Ellegant Interior

Japan style in Milan (Oki Sato and Nendo)

0 komentar 18.55 Diposting oleh Marleen

Even in a critical time (crisis or not crisis) "Made in Italy" continues to validate the new Stars of Design.
For instance Oki Sato, born in Japan in 1977 and founder of Nendo.
He was in 2005 a big promise of "Satellite Salone" (Designers under 35) at International Furniture fair in Milan and is today strongly engaged to design for Cappellini, Moroso, Varaschin, Arketipo, Boffi for a "total living concept".
In a recent interview Oki Sato explained that at University he learned this hierarchy:
development permits
architectural plans
interior construction
interior design
but when he first visited "Il Salone" a few years ago he understood that precedences can be reversed...like, he said, the ocean that starts with tiny drops of water.

Arketipo

The Japanese group "Nendo" (offices in Tokyo and Milano) designs with:
Pure white (and a gray version)
Essential lines
Architecture as background
Abstraction
Poetry
Simplicity of forms

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The following are some images of Oki Sato's house in Tokyo (the "Moss house", on the Shibuya river).
It took two weeks to apply the moss on the wallpaper, designed by his artist wife.

Nendo has chosen to speak its own language and to express its own culture to send

a universal message.

Photography of Moss House by Daici Ano

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Label: Brillante Interiors, Designers, I Saloni, Milan

Italian Holidays

0 komentar 19.50 Diposting oleh Marleen

Dear readers,
How many times I have heard "I wish I was in Milan with you" "I wish I could travel to Milan with you" ?
Now you have an opportunity to make your wish come true.
I am launching a new venture and the first event will be:

Art, Architecture, Interiors

An aesthetic experience, an intimate tour of Milan

Travel in style with Brillante

Please visit my new blog
http://www.brillantedesigntravel.blogspot.com/

Photography by Albarosa Simonetti

Label: Brillante Design Travel, Brillante Interiors, Milan, Travel

Art from Coast to Coast

0 komentar 11.12 Diposting oleh Marleen

I was reading a great Post on Habitually Chic Blog on Picasso exhibition in New York and since I am passionate about art I could not resist to pass it on. I just wish I was in New York right now.

Buste d'homme by Picasso

On the other hand we are expecting the opening of "The golden age of Dutch art" at the Vancouver Art Gallery this week, and being Vermeer also one of my favourites (I am eclectic even in art) I can't complain.

A portrait by Aelbert Cuyp

I am reading a book these days very intriguing which I suggest if you are interested in the art world, it definitely gives light to many issues and especially to primary dealers like Gagosian.
I recently met the author of the book in Vancouver after a lecture (we had a full day of art events put together by the Canadian Art Foundation and the Contemporary Art Society of Vancouver to which I belong, it was a day of bliss...).
She is a vibrant, smart, knowledgeable lady and it was a pleasure talking to her and reading her book:
"Seven days in the art world" by Sarah Thornton

Label: Antiques and Art, Brillante Interiors

The End

0 komentar 16.42 Diposting oleh Marleen

"I Saloni" and "Fuori Salone" and the events and the parties and the gossips and the excitement and the high energy in the air... and... and... and...are over.
We'll see the results of I Saloni for months to come on every interior design magazine and the new products will be soon on display in showrooms and catalogues around the world.
Creativity will continue to flow...prototypes will be put in production and new ideas will flourish.

Milan International Furniture Fair 2009 is over.

Arrivederci to Milan International Furniture Fair 2010.

Label: Brillante Interiors, I Saloni

"I Saloni" The fabulous world of Kartell

0 komentar 21.36 Diposting oleh Marleen

Kartell Art Director Ferruccio Laviani created the most irreverent, extraordinary and fun installation

at "I Saloni".

A Sumo wrestler is crashing into "Misses Flower Power" vases for outdoor by Starck and Quitlet, in a new version, made of more precious material than last production.

"Panier" by Bouroullec brothers in an Indian installation

Ghost Buster...the line Ghost this year has added a bed side table and a chest of drawers with classic form

The famous Lou Lou Ghost for kids needed also to be at the Furniture Fair 2009

"Masters" by Starck and Quitlet (who continue to design for Kartell) is a new chair which evokes the lines of three masterpieces: "Serie 7" by Jacobsen, "Tulip" by Saarinen and "Eiffel" by Eames, hence the name.

"Fleur di Novembre" by Fabio Novembre, a new cooperation

between Kartell and the Italian designer. The table will be produced in a few months.

"Frilly Stool" by Patricia Urquiola in a spectacular installation by Laviani with a series of whirling dervishes.

Transparencies, colours, creativity, fun!

Photography by Ingrid Taro
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"Fuori Salone" Britishness

0 komentar 17.58 Diposting oleh Marleen

Paul Smith, the English fashion designer, has cooperated with Moroso and Icon magazine the exhibition "British Design Embassy" on Made in England creativity during the International Furniture Fair in Milan. Smith said: "The week of Salone del Mobile is the Design event most important in the world and I am very happy to represent England here". He selected the best names of English Style, including new talents like Pinch.

Exceptional background was the Modern Art Gallery at the Neo-classical

"Villa Reale" in Milan.