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Salone del Mobile: Highlights from the second day

11.4.2019

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Since yesterday, photographer Thomas Kunz and I have been travelling around Milan for the "Salone del Mobile" furniture fair. Take a look at today's pictures and follow us. We will continue to feed this article with further updates - to be continued.

When you're out and about in Milan, you sometimes feel like you're in a trance - you run numerous kilometres, eat while walking, drink too many espressos and, above all, you see more things than your brain can process. This makes summaries like this all the more important. They offer the opportunity to reflect on what the individual works have in common. If you don't want to wait for me to keep you up to date here, you can follow Thomas and me on Instagram or watch yesterday's best-of:

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Salone del Mobile: the best of our first day in Milan
by Pia Seidel

Better together

The Scandinavian label Menu is showing its new products collectively with other brands this year. For example Tubes, which in my opinion produces the most beautiful radiators. At first glance, they are not recognisable as such. The radiators look more like decorative objects for the wall.

From left to right: A minimalist wardrobe from «Menu» and a radiator that almost disappears into the wall from «Tubes».

Handmade

Only available once: The candlestick by Malwina Kleparska.

The trend towards handmade items continues. Artist Malwina Kleparska creates organic objects from stoneware clay. Even if the ceramic objects look like sculptures, they have a function: they serve as vases or candlesticks.

The return to traditional craftsmanship is also evident in leather goods. One example of this is the exhibition by Spanish fashion company Loewe. It has challenged weavers from all over the world to create modern baskets for it using a new material - leather.

Hand-woven leather baskets by Japanese designers Jiro Vonezawa and Shizu Shokino for «Loewe».

The collective «Trove» from Melbourne presents an unusual collection of handmade lamps made from Brazilian crystals.

Raw material

«Stone walls represent the connection between nature and our culture.» Hermès

The exhibition concept of the French company Hermès presents its home collection in a particularly unusual way: a walk through a labyrinth leads past the individual designs and arouses curiosity about what comes next. The individual walls are made of dried stone walls. They create a link between nature and our culture.

The hipsters of the interior scene: Emiliano Salci and Britt Moran

Every year, the two interior designers from Dimore Studio come up with something new for the trade fair: This time, they have invited designer Gabriella Crespi to exhibit in their rooms. The Italian designer's designs are known for being at the interface between product design and art. Her collection will therefore be artistically staged and displayed alongside sandy landscapes.

The question on everyone's mind in the room: Who will clear away the sand afterwards?

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Pia Seidel

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Pia.Seidel@digitecgalaxus.ch

Like a cheerleader, I love celebrating good design and bringing you closer to everything furniture- and interior design- related. I regularly curate simple yet sophisticated interior ideas, report on trends and interview creative minds about their work.

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