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Rick Owens at Apartement Berlin

Published 30/04/2010 Architecture , Art , Culture , Design , Fashion Closed

Rick Owens at Apartement Berlin

In Berlin during the Berlin Gallery Weekend, thanks to Angelica Taschen, Rick Owens shows his creative talent in the new furniture collection. Hosted by Apartment Berlin, the new collection consists of tables, chairs, lamps and small design objects.
In his furniture, Rick Owens uses a lot of colored phenolic polywood, bones but unquestionably masterpieces, are those pieces that rescued the colors and sensations of his fashion collections.

By 2DM Blogazine – pictures courtesy of Highsnobiety.

Sharing is Caring

Published 17/04/2010 Architecture , Culture , Design , Performance Closed

Sharing is Caring

Glossom, the innovative visual platform for creative professionals, is proud this year to be part of a particular Appartamento in the heart of Brera design district, guest of the furniture brand Lago. During the 2010 Salone del Mobile the entire flat will be furnished with innovative Lago products, and lived in day-to-day by Lago’s crew and its partners (Wired, Samsung, Asus, Domus Accademy and Glossom of course, among others). Lots of events, labs, workshops would take place in Lago Appartamento.

Glossom from his temporary Appartamento Lago headquarters will become your exclusive guide into the very best of worldwide design. Stay tuned!

Images courtesy of Lago

FoodMarketo by Apartamento Magazine

Published 13/04/2010 Architecture , Books , Cibvs , Culture , Design , Magazine Closed

FoodMarketo by Apartamento Magazine

Apartamento as you know is an everyday life interiors bi-annual magazine written in English.
A place in print for people, not just objects. Apartamento is a magazine about homes, living spaces and design solutions as opposed to houses, photo ops and design dictatorships. It understands interior design as a means of personal expression, showing how people arrange their homes and the solutions they find to the same problems that everyone has. This year for the Milano design week, Apartamento with DesignMarketo – a company which was set up by Jerome Rigaud and Alexandre Bettler: “originally we wanted to help our designer friends to clear their stocks of amazing things they had piled up in their studio. We quickly realised what a wonderful tool it was to diffuse ideas and objects, work with our friends and also to meet new people. We want it to be some sort of hybrid in between a music label, a magazine, an art gallery and a corner shop” – has set up FoodMarketo!

FoodMarketo is half pop up store, half cooking workshop, selling contemporary design objects commissioned to over 30 international designers and hosting daily workshops to share recipes and everyday life ingredients.
The store will feature a unique interior designed by London based designers, Max Lamb & Lars Frideen. FoodMarketo is organised in collaboration with Marion Friedmann. Please come and visit us!

Designers:

Alexandre Bettler – All Cats Are Grey – Amandine Alessandra Andrew Haythornthwaite – Arabeschi Di Latte Atelier Sara Ivanyi – Atwork – Bannhocks & Hill – Bertjan Pot – Catherine Guiral (officeabc) – Charlotte Coulais – David Weatherhead – Do You Read Me – Fabien Caperan Ferran Lajara – Frank Bruggeman Harry Thaler – Jackson Lam Ken Kirton – Lars Frideen – Loris & Livia – Marco Dessí – Markus Bergström MischerTraxler – Nelly Ben Hayoun Nicola Enrico Stäubli – OK- RM – Olivia Decaris – Oscar Diaz – Oscar Narud Peter Marigold – Study O Portable TankBoys – Tomás Alonso

Workshops:

14 April,
13:00—17:00 + 18:00—20:00
Color Me Beautiful
A natural beauty session with Arabeschi di Latte

15 April
13:00—17:00
Gemma’s Jam
Discover your hidden marmalade skills with Gemma Holt

16 April,
14:00—17:00
The Bread Workshops
Make new bread friends with Alexandre Bettler

13—18 April
12:00—13:00
FoodMarketo Everyday Specials
Daily surprises for the early birds

By 2DM Blogazine  - image courtesy of Walter Pfeiffer, from the book ‘Welcome Aboard’ edition Patrick Frey 2001

Moneyless @ Syntasizer

Published 09/03/2010 Architecture , Art , Culture , Design , Performance Closed

Moneyless @ Syntasizer

It’s impressive how figurative art can convey deep insights through only lines, colors and shapes in a plain geometric space.
Over the past few years, Teo Pirisi aka Moneyless has been performing this exact process of removal, obtaining complexity and completeness through simplicity and neatness. Starting with writing and lettering all over the walls, he immediately felt constrained within the two dimensional scale, and subsequently began to use different rough materials such as twine and wool yarns to give his figures a three-dimensional existence. These medias are real constituents of his unrelieved dialectical relationship with geometry. Cloves fix the focal points of the geometrical structures, created to represent things caught in the external physical world, then transposed into shapes conveying intangibile ideas of their reality. All the shapes are reduced, overall, yet still keep a tension that releases a nearly invisible motion. Hidden in the very inner shape, multiple visions and perspectives concealed by the entire structure finally cleverly come to sight, though interpretation by the holistic-eye is never instantaneous.

In Moneyless‘ words: “From my point of view, poverty in the very essence of the shape is a true richness, it represents the silence that permits the thought to emerge.”

If you’re intrigued in knowing more about this geometrical philosophy, Moneyless will be showing his works with paintings and installations from tonight @ Limited No Art Gallery, Via Porpora, 148 – Milan – together with Ryan Spring at Syntasizer.

By Elisa Lusso – sketch by Moneyless

2DM Management & Canova/E15

Published 05/02/2010 Architecture , Art , Culture , Design , Fashion Closed

2DM Management & Canova / E15

And so the rumors bore fruit: Canova’s space on Via Tortona has evolved into Wonder Room, a promising conceptual canvas for a collective of artists, photographers, illustrators, designers, and art directors at the epicenter of Milan’s creative scene.

With the recent event showcasing selected pieces by photographer Alessandro dal Buoni curated by Studio Temp the space has burst to life as a manifestation of the dynamism made possible by a collective effort of the best creatives. Dal Buoni’s introspective and stark pieces converged with Wonder Room’s walls and ideal location to highlight the power of the at once modular and vital space. Its intimacy, furthermore, provides an effective means by which the artist’s message can be concentrated, diffused and reflected upon.

Expect to see much more in the coming months as Wonder Room continues to evolve. The ride has only just begun.

By Kenneth Gordon | pics by 2DM staff, courtesy of CANOVA/E15

I (H) House H

Published 17/12/2009 Architecture Closed

I (H) House H

In Japan magic things can happen in the architectural world and become effectively reality. House H is the new younger sister of the House N designed in 2008, but born in Tokyo from the creative and tremendously japanese mind of Sou Fujimoto. This time he perforated the building vertically and also horizontally, creating not only a continuity to the exterior landscape, but also a vertiginous continuity between the floors thanks to beautiful wooden staircases and transparent glass floors. Wouldn’ t you like to chill in a pool inside your living room while looking up at the sky and at your kids in their room?

By Alan Grillo Spina | image courtesy by Iwan Baan

Renaissance of Pirelli Building

Published 06/12/2009 Architecture , Art , Culture Closed

Renaissance of Pirelli Building

At last art is coming out from the museums to reach our street views, with a bewitching spectacle: the walls of Pirelli Building in Milan are hosting giant projections of Lombardy paintings from Reinassance to Baroc in these days, until December 8th. The paintings belongs to different hospitals in the area, where 22 canvas have been selected among a huge collection of more than 20 thousands arts objects. From sunset to midnight passing through Central Station you’ll have the possibilty to see the screening of the artworks made between 1500 and 1700 from Giovanni Cariani, Moretto da Brescia, Romanino, Giovanni Battista Moroni, Camillo Procaccini, Frà Galgario among others.

By Elisa Lusso | Images from Corriere.it

New Prada Store Opening

Published 25/09/2009 Architecture , Art , Design , Fashion Closed

New Prada Store Opening

Prada says that this new store in Milan, Corso Venezia 3, is the prototype of a modernist attitude to shopping, in the perfect synthesis of architecture and environment. In their way the store, re-conceptualised and re-outfitted by architect Roberto Baciocchi, represents a new contemporary way of selling and purchasing. Where marble alternate with wooden floors, the space experience should look familiar and will be creating an interior design that acts as a visual trajectory, finally ending the path in a large glass cube which extends towards the outdoor environment. Like a winter garden, this place will be perfect for exhibitions and events. The only thing they didn’t think about was the huge flow of people attending the opening. In a messy massive spatial experience, rather than familiar, not even any gift left!

PRADASTORE_ELISASIMIBy Elisa Lusso

Do You Read Me?

Published 13/07/2009 Architecture , Art , Books , Culture , Design , Fashion , Magazine Closed

Do You Read Me?

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Do You Read Me? is everything but a normal newstand.
Located in Auguststrasse, Do You Read Me? is a tiny little treat in the heart of Berlin Mitte for all paper fetish.
From relevant magazines like Vogue and Interview to hard-to-find publications like Pin-Up and Girls Like Us. From fashion to design and architecture journals, Do You Read Me? is the right place to spend an hour between your favorite printed paper.

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Jessica and Mark opened Do You Read Me? in 2008 but it seems that it has already found its place in all the best Berlin city guides.
“We provide a subjective selection of beautiful, sapiently written, well crafted magazines in the scope of art, culture, fashion, photography, design, architecture, literature, music, theatre, society, politics and business. We look forward to compiling, together with our clients, the most beautiful, most interesting and most innovative magazines available from around the globe.”

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Do You Read Me?
Monday to Saturday: 10am–8.30pm

Auguststraße 28
10117 Berlin-Mitte

Tel. +49-30-695 49 695

E.Grigoletti

New spot in Zona Tortona: Angelo’ s Bistrot

Published 01/07/2009 Architecture , Cibvs Closed

New spot in Zona Tortona: Angelo’ s Bistrot

Angelo Di Saverio initially graduated as interior designer. Right after, he started as a partner in a restaurant in downtown Milan. He successfully continued his activity for quite a while and in 2009 he decided to open his own place, a new sort of bistrot at 55 of Savona street.
At Angelo’s you can start your day with home made delicious breakfasts, choosing between several variations of croissants, cakes and biscuits, eggs, fruits and yougurt. The every day menu offers vegetables, meat and Japanese influences. Chef Tokida creates original recipes with authentic tastes of his country, mixed with an italian and biologic touch. “Vegetarian dish with soba, omelette, stuffed vegetables and caprese” just to give you an example.
On sunday a special brunch menu is offered from 8:30 to 16:30.
Wines are imported from a winery that uses organic grapes and certified products. The environement is quite small, really familiar and informal; customers are sourrounded by white walls with no pictures but a Moira Orfei gigantic poster stolen from an unknown street, open kitchen, blue wooden tables, wooden parquet and interior design plants hanging from the ceiling… Food, objects and good music… you should make a visit! Silvia Bergomi

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Angelo’s / Via Savona 55 /Angelos.it

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