Bic celebrates 60 years

These two ball pen, gold and argent, are an elegant limited edition produced by the historic Societe Bic to celebrate her 60 years. Inside they are filled with black and blue ink. At the price of only 3,00 euros the couple!

Le due penne a sfera, oro e argento, sono un'elegante edizione limitata prodotta dalla storica ditta Bic per festeggiare 60 anni di attività. All'interno hanno l'inchiostro nero, la penna argento, e blu, la penna oro. Non male per 3,00 euro entrambe!

Rie Elise Larsen decorations

These beautiful winter decorations are suggested from the Danish designer Rie Elise Larsen's ws.

Qualche bel suggerimento per le decorazioni invernali dal ws della designer danese Rie Elise Larsen.

Rie Elise Larsen - Copenhagen
http://www.rieeliselarsen.dk/
info@rieeliselarsen.dk

First Christmas 2011 decorations in Forte dei Marmi - 1 -

These are the first decorations of Christmas 2011 I saw in the streets. Here I was in Forte dei Marmi and the beautiful trees were set by Mauro Volponi shop.

Procédés Chénel

From partitions to lighting, from ceilings to furniture, Procédés Chénel - architectures de papier - has kept since 1896 on doing researches on paper and the possibilities of using the material in design world.

Interesting and colourful!
If you are in Vanves le 8 december 2011, you can visit them for Paper Days :-)

Lightings shown in Milano

PROCÉDÉS CHÉNEL INTERNATIONAL :
70 rue Jean Bleuzen
92170 Vanves
Tél. : 00 33 (0)1 41 08 76 76
info@chenel.com
http://www.chenel.com/fr/accueil

Lichtfaktor: urban lightwriting

dENiZEN, shine a light for nature

The members of LICHTFAKTOR use light to give expression to their creativity. They take advantage of a variety of light sources to produce photos and videos in cities by night.

The Cologne artists’ collective, consisting of VJ $ehvermögen (photographer and VJ), Visionlabz (Programmer und VJ) and JIAR (communications designer and graffiti artist), experiments with the possibilities yielded by bulb (long-term) exposure and painting. Their aim is to explore all aspects of “lightwriting” and to develop it further. The LICHTFAKTOR crew intentionally uses the entire space in which a particular work is produced and integrates it into their photos and animated films in such a way that it’s not just a backdrop but a part of the work itself.

Visit LICHTFAKTOR website
HOW TO DO IT...

Ready for Halloween?

I found these beautiful decor ideas on the blog Charmed - october 2009 - and I like them! Do you have suggestions? Write me if you want to suggest me some interesting link :-)

Pucci pendant Les journees particulieres 2011

Yesterday, I visited La villa Granaiolo d'Emilio Pucci en Toscane , open for the event Les journees particulieres held all arond Europe (mostly in France) by LVHM group. It was a beautiful Sunday, cold but sunny and I really appreciated the dessins and colors of fabrics that made Emilio Pucci, Marquis of Barsento famous.

My trip in Imola

 
Last Sunday, on a rainy day, I took a walk in Imola for the first time. I took some shots of the beautiful palette - from yellow to pink and orange - of walls and details in town, amazing!

Ron Arad: Wow bike

August 2011 / Elton John Aids Foundation and W London Wow Bikes. The Ron Arad bike

Six top creatives from Patrick Cox to Paloma Faith have customised bikes for W London Leicester Square Hotel in a bid to raise money for the Elton John AIDS Foundation. Available for hotel guests to use in advance of the auction on 29 October. Our favourite is Ron Arad's one.
http://www.facebook.com/wlondonhotel

La Rentrée and Marseille

Le Zinc - Marseille

Back to Florence after a lazy summer in Provence! I've just posted in l'a(u)genda the first part of verified addresses in Marseille:-) If you have corrections, email me!

Roof of the Cité Radieuse - Le Corbusier

Vacances d'Eté - Summer Holidays

We're leaving for the South of France and we'll be back on the end of August with a report about Marseille. Happy Holidays to you all! Laura and Lizzy ;-)

Chitchat by Teun Fleskens and Ghyczy.



ChitChat in Milano Lambrate 2011

'CHITCHAT: Waiting in public spaces always could be more fun (that was the goal!).

CHITCHAT is a swinging seat from multiplex or polyester for one to seven people. If you take a seat, you bring the furniture and everyone who is sitting on it in motion. This almost always leads to interaction. It has something surprising and you get to talk about it to your neighbour. Strangers are searching together for the best balance.The ice breaks, the atmosphere improves and the waiting is less boring.The ‘rocking trees’ in the middle provide a playful effect, especially with more CHITCHATS in one space.'

Designed by Dutch designer Teun Fleskens and produced by Ghyczy.

http://www.teunfleskens.nl/

http://www.ghyczy.nl/

Garden Egg Chair

The egg Chair in Lambrate - Milano 2011

The Garden Egg chair was designed by Peter Ghyczy in 1968 for both indoor/outdoor use.  It is one of the first chairs which was made with Polyurethane.

Being redesigned for the 21st century, this portable and light weight garden chair completely revived as a one of a kind among garden furniture. The unique egg-shaped design of the garden egg chair makes it completely waterproof when flipping down the top.

The body of the garden egg chair consists of a hard, resistant shell as where the inside represents the garden egg chair’s softer side, with a detachable textile cover on the comfortable cushion. Both the outer shell and the interior are available in a series of colours, allowing for enough mixing and matching to ensure a personalized piece.

http://www.gardeneggchair.com/

Mindcraft11: Line Depping

Tool Boxes

From Mindcraft11 (exhibition of the finest Danish craftspeople and designers), Line Depping amazed me for simplicity and joy of her work. Above the Tool Boxes shown in Milano: 'In 'Tool Boxes' she provides a rack for the boxes to make it easy to pull them out even when they are 'stacked' with other boxes. Each of the solid wooden boxes is designed as an independent tray that can be pulled out to either side or pulled out completely and placed on top. The top drawer is open and also forms the top of the piece. Thus, instead of concealing the contents, they lay it bare for all to see, and the functional quality is obvious.'

Following, other smart creations and Line. Winner of Bodum design award 2011, she lives in Copenhagen, Denmark.

 

Line Depping
+45 25322507

mail@linedepping.dk

http://www.linedepping.dk/

More:

http://www.danishcrafts.org/

Milano Lambrate

During the Design Week in Milano zona Lambrate....

Cleaf, surfaces for interiors and more

Cleaf's space in via Tortona during the Design Week

 Founded in 1975 in Brianza, north of Italy, Cleaf is a player with total control on the entire manufacturing chain of panels, and further enhanced through its synergetic partnership with Caspani.
Basic manufacturing is rounded off and perfected by a full range of services and further processing: from faced, sectioning and bordering processes to the most recent techniques for digital printing and thin melamine faced panels for interiors, doors, part-finished.

The ceiling of the space set in via Tortona

Panels are ideally conceived as sharp definitions of spaces and volumes in interiors – functioning as doors, partitions, sliding walls, furniture panelling – and made unique by original, lasting and hard-wearing surfaces in a sophisticated and ever-evolving range of colours.

The production of semi-finished products is greatly adaptable and versatile, delivering solutions for a wide range of applications, from wardrobe to kitchen and bathroom components, to exhibition and pavillion floors, from home interiors to spaces for commercial fairs.
http://www.cleaf.it

Aprro, JKK and Spiro Chair

JFK Chair designed by Rich Overcash for Aprro, here in the glossy walnut vo, is produced also in mahogany, red oak and upholstered vo. 

Spiro in corian and stainless steel designed by Alexander Purcell.
http://www.aprro.com