WONDE(R)SIGN: NUAGE!

Elica is an italian company, that produce high quality design hoods.

Nuage is a wall-mounted cooking hood, but indeed it's something more....

In fact it's a dynamic event along the surface of the wall, a refined and elegant gesture , innovative in the kitchen conception design. 
The skin of the wall surface opens itself to receive an  integrated plastic movement. 

It's seeming to grow out from the wall.

The result is obtained by a board that you can ultimate with water-based paint, cement, metal pannel, allowing you to create exciting material effects.

Designed by Fabrizio Crisà
Product by Elica s.p.a.
Photos by Elica s.p.a.

ECO-ARCHI: SMOG FREE TOWER

The dutch designer Daan Roosegaarde, with a crowdfunding initiative,  has realized the first air-cleaner urban tower.

It's high 7 metres, and can purify 3000 cubic meters of air per hour.

The collected particulate is embedded in resin and mounted on rings, given to lenders of the crowdfunding initiative.

Fantastic: Design + Ecology + Social all together!

Designed by Daan Roosegaarde

Photos by Daan Roosegaarde

A Light Dancer: ETOILE !!

This  italian lamp is made from refractive layers of Lentiflex® combined with LED light sources.

Delight and charming...

Designed by Adriano Rachele

Produced by SLAMP s.p.a.

TASMANIAN LIGHTS: CRACKED LOG !

Designed by Duncan Meerding

Photos by Dallas

CHARMING 3D CHAIR: UNI-KA !

Project by Metalmobil Concept

Product by Metalmobil

A BUTTERFLY AGAINST THE SUN: STINGRAY BY TUUCI!

Product by TUUCI Europe BV

Photos by TUUCI Europe BV

THE RING THAT PLAYED WITH THE WATHER: AMETIS !

What I have to say?

Only: "WONDERFUL!"

Designed by Davide Oppizzi
Product by Graff Europe West
Photos by Graff Europe West
all rights reserved

Divertissement - A DECO' LAMP BY A GREAT-GRANDFATHER (perhaps): VITTORIALE !

Napoleone Martinuzzi was an italian glass-artist at the begin of the XX century.

He brought strong formal and technical innovation  in the Venetian glass handwork tradition.

His works are exposed in several Art Museum all around the world.

Venini proposes today a refined choice of his production, and overall I find delicious this lamp hand-made: VITTORIALE.

Originally created in 1926, it's a composition of fine crystal, gold-leaf and zapphire.

Probably Napoleone Martinuzzi wasn't my parent, but surely he was a great artist.

Best Regards, Andrea Martinuzzi

Photos by Venini
Product by Venini

PLASTIC WOOD: WAIMEA !

Sometimes web gives unexpected gems.

Pierre Renart is a young designer of Montreuil, France.

He has designed, with other objects, this Boreau, creating the series "Waimea".

A simple but elegant furniture, in which hickory is the sumptuous protagonist , and the wood becomes plastic - acrobatic material.

The final result is a surprising, harmonic curve

Copyright Pierre Renart
http://www.pierre-renart.com

LET'S CUT THE SINK: MIZU!

Designed by Emo design

Product by Scarabeo Ceramiche s.r.l.

SIARDO SICORUM: an urban seat really "GREEN"

An eco-friendly urban seat , elegantly shaped and balanced .

It's made with steel and PET. For his realization are used only recycled materials.

You can easily replace broken parts, and at the end of his life every component is completely recyclable.

Studied for the city environment, with his round tube seats can be adapted to many design situations, because his form is simple and unobtrusive, but at same time with personality.More colours are disponible.

Excellent maintenance characteristics: round tubes don't restrains rain, leaves or other dirty materials.

product by BENKERT BÄNKE

photos by BENKERT BÄNKE

BOARD BY SNAIDERO: AN INNOVATIVE (AND BEAUTYFUL) ITALIAN KITCHEN

I don't like advertising about kitchens. 

They always shows largerooms, in this great disponibility every furniture seems wonderful , the most trivial too.

For this reason I found the follow image as something really new, innovative, and telling about good design.It's a well-known fact that the home as we know it is undergoing a major transition. The space we have to work with is smaller than ever before, yet our needs are greater and more complex.

That's not to mention the contemporary lifestyle which requires our pads to be functional, technological, ergonomic and multi-purpose at the same time.

Board, designed for Snaidero by Pietro Arosio, is just what people with these needs have been crying out for.



The solution is substantial, compact and aesthetically light without taking anything away from functionality and ergonomics.

It is a smart, space-saving solution which effectively addresses the basic demands of home living.



Board manages to be fully operational in just a few centimetres, incorporating a hob and a sizeable two-tub sink area.

Furthermore, a convenient snack top is situated at the end of the unit where you can sit down to breakfast or enjoy a quick snack, while a waste bin has been set into the block to allow you to dispose of organic waste as you prepare food.

Board is product by Snaidero
Design by Pietro Arosio
Text and photos by Snaidero and Andrea Martinuzzi

FLUO: SLIM SLIDING DOORS

Fluo concealed sliding system by ©®Aldena srl

Photos by ©®Aldena srl

Fluo means to slide, to glide, to flow, to move. 

With his very slim structural profiles, this sliding outdoor system product in Italy exalts lightness and elegance, using technology to maximize and harmonize thermal transmittance, acoustic and aesthetic performances.

MONOCUBE (more than a sink)

Product by Mosa, NL.

Photos by Mosa

MonoCube is a sleek, monolithic wash basin.
No hole in the middle: an inlay tile elegantly conceals the drain.

HOME - MADE FURNITURE

Today I want tell about home-made interior funriture. Everybody, using curiosity, fantasy and suggestions can transform old objects, giving them a new life.

The silver chair was discovered by my wife in a junk dealer's market: it was not very old, brown painted and with an orrible flowery tissue. 

I was disgusted , but my wife (she's not architect, but surely an istinctive artist) absolutely wonts it.

Come back home, we begin to work . The form of the chair was the most interesting component, so we decided to valorize it.

Painting all the surfaces with  spray silver and gold  colors, the object revealed a unsuspected grace. 

Now this chair stand near an old gramophone, with an hand made olive-wood lamp  and a steel glasseuse marked "Moet et Chandon" used as flower vase.

What do you think about it?

MATCH

(A LIGHT -SCULPTURE CEILING)

Product / Photos by VIBIA LIGHTING
Design by Jordi Vilardell & Meritxell Vidal

This lamp, with its disposal only apparently causal, actively involves the ceiling in the design environment.
Elegant in its simplicity, every time recurs in different and personalized compositions.

Questa lampada, con la sua disposizione solo apparentemente causale, coinvolge attivamente  il soffitto nel design dell'ambiente. 

Elegante nella sua essenzialità, ogni volta  si ripropone secondo composizioni diverse e personalizzate

SOTTILETTO

(SOTTILETTO Bed)

Produzione HORM.IT
Design: Burtscher & Bertolini, 1997

Nel panorama del design forniture per la zona notte, Sottiletto sicuramente continua a distinguersi per eleganza, innovazione e versatilità.

La sua linea è essenziale e rigorosa, ma nello stesso tempo ricca ed armonica. Quasi un peccato nasconderla con un materasso... vero?


Looking for bedrooms' design supplies, Sottiletto definitely continues to stand at the top about elegance, innovation and versatility.
His line is essential and rigorous, but at the same time rich and harmonious. May be a shame to hide it with a mattress ... right?

Argent

"ARGENT", il nome dice tutto.

Terzani, ditta fiorentina, con questa nuova lampada a sospensione, attraverso l'opera del designer Dodo Arslan, indovina un prodotto interessante e particolare.

Argent crea una luccicante nuvola d'argento: è costituita da dischi di metallo, uniti a mano attraverso un processo di produzione prevalentemente artigianale. Le molteplici superfici dei dischi giocano con la riflessione delle fonti luminose poste all'estremità delle sospensioni, emanando una ricca, morbida e brillante luce bianca.

Sedia a slitta reclinabile con braccioli GRAVITY™ BALANS® - Varier Furniture

Questo strano oggetto a metà strada tra la sdraio e la poltrona mi è sempre piaciuto. 

Sebbene sia stato disegnato da Peter Opsvik più di 20 anni fa da, lo trovo sempre molto attuale, e particolarmente felice nella sua sintesi tra design ed ergonomia.

Colonna vertebrale e nuca sono sostenute in modo ottimale, cosicché il corpo possa liberarsi completamente. La Gravity balans® non è tuttavia solo una sedia da riposo. Le diverse posizioni sono ottimali per ogni tipo di attività, si tratti di un incontro tra amici per un caffè o di una tranquilla serata davanti alla televisione. Inclinandosi in avanti la tibia poggia sul cuscinetto, all’indietro invece è possibile poggiare i piedi sul pavimento. Inclinandosi ancora più indietro potete mettervi comodi e appoggiare le gambe su entrambi i cuscinetti.

Inoltre lo trovo, sopratutto nella sua versione monocromatica, un oggetto estremamente accattivante, scultoreo, un elemento di arredo davvero particolare.