As part of the Ventura Future group exhibition, selected Slovenian designers and independent furniture manufacturers will present themselves at this year's Milan Design Week, during the 58th Milan furniture fair Salone del Mobile.
Design Month 2017 is coming, a month when we dedicate ourselves to everything beautiful in the field of design, home, design and creation. This year it will take place between October 17 and November 17, and the leading theme will be progress.
Happaratus are electric gloves that you can use to shape wood and stone by hand just like you would shape clay. It sounds like science fiction, and it is, except you don't have to become a superhero with special powers, you just need to put on the "augmented reality" gloves of Royal College of Art graduate Morten Grønning.
Well-known cult pieces of furniture, such as the Barcelona armchair, the Rex and Ghost chairs, and the Arco lamp, have been seen so many times that we are tired of them and have lost their element of exclusivity. Over the course of the twentieth century, many more beautiful pieces of furniture were designed that could easily compete with these surviving stars. If they hadn't sunk into oblivion for various reasons. In the current trend of reviving nostalgia, however, the popularity of such forgotten pieces is rising again. People appreciate classic quality again, new materials and technologies enable better reproductions, new production facilities are opening. Some interesting life stories of pieces that are just as relevant today as they were at the time of their "birth" are highlighted in the following paragraphs.
The Surfph-o-morph surfboard collection is the result of a collaboration between the Italian designer Giulia Iacchetti and the designer of Surfer's Den, Francesca A. Fiorentia. The design for surfboards, which will be presented for the first time at this year's Design Week in Milan in mid-April, was found right where their "home" is, in the vast oceans.
Kiosk K67 is an occasional brand from the Slovenian industrial design series, dedicated to the K67 kiosk, designed by architect Prof. Saša J. Mächtig.