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Milan Furniture Fair 2019 High Five
Designer | 12.04.2019

Milan Furniture Fair 2019: High Five!!

Aside from the, inevitable, consolidation the main theme at Milan Furniture Fair 2019, and the one which occupied us much more than that which was on show for our perusal, is/was the international furniture industry's increasing hunger for data; a hunger which embodied itself at Milan 2019 in a exponential surge in the number of manufacturers requiring potential stand visitors to either pre-register, submit a business card or have their Fair ticket scanned before being allowed onto the stand.

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Studio Daphna Laurens present Prototipi @ Salone Satellite Milan 2016
Designer | 03.05.2016

smow blog compact Milan 2016 special: Studio Daphna Laurens - Prototipi

Unbelievably, Eindhoven based design studio Daphna Laurens have never, ever, participated at Salone Satellite, that section of the Milan furniture fair devoted to young design talents. Unbelievably because they are unquestionably talented, and are equally unquestionably young. Even if the works displayed in Milan suggested a maturity beyond their years. Studio Daphna Laurens present Prototipi @ Salone Satellite Milan 2016 Presented under the title Prototipi Daphna Isaacs and Laurens

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Duple Alexander Åsgård
Designer | 25.04.2015

smow blog compact Milan 2015 special: Duple by Alexander Åsgård

Privately and professionally we have long complained about, and been deeply saddened by, the lack of side/coffee tables with a shelf to be found in the contemporary furniture market. We know it's a first world problem, we know we should concentrate on other, genuinely important, things, but..... Back in the day all side/coffee tables had a shelf. And today......? Today the smow blog living room is scattered with magazines, brochures, music scores and catalogues we simply do not know where or

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Ateliers J & J Milan 2015
Designer | 21.04.2015

smow blog compact Milan 2015 special: Ateliers J&J

In the late 19th/early 20th century Vienna based J & J Kohn helped establish the Austro-Hungarian Empire as an important centre for contemporary furniture design, advanced the careers of leading Wiener Secession era designers such as Josef Hoffmann, Otto Prutscher or Adolf Loos, as well as helping lay the foundations for the commercial furniture industry as we know it today. And while we're not going to forecast such a grand future for Brussels based Ateliers J&J, or at least not yet, from

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Sarah Böttger & Hanna Emelie Ernsting at Salone Satellite
Designer | 24.04.2014

(smow) blog compact Milan 2014 Special: Sarah Böttger & Hanna Emelie Ernsting at Salone Satellite

Milan is awash with churches. Milan is awash with monasteries. Basilica. Friaries. And other suitable locations for submitting penitence. We go to Salone Satellite. Last year you may remember we had to apologise to Karolin Fesser for our failure to publish a post on the from Karolin co-curated Objects for the neighbour exhibition. Not that we were obliged to publish anything on the exhibition; it was just so good it deserved one and we were negligent in not doing such. This year it was

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Meike Langer Blanche Salone Satellite Milan 2014
Designer | 17.04.2014

(smow) blog compact Milan 2014 Special: Meike Langer and Karoline Fesser at Salone Satellite

One of the stand out objects for us in the Young Perspectives exhibition shown in Boffi's Cologne flagship store during Cologne Design Week 2014 was the clothes stand Blanche by Frankfurt based Meike Langer. And so it was a real joy not only to be reacquainted with Blanche in Milan, but to see Blanche's new shoes. Or more precisely put, new foot. Crafted from ash and steel tubing Blanche has an abstract trombone feel about it and is, in many ways, a refinement of the excellent Beaugars

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Thomas Schnur Salone Satellite Milan 2014
Designer | 09.04.2014

(smow) blog compact Milan 2014 Special: Thomas Schnur @ Salone Satellite

As regular readers will be aware, unlike The Kinks we are no dedicated followers of fashion. Millinery is another matter altogether. There is little that excites us quite as much as a good hat. And so we were obviously instantly taken by what we took to be an over sized Fes on Cologne designer Thomas Schnur's stand at Salone Satellite. It was of course not a Fes but "Felt Stool", one of Thomas's newer projects. And a project that is exactly what it claims to be. A stool made of felt. Not

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Milan Design Week 2013 Sofa Rui Alves aka My Own Super Studio
Designer | 16.05.2013

Milan Design Week 2013: Rui Alves aka My Own Super Studio

We quote: "It’s probably fair to say the biggest surprise at Salone Satellite 2012 was seeing Rui Alves aka My Own Super Studio. Because we thought 2011 had been the last year he was allowed to exhibit." Fast forward 12 months later. And guess what the the biggest surprise at Salone Satellite 2013 was.... ? He has however promised us that this is his final, final, final year at Salone Satellite. A thought which to be honest doesn't disappoint or otherwise upset us because 2013 was also the

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Milan Design Week 2013 Live Screen Danielle Trofe Salone Satellite
Designer | 14.04.2013

Milan Design Week 2013: Live Screen by Danielle Trofe at Salone Satellite

The concept of the so-called "Vertical Garden" or "Living Wall" is reasonably well established in architecture. In principle it involves cladding an exterior wall with plants in an integrated, self-sufficient system that requires little or no maintenance or external input. The theory is that the plants provide an efficient layer of insulation that keeps the temperature ambient in summer and reduces heating costs in winter. In addition such constructions reduce the impact of a building on

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Milan 2012 Antoinette Bader
Designer | 19.04.2012

Milan 2012: Antoinette Bader @ Salone Satellite

As regular readers will know one of our favourite design festivals is Vienna Design Week. And one of our all-time favourite Vienna Design Week projects is LacesLamp by Antoinette Bader. Because it delt so playfully with statics. And believe us, we've suffered for statics. And so anything that presents it as something to be enjoyed is to be celebrated. Consequently it was a particular joy to discover Antoinette at Salone Satellite 2012 with three new projects: projects which although

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