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Baillie Davis, industrial designer in the Coalesse Design Group, recently traveled to Milan, Italy, to attend Salone del Mobile. The annual furniture fair is one of the largest in the world and draws more than 300,000 visitors each year. With more than 1,300 furniture and furnishing accessories vendors, the event is full of inspiration. Below, Baillie shares some of her favorite design inspirations from the event.
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Salone de Mobile takes over Milan every year with exhibitors showing their latest and greatest at the enormous Fieramilano as well as in galleries and showrooms throughout the city that create lively activity. Though the Fieramilano offered a lot of insight, I found many of the exhibitions happening in Milan’s design districts to be greatly inspirational.
One of the exhibitions, called Frame, showcased many art and design projects dealing with the intersection between digital and tangible.
I visited La Triennale di Milano to see their exhibition “21st Century. Design After Design.” Here they featured a show all about the process of making, “Stanza” about novel and conceptual living spaces designed by Italian architects, and “Subtle,” which featured elegant and stunning paper crafts.
Paola Lenti took over an old Franciscan monastery, a beautiful and serene environment for their stunning color choices, textural materials and unique processes.
HAY enticed visitors with their Mini Market, a small shop located within their exhibit where customers could purchase beautiful design objects from the company. Their space was an active environment with rooms sunk down into the floor, sparking curiosity as to what was featured in each room, complete with their own character of color and styling.
Vitra shared an inspiring and interactive color story at their exhibition space, CasaVitra, through an installation called “Colour Machine” designed by Hella Jongerius. It brought the company’s color and materials library to life through large pinwheels of differently colored furniture parts suspended around the space for viewers to play with.
Vignettes also displayed material and color studies in a playful yet elegant way.
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