Daniel Emma in Milan: Day Two

Daniel To and Emma Aiston of design duo Daniel Emma are in Milan for the furniture fair… and bringing us their experiences from the ground. Here’s what they got up to on day 2.

BY jesse

April 13th, 2011

Today we visited Zona Tortona where the likes of Tom Dixon, Cappellini, and Moooi are exhibiting.

Studio Job chairs for Moooi

Later we went to Spazio Orlandi and saw beautiful pieces by + – 0 and Jaime Hayon (see hero image).

+ – 0

Screens by BCXSY

The sun was shining and we had a lovely time out and about; we also managed to spend a couple of hours perusing the isles of a gigantic supermarket we stumbled across, purchasing many things we didn’t need but just had to have!

Supermarket!

Dan and Emma.

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