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Fuori Salone 2015

I would start applying the following concept written by Gio Ponti (In Praise of Architecture), to a smaller scale: design. ‘The balance is the dynamic expression of architecture. It’s where architecture starts to talk (and then sing), it’s where it breaks the sleep of the symmetry, a large, comfortable, tolerant dimension: Art is exactitude at the limits, without tolerance and safe merges: it’s a demanding game, a successful game: the balance of the impossible becoming possible.’ And from the same book: ‘The legs of a chair, Adolf Loos was use to say, must always be “too thin”, a spire “too tall”, a bridge “too tense”: always a challenge: a success.’  After re-reading this book and listening to Giovanna (Achille’s daughter) at Fondazione Castiglioni, I refreshed my ideas about what design should be. Her devotion and enthusiasm switched on certain convictions I some times forget because of instant enchantment. We don’t have to adapt to an object, it’s the object that has to adapt to us. It’s observing the society in which we are living that design become clever and able to support and inspire people behaviors. I tried to recognize, among all the works exhibited at Salone, what is really making a difference in term of balance, dynamism, playfulness, surprise, innovation. That’s what drove me across the city with compulsive curiosity and here below a selection of designers I would recommend to follow. Among them you will find a range of midcentury design (BBPR, Gio Ponti, Alvar Aalto etc…), even a piece from the 1926 beautifully designed by Jean Michel Frank for Hermès and contemporary design: Dedar textiles, Interiors set up by Dimore Studio, Martino Gamper’s living workshop, Max Lamb’s Exercises on Seating, the Nilufar’s heritage collection. A special tribute goes to Swiss elegance: the Zurich based designer Tom Strala, the Lausanne based designer Béatrice Durandard and the cooperative effort between design school ECAL with studio Formafantasma.

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Michael Anastassiades

Lit Lines Collection/Pendant Light 2, 2011

UK

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Jörg Schellmann for Moroso

5 boxes floor, 2011

Germany

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Hermès

Jean Michel Frank collection, 1924

Fabric in collaboration with Dedar

France

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Muller Van Severen

Salon / Rocking Chair

Belgium

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MADE (Mercado de Arte e Design)

Brazil

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Alvar AAlto

Angel Wings, 1950

Finland

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Béatrice Durandard

Panorama / Aluminium, led strip

Switzerland

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Ico Parisi, Gio Ponti, Gianfranco Frattini

Armchair with fabric by Joseph Frank, 1945

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Apparatus Studio

Arrow

NY

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Max Lamb for Dzek

Exercises on Seating

UK

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OS ∆ OOS

Syzygy 

Glass,Rubber,Concrete

UK

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Tom Strala

Animal Farm / Bartok / Lazy Seefelder

Switzerland

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Servomuto

Patio (fabric by Dedar)

Italy

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Achille Castiglioni

Sancarlo sofa, originally for Driade and reissued by Tacchini

Spirale Posacenere, Alessi

Italy

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Ecal + Formafantasma 

Arts & Crafts & Design: Time According to ECAL & Swiss Craftsmen

Paysages Désertiques by Josefina Munoz / Artisans' tools / La Macina millstone by Stefano Panterotto / L.O.D. (Light Dependant Object) by Kaja Solgaard Dahl

Switzerland

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Martino Gamper

Cirque Chair for Gebrüder Thonet

UK