#MDW2019 – FIVE
Seen in Milan – Design – Designers + More
The Manzoni – Tom Dixon
Bar – Restaurant – Showroom
On Via Manzoni
and aptly named The Manzoni, the new 100-cover restaurant has been created by
Tom’s Design Research Studio. Pre-Opening to coincide with Milan Design Week,
it will re-open after Salone as a permanent restaurant, bar and a showroom.
“Just like in London,
we don’t think it’s enough to just have a showroom. We need a place where
people slow down and experience our products in a live setting. And, there
is nothing dustier than a conventional lighting and furniture showroom. But
with The Manzoni, people are able to experience our new collections in an
active context.”
Tom Dixon
The Manzoni
Arabeschi di Latte – Francesca Sarti
The Manzoni – Tom Dixon
Outdoor Courtyard
The Manzoni – Tom Dixon
The Bathrooms
Fornasetti
New Rug
Collection
Art Director – Barnaba Fornasetti
The protagonists of the many Fornasetti motifs
inspired by nature include fish, shells, flowers, birds and butterflies. The
large fish on the Lampuga rug
is a decoration created by Piero Fornasetti in the early Fifties, reworked here
in a faithful transposition in wool and silk.
Lampuga - Rug
Hand tufted, New Zealand wool and delicate silk
Fornasetti
New Rug
Collection
The snake decoration, originally named Serpe,
is part of Piero Fornasetti's output from the Fifties. The new rug presents it
in a mesmerising mixture with a background of leaves, a theme borrowed from The
Leopardo
chest of drawers, designed in the
Fifties and become one of the
iconic Fornasetti pieces.
Peccato
Originale
- Rug
Hand tufted, New Zealand wool and delicate silk
Fornasetti
New Rug
Collection
The Optical
rug reinterprets an original Fifties decoration by Piero Fornasetti known as Geometrico.
The abstract compositions and overlapping geometries, so dense as to become
textures, highlight Piero Fornasetti's love of line drawings, and his
fascination with rhythm and repetition. From the alternation between full and
empty spaces emerges the representation of a sun, also in black and white, a
symbolic image in Fornasetti's work.
Optical - Rug
Hand tufted, 100% New Zealand wool
Author - Edgarda
Ferri
Loewe Boutique
Loewe Baskets
Loewe Baskets
Loewe Baskets, eight
prominent international artists interpret the theme of basketry. The artists
from Japan, the US, South Korea, Ireland and South Africa, share a deep
knowledge of their disciplines and bring their own distinct style to the
project.
Loewe Boutique
Objects and Decoration
Objects and Decoration
Homeware
collection includes wooden Kiribako boxes, used in Japan since the seventeenth
century for the safe-keeping of valuables, mementoes and precious items.
Knotted stone ornaments, that invite quiet contemplation, peace and serenity,
have been tied using traditional Japanese basket making techniques to achieve a
finely balanced accord between the crafted and natural elements.
Author – Giovanni Mastrangelo
Janus
Yasuto Veneered - Surfaces and Design
Large-format paintings by Master Shuhei
Matsuyama are presented together with the creations produced by Yasuta Veneered
Surfaces and Design, highlighting the quality and beauty of the natural wood veneers as material
used and worked by the company.
Artist - Shuhei Matsuyama - Architect - Nobuhiko Shimada
Janus
Yasuto Veneered - Surfaces and Design
Artist - Flaminia Veronesi
Janus
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