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17/06/2022
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Among the many messages of appreciation that we jealously guard in our laptops, the one written by a young visitor struck us most. We would like to share it here and express our gratitude for her kind words. Anticipating that…metaverse is already on our agenda! "Superstudio never disappoints, as usual. I have been attending the Fuorisalone for almost 8/9 years, at its inception I was just a college student eager to fill her eyes with "beautiful things". In the early years, via Tortona led the Milan Design Week, with Superstudio as its focal point. I also remember the endless line over the steel bridge…I am now a graphic designer, and for me the Fuorisalone and Superstudio are both synonyms of inspiration and creativity. I have seen the event change a lot over the years: its sprawl throughout the whole city of Milan has its pros and cons (like a partial emptying...

13/06/2022
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A resurgent Milan Design Week 2022 concluded with a bang, probably exceeding expectations given all the difficulties that pandemic, war and impossible journeys caused preventing a part of the world from travelling to the city. Milan is, as always, the undisputed capital of international design, with over 800 events. While the general numbers, those stated by Rho Fiera Salone, are only half of the miraculous year of 2019, so are the city events, communicated based on abstract restrictions.
Superstudio Più has for years been able to collect data and certificates for its Superdesign Show through mandatory registration, which, like at the Fiera...

07/06/2022
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A monumental pinocchio in the huge Event Square warns everybody's walking in front of it about the many lies of sustainability...

"Someone is Lying”, a perfect title for the project by Alcantara, a leading company in the industry and certified Carbon Neutral since 2009, to raise awareness among a cross-section of the public about the importance of engagement based on science and facts and not on the misleading communications circulating on the sustainability front...

05/06/2022
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Trees located at the entrance of the Superdesign Show mark the sections in which the “Looking Ahead” project is divided. Six stylized blue trees designed by Giulio Cappellini and treated by Sonja Quarone as "ad artem" stand out as unique pieces that signal and invite visitors to enter the show without getting lost along the rich path of this edition. Resin provided by Gobbetto is applied to the wood, which creates a surface with a multitude of shades and reliefs.

05/06/2022
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What about dedicating the garden, courtyard or terrace the same care as home or workplace?...

In the huge art garden by the entrance to Superstudio, amid the sculptures by Flavio Lucchini, the installation in the green displays the latest features in outdoor furniture, including the garden accessories by Paolelli Garden, the pieces by Piero Lissoni and Patricia Urquiola for Janus et Cie and the stone pavements by Nero Sicilia. A biophilic multifunctional and modular veranda by Massimiliano Mandarini with Gaviota Pergole Bioclimatiche illustrates the vision of a future that is friendly to nature by exploring new ideas regarding indoor and outdoor environments. This project is the result of a research related to the 2030...

05/06/2022
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Looking Ahead: this was the general theme conceived, months back, to indicate the direction of the next edition of Superstudio’s Superdesign Show during Design Week 2022. As if to distance us from the convictions of many: “Everything will return as before” and predicting that the future will actually be reformulated in all of its expressions, we’ve invited interesting designers and companies to attend our event and align with our glimpsing “beyond”. To be able to explore unknown territory, to anticipate needs and trends, translate the word “sustainability” – the common term connecting everything – into concrete proposals, and redesign our lives which have become unexpectedly more complicated... 

The occasion of Design Week 2022, assigned by the pandemic to this year’s anomalous date, rendered even more uncertain by the war in Ukraine, makes the date with design a moment of optimism which aims to repair the social, commercial and productive fabric in a positive manner. The latest edition of Superdesign confirms the creative direction of Gisella Borioli and the art direction of Giulio Cappellini, who have made the Superdesign Show prestigious and unmissable ever since the first edition in 2000, and all of its iterations in the years following...

05/06/2022
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Despite our gaze turning to the metaverse where we will discover the worlds of our dreams, there is still a strong desire for comfort, for a home-cocoon that, however small, should be reassuring and welcoming. Rooms with different styles and from different countries can be found in the Case Cozy Così section...

By combining soft shapes, minimal design and human technology, a stimulating exchange beyond borders can be generated to create environments that are characterized by high levels of living wellness, while introducing a sentimental design that draws on familiar memories to create innovative environments. Young designer Gaspar Bonta of Egyenes Labirintus Kör is inspired by his memories as a child and...

05/06/2022
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A focus on the world of architecture is offered through videos and talks in a dedicated environment, the Vision Room with double entrance, from the main door and from the next entrance on the forecourt. The schedule of in-depth, open and versatile, where videos, presentations, talks and meeting moments will alternate, will be communicated in Infopoint during the week...

Magnetti Building (recently acquired by the Gruppo Grigolin), in a stunning parametric room in which the lines come unpredictably alive, presents with a video installation the important restoration of the Donizetti Theater in Bergamo achieved with avant-garde techniques and prefabs. Magnetti Building is also the builder to whom we entrusted...

05/06/2022
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This year we return to the theme of women’s creativity: 12 + 21 authors present their “creative self-portrait” in the language that is most natural to them, the design and ideas that enrich our everyday environments...

For archistar Paola Navone is ‘Poetry House’, a house for imagination that is all to be imagined, on the ceramic rugs by ABK Ceramiche; for the award-winning Ilaria Marelli is the bench-fire pit for Steeles: minimalist and elegant design, with a surface perforated by endless holes to suggest an interplay between fullness and emptiness. For the 21 artists and artisans and the three curators Caterina Misuraca, Sandra Faggiano e Valentina Martin of the Food Design Stories group is the set table, both ethical concerning the materials and process, and aesthetical for the flowers and clouds fluctuating mid-air. Along them, in a sort of design mirror that confronts each author with her latest creation, Ana Marìa Gomez, Colombian designer, who with “Oruga” proposes furniture nomadism...

04/06/2022
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Woo, this was an unexpected participation, sparked by the personal recommendation of designer Kateryna Sokolova from NOOM. This collection was born under the shells, with its distinctive unusual lines and shapes making it appear endless, overcoming the object and its very function...

February 24. The war hits Ukraine: "Russian rockets struck our cities. We fled from explosions and anti-aircraft sirens, returning to the shelters in our neighbourhood that had been closed for decades. After a few weeks dominated by the only fear of not staying alive, we decided not to pause our lives. So our team gathered in the lab as usual, which fortunately was not damaged...

04/06/2022
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The Masai, Essenza, Duetto, Icone Luce trio designed by Marco Pagnoncelli illuminates the space thought by Giulio Cappellini within small corners of our homes, filling in the warm shades of beige...

There is Masai, a huge family of ceiling, wall, pavement, table lamps, which are precious objects with subtle and rounded shapes made of metals with gold and silver refinements, that fit well with the sophisticated paintings of the room. In an interplay of ancient and elegant shadows projected onto the walls...

02/06/2022
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On the theme of green combined with design, “AquaSymphony. Discover the Sound of water” presented by the Fondazione Biohabitat: a pouring installation recreating the magic sounds of the  most-hidden pluvial forests...

How to continue to benefit from the great masterpieces of the past without leaving any pollutant trace? This is the big question posed by Gianluca Cristoni’s Fondazione Biohabitat together with Latifolia, Fima Caro Frattini, Battiloro Handpan and Serralunga in a project by Davide Vercelli that questions a new dimension of water, also raising awareness about the importance of biodiversity, while spreading the culture of green throughout the city, which has always been the Fondazione’s mission...

02/06/2022
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A collection that combines tradition and innovation, technology and craftsmanship, “Con le Mani” is just the latest proposal by Paolelli Garden, a historical company from Tuscia, having produced outdoor craft-workpieces since the 70s...

From the artistic objects of the beginning, which were made in cement-marble, the production has grown into furniture pieces and objects made from traditional materials such as concrete and clay to innovative ones such as "cementeco" and fiber", for example "Con le mani", a project by Studio Adolini. The focus on surfaces and colors leads to a series of pure and essential shapes, classic and endless objects, characterized by a strong tailoring quality. A sign of authorship and the mastery of the handmade is evident in their work...

02/06/2022
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“Rays of light” is the contorted yet suggestive tangle of lights that Adriana Lohmann in collaboration with Giò Colonna Romano have conceived for a huge hall of via Tortona...

The 12 maxi light elements ascending from land to the sky to shape a light portal make the new collection of the Slim lamps by KLAKdesign. Their irregular and asymmetrical weaving stands for the complexity of our different life paths, opening up passages and new guidance that unfold under beneficial rays of a distinct, intense, non-dazzling light... 

02/06/2022
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Beautiful enough to act as an invitation to enter the depths of the Superdesign Show, the bathroom by Flaminia resembles a living room where we can spend time and take care of ourselves. Designed by Giulio Cappellini and Astra are the silver-black sanitary by Flaminia, the glazed film in gres from Mirage, and other pieces of artwork. The environment was recreated in the art.box, the window facing the street of Superstudio Più 27, via Tortona, where generally artworks and art items are displayed during internal exhibitions.

01/06/2022
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Diana Zabarella is the architect speaking the language of Venice, antique techniques of glass, wood and fabric making in her collection “Laguna” featured by Venetian blue-green shades...

Halfway between architectural design and restoration's fields, interior and product design, Diana Zabarella presents four products of the Laguna collection, two of which are new creations employing textiles in collaboration with Luigi Bevilacqua of Venice: the Bozzolo pouf /coffee table and the Canfin lamp...

01/06/2022
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Laura Zeni, renowned artist and designer, represents herself in funny and ironic furnishing accessories which gave her fame, like silhouettes and profiles of stylized faces inspired by her inner portraits...

Since her 2012 My Own Gallery exhibition, 10 ten years have passed. Today, Laura Zeni is back with  “You’re in my mind”, a collection of furnishing accessories in limited edition, inspired by her renowned “Ritratti Interiori”, also showcased at the Triennale in Milan. Laura Zeni is an artist from Milan who combines painting, sculpture, collage and photography, with an eye toward design. Irony, the synthesis of shapes, and the sense of transformation are the thread of her work, without ignoring the...

01/06/2022
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Sabine Baz, founder of SABBA designs, gets her inspiration from music for her collection of blankets, cushions and prints, Harmonious Living, where the graphic precision of Swiss design meets the high quality of Italian luxury...

Capturing sounds to impress them on objects. This is the dream of the Swiss designer Sabine Baz. Each product of “Harmonious Living” has the title of a motif or musical concept, like “Jam Session” “Time” and “Rythmic”. Largely influenced by the Bauhaus and Optical arts movements, the collection is characterized by geometric patterns....

01/06/2022
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Tina Rugelj is a woman that speaks the language of her birthplace. Her last collection, Tales of the Adriatic, perfectly fits the coordinates of her Croatia...

The distorted and twisted olive wood, natural white stone from the island of Brač, recycled fishing nets hand-weaved by local artisans, the mobula mobular, a kind of sea ray almost extinct, all of this came together as an inspiration to create Tina Rugelj’s pieces of furniture...

31/05/2022
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In her Ritual Gesture jewellery collection, Laura Santi emphasizes the sense of vitality portrayed by her creations with a dynamic and multifaceted nature. ELLESANTI® jewels are conceived by lightness and  freedom of the self and expressed in daily, ritual and timeless gestures...

Ornamental, unusual, archaic objects, articulated and 3D geometries, shapes in balance between plastics and toughness, plots, interplays of light, knots, weaves, metals. These are the hallmarks, the materials and the inspirations of the jewels by Laura Santi, which marks the white and ethereal space in the female universe...

31/05/2022
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Ilaria Marelli doesn’t need further presentations. Recently winner of the Wallpaper Design Awards 2022, she shows off a collection conceived for Steeles, the new brand of Incoservice...

An ancient-like pit, a timeless object, a sitting with neutral colors. It is Bridge, the latest creation by Ilaria Marelli: an extendable bench, its end points covered with a large bowl that serves as a fire pit (and more), which can be positioned as desired so as to make the product versatile...

31/05/2022
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Light and versatile, architectural and plastic, almost sculpture-like. The are the creations by the Gallo’s duo...

“Icons of Style”, an ironic title stemming from the pop re-interpretation of a Byzantine icon wearing the most representative necklace of the brand and squeezing its eye to the viewer...

31/05/2022
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Paola Navone-Studio OTTO is her Poetry House, a house on the clouds, imaginative and all to be invented, resting on the stoneware carpet by ABK Ceramiche...

Designing with irony. This is the suggestion of the three collections presented – Poetry Wood, Poetry Decor and Poetry Stone – by Paola Navone in which she re-interprets different material inspirations, such as wood and stone, in an ironic and unconventional way, and summarizes the eclectic and dreamlike vision peculiar to the designer’s work...

30/05/2022
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Ana Mara Gómez, a Colombian designer, designs pieces of furniture as if they were wearable objects. Her work challenges traditional ways of thinking about furniture...

Amgs is a design studio founded by Ana María Gómez in 2015 and co-run by Véronique van Lierde since 2019. The duo’s interest in the visual, tactile, and spatial aspects of fabrics and the relationship between fabrics and space led to “Oruga”. Nomadically moving furniture around within a home to meet people's needs is part of thinking of pieces as fluid objects that adapt based on our needs over time. Basically, living domestic space modularly...

30/05/2022
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21 artists, 3 curators. Preparations for the exceptional table by the designers of the Food Design Stories group are in full swing. Under the supervision of curators Caterina Misuraca, Sandra Faggiano e Valentina Martin...

The Estetica 2.0_Flower Table consists of a set of 24 nameplates, each bearing the names of 24 independent architects and designers. Under paper clouds hanging by invisible threads in mid-air, there is a full table laden with flatware, bread baskets, bowls, cutting boards, carafes, fruit baskets, iron bottle carriers...

30/05/2022
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Cords and colors, those are the hallmarks of Malin Iovino "Expression Through Weave", a designer who specializes in creating distinctive textiles for bags, accessories, and interior furnishings, such as cushions and stools. Her grandmother's ancient weaving technique was used to make this collection...

A familiar story and a world in green. Using a loom technique called snören, Malin Iovino weaves fabrics through elastic cords produced by one of the last Swedish craftsmen. Of infinite shades, they are thicker than the spun fibers commonly used for weaving...

30/05/2022
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For this edition, Adriana Lohmann appears with Enjoy. A modular bench thought for conviviality, fitness and meditation, which occasionally turns into a plexiglass writing to hang on walls or place on a piece of furniture. This is the item signed by Adriana Lohmann for the strartup KLAKdesign, a laboratory where to design long-term environmentally friendly products. 

26/05/2022
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Words turn ideas into values, into projects, into services. Time, for those who work in marketing and communication, is measured in words...

Which can become the basis of an original furniture proposal. In a historical moment like the one we are living, in which everything ages in the time of a click, the desire for concrete and reassuring concepts returns."Verba non volant," words have weight, value and are a measure of our time that goes beyond hours, minutes and days...

26/05/2022
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"A-House" by Tiny Company is a minimalist design house, able to serve a variety of purposes, made of wood and glass, 25 square meters, resulting from a collaboration between the founder Lukaš Otevel and architect Martin Stára from Perspektiv Studio...

A-House has a simple form, is made of durable materials, and has a generous glazing that ensures a perfect fusion with nature, complemented by the larch facade. The interior is furnished by designer Jiří Krejčiřík and artist Taja Spassková...

26/05/2022
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Everyday objects inspired by Erwin Pimenta's childhood and the Danish-like pieces his father used to collect for the house he lived in as a child. This is OBJKT Studio's starting point, a newly formed studio based in Singapore that explores the intersection between architecture and industrial design...

A living atelier is a place to search for and discover the right design and production inspirations without ignoring the great design examples from the past. Each piece is built in Singapore before entering the network of new production methods, combining local craft mastery with new technology. These are two of the suggestions on which Erwin Pimenta's first collection, "6 Serie", is founded...

25/05/2022
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How about resurrecting an ancient divination technique to reveal the future of design? Therefore, Scuola di alta formazione Istituto Marangoni asked its students to read the future in objects, as if they were to "make the cards"...

Three extravagant monoliths made from Ialin crystals or rock crystals, a magic stone infusing positive energies, with slots to insert your hand into to predict the future of design. This is the fascinating installation by Istituto Marangoni • the School of Design. 1367  • Divining Design Trends encompassing in a project the researches that the students of the classes of Product, Interior e Visual Design lead in the past three academic years...

24/05/2022
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Gaspar Bonta features his first collection, “Heavy Lightness”. Almost invisible objects are made visible by the effects of light on the transparency of the material, as well as soft colors of concrete vases...

At the intersection of art and design, "Heavy Lightness" explores the border between physical space and experience, through a process that culminates in the design product. His collection is made from plexi geometric furniture inspired by his grandfather’s sculptures, or concrete vases that are influenced by the ceramics of his grandmother, showing a nostalgic and familiar design on an imaginary conceptual stage...

23/05/2022
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Long-awaited and desired and, perhaps because of that, even more exciting, is the last-minute presence of Noom, a young Ukrainian firm founded in 2017 that speaks a language rich in contaminations of art, craftsmanship and design...

Despite the war, Noom managed to carve out a safe corner to finish the production of a symbolic living room designed by designer Kateryna Sokolova and to bring it to Milan in time for our event. The "Puriosity" collection, starting from its title, speaks of purity and simplicity starting from the suggestions of one of the most important artists of the 20th century, the exponent of the Suprematist style, Kazimir Malevic...

23/05/2022
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Furniture in conversation? This is the proposal by the multi-award winning Kyoto tech start up mui Lab: IoTSystem is an Ambient Intelligence, nothing more than a non-intrusive combination of web-connected devices to make people’s everyday life easier and more pleasant. Opening a curtain in the morning will prompt the “mui board” on the wall to display a pleasant message to get your day off to the right start. The lights will begin to shine brighter when you wipe down your dining table, and lively music will start playing when you put a vase on the table.

23/05/2022
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Sea Cat 40 new catamaran concept inspired by the marine environment in a green vision that focuses on the development of sustainable technologies is the newcomer in the marine industry...

Fully electric thanks to photovoltaic panels with 0 emissions 90% of the time. It is proposed by Rossinavi, a major shipyard in Viareggio. The project presented at the Superstudio "BluE, The Underwater Experience" invites people to enter a large experiential "box" that simulates underwater life and makes them discover the important role...

20/05/2022
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A step toward the future and here's how 3D technology can change the design and even the way we think about entering Augmented Reality...

What about building and designing virtual reality environments by employing 3D graphic modelling of existing furniture? This is what Forum8, in collaboration with Cappellini, proposes. The best example of the combination between 3D technology ad interior design, this is the latest version of Shade 3D for graphic modelling of furniture and F8VPS (Forum Virtual Platform System), a virtual system to build 3D environments...

19/05/2022
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A new chapter of the Look into Nature collection is presented by Adal, a historical Japanese company among the most significant in the contract field, following its latest participation in 2019...

As implied by its name "Harmonizing Landscape", Adal is inspired by nature, which is the brand's main attribute, strongly connecting people to the environment. Both in the choice of colors and materials. Among these, igusa, a kind of rush cultivated in the paddy fields, used for making tatami, is the total protagonist...

19/05/2022
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Takes its inspiration from a vortex the aluminium installation “Resonance: Vortex to diversity” covered with the pigments of the Japanese Toyo Aluminium...

Toshiya Hayashi e Hokuto Ando founded Tokyo we+, a design studio that explores alternatives to commercial design, shaping strong connections with the outside, both with nature and social fabric. The result of this approach is the new set-up called "Resonance Vortex to Diversity". This vortex-like shape, a natural phenomenon resulting from the union of different elements, is an ideal representation of the harmonious union of cultures and values...

19/05/2022
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From Hong Kong the “HK-UK: Design, Artistry and Craftsmanship” project, an interesting set-up by HKF&DA (Hong Kong Furniture and Decoration Trade Association)...

Curator Amy Chow showcases 18 pieces of furniture created by 12 young designers, six from England and six from Hong Kong, to promote young talents and connect them with this field. Several proposals show originality, creativity, and inspiration drawn from traditional  techniques and materials. Starting from the chair 25/7...

19/05/2022
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Organized by the Department of International Trade Promotion (DITP-Thailand), “Slow Hand Design Exhibition 2022” is an installation project made with the products of Thai designers awarded with the Demark Award...

Uncertainty=Certainty is what has characterized the lockdown. Curator Eggarat Wongcharit questions this equation and proposes solutions for a new normality, that is more eco-friendly through products employing recyclable materials, gym equipment at home, tapestry, cushions evoking fragrances, dishes that combine diverse food to cheer up those forced to eat alone, and carpets that stimulate the feet...

19/05/2022
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Attention to world issues and the desire to find solutions to reduce weight come and in hand with new technology. From art to beauty, from social to environment, business seeks different stimuli...

The Mot Company looks at the problems caused by pandemics, war, social and environmental changes, and broken relationships in a future driven by sensitive technologies. By using a printing system, the leader in producing reinforced plastic with carbon fiber in Tokyo introduced a new license that can substitute production in an autoclave, saving energy and time, and reducing waste and costs. Dolls speaking this message, produced through this technology...

18/05/2022
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Fashion and design discover in futuristic technology, including 3D printing, a valuable ally that offers itself as the perfect tool for creating products of excellence in workmanship and originality...

New production scenarios and an endless range of creative solutions have been unveiled during Milan Design Week. Israeli company Stratasys presented the "Ssys 2y22 Reflection" collection at the Superdesign Show on via Tortona, made with Stratasys J850™ TechStyle™, the company's newest PolyJet printer that is also the industry's first 3D printer designed specifically for direct printing on fabric, simulating different textures and finishes...

18/05/2022
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Craftsmanship and design are the hallmarks of an exhibition organized by ten Trento companies gathered for the first time for a project with a lasting impact...

The project "Fingerprint Südtirol”, organized by Ivh.apa Confartigianato Imprese, IDM Alto Adige e Studio Oberhauser, gathers 10 companies from South Tyrol together for the first time to make their products known in detail. Different in materials, style, and function, from artistic creation to the object, they are brought together by mastery in the process...

18/05/2022
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For GLO Hypernova, top artist of Milan creativity Sara Ricciardi creates a dazzling maze with many entrances and exits that invites the viewer into different experiences with art and design. And TOILETPAPER doubles for glo on the roof...

"Hypernova" is the bursting installation by designer Sara Ricciardi for Glo™. Ricciardi invites the viewer to have an experience in where the nature and the technology, the uniqueness and the multiplicity co-exist, along an open and evolving path where everyone is free to enter and exit, recalling the brand's philosophy of not necessarily having to choose between two apparently conflicting options, but making them coexist...

18/05/2022
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Monumental works, rough materials, ancestral references, strong emotions, natural elements. It is Maria Cristina Carlini, a sculptor famous on the national and international scene, who from the very entrance opens this edition of Superdesign Show with a thought-provoking ensemble sculpture...

"The strength of ideas" (from the title of the solo exhibition currently on display at the Palazzo delle Stelline in Corso Magenta in Milan) by Maria Cristina Carlini is the constant in the works of this seemingly fragile and delicate artist, who throughout her life has grappled with iron, cor-ten steel, reclaimed wood, earth, mud, rags and has transformed, agglomerated, broken down...

17/05/2022
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An electrified vision of the future, including design, is what Lexus is presenting with its trio of "Sparks of Tomorrow" explorations...

How do we translate the theme - on everyone's lips - of sustainability into concrete proposals and really work toward a carbon-neutral future? Lexus has given its answer, launching itself into the exploration of new architectures for its vehicles, also trying to reconsider its role in the panorama of our continent's mobility over the coming decades. It has done so by using one of the most creative minds of our time...

17/05/2022
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The study and implementation of increasingly green production is an unavoidable social duty for brands...

Minimizing CO2 emissions, choosing fsc-certified wood, investing in energy-efficient equipment and powering production with energy from renewable sources, these are some of the initiatives that Sits, an established Polish designer furniture company, has been supporting for years to ensure the sustainability of its pieces...

16/05/2022
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The need arises to improve the quality of hotel and offices by transforming them from anonymous transient containers to places to remember, including through furniture with a strong stylistic identity and high functionality...

2022: Technology has erased, at least virtually, the barrier of physical distance: we are always in touch but we cannot always be truly connected when we meet. This is why the quality of being together, even in locations such as hotels and restaurants, becomes important. From this need comes "Be an original," the hotellerie furniture collection from the Satelliet Originals factory...

16/05/2022
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From Croatia Metoda questions the design projects of seven designers who link their individual creativity to the severity of shapes. A project supported by the European Union to build a development centre CEKOM SPIN, Požega, Croatia...

Imagine a white canvas that is from time to time modified, colored, ripped by the artist, who adds to it what makes it unique and valuable, his own style. As a response to this image, Metoda designers created their first collection titled "Research and reflections on design". It consists of seven objects divided into two parts that represent rationality and irrationality...

16/05/2022
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How to find the right solutions for an environmentally friendly urban way of living among the many pieces of information coming in from all over? The answer comes from "Urban Matter(s)-Material Reduction for a Lighter City," the collective curated by Materially with proposals to reduce the impact of emissions, energy and materials themselves...

The goal is a lighter city. That is off course with a high quality of air and life, but also a city that responds to current needs. Materially, a social enterprise that helps companies in the development and dissemination of innovation and sustainability, starts from a deep...

13/05/2022
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Carla Tolomeo is an atypical artist in the arts field. Born as a painter, she owes most of her fame to artworks, which interplay the world of furniture with imagination...

In the sculptures by Carla Tolomeo there is de Chirico’s school, whose studio she has attended since she was a child. There is the lesson of Japanese painting and of her first paintings in which a chair or couch is always present; there is the sense of a different, free and colorful world, evoking an unreal and fantastic nature; and there is the desire for eroticism conveyed by glossy and precious fabrics...

11/05/2022
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Technological innovation and beauty meet, transforming contemporary home automation systems into true objects of design and decor, for a well living home, indeed better...

As home design continues to look far toward technologies and tools that make home management more and more comfortable, many brands are investing in the search for solutions with high home control content but with refined and appealing aesthetics. From this vision of modern beauty came the Alba and Aria smart switch collections by Black Nova, which with its project "The Italian Beauty" presented them to the public during Milan Design Week...

11/05/2022
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The recent pandemic and awareness of the high rate of pollution in our cities has led us to question the quality of indoor air, and to think about systems to make it healthier.

Home wellness as a priority, developing technology that acts on air pollutants, upgrading indoor ventilation systems with reliable "plug in" products that do not require expensive renovation work, is one of the new frontiers of research by many companies. My Air Pure, an innovative start-up founded in late 2020, has successfully interpreted these new needs and presents at the Superdesign Show 2022 in Milan My Air Pure Space, created by designer Giorgio d'Alessandro...

11/05/2022
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Contemporary pieces, 100% recyclable, highlight the dialogue between nature - with its perfect imperfection - craftsmanship and innovation...

Never before has the issue of design ethics become more topical than in recent years. Companies are showing increasing concern for the environment, creative people are turning their research toward more sustainable productions that make a significant contribution to combating climate change, improving the quality of life and in response to what the market is demanding in terms of social and environmental responsibility. Among the most innovative startups in this direction is Elli Design with its new stylistic language in furniture...

06/05/2022
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The display of 1000 crafts vases, each one more inventive than the other, was a big hit at the 2021 September edition. The event doubles with the introduction of a mini format, maximum height 20 cm. Always curated by Francesco Pirrello...

Each piece is unique, produced by hundreds of independent designers from over 40 countries around the world and demonstrates how fantasy can work endlessly on a single subject, and how beauty can take the most varied forms through different techniques and materials in an extraordinary journey around the world... 

13/04/2022
 | MILANDESIGNWEEK2022

A unique, ingenious, sophisticated artist, Carla Tolomeo has become famous for her seductive soft sculptures. She will be at the Superdesign Show in June with new exclusive works...

Carla Tolomeo does not use metal marbles or materials "cold" but soft stuffing, she obtains her colors not from paints but from precious fabrics, she creates inviting and mysterious forms where flora, fauna and other imaginative creatures penetrate the space, rising above a cushion on which it is sweet to snuggle. They are sculptures to sit on, or armchairs to use with caution as a work of art. After thousands of exhibitions and infinite successes in galleries and museums, Tolomeo felt the desire to measure herself in the world of design, so apparently distant from herself and to do it in her own way, by placing an exhibition of works of art in the world of design. installation of works specially created at Superstudio..

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