Monday, May 18, 2009

Winners: Salone De Mobile 2009 MILANO

MOROSO Spa

Category: PLAYGIRLS








Progressive leader Moroso spa unloads one of the largest collection of new releases at Salone De Mobile this year. In the category of play they score high. It can be said that this collection of debuts is the most reflective of current trends in social and design thought. While these pieces (if they go into production) will be far from cheap, they lack the glamorous ostentation and pretense of her polished cousins.

Emphasis is on textile, and references (albeit brazen) austerity. Example would be Tokujin Yoshioka's "Paper Cloud" sofa, whose prototype was made of literal paper, and whose later iterations are clad in Tyvek. Also note the theme of cladding (in some cases existing pieces in the collection) in loud African prints. Another nod to the "unpretentious," a critical stand out which some can argue accurately reflects the attitude of those in our economic recession.

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