milan design week 2017
Events
The #Salone17 Review: What More Should We Expect From Milan?
For anyone who couldn’t make it to Milan’s Salone del Mobile and Design Week this year, Cubes magazine’s Milan in Review panel at Xtra had all the need-to-know insights!
Events
Envisions: Favouring Process Over Products
How exciting can MDF and chipboard be? Very. As Dutch design collective Envisions showed in its Wood in Process exhibition during Milan Design Week.
Events
Playing with Outlines
Nendo showcased 16 delightful exhibits that play with the concept of outlines and blurred boundaries in its solo exhibition Invisible Outlines.
Products
Konstantin Grcic Outlines Soft Comfort for Cassina
Moveable cushions allow the new Soft Props sofa system (unveiled during Milan Design Week) to be redefined to suit its space – be it private or public.
Events
News Flash: IKEA is Cool
What used to be one of the design world’s most reviled institutions is now earning a reputation as an authentic design house, committed to investing in original talent. And their efforts at the recent Salone del Mobile 2017 were aimed at emphasising this new era for the brand and for design democracy.
Misc
Nendo’s Objectextile for Jil Sander
Fashion meets photography in Nendo’s Objectextile collection for German fashion label Jill Sander. And the results are quite remarkable.
Events
Linking Minds by Diller Scofidio + Renfro for the ‘A Matter of Perception’ Exhibit
Very often good ideas are generated by closed encounters and long lasting collaborations. The goal for Diller Scofidio + Renfro’s Linking Minds installation is to create an exhibition that lends itself to the creative process between two or more persons.
Events
6 Installations in Milan That Make You Really Think
Milan isn’t just about the latest products, but the latest ideas, too. Here we bring you the best creative installations that have something to say.
Events
Zaha Hadid Architects for Samsung
In the spirit of the late Zaha Hadid, ZHA have whipped out an extraordinary collaboration with Samsung for Milan Design Week 2017.
Events
Kartell Presents ContamiNation
Kartell is a nation contaminated by different ideas and styles… It has no limits or boundaries and no barriers stand in the way of creativity, which roams freely inside the brand’s presentation this year.
Project
Salone 2017: Linking Minds by Diller Scofidio + Renfro for the ‘A Matter of Perception’ Exhibit
Very often good ideas are generated by closed encounters and long lasting collaborations. The goal for Diller Scofidio + Renfro’s Linking Minds installation is to create an exhibition that lends itself to the creative process between two or more persons.
Project
Salone 2017: The Future Of Retail With Multiplex by Tom Dixon
The films are rolling, the shops are open, the food and drinks are being hacked and served; Multiplex is in full swing. Experience the reliably cool eccentricity of Tom Dixon.
Project
Salone 2017: The Marni Playland
Just for the occasion of Milan 2017 Salone del Mobile, famed fashion-house Marni has transformed its space at Viale Umbria 42 into one big designer-heaven playground: The Marni Playland.
Events
The Great Tom Dixon Experience
Experience the reliably cool eccentricity of Tom Dixon only in the Multiplex, an oasis of comfort and entertainment for exhausted design aficionados, tourists and busy professionals juggling appointments under the Milanese sun.
Events
Chromatography: the Colour World of Scholten & Baijings
Herman Miller, Maharam and Scholten & Baijings present brand new textiles and furniture in a colourful exhibition on the occasion of Salone 2017.
People
Salone 2017: Benjamin Hubert’s Intelligent Knit For Moroso
Among Moroso’s novelties at the Salone del Mobile 2017 are two prototypes for a chair with a complex 3D-knitted mesh construction that shows the efficiencies possible with new production techniques.
Project
Salone 2017: Top 6 Milan Installations To Really Make You Think
Milan isn’t just about the latest products, but the latest ideas, too. Live from on the ground at this year’s fair, we bring you the best creative installations that have something to say.
News
Salone 2017: Comfort Never Looked So Good
If we had to dream up a dream way to sit, it could well come in the form of this multifunctional Daydream seat that’s just been unveiled by Joynout studio at Milan Design Week 2017.
Project
Salone 2017: ‘Unconfined’ by Zaha Hadid Architects For Samsung
Once again (and in the spirit of their late leader, Zaha Hadid) ZHA have whipped up something extraordinary in collaboration with Samsung for Milan Design Week 2017.
Furniture
Daydream in Comfort
If we had to dream up a dream way to sit, it could well come in the form of this multifunctional Daydream seat that’s just been unveiled by Joynout studio at Milan Design Week – comfort never look so good!
Events
Engineered Nature
Humanscale presents the RE:CHARGE Café at Fuorisalone, a nature-inspired oasis that strives to physically and mentally re-energise visitors in a carefully curated and researched space.
Events
A Decade of Lee Broom
A derelict, previously never-open-to-public vault in the famous and historic Milano Centrale train station will play host to Lee Broom’s 10th anniversary collection at Salone del Mobile next week.
Events
Get Colourful at the Superdesign Show in Milan
Superstudio is a pioneer of the FuoriSalone neighbourhood phenomenon during Milan Design Week. We take a look at what’s lined up this year at the enormous Superstudio Piu. Our advice: Wear comfortable shoes!