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The integrated furnishing systems on show during Milano Design Week clearly reflected a number of the trends that have been growing in popularity with designers and clients over recent years. First off, there was the trend towards open space designs and a “total look,” in which walls are mainly glazed and those that aren’t have coverings that are the same material or texture as the furnishings. Another clear trend was to create rooms that are versatile, using furnishing systems designed to be modular, replicable, and can be taken apart and reassembled as needed.
Finally, there’s no slowdown in the move towards sustainable products made with recycled or recyclable materials that can have a second life.
Created in a sartorial style with clean, elegant lines, Continuity from Barausse includes both wall paneling and furnishing elements. This broad, versatile furnishing approach is very much human-centric, giving living spaces an aesthetic coherence and functionality. Combinations of elements heighten the perception of space, encouraging feelings of harmony and wellbeing, all supported by the firm’s fifty-five years of know-how and aesthetic exploration. The Continuity range comprises glass doors from the Tip collection, the newly released Yugen wall paneling, and the Upload walk-in closet. In developing these new products, the firm gave great importance to choosing materials that encourage feelings of comfort and naturalness.
With thin aluminum profiles and large transparent surfaces, the glazed doors of the Tip collection are designed for people who enjoy bright, open spaces. With the handles integrated into the door design, both the hinged and sliding versions match perfectly.
Yugen is a new wall paneling system with echoes of Japanese style in which order and simplicity contribute to quality of living. The panels incorporate a thin frame that adds another special touch to the space where they’re installed.
Upload walk-in closets are composed of functional elements decorated with elegant metal profiles that can be combined with LED lights that accentuate the enormous attention paid to every detail. The entire system is designed to redefine the wardrobe area, through the use of modular shelves and drawers according to individual needs.
Caccaro was at Milano Design Week 2022 with ways to transform every wall into both a decorative and functional element so as to solve storage needs and express your own tastes.
The firm premiered an integration between its iconic Freedhome® and Wallover® systems. These beds and furnishing accessories create a tailored-made, total living experience. The wall finishes don’t just decorate the walls of the home but make each room unique and personal. Spaces become fluid, changing appearance and function during the life of the people who live in them in response to their changing needs.
At the core of these lines are the design principles that the company has been working with for years: rhythms created by carefully calculated proportions and asymmetries, light that can radically change the feel of a room, and creating a sensorial experience. These are the principles that inspired the new marble-textured Kera finish as well as Oxid, which, produced using a painting process that combines industrial precision with craftsmanship, reproduces the vibrancy of metal.
These are products that transform spaces from architecture to self-expression. Walls are used as blank canvases for people to use their creativity to give shape to their own idea of home. And all these products fully reflect the company slogan of “Spaces that speak of you.”
Changes over recent years have seen the rigid division of rooms broken down as flexibility, dynamic, and versatility have become the key so that everyone can choose where and how they work and live. For Salone del Mobile 2022, Dieffebi interpreted these changes in the office, community, and domestic spaces from five perspectives: Italian design, customization, modularity, flexibility, and remote working.
It showcased new systems that, both modular and versatile, encourage even more hybridization of rooms by taking advantage of new technologies and ensuring acoustic comfort and sustainability. A highlight is the new Tidy Wings wheeled partitions, designed by Gianmarco Blini and available in five versions to meet every need. There’s also the T-share Table and the Benci bench, both designed by 967Arch, and the Universal Quick draw units, designed by Takiro Yuta. Also noteworthy are the Echo Lockers storage cabinets, designed by 967Arch, which combine technology with elegance. Both designed by Elisa Ossino, the new Living Table, which pairs with the Zoey stool, are also highlights, as is the Dolomites partition, designed by Dorigo Design in sound-absorbing fabric to be colorful and versatile. Intended for the living room, Mond, also by Dorigo Design, is a new system of free-standing elements available in five versions, making them highly customizable. Both functional and elegant, the new Primo Air display cabinets, designed by 967Arch, are equally at home in the office, hospitality premises, or in the domestic environment.
Also new is the Cuvée seating range, designed by Dorigo Design, created to encourage sharing and relaxation. Then there are the new armchairs and sofas designed by Elisa Ossino and made using Fischbacher fabrics, whose soft, elegant textures were achieved using recycled products.
Making its first appearance at Salone del Mobile in 2022, Henry Glass presented a selection of new products that stand out for their genuine, versatile, and highly recognizable style. The star of the show was a partition wall system with sophisticated technical features and minimalist lines for creating contemporary spaces based around the use of glass. Doors and fixed glazing panels can be combined to design more linear or more dynamic compositions as needed, creating a unique chance to reimagine rooms by reflecting their volumes and geometries.
Always on the lookout for new inspirations to keep its collections fresh, Henry Glass is now offering a new series of decorations for its doors designed by Nicola Gallizia. Marked by perfectly balanced geometries and colors, they produce sophisticated and exclusive interplays of forms. Dubbed Heritage, Tweed, Origin, and Open Up, the four versions are available in various shades and can be chosen for the hinged, folding, and sliding glass doors. They can also be combined with matching wallpaper. Inspired by forms derived from the cultures of distant peoples, these are products that create crosspollinations and contrasts, giving rise to a journey of the senses that invents a new identity for doors and walls.
Fluido®, designed by Daniele Del Missier, was inspired by Venetian fish markets, where every day the storage boxes change depending on the catch. The result is furniture that’s interchangeable, replaceable, and functional, with a structure that can easily be taken apart and reassembled somewhere else.
Designed according to a new and unique concept dubbed easy assembling (patent pending), Fluido® is transformable, easily transportable, and assembles without screws. It’s also suitable for work, home, bars, cafes, restaurants, shops, public or private spaces, and indoors or outside.
Developed and built to be both timeless and environmentally friendly, this is a product that’s infinitely transformable. The best way to achieve sustainability is to build furniture to last. Easy to take apart and infinitely reusable, Fluido® perfectly fits the bill, creating an ideal circular economy. All materials are 100% recyclable: the structure is in aluminum while the countertops are CARB2-certified recycled paper.
A Mirage project designed by Andrea Boschetti in collaboration with Ana Lazovic, EpicArc aims to reinterpret ceramic as a pure design element, giving it a new use that’s no longer just decorative but also structural. In planning the project and its first products – a capsule collection of tables – ceramic was imagined as the material for the legs, rather than for the more obvious and more visible table top, for which transparent glass was used to reveal the ceramic supports below.
By reimagining the role of porcelain stoneware, two conceptual pathways were developed: The first, Epic, is based around the geometries of shapes and their respective points of balance and stability. The second, Arc, is based on the history of the arch and its various structural variations.
Epic and Arc both embody the principles of pure design. In both, ceramic is no longer used as a merely decorative element but has evolved into the structure of the object. These two early products will generate a large collection characterized by different modular geometries for increasingly sustainable and flexible ways of living.
The design of EpicArc is also based on the idea of the sustainability of objects, with glue-free assembly made possible by mainly interlocking parts produced with disposable materials and with respect for their intrinsic characteristics.
This was no doubt done with one eye on the concept of achieving a total look in contemporary living, with increasingly customizable elements that stand out for their personality and exclusivity, conceived and designed from a whole new perspective, including in terms of their environmental impact.
Pianca was at the event with Bricola, a flexible modular system designed by Raffaella Mangiarotti that provides an elegant backdrop for the bedroom. The concept grew out of wanting to create a simple but effective structure based on Venice’s bricole, those structures formed by two or three wooden poles that help direct traffic in the lagoon. It consists of units with either three or five panels, available in two heights and made of a bonded fabric that provides both rigidity and stability.
The structure is wooden rods. The hinges – elegant details with a metallic finish – make it possible to rotate and reconfigure each section, which can be upholstered in the whole range of Pianca smooth fabrics and combined with a coordinated bed frame.
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