I´ve met a lot people last week during milan design week. I also had the chance to do a drawn interview with ronan bouroullec, shay and yeal from raw edges, pieke bergmans, piet hein eek and some more.

I travelled with the bus from milan back to maastricht, nl. when I got off the bus I had to walk home in the rain. unfortunatly my bag isn´t that waterproof. all drawings got wet. after 2 days of little frustrations about this misfortune I´ve decided to publish them anyway. I mean, it happend and I can´t change it…

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‘remeditate’ is inspired by the medical world – this is a series of items by italian studio ctrlzak at the salonesatellite.

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rotterdam-based studio makkink & bey has launched ‘house of furniture parts’ for droog. it is a cnc cutted house with walls of furniture parts which come out and can be easily assembled. a house for everybody who has enough space in their livingroom : )

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‘mat, satiné, brilliant’ – the installation of belgium-based fashion designer martin margiela. he recreated his parisian atelier in a large space at zona tortona. beautiful!

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its sunday and I just got back from the milan design week.
unfortunately I couldn’t find an internet connection in milan. so no posts the whole week. but now I have enough content for the next few months.

here is a little preview from my spontaneous top 3 from last week.
and when I say top 3, I talk about the whole thing: exhibition, presentation, idea, products..

1 – design miami/ fendi present craft punk
design performances by designers at spazio fendi

2 – ‘mat, satiné, brilliant’ by belgium-based fashion designer
maison martin margiela at zona tortona

3 – prophets and penitents by damn magazine, showing chairs in prototype form at the oratorio della passione, a 15th century hall

and you know what, I will stay there the whole week. yeah
- salone di mobile 2009

this picture is taken by my ex-roommate nika rams.
she took one of the zona tortona signs ‘accidentally’ with her in 2007
: )

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another design from amsterdam-based aldo bakker – when I look at the low table I ask myself if it could go any lower …

low table, japanese urushi lacquer by mariko nishide

side table, japanese urushi lacquer by mariko nishide
- work in progress

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amsterdam-based designer aldo bakker and a range of porcelain tableware for frans ottink at the superstories design triennale in hasselt, belgium.

vinegar flask, 2008

milk can, 2005

salt cellar, 2006

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amsterdam-based designer joris laarman has launched the first version of the bone chair 3 years ago – developed on a computer and then cast in aluminum. joris took advantage of software that car manufacturers use to develop shapes for auto parts. it’s a collaboration with the research lab of the International development centre adam opel gmbh.

In 2008 he has designed a beautiful version moulded from a mixture of marble and porcelain mixed with resin which is now on display at the z33 during the superstories design triennale in hasselt, belgium, till 10th may.

bone chair, 2008, molded marble resin, 75 x 80 x 100 cm
edition of 12

my friend robert andriessen from designguide.tv has made a movie about the eindhoven-based atelierdorp.

I have previously covered some stories about the design family which robert describes as a place ‘where people get a chance to explore their true creative potential.’ but this movie unveils the real and authentic atmosphere in the church.

Atelierdorp, a design family from robertanderson on Vimeo.

couple weeks ago I visited the atelierdorp in eindhoven. nacho carbonell and his intern were working on new furniture for droog design which will be unveiled at the salone del mobile in milan later this month.

I received the official press release and now I feel free to publish the snapshot I took the other day. the modular furniture consists of ‘a thin, closely adhering and elastic layer that allows the user to place objects underneath it. I am very curious about nacho’s work. he is also exhibiting at spazio rosanna orlandi and designmiami’s craft punk exhibition for fendi.

work in progress:
nacho and his intern alejandro sánchez in the workshop

the product design and jewellery department of the academy fine art maastricht, netherlands, shows ‘various works of ceramic fascinations related to the human body and mind’ at the salone satellite 22-27th april in milan.

the 2nd and 3rd year product design students are coached and refined by designer tomáš gabzdil libertiny from studio libertiny. last week I went to the work review. now I present a little preview on the pieces that will be shown at pavillion 22/24 stand 20.

jo sijen, tutor for autonomic design and tomáš gabzdil libertiny

tomáš gabzdil libertiny and chequita nahar,
coordinator jewellery and product design

pour femme by dik scheepers

albertine van iterson working on a deer head

toys by marco Iannicelli

glazing room in the academy fine art maastricht

yes, tomáš..it’s a carrot

Maastricht

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the answer to industrial production of shoes is marloes ten bhömer. her work is on display at the brit Insurance designs of the year 2009 in the designmuseum, london.

rotationalmouldedshoe

rotationalmouldingmachine

London

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japanese designer oki sato, his studio is called nendo, has designed the cabbage chair for the XXIst century man exhibition. the show was curated by Issey miyake at 21_21 design sight in tokyo in 2008.

nendo transformed a roll of pleated paper into a small chair that appears naturally as you peel away its outside layers, one layer at a time. and this year the chair was nominated for the brit Insurance furniture award 2009.

London

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this sunday morning I’ve been browsing through my pictures from last years design week in milan. I found these pictures of me and my friends sitting on konstantin grcic’s awarded cantilever chair. we were having a rest at the triennale design museum and decided to take some of the myto chairs out on the terrace.

derya inanici, theda schoppe and me

you can have this umbrella for an affordable price of 59,95 €. netherlands-based senz have designed this umbrella that ‘always finds the best position in the wind’.

gerwin hoogendoorn, gerard kool, philip hess and niel heiijman are surely proud of their design: it has won the brit insurance awards, red dot design award, if award and many more. congratulations.

rotterdam-based designer wieki somers has designed a wardrobe for the boijmans van beuningen museum in rotterdam.

she came came up with the idea while watching the jiska rickels film, 4 elements in which mine workers had to hoist their coats back up because the space was so limited.

the red and white fairground carousel is made from plastic pulley blocks. fire hoses and metal weights were used to make the mechanism, which is simple to use – just pull on the rope, hang the coat and fasten the lock. the metal weights ensure that the hoisting up and down works automatically.

the image is a picture of a picture. I took it at the brit insurance awards, designs of the year 2009, at the design museum in london