For the forth consecutive year, Wallpaper* Handmade brought together designers, craftspeople and manufacturers and commissioned them to create one-off pieces to be launched at Milan Design Week. This year saw a move to a new venue, contemporary gallery Leclettico. Here are my top picks…
Incredibly, Klaar Prims creates these intricate bowls, by ‘drawing’ coloured strings of glass that she then weaves and melts together before forming the whole thing over a mold, in this case into a simple bowl, which looks as delicate as spun sugar.
The Re-Imagined Chair by Nina Tolstrup is in the Designs of the Year exhibition at the The Design Museum in London. This special edition was created in collaboration with Marc by Marc Jacobs.
I loved these Tupperware-moulded concrete containers by Canadian designer Philippe Malouin and Will Yates. Inspired by London’s brutalist architecture, they have been sandblasted to reveal the aggregate rough finish.
Another one of my favorite designs were these unashamedly colourful Mille-Feuille storage units designed by Tokyo-based French architect Emmanuelle Moureaux and made by Schonbuch, “imagined as thin layers of colored sheets scattered in the air, then settling randomly on top of each other”.
I loved, loved, loved these marble creations from Bethan Gray and Lapicida. They were inspired by the striking black and white stone configurations found in historic buildings like the Amalfi Cathedral and the San Giovanni Battista in Mogno, Switzerland.
Jonah Takagi’s clothes stand for Another Country in their signature Pigeon Blue would be just perfect for a guest room.
I loved the combination of materials in this Aurora coffee set by Defne Koz and Marco Susani, made by Verreum.
I constantly spot something I love and then discover it’s designed by Sebastian Bergne – Shadow; a series of mirrored glass, thermically insulated tableware is just the latest example. Bergne says: “The idea was to use a double glass wall, which looks silvered on the inside, like a 3D mirror. We’ve made it more contemporary by effectively attaching the pieces to their own shadow, which makes them look quite unstable.” The series was made by Verreum.
In Darkness by Norwegian designer Oyvind Wyller and Magnor is handblown into a shape that means light is filtered through tinted glass and therefore doesn’t destroy the ambience by being too bright. The cord is integrated into the hanging of the shade.
And more lighting – these are called ‘Bruno’ by Karim Rashid; part of the Love collection made by Verreum.
Further reading for the especially geeky:
- out and about :: new british and vivienne westwood
- out and about :: spazio rossana orlandi
- out and about :: ventura lambrate 2013
- out and about :: salonesatellite 2013
