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The Alessi cookware is rightfully called iconic and is placed on a par with such icons of Italian design as the Vespa scooter or the Fiat 500. What is the secret of its success? You will be able to get an answer to this question at the exhibition. 60 years of Alessi, which will be held in the Moscow store Design Boom (September 10-24). It will showcase the finest Alessi objects created from 1950 to 2000: six decades – six milestones in the history of the brand. A lot of interesting things await visitors, including master classes by company representatives. Do not miss!

• Design Boom Store, t. 234 2734

The main feature of the bed REM factories Flou – ultra-modern shape. The metal frames of the base and headboard are tightly covered with elastic fabric, which creates many unusual protrusions and corners. The name of the novelty is an abbreviation of the medical term Rapid Eye Movement (literally “rapid eye movement”), which means the phase of REM sleep. It is believed that it is in this phase that a person sees dreams. In general, you will fall asleep – and you will not have time to blink an eye!

• Salon of interiors “Twelve”, t. 721 1211

The blue ball is spinning, spinning …

Design of new luminaires Sicis inspired by … no, not by the disco balls of the 1980s, but by celestial bodies: stars and planets! Large and small spheres are suspended on thin metal cables, and they appear to be floating in the air. Outside A lined with mosaics: when lit, they illuminate everything around, like the Sun, and when turned off, they burn with reflected light, like the Moon.

• Chic Salon t. 727 2727

• Rainbow decor by Agatha Ruiz de la Prada
• Original bathroom tiles

Steel character

Origami furniture with crisp, sharp edges remains one of the trends in modern design. Here is the new collection Driade faceted coffee tables appeared Oyster… They are made of stainless steel – a strong, practical, durable material that is difficult to scratch and easy to clean. Oyster is produced in two versions – larger and smaller. The only negative: they are intended exclusively for the home. But the factory also plans to make a street version. Will wait!

• Altagamma Design Gallery, t. (499) 245 0809

Illuminator

ELLE Decor magazine made a geographical discovery: Italy has its own Oxford! We are not talking about a university city in which the luminaries of science are brought up, but about a new luminary of design thought – a floor lamp Oxford andissued by the brand Flexform Mood… Tall, stately, firmly standing on his three “legs”, he will faithfully serve you for more than one year. And bring into your homes, if not the light of knowledge, then at least the light of several electric bulbs!

• Altagamma Design Gallery, t. (499) 245 0809
• Salon of interiors “Twelve”, t. 721 1211

On three chairs at once!

“Design was not born yesterday. Genius masters existed even before our birth, “- this is how Philippe Starck commented on his new work for the brand. Kartell… A chair made by him in cooperation with the Catalan Eugeni Quilliet Masters echoes the outline of three iconic chairs from three great design masters: Arne Jacobsen, Charles Eames and Hero Saarinen.

• Altagamma Design Gallery, t. (499) 245 0809
• Room design gallery, t. 783 0505

Color representation

They say that there are no comrades for taste and color. But there are exceptions. New collection of serving plates Sieger from Fürstenberg surely everyone will like it – after all, not a single color is repeated here! Six colors with poetic names are taken as a basis: not just red, but “the color of passion”, not blue, but “heavenly”. I wanted exotic – take a combination of “apple green” with “capri”, want something more serious – a combination of “blue ink” with “ladies’ lilac” … In such a bright frame, any dish will seem a work of culinary art.

• “House of Porcelain”, t .: (499) 137 6023, 229 8426, 609 2725, 796 9179

Flower power

Cardboard is a favorite material of young designers: cheap, eco-friendly, easy to wrinkle, bend, cut and, moreover, weighs a little. Student at Osaka City University of the Arts Kentaru Yamamoto offers to stamp such “flowers” out of it and collect coffee tables, screens and stools from them. And when you get tired of cardboard furniture, just take it apart and put it in a box.

• Transformer Cardboard Rack
• Christmas tree made of cardboard

Will go far!

They say that a talented person is talented in everything. American rapper and producer

decided to master industrial design. His first pancake cannot be called lumpy: a chair Perspective was issued by a French brand Domeau & Pérès and was awarded a personal exhibition in one of the Parisian galleries. The main “feature” of the promising model is the original legs. Farrell endowed his brainchild with a pair of male and a pair of slender female legs. What their owners are doing is anyone’s guess.

• Plastic furniture