Review of Milan Design Week 2024
On April 16, 2024, the Salone del Mobile Milano was successfully opened. "Evolution" is the key word of the 62nd edition of the Salone del Mobile.Milano, with 174,457 square meters of single-storey exhibition space, more than 1,950 exhibitors from 35 countries, 185 brands exhibiting for the first time or returning, a focus on first-class kitchen and bathroom design, and the celebration of the 25th anniversary of the satellite SaloneSatellite.
The cultural initiatives of this edition of the Salone del Mobile will be present in all the halls, triggering new thinking about the future and bringing the world's attention back to this unique ecosystem.
BERTAZZONI博塔桑尼
Cook elegantly with a world-premiere finish
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On April 16, Bertazzoni, synonymous with "Made in Italy", the Italian company specializing in the production of kitchen appliances since 1882, presented its latest brand innovations for 2024 at the Milan trade show Euro Cucina. The development of new finishes with an aesthetic concept unprecedented in the home appliance industry, as well as bold innovations in the field of refrigeration and induction hob technology, are highly anticipated.
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At Euro Cucina, Botasani unveiled a new aesthetic concept finish that makes the design of his kitchen appliances even more unique. Thanks to a completely new production process, products equipped with new finishes offer a high degree of customization and versatility. As an industry trend, details such as materials, tones and finishes are becoming more and more important in addition to expression.
Cattelan Italy
New Modernism
Cattelan Italia presents a new collection under the theme "A new approach to contemporary aesthetics" and presents it at the Salone del Mobile 2024. The collection includes home furnishings dedicated to living and sleeping areas, with bold innovations in materials that express the brand's love for Italian craftsmanship.
The Keramik collection is a Cattelan Italia classic, known for its innovative material finishes. The new Napoleon Keramik bench proposes a new style: the table is made entirely of ceramic, with the same material for the base and top, thus creating a coherent and uniform material effect, making the finish the absolute protagonist and stylistic carrier.
Electrolux
Promote environmental awareness and sustainable lifestyles
Electrolux unveils the Electrolux EcoLine Hub unit at the 2024 Milan Furniture Fair. The EcoLine Hub is a personal, immersive display that guides people to a more sustainable lifestyle by showcasing Electrolux's most energy-efficient home appliances, the EcoLine collection.
The exterior of the EcoLine Hub is set up as a large parallelepiped that blends perfectly with its surroundings through mirrored walls. The interior of the installation recreates an authentic home environment, from the overall Scandinavian design style, to the choice of furniture, to Electrolux's most energy-efficient EcoLine collection, which reflects Electrolux's sustainable values in every detail.
Fuzzy
A new island to inhabit
Flou, the classic Italian home furnishing brand, presents its new collection Flou and Natevo in 2024 at the Salone del Mobile in Milan. The series accurately captures the emotional needs of people at the moment, and its volume can be more widely used in SPA and other healing spaces, providing solutions that can flexibly match personalized scenes.
Yuna is the most important piece of the Flou fabric linen linen, which is composed of fabric and leather, and has an elegant and sophisticated design. The two sides of the headboard extend to the edges with slightly different radii of arcs, a styling detail that brightens up the overall visual effect and makes Yuna lighter, like an ideal island suspended in the air.
GUFRAM
A classic design is recreated
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Italian radical design brand Gufram returns to the Salone del Mobile in Milan with iconic designs from the history of design, such as BOCCA®, PRATONE® and CACTUS®. In addition to recreating the classic design, Gufram has also launched a new version of one of the icons of radical design, the CACTUS® cactus, the invisible spectrum. CACTUS:® The Invisible Spectrum is dedicated to maintaining CACTUS'® status as an unrivalled icon, blending it into contemporary environments with new colors.
Gufram unveils a new limited edition of the CACTUS® cactus: The Invisible Spectrum. The collection is limited to 365 pieces worldwide and will be available for a limited period of one year starting in April 2024. Inspired by the different wavelengths of light, the new CACTUS® is available in three surprising and unique colourways. With this collection, Gufram breaks the mold with three special colors that are often difficult to perceive by the human eye: Ultraviolet, Gammablue and Infrared. Through a careful treatment of color, Gufram aims to highlight the power of the new CACTUS® as a new conceptual symbol of "radical design", revisiting the iconic piece with a new modern perspective.
Loro Piana
A tribute to the classics
On the occasion of the centenary of the birth of the famous Italian architect and designer Cini Boeri, the interior decoration department of Loro Piana pays tribute to him with the installation "Tribute to Cini Boeri", which is exhibited during Milan Design Week. Designed by Loro Piana and Archivio Cini Boeri, the installation features the 1979 Compasso d'Or Strips sofa in its centerpiece, a space that follows Cini's principles as an architect: a house should contain separate rooms, with communal areas that can be chosen rather than forced.
The various spaces in the surrounding area showcase other famous Cini Boeri creations: the Pecorelle sofa and armchair, the Bobo armchair, the Boolo high and low chair, etc. These exclusive pieces of furniture are produced by the Italian furniture brand ARFLEX. For this exhibition, the pieces are made with unique fabrics from the interior decoration department of Loro Piana.
Memphis Milano
Bringing radical design to the contemporary home
Memphis Milano, the representative of Italian radical design, and Gufram and Meritalia of the Italian Radical Design Group presented a series of Memphis classics at the Salone del Mobile in Milan.
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At the same time, Memphis also presents the "Livin' Memphis" theme exhibition at its design gallery Memphis Milano Galleria, reimagining Memphis' iconic furniture in the living scene, bringing radical design into the contemporary home and exploring the intersection of art and design in life.
Carmignani Revolt
Romanticism reappeared in the 19th century
Rivolta Carmignani is a long-established Italian linen manufacturer and "Made in Italy" partner in the world's most prestigious hotels and restaurants. The brand unveiled its new Home 2024/25 collection at the Salone del Mobile 2024 in Milan.
"A romantic stroll through the historic Lombard gardens", this poetic imagination inspired the design of Rivolta Carmignani's new home collection. Roses and magnolias, flowers of the forest and fields, intertwined in the decoration of the gardens of the 19th-century Lombard lakeside villas, are harmoniously reproduced on sheets, tablecloths and towels.
USM
An organic fusion of "timeless" and "contemporary".
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At this year's Milan Design Week, the iconic Swiss design brand USM will explore its own unique DNA – the USM Haller, a modular furniture system with a deep history and ever-changing characteristics, which has been shaped for nearly 60 years, and this classic of modular design created by Fritz Haller and Paul Schärer continues to inspire today's design. In the middle of the familiar Rossignoli space, a futuristic USM installation will be unveiled: the audience can see the design that has spanned half a century transform and reorganize again and again, and fully feel the ingenuity of USM's design. Composed of metal balls, tubes, connectors and colourful metal panels, it is a piece of furniture that is constantly changing, never stopping, and inspiring creativity.
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The exhibition will also feature interactive installations around the space, through which visitors can immerse themselves in exploring and entering the rich, poetic, and shocking scrolls of USM's history. From the outdoors, you will enter the time capsule exhibition space composed of USM, where everything promotes the encounter, exchange, connection and sharing between people. It is this organic fusion of "timeless" and "contemporary" that has shaped the unique charm of USM for nearly 60 years and continues to enter the future. Since the sixties, the USM Haller modular furniture system has been designed with a high degree of precision, unbiased quality, and has become a timeless benchmark in the world of design with its unrivalled versatility and adaptability.
Veleda VBC
Uncover the warp and weft, and see the slightest implication
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With a 360-year history, VBC is one of the oldest woollen mills in the world and is thriving under the active leadership of family managers. Driade is an aesthetic laboratory of rock, pop, sexuality, sophistication and experimentation, relentlessly pursuing beauty in the living space. During Milan Design Week 2024, the two brands will work together to interpret the seemingly indistinguishable boundaries between the two worlds of design and fashion. From 16 to 19 April, the Biellese showroom was transformed into a stage, where textiles were brought to life with the iconic designs of Driade.
Guided by this theme, visitors will be guided from the display case to the center of the showroom, where the HALL sofa designed by Driade is covered with Vidalé VBC tartan wool flannel, a garment made of a man's wardrobe staple and a symbol of timeless style. Designed by Rodolfo Dordoni during the minimalist era, the HALL collection reinterprets the values of homeiness and comfort.
WAW Collection
A NEW TRANSLATION OF THE BE WATER CLASSIC
On April 15th, the Italian furniture brand WAW COLLECTION launched the first special edition of the WAW APARTMENT series, which was dreamily unveiled in the Brera Design District. With the theme of "BE A DREAMER", it reinterprets the BE WATER lamp designed by the brand's founder and artistic director, Fernando Correa, which has won honors such as the Red Dot Award, the German National Design Award and obtained patents.
The BE WATER table lamp is a linear design language as the main body, with modular recessed functions and dynamic decorative LED lamps. The luminaire has four forms of color variation, which is inspired by the four elements of nature, using "water" as a metaphor to create a dreamlike form of light and shadow. For the 2024 special edition, Correa incorporates the whimsical reverie of Latin American magic to interpret the sensory experience of water and light in a dreamscape.
Zanotta
Start a new chapter for the 70th anniversary
On the occasion of the brand's 70th anniversary, Zanotta, the epitome of radical Italian design, presents new home furnishings designed by Muller Van Severen, Philippe Malouin, Calvi Brambilla and Zaven. At the same time, the brand has unveiled a reissue of its iconic collection, announcing a complete overhaul of its colour collection, which will be unveiled in its new flagship store in Via Durini in Milan.
The new Z24 was designed by renowned Belgian visual arts collective Muller Van Severen and made its debut at Design Week. Z24 is a collection of storage furniture, including a sideboard, bedside table and two low cabinets, and is unveiled in a whole new color palette. The real protagonist of the collection is the backlash of light, which is created by the finish of laminated wood and matte lacquer to create a shadow texture where light is absent.
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Aesop伊索暮色将至香水
With a spicy floral scent, it evokes the scenery in the subconscious
Twilight is coming, the fifth creation of "The Realm of Reality and Virtuality", this fragrance collection is inspired by the space between the real and the imaginary, as a horizontal passage to self-observation consciousness – evoking dreams, entering the imagination, and the waking world gradually receding. Here, the familiar and the uncanny collide to create a blend of tangible and illusory aromas: floral notes, warm spices, and deep woody aromas come together to evoke infinite reverie, awaken the senses and enchant the soul.
The fragrance is Twilight Approaching, developed by Aesop in collaboration with long-time perfumer Barnabé Fillion. Each fragrance is chemically altered to create a unique and personalized fragrance. "Scents are transmitted through the air, through the skin, through the fabrics of clothing, creating spaces in the world around us that are both real and imaginary – blurring the boundaries between past and present, real and imagined, here and there," the perfumer says. The smell is like a window into nature, inviting us to have a dialogue with the surroundings we live in but are often overlooked. ”
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Dyson release
Supersonic Nural™ smart hair dryer
Create a new trend of "smart dry hair".
Dyson has launched a new generation of hair tech products, the Dyson Supersonic Nural™. After eight years of updates and iterations, Dyson has launched a new sensing technology that redefines the "smart hair dryer" with scalp protection mode, accessory setting memory function and pause detection mode, providing consumers with scalp care and flexible styling experience.
In the new Scalp Protection Mode, the Supersonic Nural™ automatically adjusts the air temperature according to the blowing distance, ensuring that the air temperature reaching the scalp is always maintained at a constant temperature of 55°C. The new product is also thoughtfully designed for consumers to set the accessory memory function and pause detection mode. When the user switches the nozzle, the wind speed and temperature will automatically match the previous setting, eliminating the need for manual adjustment each time, simplifying the consumer's daily styling process and bringing a more convenient user experience.
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ERDOS 2024春夏时装秀于上海
Lightweight
洄响 FLOWING FLOWER
ERDOS (Ordos) Spring/Summer 2024 fashion show was presented lightly at the Shanghai Star Art Museum, with the theme of "FLOWING FLOWER", exploring the infinite possibilities of cashmere and other natural materials about lightness in the free-flowing fashion expression. The whole show uses the key clue of flow to connect the changes of light cashmere knitting and romantic colors, and presents the symbolic element of flowers through multiple design languages, completing a new spring/summer style writing between the virtual and the real. Spokesperson Liu Wen, actors Ma Yili, Song Yi, and Han Dongjun appeared in the spring and summer series of custom fashions, and went to a romantic and smart spring and summer fashion appointment with many fashion bloggers, media and friends from all walks of life. At the same time, the off-site experience session and CanU jointly launched a sustainable handicraft workshop to vividly convey the brand's sustainable fashion concept.
ERDOS held the spring and summer fashion show for the first time, taking the initiative to break the labels of representative brands such as autumn and winter, cashmere, etc., and presenting a new temperament of lightness and relaxation. Starting from the core to break through the boundaries of advantages and expand consumers' demand for multi-scene clothing, ERDOS has gradually evolved from a reliable and high-quality "autumn and winter preferred" to a "four-season companion brand" with great vitality and innovation.
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APM Munich × 杨紫
The limited collaboration series is officially released
Unleash your individuality and embrace yourself
Monaco-based luxury jewellery brand APM Monaco held an APM Monaco x Yang Zi Limited Edition Collection Launch Party in Shanghai, and launched the APM Monaco X Yang Zi Limited Edition Collection. The collection presents an elegant flower shape, with details embellished with warm pearls, blooming with confident and elegant femininity. The collaboration between the two parties is not only an interpretation of women's strength, glamour and creativity, but also hopes to inspire every woman to boldly express her heart and style, and embrace her unique and precious self through the APM Monaco x Yang Zi limited edition collection, which symbolizes the inner beauty of women.
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In the process of co-creation with Ms. Kika Prette, Creative Director of APM Monaco, she chose to decorate the elegant and beautiful flowers with pure and timeless pearls, which bring a sense of sophistication and softness to the jewelry, while the pearls give a classic and luxurious impression. Combining dreamy femininity with a stylish personality to create jewelry pieces that unleash Yang Zi's unique femininity and personal talent.
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Simmons®席梦思
Spring Forest Experience Space
Embark on an adventure in the beauty of sleep
Simmons® "Picking Dreams and Healing" Spring Forest Experience Space has landed at Shanghai BFC Bund Financial Center for a limited time. Led by the owl sage Zalmon ® and the little owl Dreamon, stroll through the spring forest of Simmons® Kingdom, explore the healing power of sleep, start the adventure journey of beautiful sleep, and use cutting-edge technology to support sweet dreams and present high-end luxury home aesthetics.
Simmons unveiled the brand's® mascot images at the "Dream Picking" Spring Forest Experience Space, the owl sage Zalmon ® and the owl Dreamon. The design of the brand's mascot image can be traced back to the image of the owl in the brand logo used by Simmons® in the early 20th century, inheriting the original intention of the brand to adhere to the concept of "ingenuity forged, dreams and beautiful sleep". They are not only a symbol of wisdom, but also a messenger of human sleep, and strive to bring extraordinary and high-quality sleep experience to consumers while passing on sleep knowledge.
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Shanghai Bund Oriental Hotel
An elegant interpretation of Shanghainese culture
Recently, the Oriental Beauty Hotel, located on the Bund in Shanghai, has re-created the elegant interpretation of Shanghai-style culture while inheriting the genes of the previous niche boutique hotel. The walls are hung with authentic works of Chinese and German painters, and some of the furniture comes from the Danish second-hand master brand - House of Finn Juhl.
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Not only that, but the hotel is also ahead of the curve with its digital use, allowing you to use personalized services such as advance reservations at check-in. Robots in the hotel are also constantly busy. The alcove in the corridor displays artwork from the famous German ceramic brand Meissen, as well as creative porcelain works by young artists from Jingdezhen, China. The retro Lefroy Brooks faucet in the bathroom is like a delicate hand-cranked telephone in old Shanghai, and the luxurious Lalique bath set in Europe seems to smell the smell of "flowers" when opened......
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Hyatt Centric Shanghai Zhongshan Park opens
Create a new starting point for exploring Shanghai's different and wonderful activities
Hyatt Hotels Corporation announces the opening of Hyatt Centric Shanghai Zhongshan Park, marking the official entry of the Hyatt Centric brand into Shanghai, providing a new starting point for guests who love to explore the destination in depth, experiencing the modern charm of Shanghai and Shanghai-style culture. Located in the vicinity of the historic Zhongshan Park and the vibrant Yuyuan Road neighborhood, the hotel combines Shanghai's diverse cultural heritage with modern sophistication, leading a new generation of exploratory and shared travelers on a journey to explore Shanghai's fusion of East and West.
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Hyatt Centric Shanghai Zhongshan Park is located at the intersection of the city's tradition and modernity, like a stylish beacon that blends classic Shanghai aesthetics with Western sophistication. The hotel's interior design draws on the rich history and culture of Zhongshan Park, echoing the British elegance and providing inspiration for guests to explore the city. Adjacent to historic sites, local residences, restaurants and commercial centers, Hyatt Regency Shanghai Zhongshan Park offers a wealth of local knowledge and interesting anecdotes to guests in a multi-dimensional way, allowing visitors to experience the charm of Shanghai's Shanghainese culture from a new perspective.
Address: No. 1555, Dingxi Road, Changning District, Shanghai
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PROMISE RESTAURANT
The encounter between Shanghainese style and Nordic cuisine
PROMISE, as a new Nordic fashion restaurant, is based on the feelings and style of old Shanghai, like a new star, shining in this oriental magic capital. PROMISE is located in the Grand Mansion at No. 7 Donghu Road, Shanghai, and is a rare Nordic restaurant in Shanghai.
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Shanghai, where there is a lot of traffic, has a special mood and romance. The influence of Shanghai-style style makes the context of the city more moving, just like described in the Shanghai-style TV series, the whole city seems to be covered with a layer of colorful filter. Here, the breath of the times and history are intertwined, and the stories of the modern and the past are superimposed, stopping here and making people linger.
Address: Grand Mansion, No. 7 Donghu Road, Shanghai
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XIASHANG XIASHANG ᭃ
Create an oriental aesthetic lifestyle
Yangyun Spring Oriental Aesthetics Afternoon Tea
Aman Yangyun has teamed up with China's high-end home furnishing brand SHANG XIA to create a playful oriental lifestyle by fusing Western dessert art with oriental aesthetics. Spring afternoon tea and the cascading bamboo forest outside the window have a dialogue with each other, all kinds of light and shadow, infiltrating the fragrance of tea, injecting smart vitality into the body and mind. Aman Yangyun is located in a tranquil corner of Shanghai's suburbs, surrounded by camphor forests. Surrounded by camphor trees and lakeside scenery, Aman Yangyun is the perfect place to find inspiration with its exquisite afternoon tea and light-filled spaces.
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With the SHANG XIA "Chengyue" series of gift boxes, with a dexterous and staggered classic pattern, supporting exquisite afternoon snacks, layer by layer, every detail reveals ingenuity. With the theme of spring and nature, the dessert chef selects Biluochun, jasmine tea, cherry blossoms, etc., and skillfully integrates them into desserts.
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ART养云携手CoBrA GALLERY
Co-produced "Life and Death"
The art of nature is endless
Presented by ART Yangyun and co-produced by CoBrA GALLERY, the group exhibition of contemporary art and design will be held from April 28 to August 26, 2024 at Aman Yangyun Courtyard 50. This group exhibition will present the works of Huang Rui, Ma Kelu, Qian Jiahua, Huang Saifeng, Marianne Hesselbjerg, Marcin Rusak, Márta Kucsora, Vanessa Barragão, Poul Henningsen and other domestic and foreign art and design masters in two chapters.
The theme of the exhibition "Growing Together" is born from the reflection on the relationship between nature and humanity, and is visually presented around the theme from different perspectives in two chapters: "Keeping with Time" and "Responding to Things". "Migration with time, changes in response to things" comes from Sima Qian's "Historical Records: Taishi Gong's Self-Introduction", Taishi Gong expressed his thoughts on time and change, and today, more than 1,000 years later, we can still see the inheritance of this Taoist thought. Yangyun was born in a "migration" of Ming and Qing Dynasty dwellings from Fuzhou, Jiangxi Province, where the ancient houses and the ancient trees that moved with them condensed time in an instant, recreating the unique style of Jiangxi in Shanghai. In this exhibition, we retell the past time by integrating ancient houses, ancient trees, and second-hand furniture with the artists' representative works in the past, and explore the integration and coexistence between tradition and modernity, East and West, art and life.
Duration: February 28 – August 26, 2024
Address: No. 50 Aman Yangyun Courtyard, No. 6161 Yuanjiang Road, Minhang District, Shanghai
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The exhibition is presented at the Yellow Korner Gallery, France
“Jungle Houses 野奢主义”
The urban jungle is a place of inspiration
On April 20th, French photographer pioneer Yellow Korner Gallery unveiled its new exhibition "Jungle Houses" at HKRI Taikoo Hui in Shanghai, showcasing Alexandre Fauve's photographs and the surrealist world of daydreaming. The exhibition will run until June 23, and visitors will be able to experience life like never before, galloping between the romance of wild luxury, and immediately indulge in leisure and pleasure.
Artist Alexandre Fauvé creates photomontages in a variety of mediums, inspired by architecture, design and music, and presents a sacred, idealized picture of life – natural creatures, cosy habitats, roaming tropical California, wandering the Mediterranean coast, fauna and flowers...... In the ultimate luxury abode, indulge in relaxation and pleasure. Art installations inspired by the collection are on display, as if immersed in the atmosphere of modernist architecture and retro pop medieval aesthetics.
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