Fabrica at the Milan International Furniture Show
22-27 April 2009
Ponzano, April 2009. Numerous Fabrica events for the 48th Milan International Furniture Show. In addition to four FuoriSalone events, Benetton Group’s communication research centre will also exhibit at Salone Satellite, an outstanding showcase for young designers from the most prestigious international design schools around the world.
CHEZ FABRICA - FuoriSalone
In other words, a snapshot of how Fabrica’s young international community lives, works and has fun.
A museum of their life using objects, photos, screenings, interactive installations (www.exquisiteclock.org) and odd situations to illustrate the everyday life of the 40 young artist-experimenters who Fabrica invites to Treviso for a whole year. How they decorate their homes and what they do in their free time. How they interact with their surroundings and how they get on with people of different nationalities, languages and customs. How they fight homesickness and how they deal with their full-immersion involvement in Fabrica where work, life and experimentation fuse together into a single creative experience.
Palazzo Borromeo (Benetton Group showroom)
Piazza Borromeo 10 – 1st floor
Opening hours: 11:00 – 19:00
For high resolution images, see Image Gallery
BIZARRE - FuoriSalone
The windows of the Sisley store on Piazza San Babila feature an eccentric collection of ceramics which Sam Baron especially created for the Milan Design Week 2009.
Consisting of five limited-production pieces, which will be sold only in the Sisley store during the days of the Furniture Show, the Bizarre collection is a range of vases and tableware pieces in classic shapes with industrial-production ceramic figurines used as three-dimensional decorative details. A creative way of “populating” our home with strange, hybrid creatures: from a vase which hosts a family of swans or with amusing rabbit ears that create floral motifs, to the plate that seems to have a fish swimming in it, or the salt and pepper set where a bee has settled gently.
The Bizarre collection is made by hand and produced by Olfaire.
Sisley Store
Piazza San Babila
Opening hours: 10.00 - 20.00
For high resolution images, see Image Gallery
TRANS-FORMA - FuoriSalone
Zanotta, a leading company in the history of Italian design, and Fabrica, the international research laboratory, continue their co-operation dating from 2008 with Trans-forma, an exhibition of 17 classic Zanotta designs which Fabrica’s young designers have reinterpreted with a modern twist.
The updated icon pieces include:
Sciangai (De Pas, D’Urbino and Lomazzi, 1973), the coat stand that brings to mind the Chinese game of spillikins, is now provided with a number of practical tools. Sella (Achille and Piergiacomo Castiglioni, 1957), a chair whose seat is a bicycle saddle set on a steel shaft, is now equipped for our modern times, with a chunky anti-theft chain. Blow (De Pas, D’Urbino and Lomazzi, 1967), the inflatable chair that is a symbol of the years of youth protest acquires a playful function. Milo (1937), the mirror evocative of the graceful forms of the famous Greek statue Venus de Milo invites us to reflect on today’s idea of beauty. The Bieder table (Emaf Progetti, 2005) is occupied by two-dimensional figures – people, objects and animals – that show what can happen under the legs of a table. Lastly, the fine embroidery on the rear backrest of the popular folding chair Small (For Use, 2003) turns it into a work of art.
www.zanotta.com
Exhibition: 22 April - 2 May
Zanotta
Piazza del Tricolore, 2
Opening hours: 11.00 - 19.30
(Monday, April 27th: 15.30 - 19.30)
For high resolution images, see Image Gallery
THIS&THAT - Salone Satellite
This&That is a collection of ten glass bells created especially for the Milan International Furniture Show 2009 by young artists at Fabrica, from an idea by American designer Tak Cheung. This&That combines everyday items, such as a bicycle handlebar, a chimney or cow ears, with the sophisticated beauty of blown glass. Different materials and production processes merge harmoniously to create a new, provocative synergy. This&That is produced by Secondome; during the days of the Furniture Show the collection can be purchased in the Dimore store (see also Around Glass).
www.secondome.eu
Salone Satellite
Fiera Milano, Rho
stand D-40
Opening hours: 9.30 – 18.30
For high resolution images, see Image Gallery
AROUND GLASS - FuoriSalone
Past and future merge in Fabrica’s two collections (2008 and 2009) of mouth-blown glass objects designed for the Secondome gallery in Rome. The 2008 collection is composed of old-fashioned objects revisited by Fabrica’s creative designers and given a new shape for a new use. The fourteen beautiful, limited-production pieces include a cake dome, a chicken-shaped roast-meat dome, a cheese dome, a snail-shaped bon-bon bowl, decanters that look like chicks, vases, a centrepiece and sculptures.
The 2009 collection features unusually-shaped carafes, intricate candelabra, a numbered-production centrepiece and cobweb fruit bowls.
www.secondome.eu
Dimore
Via Solferino 11 (Boffi and Paola C. courtyard, 2nd floor)
Opening hours: 10.30 – 19.00
For high resolution images, see Image Gallery
Fabrica Design:
Isabel Abreu, Portugal
Sam Baron, France
Catarina Carreiras, Portugal
Valentina Carretta, Italy
Marta Celso, Italy
Tak Cheung, USA/Hong Kong
Cristina Dias, Portugal
Jade Folawiyo, Nigeria/United Kingdom
Gonçalo Campos, Portugal
For high resolution images, see Image Gallery
With:
Julian Koschwicz (Germany), Joao Wilbert (Brazil)/Fabrica Interactive;
Niccolò Degiorgis (Italy), Piero Martinello (Italy)/Fabrica Photography;
Namyoung An (Korea), Lars Wannop (Australia)/Fabrica Visual Communication;
Chiara Andrich (Italy), Gabo Gesualdi (Argentina), Francesco Novara (Italy)/Fabrica Media;
Safeeyah Kharsany (South Africa)/Fabrica Writing.
Partners: Sisley, Benetton, Zanotta, Secondome, Olfaire, Christofle, Herman Miller, Seletti, Mariages Frères, Nespresso, Diamantini & Domeniconi, Bosa, Euromark, Vista Alegre, Abici, Alessi, Bi-Silque, Astoria.
More info:
Fabrica Press Office
Angela Quintavalle
Tel: 0422 516209
angie@fabrica.it
fabrica@fabrica.it
www.fabrica.it/salone2009
www.fabricafeatures.com
