Milan Furniture Fair 2015

From 14 to 19 April the Milan's International Furniture Fair becomes once again the global showcase for furniture, with the 54th edition of the i Salone. This is a preview of the world's largest design event that stimulates reflections about our lifestyles.

Launched in 1961 to promote the export of Italian furniture, the numbers continue to grow, in 14 pavilions, an area corresponding to 230 thousand square meters where there will be represented 2,500 companies, with news from the furniture industry and home accessories.

Result of technological and stylistic research always with great commitment, the Milan Furniture Fair will be characterized by a particularly wide range. The pavilions will be entirely devoted to design and this year with office furniture pavilions and lighting. Again, there will be opportunity for young people show all their creativity in the "Salone Satellite" where it will be delivered the prestigious Compasso d'Oro Award for a brilliant career. In recent years it has launched several young designers into the global market.

The “Fuori Fiera” will confirm once again the place that the city of Milan has been occupying for some years now as a global Design Capital. Throughout the city will be held exhibitions, art installations, performances, all centered on the production of objects and furniture for the home.

The various meanings of the World "future." Exhibition concept for the 54 edition of the Milan's International Furniture Fair.

This year, the underlying theme of the Milan's International Furniture Fair will be the future, inspired by the 500th anniversary of the death of Leonardo da Vinci, eternal icon of Italian genius and in particular for the city of Milan.

Michele De Lucchi. Space solutions to improve our quality of life.

Design study by Michele De Lucchi.

The designer star of this year will be Michele De Lucchi, who will design an exhibition under the theme of office furniture hall focused on the ability to create solutions that improve our quality of life. According to Michele De Lucchi, the office is the place where you should create the conditions for the birth of new ideas that allow us to work anywhere and promote productivity, facilitate the exchange and stimulate the contamination of information.

Workplace 3 0 SaloneUfficio 2015 – Design setting created by Michele De Lucchi p>

The modern office should provide a better relationship between people, for the office of the future will have to be changeable, informal, open to the outside, decorated with works of art and surrounded by green spaces. In other words, the office will be a kind of gym where we can train the mind and generate new possibilities with spaces that add welfare, develop and stimulate the imagination without forgetting that the beauty of nature is a breeding ground that fosters knowledge.

The designer has chosen "La Passeggiata" and divided it into four sub-themes, namely:

Club - An area of socialization, to promote meetings, facilitate trade and the predisposition for further meetings. A kind of waiting room without desks that encourage improvisation while enjoying a coffee or eat anything both day and night.

Agora - A space for teamwork, where you can present new ideas, projects meet other people and find coworkers. This site promotes the sharing of information and different opinions through conferences, screenings, exhibitions, shows and special events.

Laboratory - A space dedicated to projectação where you can create and perform with own hands, invent, explore the possibilities that the tools and instruments provide communication through the creation of 3D prototypes, software and applications.

Installation by Attilio Stocchi at Piazza San Fedele. “black box”.

In the year of internationalization of light proclaimed by UNESCO, will be also held in the city of Milan, concerning the Euroluce 2015 (pavilion dedicated to lighting), one Attilio Stocchi facility in Piazza San Fedele to reveal the mysteries of your origin. Visitors will be invited to enter into a "black box" to discover the amazing magical light effects.

Here is a preview of some of the products that will be in the Hall of the Milan Furniture in 2015, among other products, new brands Fantoni, MisuraEmme, Lapalma, Bontempi, Colico and Thonet.

Hub line, Design Matteo Ragni (Fantoni).

Teka shelf, MisuraEmme. Design Mauro Lipparini.

Stand Lapalma.

Millenium table and Nata chair, Bontempi.

Artistico table and Tai chair, Bontempi.

Fiandre table and Margot chair, Bontempi.

Ramos table and Seventy chair, Bontempi.

Bentwood Sofa 2000, Thonet.

Lounge Chair 808, Thonet.

Portuguese design will also be represented. Nuno Ladeiro made a redesign of one of the most characteristic chairs of Portuguese terraces. Inspired by the original structure of curved steel tube, with two rear legs extending until armrests and upper contour of the back, the new chair, will be produced by Colico, entirely in polypropylene injected through the latest technology, called Air Molding. The polypropylene tube will also be bent and the back slightly reclined to finish at the seat, just as the original but much lighter.

The Portuguese Chair is one of the many identities of the public space of Portuguese cities and always, intellectuals, artists and ordinary citizens exchange their views and live on the terraces. It´s at outdoor terraces, particularly in Lisbon cafes, that you can find the typical Portuguese atmosphere.

Portuguese Chair, redesign by Nuno Ladeiro.

The chair, ergonomically well designed, with a pronounced inclination in the back, allows the user an extended rest and contributes to the typical Portuguese image. The first models will probably emerged in Lisbon, in the 30s and 40s of the twentieth century, inspired by the Bauhaus and particularly in curved steel tube chairs of some of the pioneers of modern design such as Marcel Breuer, Mies Van der Rohe and Mart Stam .

The Portuguese Chair has thus become an attractive "vintage" which is again trendy and it’s redesign in polypropylene may be in the best Portuguese terraces starting this summer.

Text and imagens: Nuno Ladeiro

Meritalia, Danese, Colico, MisuraEmme and La Palma are represented in Portugal by DimensãoNova