The 2024 furniture and decor exhibitions highlight innovative design trends that embrace imperfections as a distinctive attribute in home fittings designs. Evident versatility in kitchen spaces comes to the fore as new collections cater to a variety of styles and requirements, transforming the kitchen into both a social and functional space. The trend towards maximizing outdoor spaces perseveres, with new collections that elegantly enhance exterior environments. Furthermore, timeless pieces of furniture are being reinvented, achieving a seamless blend of tradition and modernity.
Antonio Citterio revisits a classic furnishing piece – the folding chair, harmoniously combining contemporary appeal and Italian fine woodworking, realised by Flexform. Thus Lauren is born, an elegant seat in its apparent essentiality, but refined in every compositional and material detail. Lauren is indeed composed of a solid wood structure, turned and hand-finished, enhanced by the armrest in metal covered in leather, as well as the seat and backrest, created with great craftsmanship. Even all the metallic hardware is custom-designed, a detail that adds further value to the project. The result is a sophisticated piece of furniture, capable of fitting into any environment of the house and aligning with any style while maintaining a strong personality.
Lauren, Antonio Citterio – Stand 09 | E05 E11
Gallotti&Radice chooses a total colour proposal to celebrate the ten years of two of its bestsellers: the seat 0414, designed by Studio G&R, and the Bolle lamp by Massimo Castagna. Through an unprecedented range of colours that give rise to new combinations, It’s All About Colours aims to pay homage to the history of these two strongly characterising products for the company. Thus, 0414 defined by clean lines and an enveloping shape, wears new monochromatic proposals in a tone-on-tone combination between the curved wooden structure and the seat. The new variants include four colours (Pink Jaipur, Green Provence, White Camargue, Bordeaux Etruria) and three shades (Wengè, Chalk and Ash) that complete the collection, thus reaching twelve variants. For the ten years of Bolle, to enhance the transparency of the mouth-blown spheres and coupled with the metal parts, four new shades of colour have been studied: bronze, amber, amethyst and topaz.
Gallotti&Radice – Hall 09 – Stand F09 – G10
Three proposals, among many others, that underline the fluid and light soul of Living Divani: Halfsquare, Kasumi, and Ile Club Outdoor faithfully follow the red thread of Living Divani, which has always combined essential design, product quality, and contemporaneity without ever losing elegance and refinement. Ile Club Outdoor represents the quintessence of timeless seating. The first proposal by Piero Lissoni dates back to 2007 and today it presents itself with a new look, such that it doesn’t appear as an updated reissue, but as an absolute novelty. Remaining outdoors, Mist-o proposes Kasumi, a “glow in the fog” (its faithful translation from Japanese), a seat that evokes nature with its delicate curves and the harmonious dialogue between the wood and the weave of the structure. Living Divani adds to the complement with Halfsquare, a family of containers that develop vertically, quickly changing roles and uses in both the living and sleeping areas: here again, lightness is the key, and the thin lines of the collection can marry infinite furniture solutions.
Halfsquare, Kasumi – Stand 11 C15 D16
It appears to be born from a mistake, a design flaw. But every detail has been masterfully studied by AMDL Circle and realised by the expertise of Mara. The distinctive feature of the new Typo chair is in fact the “curl” that arises from the bending of the square-section steel tube of the frame. Redefining the archetype of the office swivel chair, Typo plays with contrasts of lines and materials: soft lines draw the backrest and seat, both in wood, and contrast with the bold angularity of the metal frame, giving shape to a composition with a dynamic silhouette. Enhancing its functionality is an internal mechanism connected to a hook in regenerated cotton that protrudes from the frame and allows the height of the backrest to be adjusted. With this design and in the dual version of chair and stool, the Typo collection lends itself to furnishing residential, hospitality and workspace environments.
Typo, AMDL Circle, Workplace 3.0 – Stand | 18 | C15
A universe of seating revolves around Pedrali design: novelties, icons and best sellers create a rich and articulated collection of transversal products for function and style. The 2024 proposals parterre turns the spotlight on the brand-new version of a successful model of the brand, Héra. The seat designed by Patrick Jouin is back on the scene in a new guise with intertwined seat in cellulose cord, in harmonious duo with wood structure – ash or American walnut. The seat thus acquires an even more material, warm and enveloping character, which continues from the base onto the back, made of three-dimensional curved multi-layer, with only 6mm thickness.
Other collections emerge with their timeless stylistic strength, on the occasion of their tenth anniversary. These are Inga and Tivoli, distinguished by materials, united by extreme versatility. Inga, born with a body in multilayer oak or in a soft version characterized by the padded shell, is re-proposed on occasion of its ten years with a new version with a technopolymer shell (in the delicate shades of white, black, gray, sand and powder). The base remains unchanged, with sled frame or four-legs in steel tube, which gives it lightness and informality. Designed by CMP Design, Tivoli is a homage to the masters of design, the result of the meeting between craftsmanship and technological innovation. What defines it is indeed the “infinite back”, in three-dimensional multi-layer. This is a shell made with a special multi-layer curved in two directions, so as to naturally follow the dorsal line adapting to people of all heights. Pedrali thus expresses itself through a heterogeneous series of furnishings that all lead back to a common ideal of comfort and functionality, the common thread of the entire design by the company.
Pedrali – Stand | 14 | A23 B24
Poltrona Frau collaborates with GamFratesi on the Mirabell collection, seamlessly blending indoor and outdoor design. This timeless collection follows a design dialogue initiated in 2018 with the Italo-Danish duo the company from Tolentino has long been familiar with. Mirabell extends its indoor range of leather baskets, Cestlavie, with outdoor sofas and tables. The sofas take inspiration from 20th-century French wrought iron seating, now reinvented in contemporary aluminium forms. The tables feature a lava stone top or, optionally, a metal one, the structure rests on a double foot (like the sofa) and its support curve is a clear distinctive element. Cestlavie Outdoor faithfully follows the footsteps of the indoor parent, the materials change and its use flexibility – as a low table or a container – make it the perfect partner for the entire collection.
Mirabell, GamFratesi, Via Manzoni 30
Always in the vein of the dynamic and engaging relationship between object, person, and space, Riflessi‘s native journey lands in Milan for Milan Design Week 2024. The company presents the latest novelties in its Milanese showroom on Corso di Porta Romana, and a particular focus is deserved by the new PARADISE table, a synthesis of the company’s strategy embodied in the product: richness of materials and finishes for objects that speak the language of uniqueness and customisation. Paradise is the work of the Riflessi Design Lab and is represented here alongside the Sofia chairs (designed by Stefano Sandonà and Sabrina Bettini) with bronze legs and a Nubuck L54 leather seat. The top of Paradise, available in a wide range of variants, is customisable to the centimetre in the fixed version to fit best in rooms of any size in the name of maximum design flexibility and is also available in an extendable version. The base, made from aluminium extrusions, is unique and inimitable: Riflessi has chosen to invest in specific moulds that guarantee maximum aesthetic cleanliness together with the best performance.
Riflessi Store Milano – Piazza Velasca 6 (ang. Corso di Porta Romana)
