Milan.Judging from the locust-like crowds swarming around the showgrounds
n. Botany 1. See dahoon. 2. See yaupon. [American Spanish, yaupon, from Timucua kasine.] ), the fashionably provocative (Arad, Starck, Droog et al) and the plain bizarre (a cuckoo clock covered in feathers) appears undiminished. Discernible trends--green (the colour as opposed to any sensible notions of sustainability), along with a healthy disregard for the orthogonal and the occasional outbreak of material inventiveness. Catherine Slessor presents some edited highlights. 501 PAUL COCKSEDGE The humble polystyrene cup is melted and transformed into a multicellular mul·ti·cel·lu·lar adj. Having or consisting of many cells. mul  ti·cel lampshade by young British designer Paul Cocksedge. Cocksedge is an RCA See RCA connector and video/TV history. protege of Ron Arad and his offbeat invention should take him far [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] Enquiry 501 www.arplus.com/enq.html 502 OFFECT Flower, a playful, interlocking interlocking /in·ter·lock·ing/ (-lok´ing) closely joined, as by hooks or dovetails; locking into one another. interlocking Obstetrics A rare complication of vaginal delivery of twins; the 1st stool-cumside table in bold colours by Finnish designer Eero Koivisto for Offect. [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] Enquiry 502 www.arplus.com/enq.html 503 CASSINA A welcome re-issue by Cassina for furniture by Charlotte Perriand. Shown here is Ombra, designed in Tokyo in 1953, a simple geometric base and backrest supported by ribbons of bent steel. [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] Enquiry 503 www.arplus.com/enq.html 504 MOROSO The iconoclastic i·con·o·clast n. 1. One who attacks and seeks to overthrow traditional or popular ideas or institutions. 2. One who destroys sacred religious images. Konstantin Grcic cunningly deconstructs furniture design with Dummy, a single sheet of polyurethane foam rolled into a cone and gently squashed over a supporting structure to create a chubby, chunky armchair. Surprisingly comfortable. From Moroso. [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] Enquiry 504 www.arplus.com/enq.html 505 SAWAYA & MORONI French architects Jakob + MacFarlane MacFarlane or Macfarlane is a surname shared by:
[ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] Enquiry 505 www.arplus.com/enq.html 506 HELLER Frankie Goes to Milano--sleek, sculpted sculpt v. sculpt·ed, sculpt·ing, sculpts v.tr. 1. To sculpture (an object). 2. To shape, mold, or fashion especially with artistry or precision: furniture in silver resin by Frank Gehry from Heller, continuing the American firm's fruitful collaboration with leading architects. [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] Enquiry 506 www.arplus.com/enq.html 507 KALLEMO Icelandic designer Sigurdur Gustafsson makes highly inventive use of recycled plastic in Plex, a simple, stackable chair mounted on a steel frame. From Kallemo. [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] Enquiry 507 www.arplus.com/enq.html 508 REXITE Curvy and sensual with a hole in the middle Olivia stacking chair in a range of colouts by Raul Barbiert for Rexite. [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] Enquiry 508 www.arplus.com/enq.html 509 SWEDESE Clean-lined Wind stool in birch or walnut bentwood by Japanese design office Nendo--a new take on Scandinavian Modern distributed by the famous Swedish firm Swedese. [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] Enquiry 509 www.arplus.com/enq.html 510 SEGIS Poppy Star stacking chair by Bartoli Design for Segis, in a range of jolly colours, exploits the latest generation of injection moulding techniques to realize complex, fluid shapes. [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] Enquiry 510 www.arplus.com/enq.html 511 IXC (1) (IntereXchange Carrier) An organization that provides interstate (long distance) communications services within the U.S., which includes AT&T, MCI, Sprint and more than 700 others. See LATA. (2) (IXC Communications Inc., Austin, TX, www. Sofa from the Boomerang range by young French designer Gwenael Nicolas from a designer series by Tokyo-based firm ixc (remarkably, the first time a Japanese furniture company has shown at Milan) [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] Enquiry 511 www.arplus.com/enq.html 512 MOROSO Colourful, florally-inspired Bloomy armchair by Spanish designer Patricia Urquiola for Moroso. [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] Enquiry 512 www.arplus.com/enq.html 513 DRIADE Meridiana, by Christophe Pillet for Driade, a lightweight armchair in clear polycarbonate A category of plastic materials used to make a myriad of products, including CDs and CD-ROMs. with an exposed faceted grid of stiffening stiff·en tr. & intr.v. stiff·ened, stiff·en·ing, stiff·ens To make or become stiff or stiffer. stiff ribs. [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] Enquiry 513 www.arplus.com/enq.html |
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