Design&Trends
In recent decades, design has contaminated a number of sectors of creative work. This series focuses on the scenarios of future trends, investigating their infinite expressive potential through issues of contemporary relevance and discussions with international designers. A window on the future, to understand and describe how much the world of design is changing, from techniques to new materials, from interiors to installations, from experimentation to contamination with art. In the final analysis, a section all about forecasting and trendsetting in design.
21-03-2022
Khaled El Mays’ surrealist jungle
A well-known name on the Lebanese scene, sought-after by collectors, reserved (and busy) enough to seem elusive, the designer conquered Nina Yashar, the mind and soul behind Milanese gallery Nilufar, which hosts an installation featuring his Jungle collection. But the best is yet to come…...
17-03-2022
Nicole Uniquole: “Dutch design outside the box”
From her offices in Den Haag, the curator of Masterly, a historical overview of Dutch design at FuoriSalone in Milan, tells us about Dutch designers’ new orientation and their characteristic method reconciling the historic with the...
14-03-2022
Nimbus: Berndnaut Smilde’s indoor clouds
Dutch artist and designer Berndnaut Smilde has managed to dominate the natural elements. With a smoke machine, a hygrometer and several years of experiments, Smilde has learned to create clouds anywhere, though only for a very brief time. Just enough to amaze and awaken the curiosity of the public and the industry: after all, who wouldn’t like to have their own little cloud at...
10-03-2022
Luca Nichetto: “Why I brought designers to Murano”
The world-renowned Italian designer lives in Stockholm but maintains strong ties to his roots in Murano. At InGalleria, an exhibition space in the Punta Conterie centre on the island, he curated the exhibition Empathic, in which he invited seven designers from all over the world to take a turn working alongside the master craftspeople in the glassworks. And he gave it a try himself,...