
04.20.16
Fair Report
The Best of the 2016 Milan Furniture Fair, Part III
The 2016 Salone del Mobile and Fuorisalone — aka the Milan Furniture Fair — was one of our favorites yet, and we were there on the ground, running around like crazy people trying to absorb a year’s worth of new furniture in less than a week’s time. According to our iPhones, we walked about 7.5 miles a day in our quest to scout great design. Here’s the last of three posts chronicling what we found.
Around town
Vessels by Sebastian Herkner for the Columbian artisan–made brand Ames Sala
Nudo rug by Sebastian Herkner for Ames Sala
Heavy Stack ceramic and oak objects by Maria Bruun, presented at the Danish Mindcraft exhibition
The Cask bottle rack by Sara de Campos, part of an exhibition featuring ECAL students using wood offcuts to create objects inspired by e15‘s Backenzahn stool
The Awaiting room divider by designer Giorgia Zanellato and artist Coralla Maiuri for Secondome gallery, shown at Ladies & Gentlemen
Vases by Andrea Branzi on view at Clio Calvi and Rudy Volpi gallery
More vases by Andrea Branzi on view at Clio Calvi and Rudy Volpi gallery
One of three rugs by Alessandro Mendini for Joseph Carini presented at Fragile Gallery
Nick Ross‘s new White Lies Slab project
A Klein-blue Herringbone vase by Phil Cuttance, part of Airbnb’s Makers & Bakers installation at Rossana Orlandi’s Marta restaurant
Tomas Alonso‘s contributions to a new line of home accessories launched by Atelier Swarovski
One of 8 cyanotype-dyed sculptural objects from Studiopepe’s Out of the Blue exhibition
The M.C. Escher-esque Higher and Higher rug by Sam Baron for Nodus
The quartz glass and dichroic glass Spectra table by Kukka for Frame magazine’s What’s the Matter? exhibition
New furniture in Corian, plus hand-blown glassware, by Prague-based Dechem
Nendo filled a square with 50 sculptural, mirrored-steel chairs for Friedman Benda
Nendo also created an optical illusion inside the Marsotto showroom with a half black, half white scheme
The Alba drinking set by Joe Doucet for Turkish brand Nude
Chamfer vessels by Philippe Malouin for Nude
Maarten de Ceulaer‘s rotating aluminum Sundial chandelier for Nilufar Gallery
Michael Anastassiades created a spare installation around his new Spot stools and Stasis tables for Herman Miller
Ventura Lambrate
Oslo designers Falke Svatun and Bjorn van den Berg teamed up to create the Aerial lamp for the Norwegian Structure exhibition, styled by Kråkvik & D’Orazio
Works by Kneip (lamp), Vera & Kyte (shapes on floor), and Falke Svatun (round vessel) at Structure
Vera & Kyte‘s Three Cities Deconstructed set for Structure
Kristine Bjaadal’s Sfera vessel at Structure
A room divider made with Kvadrat fabrics by Rive Roshan for the Form & Seek exhibition
Gradient glass lamps by Sule Koc, also for Form & Seek
Ferreol Babin‘s under-lit Frost organizer set for bathroom brand Cotto’s annual Another Perspective show
The Pond lamp by Ferreol Babin, with two small accessory holders, for Another Perspective
De Intuitiefabriek made a sponge-block building set for Another Perspective
The elegant Conesso chair by HDK Academy student Caroline Eriksson
Splattery dishware by Spanish newcomers Aoomi Studio
A French studio called Superface showed six large objects meant to showcase materials like artisanal gilded metal and a compressed industrial waste composite (center) they developed themselves
Laura Bilde’s oddly appealing Squeeze Me chair
Rossana Orlandi
New ombre-glass works by Germans Ermics on view at Rossana Orlandi
Rainbow-y Zinc cabinets by Czech duo Jan & Henry
Part of the new sand-encrusted Drift series of mirrors by New York artist Fernando Mastrangelo
…also part of the new sand-encrusted Drift series of mirrors by New York artist Fernando Mastrangelo
Georgian duo Rooms debuted their Wild Minimalism collection of raw-meets-geometric tables and chairs
More Wild Minimalism tables by Rooms
Salone Satellite
The slim Plat lamp by Berlin duo Büro Famos
The perriwinkle Siz chair by Büro Famos
A polarized-glass wall shelf by Daisuke Kitagawa
Concrete and glass Ivy vases by Norwegian studio Domaas Høgh
Mix and match Una lamps by Domaas Høgh
Barbells in every material and color by young Italian designer Sara Riccardi
Expressive kitchenware by Venezualan-born, London-based designer Grace Souky (who once worked for Jonathan Adler and West Elm)
Kasper Nyman’s ultra-simple Obby sofa
Join tables byKasper Nyman
Vera & Kyte’s new solo studio collection
The Divide table by Elina Ulvio, part of the Finnish Luomo Collective
Grace Souky’s Planca table