Widening net of world trade seems to be the reason 45 Salone Internazionale del Mobile, the international furniture fair held on the outskirts of Milan, to host near-record 2500 exhibitors from 37 countries this month. This is the New Age trade caravans, and with it came a hybrid international aesthetic that even the Italians, 90 percent of the exhibitors, embraced.
In the new Fairgrounds and buildings in Rho-Pero, designed by Massimiliano Fuksas, the showroom in the city, and private parties before opening day, and outside the scene in the slum district of Tortona design for I Saloni, spectators got a clear view of what which will come in furniture, kitchen and bathroom design store this fall.
Fuksas' milelong road - with the glass canopy on slender posts floating 120 feet in the air, flanked by buildings and transparent metal clad pavilion shaped like dirigibles on stage - is one of the exciting vision of the future. In the exhibition space and 20 high-undiscovered adjacent Salone Satellite for young designers, fairgoers can find the next design wave - cross pollination of modernist Western ideas and sensual, decorative, lace traditional themes seen in Japan, Spain or Latin America.
Cappellini used live models in the round screen house. With the theme of domestic nomadism, "to experience the home without restriction," was promoted almost no walls between the rooms, and also easy to crossover and aesthetic design of the resurrection. Tom Dixon's classic Bolide chair and Marcel wanders' Red knotted chair, both published in limited editions, and Jasper Morrison Elise new bed to repeat his 1990-an outstanding Jaipur couch. In the rest of the booth, the new design shows the crossover of technology and culture, including Francois Azambourg one-of-a kind of Mr. Bugatti chairs made of randomly dented cans filled with polyurethane, and Moroso Lotus smart chair.
Asian influence is clearly obvious "in many introductions from producers we visited," said Cardenio Petrucci, an Italian and an owner of Dzine, a new modernist furniture retailer in San Francisco.
For several years the furniture industry has left behind sales - reported a nearly 10 percent decline in revenue for Italian companies. The pressure to improve results through major design innovation high. A move away from the cold, rectilinear clarity to the decorative, patterned spirit seems to have completed the popular, and even non-Italian company turned to the textures, patterns and bright colors.
British designer Tom Dixon's interesting geometrics in addition to lamination and textiles, there are patterns of flowers and animals are listed on various surfaces by the likes of Dutch Droog design and Tord Boontje. Collection of ceramic vases with bird and flower patterns Moroso was among the best works of Boontje.
Another phenomenon, echoing the world of fashion, is a constellation of superstars in the industry. Some designers - Patricia Urquiola, Ross Lovegrove, Ron Arad, Philippe Starck, Naoto Fukusawa, Piero Lissoni, to name a few - seem to come down the catwalk simultaneously for several high profile companies, including Porro, Driade, Moroso, Vitra, Kartell, Horm and Boffi . Such a strategy could easily backfire if designers dilute their vision trying to be different for every company - or, worse yet, give each client the same thing.
Not so, says Starck. "I'm older and more experienced. I'm not trying to show me. I design for my friends, my family and my community culture," he said. "I dispatch the project depends on the company's technology have and what they can do. Depending on the specification."
"Not every company I worked for to produce the extreme edge of every technology. Kartell can only produce something like the Louis Ghost plastic chair. Emeco chairs can be made only in aluminum."
Piero Lissoni, furniture that also appeared in various labels, also created an incredible booth for Porro. "Every year he surprised us," said sales manager Amelia Tagliabue. Lissoni's panel lit from the inside off a two-story booth Porro from around the exhibition. In the booth, an elegant room settings on display Porro's efficient, curved sections, partly by Lissoni and Jean Marie Massaud.
Georgetti, known for his offbeat creations hand-cut beech, maple and cherry wood that seem customized to the owner Carlo Georgetti, has expanded its portfolio with fine works of a resident designer, Chi Wing Lo. Typical Asian influences mesh well with the interior design. Among the smallest, yet most complex, from Georgetti prototype shown at the factory in Meda, just north of Milan, was Eos, the three-legged trolley / side table on wheels metal ring that is not unusual.
"It took a long time to decide on wheels," he said. "Every table like this have a tendency to tilt, and when it has wheels, the pressure just at the point where the wheels touch the ground." Lo Wing and manipulated to strengthen steel armature to be stable and neatly accommodates round wooden butler tray on top and a shelf to hold another tray below.
Lo Wing designed Georgetti's booth at I Saloni. "This year we opened," he said. "Space is a form of luxury. Luxury contemporary is time and space."
"My grandfather started the company. Of course you have to change after 100 years," said Georgetti. He has taken from the eponymous company making Renaissance-style furniture to eclectic modernism, which echoes the evolution of Italian design in general.
Thinking like in Milan may also be a symbol of the times, as Berlusconi's right-wing, anti-immigrant, anti-government change to get the boot of Italy.
Extraordinary Driade showroom, in a palace of the 18th century with wall paintings and murals in which more than 15 new products - many of aluminum - the prime, Naoto Fukusawa led a full room design.
His extended Muku (solid) line of sofas, tables and a simple coat hanger all made of mahogany, white marble or a different skin Japanese Mingei roots and snares well with the rest Driade's rationalist, minimalist system designed by the architect-designer Antonia Astori.
Astori has worked at Driade aesthetic for 35 years, and he also seems biased towards what looks like a Japanese aesthetic with Virginia table, console and Eileen Cotton bookshelves. Epiplos II 2003 his firm, which has the same sensitivity, it seems like a very fine Tansu chest. Based on the grid system, these pieces have a width and height divided by the width of a perfect (2.5 cm) from the slot that is used as a drawer pull.
"There is no ideal proportions, but sometimes I force the machine to use the box. In this way not only furniture but a part of the architecture," he said, referring also to the kitchen cabinet system and he has designed the disappeared through the folding doors .
Other companies, such as Zanotta, depending on their own vision to achieve a similar sensual, decorative aesthetic epitomized by the long, curved leather seat mounted on a steel frame by Ludovica and Roberto Palomba, and Veryround, a wonderful, smooth laser-cut sheet steel napkin -like chairs for outdoor use.
Vitra and Kartell, happened next to each other, each representing the full spectrum of their oeuvres going back decades. Kartell Starck design exhibit also a new beginning Top Top tables with translucent acrylic legs. Kartell's oldest design looks fresh today as they did when they were prime.
Kartell, which began as a company that produces plastic parts for cars, is also working Kartell design new Citroen C3 Pluriel, unveiled at a party one of Kartell. In Rho-Pero a lot of new prototypes, including a collapsible trolley by Antonio Citterio, Panier plastic basket tables by Erwan and Ronan Bouroullec ($ 244 - $ 288) and hole-injection lace formed the tables ($ 227) by the unbearable, productive Spain Patricia Urquiola.
She cried during the Moroso party that he could not imagine how he was so busy. "It was not so long ago when we did not have so much work," he said. In the face of Italian design changes, these ideas obviously Milan designers many requests.
He felt-covered chaises for Moroso, by lifting a red poinsettia against a white (like a kimono patterns) is one of the more brilliant, fantastic designs this year. Shanghai Tip, various painted sticklike couch with his legs, leaving no doubt about her Asian inspiration.
At Vitra, who also has a section dedicated to the design history, overscale pendant lamp shades made from a snap-on leather and felt the panel system, designed by the Bouroullec brothers, showed the relaxed company. Hella Jongerius, the company's first female designer has been invited into the fold in the year, added to the friendly, gentle, more decorative Vitra Home Collection.
His workers seem chairs made of cloth and remaining ingredients - such homespun crafts project. Part of the purpose is to create a comfortable design in the eye and that can go into any setting. People do not always know what to do in their homes, he said, and in this way, "I helped them to develop a new language."
Central European companies, some Americans - Emeco, Heller and Odegard - held their own with the icons of classical and new designs. Eames Demetrios, whose grandfather Charles Eames' work is part of Vitra's retrospective show, was enthusiastic about making a series of films about how to design Emeco made.
"Citizen Starck" shows the creation of an aluminum version of the famous Starck Emeco chair for the U.S. Navy and describes the designer in a philosophical mode: "I am not a designer. I am a French citizen in the meaning of the word," he was quoted as saying.
Ingo Maurer, New York lighting designer, had an impressive off-site design exhibition Lara Hedberg Deam, founder of Dwell magazine, admired. San Francisco designers are also getting their names in lights. At Galleria Alessandro De March Milano, lighting designer and artist Johanna Grawunder, a former partner at Sottsass Associati who often commutes between Milan and San Francisco, shows two limited-edition pieces. Show "New Position" consists of an easy chair with a light tube mounted on the bottom and a literal table lamp - a table filled with hundreds overscale incandescent lamp, he intends to table suspended over his head.
San Francisco's Yves Behar (in previous years he designed the Voyage chandelier for Swarovski and a martini glass for Bombay Sapphire) and the students of California College of the Arts show dog supplies like dog and fill their own drinking water, part of their collections Gino Dog ( now on display at the Commission in San Francisco). They were exhibited at Sportmax near bowls designed by French designer Andree Putman, all for Gaia & Gino.
Near Dixon and Droog booth at Superstudio Piu, Bombay Sapphire martinis a recent competition. Winners Jorre van Ast and Tomek from British Rygalik made upside down, blown glass consists of slender stems rising from a shallow bowl. Rygalik also designed an all-raw leather chair for Moroso.
For these people go home, Bombay Sapphire has another treat waiting at the airport Malpensa: Tom Dixon's Stretch sofas - long enough to accommodate a pair of stretched-out Bedouin on a new trade route.
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