The Best of Milan's 2008 Furniture Fair Coverage: Links and Photos

So many great journalists and bloggers covered the Milan Furniture Fair /the Milan Salone Mobili / Milan's Salone Internazionale del Mobile/ Milan Design Week or whatever you prefer to call it. It would be redundant and pointless for me to do the same, so here are links to some of the round-ups, slide shows, video diaries, Flickr albums and more.

First of all, what is it?

The Salone Internazionale del Mobile together with the International Furnishing Accessories Exhibition, returns - from 16th to 21st this year – at the Milan Fairgrounds at Rho with a huge range of superlative exhibits. This event that is unlike any other, anywhere in the world, is not just the leading event in the home/contract furnishing sector at global level, but also a matchless occasion for an international meeting of minds – not to mention business, image and communication.

As always, there is an infinite variety of goods on offer. The Salone Internazionale del Mobile, together with the International Furnishing Accessories Exhibition is a showcase for excellence covering all types of domestic furnishing, from single pieces to coordinates, and every conceivable style, from classic to design to modern, not to mention trendsetters.

Beside the excellence of the commercial offering, the huge variety of new products, the choreographed display stands and the faultless arrangements that ensure that any visit to the exhibition complex is rendered easier and more user-friendly, I Saloni have put together an unmissable range of collateral events both at the exhibition centre and in the city.

The greatest surprise will be the event set against the backdrop of the of the Sala delle Cariatidi at Palazzo Reale, in which an internationally -renowned artist and an icon of Milan's and Italy's cultural heritage par excellence will take part, as well as one of the most famous works of art in the world.

The event's main site.

Links to great round-ups and images from the Milan

The NY Times Design Notebook slideshow

Architonic's Round Up

The David Report

Inhabitat's Milan Furniture Fair Reports

Inhabitat's Flickr photos

Metrosnapshots blog

Dezeen's Milan 08 (and they have video diaries)

Wallpaper magazine's guide.

Over 2000 images at Designboom's gallery

DesignWS report.



Be sure to see the best pieces from the 2009 Milan Furniture fair here.

Front Design Draws On Their Talents: The Shade Collection

The amazingly talented designers at Front in Stockholm have created Shade, an exhibit of home elements that include a table, a rug, 2 vases, a plate and a cup created with hand drawn sketchy shadows and textures, making them look as though they are 2D drawings, when they are actuallly 3D pieces.






Unfortunately, these are not available for purchase, but are on exhibit at SPAZIO ROSSANA ORLANDI, Spazio Rossana Orlandi | Via Matteo Bandello 14/16 20123 Milano | Tel: +39 02 46 74 47-1 | Fax: 39 02 48.00.83.87


Above: Sofia Lagerkvist, Charlotte von der Lancken, Anna Lindgren and Katja Sävström of Sweden's Front Design

Front
Tegelviksgatan 20
116 41 Stockholm

Computer Choppers Does it Again: A 24kt Gold Macbook Air & Superdrive!

If you're into Macs and luxury, chances are you already know about Computer Choppers. They're the guys behind the "wish list favorite" gold-plated macs, ipod and iphones and have now created a 24kt gold-plated Macbook Air complete with bejeweled apple in colored sapphires. They've also created a gold plated super drive to go with it:





and the gold superdrive to go with it!


Their Macbook Pros offer the following plating options:

• Chrome
• Black Nickel
• 24kt Yellow Gold
• White Gold
• Rose Gold
• Platinum

Each plating type comes with 3 distinct finishes:

• Satin (brushed)
• Crystallite (flat)
• Polished

Their nonstandard plating like brass, bronze, copper, silver, champagne gold, and almond gold are still available by request and likely won't be listed till their new website is up and running. These options are also available for the Macbook Air, iPods, iPhones, and iMacs.

So, wanna goes luxe with your PC? or iphone? or ipod?
Then these are the guys to do it for you.


Computer Choppers.

The Art of Art Appreciation: Paintings Of People Looking At Paintings

Above: Karin Jurick's Modigliani

Ever notice how many artists paint people admiring art? So that we observe the observer? There are quite a few, as you'll soon see. So many that I felt it deserved investigation and I found that despite the commonality of the subject, there are vast and numerous differences.