B and B Italia: Antonio Citterio – Mirto. At B and B Antonio Citterio’s Mirto chair was inspired by the classics of Modern Movement
where leather is used for its structural properties, and not as a cover. Combined
with a metal frame, it generates a highly sophisticated item with pure basic
design.
B and B Italia: Doshi Levien – Almora. Named after
the Indian region that offers a breathtaking view of the Himalayan Mountains
and, quoting its designers, it longs to be “a haven from the world, a place for
contemplation and reading from where one can admire magnificent snow-capped
peaks. As protective as a second skin, enveloping like a soft blanket.” Doshi
Levien explain the inspiration for their Almora armchair.
Homage to the late, great Piero Busnelli founder of the
company.
Fornasetti: Nigel Coates and
Barnaba Fornasetti – Baciamano. In the new Fornasetti collection the armchair
"Baciamano" designed by Nigel Coates in collaboration with Barnaba
Fornasetti, whose shape is reminiscent of a welcoming hand offering support thanks
to a small table placed on the armrest and decorated with one of the many
variations Fornasetti historical images.
The seat is embellished by a
cushion embroidered on both sides with different pairs of patterns to choose
from: a dragonfly and a beetle, two different Roman coins, or of body parts.
Fornasetti: Detail of "Baciamano" side table designed by Nigel Coates in collaboration with Barnaba
Fornasetti.
Photograph courtesy Fornasetti
Barnaba Fornasetti and Nigel
Coates
Coffee time at
Fornasetti
Sawaya and Moroni: Dominique
Perrault with Gaelle Lauriot Prevost - Indiscret, centerpoint armchair. At Sawaya andMoroni the Indiscret, Centerpoint Chair designed by Dominique
Perrault with Gaelle Lauriot Prevost. Reappraising and reinterpreting the classical
typologies of domestic seating led to the three-seater. Perrault studied the
joint based on three identical arms that generates a three-seater unit arranged
in a Y-shaped configuration. Because of the angles adopted by its
configuration, Indiscret can accommodate three people, who can maintain their
privacy without having to sit next to each other. Indiscret also comes with an
unusual longhaired Mongolian sheepskin cover, whose soft whiteness transforms
the figure into an informal, exuberant, exciting element.
Gerald Moran with Paolo Moroni,
in the background William Sawaya’s Leggy Peggy armchair.
Sawaya and Moroni: William
Sawaya – O’Blik armchair. William
Sawaya has been focusing on the O’Blik series of chairs and occasional tables.
Acting as a virtual yardstick, an empty modeled shaft has been cut diagonally
to generate a sort of sculptural ring capable of fulfilling the function of the
backrest and the point of frontal support. The same series also includes
occasional tables in various heights and sizes that work on the principle of
the ‘excavated volume’: wooden cylinders and parallelepipeds with fauve
coloring on the inside and ‘cut out’ to define lightweight figures covered with
tops in the same material or in glass etched with acids to achieve a particular
frozen finish.
Missoni Home: Rosita Missoni –
Flower Power. Rosita Missoni’s love of
flowers and the garden come strongly across in her latest collection for Missoni
Home inspired by her garden in Sumirago.
Above. Rosita Missoni on the
Papavero Filigrana Tiamat sofa.
Missoni Home. A detail of the
Nap chaise-longue sofa in matelassé
jacquard with Pittsburgh chequered motif.
Missoni Home. A brightly
flowered carpet completes the collection.
Seen in the Missoni Home showroom Giannola
Nonino, Rosita Missoni and Chiara
Bardelli Nonino
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