furnitures

I must admit I’ve always had a soft spot for rocking chairs. I don’t know why but I love the combination of furniture’s and movements, witch you find in a swing, a rocking chair, and in products like Magis chair Spun or Vitra’s new Tip Ton. This rocking chair called Sway can be used in a number of ways, as a chair, a rocker for 1 or even as a rocker for 2  offers not only the perfect comfort of a good chair. It is a love seat rocking chair – perfect for  romantic relaxation! Designed by Markus Krauss. Read more…

Diesel with Foscarini showed off a new collection of lamps and textiles for 2011 at Superstudio piú 2011. The visitors experienced, as Diesel explains, “…a journey as an explorer through home textiles and lighting in the guise of archaeological relics of a time that has not yet been….”. The lamps becomes therefor a part of a paradigm for contemporary living.

Diesel has kept that rough industrial look that the brand represent, and the lamps stand out as individuals. The four new lamps from Diesel are DrumBox, Mysterio, Pipe and Duii. They all represents different parts of a workshop with tough materials and dirty looks.

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One of my favorites from this years Salone del Mobile is the R2B2 by Christoph Therard in Studio Montag. He has created a kitchen appliance with alternative drive concept. It has a pedal driven machinery that gives the appliance their power.

I love it because it takes us back to the origin of the machine. The machinery looks great in that old fashion woodbox. The balance between old and new is well done. The coffee grinder, blender and bowl are made with few elements and the pure design style makes it look fresh and attractive, and they don’t distract from the idea and concept.

Unfortunately the drawer and side cabinet feels like a school project and is not as well processed as the rest. But the biggest problem is if you want to install R2B2 into your kitchen counter, the main attribute to this design disappears. The machine is then hidden into the counter. Therefor it needs to stand alone and as a single furniture.

But I don’t care about that. I just love this piece. I’m a fool for machines and this machine made my day.

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One of the most beautiful installations we visited at Salone this year was Twilight Moon by Tokujin Yoshioka. A beautiful white space opened up in Brera, filled with fog and beams of light. Sitting down i one of the comfortable chairs by Moroso, you almost got hypnotized by the atmosphere. Image cant do justice to the experience but here are pictures and sketches of the installation and the chair! Read more…

Its been a crazy week in Milan, and as you might have noticed I didn’t even have time to blog… But now I am home again and in the next couple of days Ican promise you a lot of inspirational post! First of is pictures from the Vitra stand. This year they have several new products and I am happy to see them push forward. I absolutely loved their stand at Fiera – by styling up rooms with atmospheres and conceptual ideas they manage to show off not only their new products but to show their playful side as well. Vitra is an important contributor to international design and I am impressed to see them push forward and not only live on the glory of their classical products. More pictures of the stand and the new products after the jump! Read more…