Marketscape: Milan
1. Designer: Stephen Burks for BD Barcelona
Product: Grasso
Standout: The first introduction by an American designer for the Spanish brand, the generously proportioned armchair and footrest combine leather upholstery and tubular steel frames.
2. Designer: Oki Sato for Minotti
Product: Waves
Standout: As the name suggests, the ocean’s undulations inspired the Nendo founder’s painted aluminum cocktail tables topped with smoked glass, their half moons providing storage.
3. Designers: Edward Barber and Jay Osgerby for Glas Italia
Product: Ecco
Standout: Barber & Osgerby’s floor-standing mirror doesn’t just reflect: A dimmable LED inside a Murano glass diffuser illuminates, while the electrical cord and rubber bumper bands give pops of color.
4. Designer: Piero Lissoni for B&B Italia
Product: Eda-Mame
Standout: The Interior Design Hall of Fame member nods to the humble soy bean and the Möbius strip with his molded-foam sofa supported by a pewter-finished steel base.
5. Designer: Sebastian Wrong of Established & Sons
Product: Filigrana
Standout: Mouth-blown acid-etched Venetian glass composes the company design director’s pendant fixture, its striped embellishment, or filigrana, rolled onto its surface.
6. Designers: Mårten Claesson, Eero Koivisto, and Ola Rune for Capdell
Product: Droplets
Standout: Drops of water on a flat surface ignited the Claesson Koivisto Rune founders’ eight shapes of chrome-legged ottomans, which can group to form a seating archipelago.
7. Designer: India Mahdavi for Golran
Product: Garden of Eden
Standout: Lush leaves and a scalloped border define the architect’s wool rug, its colorways—green March, yellow June, black-and-white December, and scarlet September (shown)—tied to the seasons.
8. Designer: Olafur Eliasson for Moroso
Product: Green Light
Standout: The sculptor’s stackable lamp of the same name was the basis for the multiplex-board-and-painted steel table, multiples of which can be combined into a hexagon, lined up in a zigzag, or formed into a Y.
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