The Manzoni is the new 100-cover restaurant has been created by Tom Dixon’s Design Research Studio. Its pre-opening is set to happen during Milan Design Week, revealing both a restaurant and a showroom. The main reason behind the opening of this new restaurant was due to the fact that Tom […]
More details have surfaced regarding the preview for this year’s Salone del Mobile. It seems this year the show will be honoring the work of Leonardo Da Vinci. Many brands have already adhered to echoing this Renaissance master’s ideas. This year’s edition will be celebrating DaVinci’s 500th anniversary of death. With that in […]
Italian furniture brands novelties continues after Salone del Mobile 2016…Now, it is time for a collaboration between Porro and Gamfratesi.
Launched last year with Traveller, the stylish daybed which embodied the spirit of old travelers with its varnished metal easel-like structure and its stretched natural leather, saddle-like side seatbacks designed for a vis-à-vis seating, the partnership continues with the new Voyage chair, which amplifies the imagination even further.
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The materials adopted become softer and softer, tapered wood and leather. The structure in natural or black stained maple, remains visible on the back and on the sides and a close-fitting dress in natural or dark brown leather can be put on or taken off, conveying an idea of conviviality and a holiday atmosphere.
The clear ‘50s-inspired contour animates it, providing it with diverse perspectives from all points of view. An object designed for a home-shelter, where it is possible to leave the world behind and let one’s mind lead the way.
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Purity and modernity, functionality and vintage taste also live together perfectly in the new Collector desk, balancing between high tech instances and modern art collection, industrial and interior design. Its precise construction rotates around the essential open structure, a metal bridge onto which various elements are mechanically hooked: drawers, containers, interior panels, a work surface.
It is a piece of furniture for true aesthetes, intended for a retro-style study area that, thanks to its unusual structure, perfectly suited for different uses, from analogue-nostalgic hipster to the most digitized futurist.
