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Best friends
Naoto Fukasawa’s new cookware range for Alessi is inspired by man’s best friend.
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Alberto Alessi
Product Designer
Alberto Alessi is widely regarded as the godfather of Italian design. He believes that design and beauty can help save the world.
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International icon at DI2011
At the helm of one of the world’s most iconic homeware brands is Alberto Alessi, one of the most influential people in contemporary design.
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Bathing beauty
Patricia Urquiola’s bathroom range for Axor brings a touch of poetry and playfulness to the collection.
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Towards the light
A creative touch is added to the bright city lights of Milan with designers using LEDs to engage notions of time, memory and modernity.
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Christmas cogs
Dutch designers Tjep have created an awe-inspiring Christmas window display for a department store in Milan, Italy.
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If the shoe fits
Gala is a new shoe concept that improves comfort and wearability with exactly the right support.
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Corals for Christmas
A Christmas shop window installation incorporates notions of biomimicry into an awe-inspiring design.
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Shopping in style
Stylish, silent, sexy, Italian and great for shopping. The Shoppy Bike sounds like many a stylista's dream...
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Kitchen cool
The new AlessiTab designed by Stefano Giovannoni is the ideal interactive, multimedia device for domestic spaces.
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Like an illusion
A series of wallpapers representing a metamorphosis reveals some unexpected and disorientating images.
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Europe's trashiest hotel
The Save Beach Hotel was the perfect place for asylum seekers from a world of consumption.
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Three other designs from Milan 2010
The Green Trace umbrella stand by Innovo, Forte musical furniture by 45 Kilo and Laikingland’s nonsensical machines.
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Swarovski at Milan 2010
“1 crystal + 1 low energy LED light + a faceted paper shade = AMPLIFY” asserted Yves Béhar at this year’s Swarovski Crystal Palace.
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Four upcycled designs at Milan2010
Bottleformball by Heath Nash, Saved by Droog, 380 Tiles by Vicolo Paglia Corta and Cuisine d'Objets by 5.5 designers.
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Six chairs from Milan 2010
Alejandro Aravena, Tokujin Yoshioko, Patricia Urquiola, Marcel Wanders, Thomas Heatherwick and François Azambourg take a seat.
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Tomato power
The result of the D-VISION industrial design graduate programme in Israel, the Still Lamp is powered by the juice of tomatoes.
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Love of the common people
The Felicity Project Change your City, Change your Life graphic design competition is starting a conversation around community life.
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Time for Guixé at Milan 2010
Nap o'clock? Snack o'clock? Slog o'clock? Martí Guixé's new clocks for Alessi let the user write the time.
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Garden variety
Reconquestea by Flavia Lucantoni is a special package of green guerrilla tea.
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Moroso does Africa
Italian furniture brand Moroso celebrates the influence of Africa in the M’Afrique C’est Chic exhibition.
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Oliviero Toscani
Photographer
Oliviero Toscani is an Italian photographer best known for his controversial advertising campaigns for Benetton.
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Stefano Giovannoni
Industrial Designer
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Interior Designer
Italian designer and architect Stefano Giovannoni has produced a prolific body of work for brands such as Alessi, Magis and Samsung.
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GianCarlo Montebello
Jewellery Designer
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