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TuttoBeNe - MILAN 2007
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TuttoBeNe Magazzini Porta Genova,
TuttoBeNe likes design with guts, that is visually challenging and tells a good story too. TuttoBeNe believes that design has a strong influence in making changes, not only visual changes, but also in a cultural or social way. The environmental and social consequences of many items that we produce cannot be neglected. But we are consumers too and are seduced by beautiful objects. Therefore TuttoBeNe stands for design that contributes to a economic, ecological and social sound world, design that initiates from designers that are aware of the consequences of their actions and that suits a wide range of our human demands.
Participants: Anette Viviane Huizing > Studio Friso
Made for the harbour of Genova (it) ‘Finchè la barca va…' which means: ‘until the boat is leaving...' If there is no furniture available people sit on floors, curbs, bags, fences or lean against lampposts, walls etc. With this as my starting point I went searching for objects which could be used to sit on but are not meant that way. Fishermen who pull their boats onto the beach turn it upside down to keep rainwater out and to be sure it doesn't float away once a springtide comes up. A serene boat on a beach, drying up, waiting to be taken out to sea again and go somewhere... is an, almost poetic, reference to waiting.
Floris Schoonderbeek & Dick van Hoff
We design, develop and sell products that focus on quality in use, material and finally design. The products are aware of their function and are very close to the essence of their basic needs. The products are sober and decadent at the same time. This mentallity of directness in clear products is also shown in how we present and sell them. Beside our own showrooms in europe and the US , you can see, feel and smell us at different experience centres like restaurants and holiday homes, where the products can be seen first hand. Floris Schoonderbeek >
Studio DenHartogMusch
The Braid-Y lounge chair designed by Studio DenHartogMusch can Studio DenHartogMusch >be used both inside and outside in the garden. The design of its braided seat both is breathing craftsmanship and innovation.
Joana Meroz
The Ornamented Life collection explores the power of combining ornamentation with starkly functional, daily-life objects. Ornamentation has the function to enter into people's lives through the door of enjoyment and subliminally transmit information through the myriad of symbolism involved in an object. The thoughtfully designed functional objects ask to be handled in a specific way, determining (to a certain extent) how people, quite literally and physically, tackle the important themes ever-present in the small actions. Thus, functional objects can encourage the materialisation of abstract ideas, either by simply reflecting the values of our society, or by introducing these reflections to the user so that he too can become more aware of the multitude of small and big decisions involved when performing even the most banal of actions.
MILAN 2007 INDEX >
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