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Australian houses, from architectural masterpieces to suburban family homes, Victorian terraces, mid-century marvels, coastal shacks, city apartments, and everything in between.
Award-winning Australian architecture, inspiring homes, and interviews with Australia’s top architects.
Award-winning Australian interior design, inspiring homes, and interviews with Australia’s top designers.
In depth features on Australia’s most beautiful gardens and landscape design.
Studio visits with Australia’s most talented creatives, from artists to architects, ceramicists to stylists, furniture makers to lighting designers.
Studio visits with Australia’s top artists, and unmissable art exhibitions in Melbourne, Sydney, Brisbane and beyond.
Weekly recipes and meal ideas from our favourite cooks, authors and foodies.
Unique travel destinations, design-led accomodation and day trip ideas in Australia and New Zealand.
Today Alessandra of Design Your Life brings us the BEST of Zona Tortona from Milan Design Week 2011. Featuring some outstanding new designs from Germany, Sweden and China, consider it a Grand Tour all under one roof! -Jenny x
Design Deutschland 2011: functional, distinct and unobtrusive, modernist materials, no-frills aesthetic. This year there were 32 participants selected to take part in German Design Council at Zona Tortona. There was a great exhibition of old and famous projects and many new young talented designers.
My favorites amongst the new designers are: Martin Born with Polite Light Lamp, Reinhard Dienes Diaz with 003 Sunday Kitchen Grocery, Eva Marguerre & Marcel Besau with MOA Basket Series, Silvia Knuppel with pl(a)ywood-coffeetable and Thomas Schnur with Rubber Table.
Swedish design is my big love. I love its simple and original style, the use of colors, the attention to nature and ecology. Its exhibition zone was at SuperStudioPiù: it was incredible!!!!
I've made a selection of my favorite new lamp designs: Luchsia by Johan Carpner (the lamp is comprised of three composite screens in various sizes, each created from a different fabric and structure), A piece of forest by Modern Times (the material is a biological composite formed of PLA and cellulose fibre), Tripod by Lukas Dahlén (Part of the graduation project "The Fifth Element", that explores the meeting between wood and glass… and fire!) and Point 2011 by David Taylor (made of paper, plastic tubing and hemp rope).
China should not been known for only plastic and low quality products, China will be the new point of reference for all design addicts… it WILL be the future! In Zona Tortona there was a little cool space where I could see a cute selection of products from China: Wò Yóu. My favorite designers in the exhibition: Monica Bertini with C*Hairs, Jovana Bogdanovic with The Low Chair Family series, Tianyu Xiao with Harmony Sofa and LI Yongling with the furniture series The Age of Press.
- Alessandra x
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