Impressions from this year's edition of SaloneSatellite

Featuring some of the most creative, up-and-coming young (below the age of 35) designers and design schools from all over the world, this year SaloneSatellite celebrated its fifteenth birthday by ‘dedicating the 2012 edition to technology.’ In case you’ve missed it while in Milan, Architonic was there, with our ubiquitous camera on hand. Follow the link to our Facebook page to view no less than 220 images from this resourceful and decidedly inspiring show.

to Photo tour of Salone Internazionale del Mobile 2012, SaloneSatellite

including: WOW, Yenwen Tseng, Bbh, Vogelius & Muller, Snook/Way, …Some German Designers, 45 Kilo, Akka, Lukas Dahlen, Belgium is Design, My Concrete Garden, Two Designers, Laure Kasiers, Florian Saul, Florstedt/Jasny/Wilhelmse, Mermeladaestudio, Fogstudio, Federico Churba, Hoffmann & Krauss, Lisa Jo-Fan Chang, Staffan Holm, From Yuhang, Bao-nghi Droste, gt2p, Kaschkasch, Dots, Matteo Crispiatico, Angell Wyller Aarseth, Postfossil, Jacky Wu Design, Marcantonio Raimondi Malerba, Raul Lauri’, Acquacalda, Timo Niskanen, Rui Alves, Boenisch & Schellenberger, Jonas Forsman, Zhoujie Digital Lab, Studio Vit, Yoy, Greyge, Hiroomi Tahara, Addi, Big-Game, Antoinette Bader, Mut Design, March Gut, Johan Lindsten, Strek Collective, Pasila Design, Petra Wuestling, Technical Emotions and Melbourne Movement

Impressions from Salone Internazionale del Mobile 2012

In the last three parts of Architonic’s photo coverage of the nucleus of iSaloni, The Fiera, we’ve gathered no less than 600 images with some of the best, most innovative and inspiring new products and collections from a vast array of international furniture brands. So, here’s what’s in store:

Architonic’s photo tour of Salone Internazionale del Mobile 2012, Part 5

including: Pedrali, Sancal, Vondom, Maruni, Ritzwell, Estel, Rolf Benz, Zilio, Bruehl, Miniforms, Fast, DeCastell, Braid, Punt, Ego, Tuuci, Plust, Raumplus, Expormim, Magg, Alternative, Kriptonite, Toulemonde Bochart, Capdell, Erba, Manutti, Koo, Kenneth Cobonpue, Gaber, Rossin, Ton, Scab Design, Kenkoon, Deesawat, Fjordfiesta, Hag, Alma Design, Tao Design, Sovet, Cane Line, Valdera, Boca do Lobo

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Josef Albers and students in a group critique at the Bauhaus Dessau, 1928-29. The Josef and Anni Albers Foundation. © Phyllis Umbehr/Galerie Kicken Berlin/ DACS 2012 © Otto Umbehr (Umbo

‘Junge Menschen – kommt ans Bauhaus!’ read a 1929 promotional brochure written by the Swiss architect and second director of the Bauhaus school Hannes Meyer. Now, more than eighty years later, the same slogan has been inscribed above the entrance to London’s Barbican Art Gallery where a new, extensive exhibition surveying the world’s most famous modern art and design school has opened earlier this month. Set among customarily black, red and white walls, the Bauhaus: Art as Life is an impressive showcase (the biggest show dedicated to the 1919-founded school and its masters to be held in the UK for more than four decades) of more than 400 works spanning across the mediums of architecture, product design, furniture, painting, textiles, photography, film and theatre. (more…)

Miami Beach SoundScape West 8 2011 © Robin Hill for West 8

It could be argued that the pinnacle of urban landscape architecture was reached in seventeenth century France and the French formal gardens of Jacques Boyceau and André Le Nôtre, or in Britain in the nineteenth century, when Joseph Paxton and John Nash were transforming former Royal Hunting grounds into places for Victorian gentry to promenade. Contemporary urban architects and designers are rarely afforded the same amount of space, money and time as their antecedents and are more often tasked with transforming abandoned plots, redundant structures or characterless inner city areas into suitable places for public recreation. Here, Architonic looks at some recent successes that add value to their surroundings by pushing the boundaries of park design. (by Alyn Griffiths)

read the ‘Park life: the evolving approach to designing urban public space’ article in full on Architonic

Detail of Burri's Landi bench materialised in Natwood

Wood in the Public Space – an Exciting Challenge: we identify a city based on its buildings, its landscape architecture, and its density – however, it is above all the city furniture that makes a cityscape unique and distinctive.

City furniture must have a timeless design, be extremely resistant, and above all must stay beautiful for a long time at minimum maintenance. The life cycle costs of a city infrastructure are an important factor for investment decisions. With wood especially, there may be long-term problems caused by standing water or moss which damages the surface and adversely affects aesthetics, safety and user comfort. This means that life cycle costs could be significantly reduced if these weaknesses could be eliminated without a coating while at the same time substantially increasing durability.

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This year's edition of Milan's Salone del Mobile, as seen by Architonic

With its innumerable coinciding events, exhibitions, shows, launches and lunches that somehow always end up happening simultaneously – and at opposite ends of town – getting to see everything Milan has to offer during the widespread, one-week design frenzy, also known as Salone Internazionale del Mobile, might frequently (read unfailingly) prove to be a Tom Cruise-less mission impossible. But, if, despite that carefully-planned and executed with a military precision schedule, you still have a hunch that you might just have missed what’s going to be this year’s most-talked-about design, worry not. We’ve seen it, captured it and it’s now among some 2000 images which we have conveniently grouped into several thematic galleries. Here’s round one, two, three and four with images from the main battleground, The Fiera.

Architonic’s photo tour of Salone Internazionale del Mobile 2012, Part 1

including: Fiera, Moroso, Viccarbe, Mdf, Zanotta, Tacchini, Arper, Bolon, m114, Gufram, Henge, Tribu, Sicis, Rexite, B&B Italia, Casamania, Opinion Ciatti, Thonet, Covo, Parri, Nils Hoger Moormann, Montis, Caimi (more…)

'The Hardwearing' by Henrik Tjærby, curated by Søren Rose; photo by Angela Moore

On the occasion of Milan’s Salone del Mobile, the renowned, family-run textile brand Kvadrat has invited a number of internationally acclaimed designers who, under the guidance of seven curators, were commissioned to reinterpret one of Kvadrat’s most iconic upholstery fabrics, Hallingdal 65, in a modern concept. Among the 32 designers from across Europe, USA and Asia were some of today’s best and brightest talents in product and industrial design such as New Yorker Stephen Burks, Vienna-based Studio mischer’traxler or the Parisian designer Ionna Vautrin, to name just a few while Tord Boontje, Ilse Crawford, Søren Rose, Hans Maier-Aichen, Constance Rubini, Andre Fu and Jeffrey Bernett were appointed as curators. ‘Hallingdal 65′ exhibition was on view between 17 - 22 April on Milan’s Via Luca Beltrami and will now be presented during the ICFF fair in New York (18 – 22 May) in Jil Sander Showroom, 30 Howard Street. (more…)

Light + Building 2012, as seen by Architonic

Join us on our photographic journey through the exhibition halls of this year’s edition of Light + Building fair which took place in Frankfurt, Germany on 15 – 20 April. In the following four parts of Architonic’s ever-insightful photo tour, we have published more than 700 inspiring images featuring some of the best manufacturers and the novelties they presented at this year’s edition of Light + Building.

to Architonic’s tour of Light + Building 2012, Part 1

including: Oligo, Belux, Ingo Maurer, Cini&Nils, IP44, Planlicht, Occhio, Nimbus, Tobias Grau, Serien, Marset, Catellani&Smith, Steng, Prandina, Vibia, Formagenda, Toss B, Absolut Lighting, MGX, Terzani

to Architonic’s tour of Light + Building 2012, Part 2

including: Dix Heures Dix, Anthologie Quartett, Lumini, Tecnolumen, FSign, Trizo21, Next, Mawa Design, Album, Danese, Milan Illuminacion, Arturo Alvarez, Quasar, Newaba, Ango, Bover, Georg Bechtinger, Chameledeon, Sattlerm Decor Walther, Less`n`More, Harco Loor, Domus, Axo Light, Arteluce, Bocci, Fabbian, Viso, Suzusan, Pujol, Jacco Maris, FrauMaier, Slamp, Gubi, Brand van Egmond, Dark

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