The Milan report 2017

Each year the world’s leading furniture, lighting and design companies display the latest and the greatest at Milan Design week  Salone del Mobile, the world’s largest furniture and design show. Editors, designers, manufacturers and trend forecasters are greatly influenced, the coming season’s colour palettes, shapes, forms and materials.
Enjoy our 1^st installment of products and installations that we simply can’t get enough off !

LOCAL DESIGN presented ‘LOCAL MILAN’, now in it’s second year, during Milan’s recent Design Week proudly supported by Brickworks Building Products, a showcase of 11 Established Australian designers. Curated by designer, stylist and creative director of LOCAL DESIGN, Emma Elizabeth. 8000 La Paloma White Artico bricks were hand placed within Oratoria della Passione, to create the scenography within the Sant’Ambrodgio district in 5 Vie. With 1000 long San Selmo Corso Aqua bricks hand placed in the outside courtyard, that neighboured the famous Basilica Di Sant’Ambrogio.

The 11 designers included left to right: Tom Skeehan, Dowel Jones, Ryan McGoldrick x Kate Banazi, Charles Wilson, A.C.V Studio, Tom Fereday, Christopher Boots, Emma Elizabeth, Jon Goulder, Ross Gardam and Adam Goodrum.

Art deco, 1950s car detailing and 1970s styling featured in the colourful rooms created by Dimorestudio to showcase its furniture.The Milan-based studio, filled two exhibition spaces in the Brera district with its lighting, furniture and hand-painted tiles. Mirrored details were also a recurring feature, incorporated into table legs, wardrobe doors and armchair backrests.

Colour was used throughout the art deco-period apartment, with rooms painted in contrasting shades of pale blue and pink.Another area replicated the feeling of a 70s living room, with thick carpet and oversized sculptural seating.

Designed by Italian/French Bloom Room designer Marc Ange and titled “Le Refuge,” the bed and surrounding display were put together in collaboration with The Invisible Collection, The Wunder Kammer and The Green Gallery.

If this looks like the bed of your dreams, The Invisible Collection says there are a grand total of three available for purchase. FYI this was the most shared installation on social media!

Within an abandoned vaulted storage room next to the historic Milano Centrale station, a white carousel spun—the only object in a raw, unfinished space. On that carousel, visitors found reimaginings of furniture, objects and lighting drawn from ten years worth of English designer Lee Broom’s collections. Broom’s “Time Machine” exhibition was exactly that a referential timeline of the designer’s development over the last decade.

Diesel Living reflects a mix of industrial styles, dark and adrenalised rock & roll spirit and the bright-toned pop and vintage tones.

The location’s rather grim and raw décor was transformed by BAAS with an entrance consisting of the best of BAAS.

Spanish designer Patricia Urquiola brings her modern sensibility to Milan-based rug manufacturers cc-tapis on a series of handknotted rugs. Visioni consists of two rug designs with contemporary, abstract graphic patterns made using age-old techniques in Nepal. The rugs are made exclusively by hand out of colors and materials that respect the traditional production techniques while adding a modern spin to them.

This powerful political-social installation is built around the life jackets discarded by refugees on Greece’s shores. The work fuses social engagement with the practical aim of extending protection from water to land. The young Achilleas is repurposing life jackets that saved refugees on the sea to shelter them on land.