pan-dan: April 2009

Wednesday, April 29, 2009

Tuesday, April 28, 2009

CHEZ FABRICA

Couple of ceramic mugs -Tak Cheung/Fabrica
Silver spoons - Catarina Carreiras/Fabrica
CHEZ FABRICA - FuoriSalone - Palazzo Borromeo

This&That is a collection of ten glass bells created especially for the Milan International Furniture Show 2009 by young artists at Fabrica, from an idea by American designer Tak Cheung. This&That combines everyday items, such as a bicycle handlebar, a chimney or cow ears, with the sophisticated beauty of blown glass. Different materials and production processes merge harmoniously to create a new, provocative synergy.
This&That is produced by Secondome

satellite 2009

camera e editing Marco Miraglia / theSPONKstudios

not Milan

soft concrete
"The idea of the process deﬁning the ﬁnal shape of the object, is something that has always interested me. You cannot have total control, the materials are alive and do what they want.I just give them boundaries, against which they can react with freedom, always surprising me. They are my best partners and my source of inspiration. Experimentation is my way of translating a concept into an object. Here I created bags of different shapes. Once the bags are ﬁlled up with concrete they reveal their ﬁnal shape and function, in this case a proposal for a bench for outdoor purposes. The concrete is ﬁrst colored, then poured into the bags. Once these are ripped off, the furniture achieves a friendly, funny and soft look as well as a beautiful texture imprinted on it by the material of the bags. Another aspect that is very interesting about the project is the possibility of creating it on the spot, allowing it to be integrated better into the surroundings."
+Studio Nacho Carbonell

droog Milan 2009

Skin by Studio Nacho Carbonell
In the Skin furniture, a thin, closely adhering and elastic layer allows the user to place objects underneath it. This layer adapts and takes the form of the objects, creating spontaneous contours that lead your curiosity to discover what hides beneath them. Nacho wants us to become playful and child-like:
"You'll feel like playing hide and seek!" he says and follows on to explain why he chose for the unconventional leg heights, "it's all about changing the point of view, one's way of perceiving things".
+ droog

Monday, April 27, 2009

"Attimo sospeso " Salone 2009

The Faculty of Design and Art of the Free University of Bozen/Bolzano
at the Salone Internazionale del Mobile, Milan 2009
"Attimo sospeso " installation in the Cloister of the Basilica San Simpliciano

profs. and studs. involved in the project (alphabetical):
Nike Auer, Dorit Birkner, Christian Crusius, Mariagiovanna Di Iorio, Jörg Gleiter, Andreas Goebel, Carmen Küster, Wilco Lensink, Viktor Matic, Kuno Prey, Joseph Schmidt-Klingenberg, Bettina Schwalm, Dominik Schwarz, Lisa Seitz, Daniel Tauber, Simon Tumler, Sarah Tolpeit, Paul Voggenreiter, Maximilian Winkel.
Dean of the faculty: Kuno Prey
Project leader: Wilco Lensink

camera e editing Marco Miraglia / theSPONKstudios

Monday, April 20, 2009

Inga Sempé

Armoire souple storage modules and Vapeur lamp by Inga Sempé for Moustache

MADE IN BERLIN 2009 - Milan

'valet' turns, because of an elaborated hinge, from a seemingly simple pole into a classic. If 'valet' does not serve, it stands mute and straight in the corner. Since the form is absolutely reduced to its minimum, 'valet' achieves the status of an object.
ett la benn at MADE IN BERLIN 09 Exhibition
22. - 27.4.09 Via Gaspare Bugatti 13, 20144 Milano
Party 23.4. 20 pm Organized by DMY and with friendly support by Veltins.

creation of a chair

22nd - 27th April, '09
Oratorio Della Passione Sant'ambrogio Milano
A chair is a chair is a chair.
Some come close to religion, others are ugly as sin. A narrative on an almost sacral theme, for the designer the creation of a chair is like that of a string quartet to the composer: a unique reading of it creator¡¯s cerebral signature, revealing his modus operandi against the zeitgeist.
To celebrate the existence of this daily-life four-legged comfort-bringer, about twenty-five designers were invited to the Oratorio della Passione at Sant Ambrogio Milan's oldest church - to express their personal confessions on chair prototyping.
+ Kwangho Lee

the Cross lounger

"Celebrating the Cross" lounger
+ Humans since 1982

stars

Stars Light
The stars design are hanging lights which diffuse a soft light. Used on their own, they produce luminous reference lights and can be used as side light or as night light. At different heights or in a group, they create a network of constellations which structures the space and gives it a new dimension.
+ Raphael Charlës

Mr. light series

Mr. light series
powder coated steel,
Mr.1, Mr.2 and Mr.3 are the first three of a series of lights designed around the new LED T8 tube light bulbs. Aside from being radically more energy efficient and durable than standard fluorescent bulbs, these newly developed light tubes allow for more flexibility with the design by reducing the number of components needed to power them as well as by not needing a reflector shade. These lights explore the formal continuity between the bulb and the fixture while playing with the way the materials come together to produce a series of unexpected characters.
+Tomás Alonso