue my approach the theme of sustainability defining it with
products that are aesthetic, well crafted and conscious. I attain my scope by
using universal rules, like the Fibonacci Sequence, the Golden Rule, age old
wisdom and the utilization of raw materials recognized through times as
beneficial to our health and respectful of Nature. A beautiful, well made and
thought through product will serve its purpose and last longer”.
Gelena Azizbek, Giovanni
Nassi and Paola Donida Maglio
Martino Gamper parks his
bike.
Florist and landscape
gardener Sachiko Ito makes a nature morte with fruits on the well of the
courtyard of the Museum Bagatti Valsecchi.