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Meat Lamps, Bulging Ceramics and Office Furniture from the Future
Each day our editors will roundup our favorite sights and projects from Salone Milan Design Week. Today we look at highlights from Ventura Lambrate and via Clerici.
The Meat Project
To address the issue of food waste, artist and designer Atelier Monte created these seemingly average vases using expired meat from supermarkets. In order to create these vases, the pieces of meat were decellularized in a lab, which makes the meat lose all cellular content and causes it to maintain a similar aesthetic consistency to marble.
A Nomadic Feast
The Dubai-based multidisciplinary designers of Tinkah reconsiders the traditional Emirati-way of gathering large families on a woven mat and sharing a meal together. “Constructed Feast” remains, “faithful to our traditions yet also appropriate to our contemporary lifestyle and needs.
Pavilion 17, Ventura Lambrate
The Visual Language of the Future
These vases by Talia Mukmel at the Form & Seek Collective show in Lambrate were a standout. Mukmel wanted to make a form that felt culturally referential yet incorporated both traditional and technological components. By photo etching into metal, she created a basic form for the vase, which she then pressed a sand-flour material mixture inside to create the textured surface.
Office Workers Unite!
Lensvelt’s Boring collection of everyday office furniture was shown with an unexpected twist—visitors were encouraged to crumple up a paper manifesto of sorts and throw it into the sea of paper balls and chaos that made up the scenography. The Boring collection’s "discreet appearance allows it to be present in the modern office without distracting from the things that actually matter.”
Pavilion 15, Ventura Lambrate
Process Porn
This beautiful gem of an exhibition shares all the bits and pieces, prototypes and material explorations that usually get left behind in the studio in lieu of showing off a final, more perfect work. Envisions brings together nine designers to showcase their exploratory works. Read more about The Emotive Power of Materials here.
Pavilion 16, Ventura Lambrate
What Does the Office for the Young Creative Look Like?
This isolation office chair by Rae Bai-Han Kuo of the Lund University School of Industrial Design is the result of a course taught at the school under the supervision of Stefan Diez and Rolf Hay of HAY. The class of first year Master students all envisioned a new kind of office environment for the generation of young creatives.
Material Illusions in Corian
A somewhat mind-bending chair by Hyun Dae Kang that at first glance looks like a delicate styrofoam form, but is actually made from copper pipe and corian.
Seeing Sea-Meat
Central Saint Martin’s Hanan Alkouh’s imagines a post-meat world by creating a seaweed-based food that “when fried tastes like bacon.” The presentation included a number of sausages, a “roast” formed and encapsulated in a silicone mold and a full vegan butchery to boot.
Central Saint Martin’s Material Futures in Pavilion 14, Ventura Lambrate.
Animal Farm
Design Academy Eindhoven’s exhibition of projects that engage in tactile forms and ideas was a nice poetic end on the long journey through Lambrate. Visitors were greeted by Seung Bin Yang and Carlo Lorenzetti’s thoughtful projects around the rituals of hand-washing. The designers offered visitors an opportunity to wash their hands in a basin using Yang’s flaked soap while Lorenzetti poured water from his Disruptive Fundamentals ceramics. Visitors were encouraged to dry their hands by gripping a warming stone inside a ceramic warmer. Tamara Orjola’s Forest Wool transformed waste into a material with similar qualities to wool. The bleeting of the sheep in the Man and Communication course Petting Zoo called visitors over to pet the animals. Digital monitors allowed people to monitor their own sense of wellness while dimnishing the gap between people and animals.
Pavilion 20, Ventura Lambrate
Fairy Tales
Nicholas Nybro’s raffia and cotton designs find inspiration in fairy tales and his own favorite stories by Hans Christian Andersen. At the swirling, multi-level installation for the Dutch designers of Mindcraft, Nybro’s fantastical fashions were a true standout.
Mindcraft, via Clerici 10.
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