Índice para May 2019 em Wallpaper

ALICE MORBY Wallpaper* acting design editor Morby has taken to Wallpaper* like a duck to water. Our supremely able acting design editor actually studied fashion journalism before taking a more expansive professional course, writing about everything from tech to furniture. She found it thrilling to investigate Salone del Mobile so far in advance: ‘I’m terribly nosey and chronically impatient.’ She also penned our story on a multifunctional bed, designed by Neri & Hu for Molteni & C (page 097). MARCO SAMMICHELI Wallpaper* Milan editor Design curator, journalist and essayist Sammicheli is our new Milan editor. His inaugural task in the role was to document Italian lighting titan FontanaArte as it celebrates its 50th anniversary (page 130). ‘From designers and products to places to monuments, FontanaArte’s identity is what makes Milan…

It’s estimated that an average denim supplier wastes 380,000 gallons of water every day in its manufacturing processes. US denim brand ag is taking steps to plug the leak, installing state-of-the art equipment in its LA and Mexico factories to ensure that 100 per cent of its water is recycled during production. Now, only 1,200 gallons of water per day are lost due to evaporation or spillage. The label has also made a celebratory splash with an accompanying water-inspired capsule collection, in collaboration with the American-based Swiss artist Blanda. Off-white, canvas-inspired denim pieces are illustrated with abstract human images. ‘Woven into these entangled figures are elements representing water,’ says Blanda. ‘Water is the starting point of this collection, but it’s also the basis of life itself.’ agjeans.com…

Slovenian-born, London-based designer Lara Bohinc appears to have an unwavering affection for all things celestial, and her new rug collection for Kasthall is no exception. Her collaboration with the Swedish textile company has produced two rugs: ‘East of the Moon’ and ‘West of the Sun’. Both rugs, which will be presented during this year’s Salone, are available in two sizes and four colour combinations. There will also be an additional two wall hangings. The designs are inspired by Japanese Zen gardens and feature bold lines based on the gravel markings traditionally created to represent water ripples. For the rugs, Bohinc was keen to keep to four elegant colour palettes: rose, dove, earth and rust. The wall hangings allowed her to be more experimental and create a ‘piece of art’, based…

With world economies in a state of flux, fashion has switched to neutral mode, with muted tones holding sway over the S/S19 catwalks. German brand Boss cleaned up its act for spring, with a men’s and women’s capsule collection imagined entirely in white. ‘The pieces resemble a warm California breeze,’ says chief brand officer Ingo Wilts. The smart suiting and technical separates in the offering play on the label’s expertise in tailoring, while leather and rubber accents bring a sporty edge to the featherweight fabrications. ‘Tonal dressing is key to a capsule wardrobe,’ adds Wilts. ‘White isn’t a colour you should be afraid of.’ hugoboss.com…

Home hairdressing stations are not commonly the focus of furniture designers. Eileen Gray made one, ‘Petite Coiffeuse’, in 1926, and Joe Colombo made the ‘Boby’ trolley, commonly thought of as the hairstylist’s friend, in 1970, but there hasn’t been much on offer since then. The latest to service the area is a young Belgian designer, Chanel Kapitanj, whose ‘Coiffeuse’ table features storage shelves in the pedestal, a large mirror, and a cluster of holes in the top to house brushes and bottles. Made from powder-coated steel, it can be connected to power to accommodate a lamp, hairdryer or straighteners. We thought our dedicated home hair station deserved to be kitted out with some serious hair products. The latest edition of Dyson’s game-changing hairdryer in blue and gold leaf is joined…

‘This is a collaboration between Mount Etna and us,’ says Simone Farresin, one half of Amsterdam-based design duo Formafantasma. He’s in Sassuolo, Italy, with the other half Andrea Trimarchi, to wrap up a three-year project to transform ash from the Sicilian volcano into tiles for Dzek, the architectural materials company founded by Brent Dzekciorius in London in 2013. ‘We always think that, as designers, we have to decide things, but the world also decides things for us,’ says Farresin. In this case, the ferrous colours and final tile format were determined by Mount Etna. Volcanic ash is the grainy aftermath of molten magma that has erupted from under the planet’s crust. Thrust through the volcano’s crater into the atmosphere, the airborne lava cools into jagged particles of rock, minerals and…

Jonathan Anderson, creative director of Spanish luxury brand Loewe, is a committed champion of craft. ‘It’s something I’ve always been fascinated by, this idea of an individual being able to make something,’ he says. ‘Craft is modernity; to look at different craft forms over time is a very good barometer to know where people are.’ His efforts to promote craft extend to the brand’s annual exhibitions in Milan, which have celebrated the likes of marquetry, ceramics and textiles. This year’s display – its fifth iteration – will turn the spotlight on basket making. Titled ‘Loewe Baskets’, the show is divided into two sections: Inspiration and Collection. For the former, Loewe has invited 11 international artists, mostly master weavers but with very different styles and techniques, to create a limited-edition objet…

It’s a chilly January morning in Stoke-on-Trent, and British designer Paul Smith is standing in front of a kiln, learning first-hand why clay has a reputation for recalcitrance. ‘The element has blown in the firing and it’s crystallised the colours,’ explains Keith Dawson (known in the industry as Keith the Master Potter), pointing to a frosted effect on the surface of the glaze. Smith greets the news with a chuckle, charmed by the unplanned nature of the event. ‘That’s the reality of craft, and of doing things honestly,’ he concludes happily. ‘It’s just what happens sometimes.’ The designer is in the heartland of British ceramics to see prototypes of ‘Stack’, a series of vases made in partnership with 1882 Ltd. And detecting joy in the unexpected chimes with the spirit…

COS – the London-based fashion house known for its simple, timeless collections – has a particular affinity for art, architecture and design. Under the leadership of creative director Karin Gustafsson, its collections are less concerned with showstopping and barn-storming, but instead exude a quiet, structural beauty. COS made its Salone debut in 2012, working with set designer Gary Card. ‘Salone was one of the places my team used to find inspiration,’ Gustafsson recalls. ‘At that point we didn’t even have a store in Milan.’ Card effectively created a pop-up store and COS followed with another temporary outlet in 2013, courtesy of French design studio Bonsoir Paris. Gradually, the programme has become more experimental and experiential, less about clothes and more about aesthetics and inspiration. Collaborators have included Nendo, Sou Fujimoto…

In an enormous, clinically clean facility in Almería in Spain (just one of seven it operates in the city), Cosentino captures and compacts geological time, magicking a marble-like material from mineral dust using the most advanced industrial science. For the past 12 years, it has been using Salone to showcase what it can do with its time-crunching, 200m-long ovens, collaborating with the Campana brothers and Antonio Citterio among others. This year it is upping the ante, certainly in terms of scale and technical ambition. Raytrace, a giant installation that will take over a vaulted warehouse at Milan’s Central Station, is a collaboration with Benjamin Hubert’s London studio, Layer. Its interior made aquatic by shifting patterns of light, the piece is a triangular tunnel covered inside and out in 3.5m by…

The concrete forecourt, its crisp air tangy with the scent of hurried cigarettes, the careless accretion of safety signage: it all looks so familiar, banal even. Men are smoking alone in crumpled shirtsleeves, with photo IDs around their necks. The sun is smiling weakly, as if through gauze. There is a light dusting of snow on the handsome Canavesana peaks to the north. It’s almost noon and every 60 seconds or so the nearest lift disgorges another load. Another two or three workers step purposefully through the security gates out into the sunshine and head round the corner to the canteen. I head in the opposite direction. The entrance hall of the Olivetti Office Building is dominated by a remarkable Escher-esque hexagonal staircase, completed in 1964 to a design by…

The title of Aldo Bakker’s first show with Carpenters Workshop Gallery, ‘Slow Motion’, could actually be a description of the way Bakker designs: alone in his Amsterdam studio, with no creative assistants. It perfectly applies as well to the way Bakker’s pieces are constructed, often using his favoured urushi, a traditional Japanese lacquer made from tree sap and applied in up to 30 individual layers, each left to dry for a day or two before being polished by hand, resulting in richly textured surfaces with subtle plays of colour. And it also refers to the time it takes to properly take in and appreciate his work; the reveal is far from instant. Bakker controls not only the process of designing and making, but of seeing too: these are pieces to…

For a long time, Bow Street in Covent Garden has been a rather dead and dirty artery. But it got its heart back overnight when the scaffold came down last autumn to reveal Stanton Williams’ svelte refurbishment of the Royal Opera House. In summer 2020, the opening of the 91-key NoMad London in the building opposite – once Bow Street Magistrates’ Court – should complete the resuscitation. The hotel is a partnership between Sydell Group and investment firm BTC UK. This is the first NoMad outside America, but the second project in London by Sydell Group, which partnered with the Soho House Group to open The Ned in 2017. While working on that beast of a project, Andrew Zobler, CEO of Sydell, visited London once a month for five years.…

Ain’t nothing like the real thing ‘La sfumatura di un’esperienza reale’ was the topic of conversation over a morning coffee in Milan recently with Mr Claudio Luti (president of Salone del Mobile and Kartell boss) and Wallpaper’s newly appointed Milan editor Marco Sammicheli. The phrase roughly translates as ‘the nuance of a real experience’ – as in the emotional and physical effect of seeing design first hand, rather than superficially through a screen. We discussed the importance of Salone, and of making the effort to physically engage with design, to experience it fully. The fair’s creativity and energy are positively buzzing, and its growing visitor numbers (almost half a million are reported to have made the effort last year) affirm its position in the global design community. In this special…

When Airbus shared its double-decker dreams with us back in 1990, we doubted its hub-to-hub economic model but welcomed the positive impact on long-haul luxury. Now that the French maker is wrapping up A380 production, only a few supersize airplanes remain. Ironically, the only one welcoming passengers is the very same jumbo the A380 aimed to dethrone, Boeing’s 747. You can’t buy tickets for Antonov’s 84m-long An-225 Mriya, the Soviet cargo behemoth that has been haunting the Russian skies since 1988 and was produced in an exclusive series of one. The only remaining option is Paul Allen’s Stratolaunch, set to fly in 2020. It’s even longer than the A380, but unless you’re planning to live in space you’re not invited along for the ride. The Stratolaunch will exclusively launch satellites.…

Fat washing, fermenting, foraging and centrifuging have all been making their mark in mixology circles lately, but sometimes it’s a simple ingredient that sneaks in and grabs the headlines. New York bartenders are currently enamoured with celery. At West Village bar Slowly Shirley, mixologist Jim Kearns has riffed on the classic American celery-based children’s party snack, ants on a log. Called Ants Analog, the cocktail contains celery bitters, a blend of sherries to emulate the raisin content, and Guatemalan rum. Dante in Greenwich Village makes A Nap in the Meadow with Cocchi Americano (infused with toasted celery seeds), celery juice, lime, white balsamic vinegar, and cucumber and celery bitters. Meanwhile, the recently opened Hunky Dory in Brooklyn is driven by sustainability and seasonable vegetables. The bar is in the hands…

BB: Do you drink coffee? TH: No, but I love the social rituals of sharing. Collaboration is a very strong element in your work. How do you choose the people you work with? The most important thing to me is the way someone brings out the best in others. I don’t produce sketches and hand them out to others to develop. Instead, we all talk and think and work together to grow the best solutions to the problems we are given and perceive around us. To me, it’s romantic; to someone looking from the outside, they might see it as a slow and painful process. But when you work well with someone else, it is amazing to find ideas and solutions exponentially growing in front of you. What projects are…

Matthew Day Jackson could never be accused of under-thinking a project: ‘If you’re making something, first, it should be weird. Second, it should be good,’ explains the California-born, New York-based multidisciplinary artist. ‘And if you have accomplished weird and good, then the final stage is: can you still make it fun?’ We’re in the workshop of Made by Choice in Salo, Finland, to discuss Jackson’s new collection of tables and chairs for the brand. Its directors – Lasse Laine, Niclas Ahlström and Sebastian Jansson – remark on Jackson’s commitment to the task: he has stayed up until the small hours, producing prototype after prototype. ‘For him, it’s very much form follows function,’ says Jansson. ‘It’s very unusual for an artist.’ ‘Matthew thinks very rationally in terms of what needs to…

‘Everything we do is filtered through our own sensitivity,’ says designer Draga Obradovic as she lifts a pocketbook-sized slab of tinted resin up to the window of her Como-based atelier. Squinting through its transparent form to determine exactly how light will pass through, she explains that ‘the colours need exactly to match what we envisioned’. Obradovic shares the space with her partner in life and work, Aurel Basedow. And the duo, collectively Draga & Aurel, have been poring over these colours for almost a year now, experimenting with resin and glass in preparation for their first solo presentation during Salone del Mobile in a decade. The pair first became known for clever interventions with vintage furniture, and innovative textile treatments that have featured in collaborations with the likes of leather…

Galila Barzilaï-Hollander never entertains at home anymore, though not for lack of desire. ‘People think I’m asocial,’ she says. ‘But my house is a storage facility – I have crates in the middle of every room.’ A self-described ‘artcoholic’, she started collecting contemporary art at the age of 56, and has amassed works by more than 1,500 artists in less than 15 years. She may have more room for guests once her new 1,400 sq m exhibition space, Galila’s POC (Passion Obsession Collection), opens in Brussels this autumn. Galila (she likes to be referred to by her first name) was born in Tel Aviv to a family with no real interest in art or culture. At 20, she visited Brussels and stayed, meeting her future husband, Jacques Hollander, while apprenticing…

Market leader THE HOXTON, CHICAGO The Hoxton group’s American expansion continues at full throttle with the addition of a Chicago outpost. Its third property to open in the US in under six months, and its seventh worldwide, Hoxton’s Chicago operation is a newly built 182-room property located in the city’s exciting Fulton Market neighbourhood. Designed by Ennismore Design Studio, the hotel’s interiors touch on the area’s industrial past while creating the group’s trademark residential feel: midcentury-style furniture and custom-designed rugs are eclectically mixed with locally sourced artwork to create an inviting atmosphere that keeps both locals and visitors in mind. On the culinary front, home-town hero Boka is at the helm of both the basement cocktail bar and the ground-floor restaurant, which serves an all-day Mediterranean-inspired menu including Turkish breakfasts.…

For a small city, Zurich packs a big cultural punch. It is home to just 400,000 inhabitants, but literary giants, maverick artists and revolutionaries have all walked its streets. The birthplace of Dada and the Swiss Style, the lakeside city is home to architectural gems such as the Pavilion Le Corbusier; world-class shopping on smart Bahnhofstrasse; and buzzing cafés, shops and galleries in the former industrial district of Zurich-West. See wallpaper.com/w-bespoke/zurich; zuerich.com…

A AGagjeans.com Altrockaltrocksurfaces.com Alyxalyxstudio.com AmaraTel: 44.1376 321100 (UK)amara.com Antonio MatteiTel: 39.05 7425 756 (Italy)antoniomattei.com A PartTel: 47.900 72 718 (Norway)apart.works AriaTel: 44.20 7704 6222 (UK)ariashop.co.uk ArteTel: 32.9 99 99 99 (Belgium)arte-international.com ArtemideTel: 44.20 7291 3853 (UK)artemide.com AYTMTel: 45.8678 2620 (Denmark)aytm.dk B B&B ItaliaTel: 39.031 795213 (Italy)bebitalia.com BaccaratTel: 44.20 3318 6087 (UK)baccarat.com BalenciagaTel: 33.1 56 52 17 17 (France)balenciaga.com Bang & OlufsenTel: 44.20 7486 0440 (UK)bang-olufsen.com BocciTel: 1.604 639 5195 (Canada)bocci.ca BossTel: 44.20 3885 0593 (UK)hugoboss.com Bottega VenetaTel: 39.02 82 950 290 (Italy)bottegaveneta.com BurberryTel: 44.20 7806 8904 (UK)burberry.com C Caffe GilliTel: 39.055 213896 (Italy)caffegilli.com CaseTel: 44.20 8870 4488 (UK)casefurniture.com CassinaTel: 44.20 7584 0000 (UK)cassina.com Celine by Hedi SlimaneTel: 44.20 7491 8200 (UK)celine.com Chanel Kapitanjchanel.kapitanj@hotmail.be Christian LiaigreTel: 44.20 7584 5848 (UK)liaigre.com ChristofleTel: 33.2 35 05 99 58 (France)christofle.com Christophe RobinTel: 33.1 40…

Ceramic has been the material of the moment for some time, but its place in the limelight is about to be shared as glassware makes a welcome return. Lighting brands will be flocking to Salone’s Euroluce event and, in the case of Bocci, perfectly spherical lampshades have been exchanged for natural forms to create an otherworldly sight. Elsewhere in Milan, Norwegian Presence gathers beautiful examples of Scandinavian craft, including the colourful work of glass blower Erik Wester, while Turkish glass brand Nude presents Space Copenhagen’s ‘Silhouette’ series, which plays on classic, almost ancient motifs. Bocci will be at Fiera Milano Rho, Hall 15; Norwegian Presence at Via Savona 35; and Nude at Paşabahçe, Corso Giacomo Matteotti 3, Milan, 8-14 April…

Martin Eisler’s ‘Reversible’ chair has been a discreet icon of midcentury Brazilian design since its launch in 1955, though arguably known only by dedicated followers of the movement. The Viennese-born Eisler moved to Buenos Aires in 1938, later re-establishing himself in São Paulo after meeting fellow designer Carlo Hauner and joining his company Forma as a partner. The pair produced a number of designs that have since become synonymous with Brazil’s modernist scene. At this year’s Salone del Mobile, Italian brand Tacchini plans to showcase Brazilian design in all its glory – immersing visitors within an exhibition space inspired by the Casa Rampa in São Paulo, designed by architect Marcio Kogan. New designs will sit alongside reissues of existing pieces, including the ‘Reversible’ chair, with its movable seat that swings…

Back in 2015, Philippe Starck predicted that lamp cables would eventually disappear. In 2017, during Milan’s last Euroluce fair, a glut of untethered table lamps was launched, from the elegantly simple designs of Flos’ ‘Bellhop’ and Marset’s ‘Bicoca’ to clever cordless re-edits from Santa & Cole (‘Cestita Batería’) and Martinelli (‘Pipistrello’). We may not yet be cruising unhindered around cord-free environments, but the appeal of the portable lamp continues. The hospitality industry has jumped on the chance to switch to table lighting that’s free from fluttery flames and cables, and that can be used inside or out. Recharging en masse might still present a challenge, but this is starting to be addressed – for example, Australian company Neoz has invented a multiple charging trolley for its lighting. Brightening up the…

Generation X is often defined by its apathy and ennui, but an exhibition opening at Friedman Benda in New York this month showcases how a group of designers, born between 1965 and 1980, mobilised to ‘redefine the territories where design can tread’. ‘An Accelerated Culture’ is curated by Libby Sellers and Brent Dzekciorius, who describe the generation as one ‘caught between their analogue youth and an increasingly digitalised future’. The show brings together designers who found purpose with shared traits such as multidimensional thinking, curiosity and a willingness to redefine the idea of a design practice, and includes work by the likes of Maarten Baas, Nendo and Studio Job. ‘An Accelerated Culture’ is on 3 May-8 June at Friedman Benda, 515 W 26th St, New York, friedmanbenda.com…

‘I’ll sleep when I’m dead,’ they used to say. It’s becoming increasingly clear, though, that sleep deprivation can hurtle you towards the ultimate lights-out, and bedtime has never been more important. Design duo Neri & Hu would agree. Their new project for Molteni & C, the Twelve AM collection, has a bed at its heart. ‘We designed this bed as the ultimate resting place, but we also wanted it to be more than that,’ says Rossana Hu, who founded the studio with her work and life partner Lyndon Neri. Indeed, by combining the bed with accessories and add-ons, ranging from side tables to a desk or shelf attachment, the designers have elevated the simple mattress and frame to a multifunctional hub. The bed’s smooth eucalyptus frame sits upon slim steel…

When Olafur Eliasson talks about light, his laid-back Scandinavian demeanour becomes more animated and impassioned. The Danish-Icelandic artist has built his career around challenging our perception of space and our place in the world, often using light as the medium. He is best known for immersive installations, such as his giant golden sun for the Turbine Hall at London’s Tate Modern or the rainbowlike circular glass corridor he installed at the ARoS Aarhus Kunstmuseum. Now a new collaboration with Danish brand Louis Poulsen should see Eliasson’s work light up all manner of non-gallery spaces. ‘When Louis Poulsen asked me to develop a new lamp, I was excited about the opportunity to make something more accessible, which could be used in contexts where my work would previously not have been seen,’…

To celebrate the 100th anniversary of diplomatic relations between Finland and Japan, Artek has been busy commissioning Japanese talent to give the most Finnish of Finnish design companies a Japanese makeover. Over the last decade, Japan has steadily grown into Artek’s largest single market outside Finland. While geographically far apart, there is a mutual interest and respect between the two nations’ designers, whose design traditions share many similarities, from a love of craftsmanship and a penchant for natural materials, to a tendency to subtract, rather than add. Alvar Aalto, who founded Artek in 1935 with his wife Aino and two friends, never made it to Japan, but he wrote in a letter to the Japanese ambassador to Finland in 1941: ‘There is a very special affinity between us modern architects…

Edward Barber and Jay Osgerby have done it all since setting up their studio in 1996, from designing the London 2012 Olympic torch to reinventing the classroom chair for Vitra and transforming the V&A’s Raphael Gallery into a selfie-friendly hall of mirrors for BMW (W*187). Yet there are still projects that excite them. ‘We’re fortunate enough to be meeting world-famous manufacturers,’ explains Osgerby. ‘But not everyone is interested in trying to change things. So when you do meet these people, who are passionate, energetic and fun, you just have to work with them.’ The American brand Emeco is that kind of operation and a new collaborative partner for Barber & Osgerby. Their first joint effort is a stacking chair made from a specially developed recycled plastic, due to launch during…

Costa Rica is the happiest country on earth, according to UK think-tank the New Economics Foundation. The bijou Central American country has come top in its 2009, 2012 and 2019 Happy Planet Indexes. A stable democracy with no army but extraordinary scenery and abundant wildlife, it’s no surprise that Costa Rica has long been popular with overseas visitors. And in recent years, North Americans in particular have been putting down roots in the lush wilderness. One such destination is the popular surfing spot of Santa Teresa, on the Pacific coast. Its sandy beaches are off the beaten track and back on to lush semi-tropical forest. ‘The beach lifestyle, natural environment, the wildlife and foliage are all unbelievable,’ says architect Tom Kundig, of Seattle practice Olson Kundig. As the region increases…

From geodesic pavilions in the Pacific Ocean to the ranch-style Mirage house in the Palm Springs desert, Doug Aitken has deployed mirrored architecture to magnificent effect. This February, the American artist installed a new version of Mirage in the snow-capped mountains of Gstaad, Switzerland, ‘bringing the idea of the American West into contact with the European landscape’. Its awe-inspiring Alpine views are the perfect match for the artist’s favourite dish, cheese fondue. ‘I like performance and action foods, with highs and lows, and brief moments where it all comes together,’ he says. For Doug Aitken’s recipe, visit Wallpaper.com…