Furniture

Constellations is a minimalist coffee table series designed by Milan-based studio Nichetto Studio for Kristalia. The design of Constellations coffee table aims at the essential through the juxtaposition of shapes and materials. As a tribute to the professional and personal encounter between Alexander Calder and Joan Miró squares, semi ellipses and circles can be freely combined to create compositions of surfaces with various thickness and textures. Available in a variety of colors and materials, the tops sits on a metal structure in different sizes so discreet to appearing invisible, giving the effect of an abstraction of levitating objects.

Prop is a minimalist shelving system designed by Lausanne-based studio BIG-GAME for Karimoku New Standard. Prop is a line of shelving and storage units consisting of low boards/ TV boards and sideboards in different sizes. The design is build on the bold, L-shaped side modules that give the shelf great stability while reducing its component parts and creating its characteristic appearance. The well-conceived proportions and details, with easy to use, removable sliding doors, make PROP well suited for storage and display in living rooms, hallways and offices. Prop is crafted from sustainably sourced Japanese oak wood and looks as beautiful from the back as it does from the front.

Solista is a minimalist coat rack created by Milan-based designer Giuseppe Arezzi. A valet stand: no name was more suitable to describe an use. This involves a humble, clearly functional typology, made to serve more than to represent. In fact, it works to support clothes, to fold shirt and trousers, to prepare the evening before what will be worn the next morning, even the small accessories or jewels that complete the daily wardrobe. However, Solista is a valet stand that has detached itself from the choir. It realized that he had his own personality and that he could sing his solo. It becomes aware that it is not invisible and servile, but also beautiful and worthy of being appreciated when it is undressed. And then – like every good soloist – it knows how to return to the chorus of the domestic landscape and give its silent contribution.

LCX is a minimalist chair created by Switzerland-based designer Florian Hauswirth for Winkler. LCX is a new kind of cantilever chair out of five pieces of bended wood. A fundamental difficulty in furniture making is the transition from the vertical to the horizontal direction. The connections make the main character of this chair. Steam bended wood has a very high consistence and the wood keeps its flexibility. New constructions are possible. In the specific bending technique, solid wood can only bended in one direction. For this reason the LCX chair is made out of U- and L- shapes. The overlapping X stabilizes the chair and effects a compact structure that works like a framework. The individual parts are arranged in a way that the leg structure is interwoven with the back and creates a seating area. Because of its flexible construction cantilever chairs are ideally for dynamic seating. Traditional handicraft aptitude meets modern unconventional design.

New Sculptural Minimalism is a minimalist collection of designs created in collaboration between Maria Bruun and Pernille Andersen. Set designer Pernille Andersen and Furniture designer Maria Bruun join forces in the series ‘New Sculptural Minimalism’ to show their vision on giving danish design a new direction by adding a more bold yet minimalistic and playful feeling to their design. They are drawn towards new design horizons – to break free from old traditions and dogmas, using their own conceptual approach. They wanted to strip everything down to a minimum by using the non-space and very few materials. The photographic layout was essential to ad character and space to the story. The concept of the white sheet is a dream about creating everything and nothing out from “it”.

Rise Bookstand is a minimalist bookstand designed by Brooklyn-based studio Sun at Six. Sun at Six works with families, artisans, and traditional joinery masters from Guangzhou, China, some of whom we’ve worked with for 20 years. They specialize in ancient Chinese woodworking technique, continuing a long history of craftsmanship with our work now featured in the Forbidden City. They make their furniture using classical Chinese joinery, a fading traditional art-form passed down from generation to generation, which uses intricate, interwoven joints to create furniture without the use of any nails or screws. Rise Bookstand is a floating stand for books, records, and display. Wide panels showcase the natural grain of white oak, and tung oil is hand rubbed.

N01 is a minimalist chair created by Tokyo-based designer nendo for Fritz Hansen. Launching for Milan Design Week, the chair will be the first since Arne Jacobsen’s Grand Prix model to be constructed entirely of wood for Danish brand. The structure of the chair will be constructed entirely of wood while the seat and seat back produced in a layered veneer, utilizing Fritz Hansen’s plywood forming technique. The joints are combined in a way to appear as though they are not touching, producing a refreshing contemporary aesthetic while maintaining the traditions of the brand.

Shift is a minimalist shelving system designed by London-based studio Layer, spearheaded by Benjamin Hubert, in collaboration with Really, an initiative in partnership with Kvadrat. ForewordReally’s second exhibition at Milan’s Salone del Mobile 2018 showcases projects by seven designers using Really’s first new materials made from upcycled end-of-life textiles. As well as demonstrating the potential of Solid Textile Board and Acoustic Textile Felt for use in furniture and interiors, the designers explore the changing narrative of textile resources and the massive changes and opportunities of the shift to a circular economy where end-of-life will become the start of a new life. With his design for Shift, Benjamin Hubert also plays on the idea of transformation. In its closed state, Shift is a flat acoustic wall panel. Using an elegantly minimal mechanism, panels unfurl like fabric to create an active shelving and storage unit.

Custom Brass Desk is a minimalist desk created by Los Angeles-based designer Brian Thoreen. Thoreen creates furniture, architectural installations, and unique design objects that gather their ethos from the integral nature of the materials within the application. The drawers of the desk are constructed of walnut, contrasting nicely against the brass framework. On the surface of the desk, there are two cord organizers.

O.E Side Tables is a minimalist collection of side tables designed by Berlin-based studio D´ STUD´IO. Open Ending is a design concept that is based on adaptability to fulfill the intension of the user rather than producing a predetermined product for a specific use. This concept is based on various connecting components and stiffening elements that attach semi-finished pieces in various ways transforming them into a diverse series of potential objects. The result is a product that is not stagnant, but always open to change with us. Every component that is utilized in the product can be easily disassembled and reconfigured into new forms.

Panorama Chair is a minimalist chair designed by Berlin-based designer Geckeler Michels for Karimoku New Standard. Panorama is a plain, universal chair, made of sustainably sourced Japanese oak wood, that complements Karimoku New Standard’s iconic range of high-end wood crafted furniture. It offers high versatility with a focus on professional applications from meeting rooms, lecture halls to restaurants. The generously dimensioned and elaborately bent plywood seat and backrest have a striking, unique linear look, that evokes sheets of paper. The chair family features versions with compact yet comfortable armrests and with runners that allow a forward tilting sitting position for active working environments. Karimoku New Standard introduces Panorama in the new color Night Blue.

Bue Stool is a minimalist stool created by in collaboration between Noidoi and Visibility. Sharing a common interest in the idea of mindful living, Noidoi and Visibility set out to design an object that inspired a more thoughtful approach to everyday life. Where they landed was Bue, a stool initially inspired by a 1940s Swiss prayer knee-rest; an object solely characterized by its emphasis on mindfulness. Through a continuous dialogue, the form was refined and the stool’s characteristics began to take shape- namely a linear wooden frame and a channeled upholstered seat, which take great care to produce but emanate a familiar simplicity. More than its physical value, it refers to the process of understanding each other as design studios through creating a common ground where new ideas can evolve. To highlight this encounter, the product merges two main materials: American Oak and Norwegian wool, representing each of the two countries of origin.

New Wood Plan is a minimalist furniture collection designed by Barcelona-based studio Lievore Altherr. The Barcelona-based studio specializes in product design & development, strategic consulting, creative direction, art direction, and ephemeral architecture for internationally recognized design companies. For this particular project, nature meets technology. The warmth of wood, without the maintenance. Inspired by the simple gesture of a wooden bench built to stand the test of time, New-Wood Plan introduces a new material that retains the tactile feel and luster of wood grain, but that will not diminish over time. Made from 100-percent recyclable, sustainable natural fibers.

Testing Grounds is a collaboration between Form Us With Love and MDD to involve the end-user and manufacturer throughout the design process. When MDD approached Form Us With Love, they were looking for a new seating system. Upon Form Us With Love’s first trip to MDD they saw an opportunity to build variety on MDD’s strong rationale in steel. The result was two straightforward, but ultimately generous systems of seating. The collections to be tested, are in fact two rather elaborate systems manufactured by MDD; a seating system called New School, derives sixteen variations. Followed by Agora, a sofa system built on a 60 x 60 cm grid, leaving endless opportunities for a casual lounge configuration. To install prototypes in a co-working space puts pressure on the two ranges to perform. A house hosts close to seventy solopreneurs and larger corporations, from stylists, photographers, and digital experience experts, to architects and product makers. Any furniture placed in the member’s lobby has to bring people together, enhance the workplace experience, and provide a series of valuable functions.

Torus Side Table is a minimalist side table created by Brooklyn-based designer Robert Sukrachand, currently on view at the Architectural Digest Design Show within the highly curated MADE section. The Torus Side Table incorporates microsuede fabrics in an uncommon context. By wrapping bent plywood with this heavily textured material, Robert has brought a sense of touch and warmth to surfaces which are more commonly smooth and cold. Combining microsuede with bronze glass and aged brass, this table is saturated with luminous color and meandering shapes.

RB02 is a minimalist bench created by France-based designer Johan Viladrich. The RB02 bench is a brutal assemblage of materials held together with black rubber bands. With this seemingly improvised connection, aluminum plates, steel tubes and stainless steel rods are forming the fundamental structure of a bench. Here, as materials are stacked onto one another, the trace of the maker is absent, shaping and drawing are non-existent. Only a careful selection of materials, finishes and proportions remains, questioning the integrity of the bench as a complete object.

MIST is a minimalist collection of modular shelving created by Brussels-based designer Julien Renault. Icon of Belgian design since the 50’s, the KEWLOX’s storage furniture is based on a smart and clever assembly. The design of the frame is reduced to four corner profiles in steel that maintained all together rails and battens without any screws. The self-assembled modular structure is very strong and life guarantee. The doors and panels are simply embedded into the frame. The MIST collection is aiming to build a complementary collection by considering the structure as an aluminum bay window. The use of tempered glass reveals the beautifulness of the system and the objects contained.

110kgs is a minimalist table created by Barcelona-based designer Max Enrich. 110 kgs is the weight of the black granite rock, used as a counterweight to hold a solid iron ellipse-shaped top. They meet in a cold joint, just by positioning the heavy rock on top of the leg of the table. The axis of the top is reinforced on the inside to keep is as thin as possible and carefully welded to the top to avoid deformations. The rock, obtained from remains of large pieces, reminds of a rock pulled out of a river, with soft edges and faces combining with other aggressive edges, shaped by water. Some irregular sides were left to recall to its origins, a large stone – to recall it was someday part of a bigger total.

Bold Side Table is a minimalist table designed by Belgium-based studio Destroyers/Builders. In Bold Side Table the designers explore industrial shapes. The interventions give these industrial elements a human aspect. The two tubes fuse to one – like mitosis. The hand finished aluminum side table, brings a sensual touch into industrial form language. With a focus on materiality the studio strives for sensory relevance and cultural value in detail and bigger scale. Their works have a sculptural and architectural character, but are always on the edge of contemporary material use and traditional crafts. The studio takes on projects that range from commissions to self-initiated projects, and extends across the realms of both product and interior design.