milan

Salone Mobile 2011 kicks off in Milan in April and the buzz is already evident from all the way over here in Sydney. We know many of you are going to be on the ground in Italy in coming weeks so we wanted to share some of the upcoming, not to be missed launches and installations.

"This is to show people that our design aesthetic goes beyond furniture, that as Asian we can extend even to designing transportation..."

Let's face it, we're a visual bunch. A picture tells a thousand words, colour and light can evoke a response, express our moods, convey the complexity in a concept or  completely discombobulate. Permanent Food is a publication out of Milan with no writers, no offices, no editorial board and no ambition to sell...anything.  It's premise is to merely appropriate imagery...

Salone Internazionale del Mobile in Milan pretty much takes the crown where design and furniture trade fairs are concerned.  Whether it's your favourite or the most groundbreaking is of course open to much discussion, however, it is undeniably one of the biggest events on the annual design calendar in so far as global pull and breadth of output. That said...

The Milan 2010 Triennali heralded the arrival of the new:  Swarovski Elements at Work program.  An initiative that celebrates leading industrial designers by teaming them with acclaimed manufacturers and suppliers to produce product lines that incorporate Swarovski Elements in exciting, previously unused ways. The results are astounding. We are most excited about the collaboration between Neri & Hu, bd...

Visit BD BARCELONA at this years Milan Fair.  Launching the newest pieces by Jaime Hayon for his 'Showtime' collection as well as Ross Lovegrove's BD LOVE 2.0 and Konstantin Grcic's stunning "B Chair"! Not to be missed.