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DESIGN
NEWS
A
selection of news related to interior design, architecture, product design and
art, from a wide range of international publications.
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ARCHITECTURE
Separation
Creek House, Australia. Project by Graham Burrows from Wallpaper
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INTERIOR
DESIGN
Sardinia,
maritime, materic, ancient loft. Project by Studio Parisotto & Formenton from Interni
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DESIGNERS
Ross
Lovegrove - An interview
from November 30, 2006.
from designboom
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ART
Frida
Kahlo
Opens June 14th through September 28, 2008 SFMOMA
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BOOKS
Topologies.
The urban utopia in France, 1906-1970. Larry Busbea. Amazon
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EVENTS
Art Basel -
Switzerland - June 4 until June 8
2008 Artbasel.com
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Inspiration can come from many different sources. One of the most powerful is the narration
of another’s own experiences – details of events they have
witnessed, the people who have influenced them, or simply a story of being in
the right place at the right time. One of these narrators who we have found
infinitely inspiring is Paolo Boffi. Working alongside some of the most well
regarded innovators in Italian design for the past 50 years, claiming many as
close friends, Mr. Boffi
is a wealth of information and recounts stories with humor, insight and
poignant reflection. We are fortunate
to host him this month at DZINE. On
the evening of June 27th, he will conduct a retrospective on his
long time friend, the genial designer, architect, artist, but most of all dreamer, Joe Colombo. DZINE will present BOFFI’s re-introduction of the Mini Kitchen by Joe
Colombo and Mr. Boffi will tell us tales of the times they spent sharing
dreams of a future world.
DZINE is proud to
announce the addition of two new collections:FLEXFORM and ESTABLISHED
& SONS .
Featured designer: the great Carlo Mollino.
Featured projects: Vacation houses - a Sardinian house on
the Smeralda Coast
by Parisotto & Formenton and the Separation
Creek House in Australia
by Graham Burrows.
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Coming soon at DZINE
Groundpiece
by Antonio Citterio for FLEXFORM
Stack by Shay Alkalay
for ESTABLISHED & SONS |
Spider by Joe Colombo for OLUCE
Mini Kitchen by Joe Colombo for BOFFI
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Carlo Mollino (1905-1973 Torino, Italy)
Mollino was a professor/practitioner of architecture who could
design anything and was an expert in all fields.
His career was highly diversified:
he was a designer of furniture and interiors, of fashion, theater
and film sets, he loved photography, writing, skiing and he liked
to play daredevil. He designed the 'Bisiluro' racecar, which he
drove at the Leman's 24 hour race in 1954.
He redesigned the 'Osca 1100' car series, project
that never went
in production.
He designed part of airplanes and risky acrobatic maneuvers.
Women were another of the architect’s passions.
Gilda
recliner by Mollino for Zanotta
In 2006 - centenary of Carlo Mollino's birth - Christie's
of New York auctioned a desk by the Turin designer for
$3,824,000 an exceptional record. "The number of designers who
collectors unconditionally revere and whose pieces inspire enormous respect
can be counted on the fingers of one hand. Mollino is one of them",
said the Art and Design manager of the auction house.
The Cavour desk by Mollino for Zanotta
The Chalet Mollino in Sauze d'Oulx on the Alps |
Mollino driving his Bisiluro race car at the 24HR
Leman.
The
spiritual interiorization not only of the world,
but of the
ultimate reason for the existence has been the nutrient of Mollino’s
entire work.
He was a student of the occult, and guided by the past, in particular,
fascinated by the tomb of the Egyptian royal architect ’Kha’ (ca. 1390-1352 B.C.E).
Mollino, a lively and highly creative person loved life so much that
he wanted to replicate every aspect of it and carry it to the
kingdom of the dead.
It was known to him that ‘Kha’
decorated his own future tomb
in his spare time, and that’s what Mollino did with his 18th
century apartment.
In 1960, on the Po river in Torino,
Mollino took possession of
a villa, the 'Warrior’s House of Rest', he never spent a single night
there.
Casa Mollino was his private pyramid, an eclectic space, carefully created
by his own aesthetic sense, made up
of reminiscences of his life that appear among mirrors,
lace curtains and velvet. Mollino’s
physical space of eternity,
decorated only with things to be taken along.
Mollino represents an extraordinary case for his time. He was
ahead of his day and cultivated passions from which he drew inspiration for
his work. He was a man of extreme precision and refined technical
expertise. A charismatic university teacher and an experimenter of
unforgettable furnishing shapes and solutions. From 1930 to 1940 Mollino
was the architect for the RAI Auditorium, the Chamber of Commerce and the
Regio Theatre in Torino, he also designed many residential homes.
A drawing of the chalet
by Carlo Mollino
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Images and text courtesy of www.designboom.com, Boffi, Oluce
, Flexform, Zanotta, Established & Sons.
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