T-Shirt o T-Chair?

Dear design lovers! Today Mad about Design shows yo T-Chair designed by Annebet Philips for Mogg Design. Launched in Milan 2015 this is a new addition their amazing collection of highly original modern Italian furniture.

Taking its inspiration from the "T Shirt" an all-time design classic, this stylish comfortable chair is made in solid ash wood which is then matt stained in an open pore lacquer (allowing the grain to show through).

There are 16 different colours to choose from or the chair can be hand-painted in stripes in two colours.

Italian company Mogg is a new brand founded in 2012 by architect Nicola Galbiati.

Happy Birthday Mad about Design!

Happy Birthday Mad about Design! Today the blog Mad about Design is two years old. Thanks to all people who follow and support this blog.
This year was very important for Mad about Design who participated to many events such Operae, Paratissima, Expo Milano 2015 and I Saloni.
  Also during the year was created the column  "Inspired Mind" where we meet and interview an artist or a designer and we discover the major artcrafts.
  Mad about Design is proud to have visitors from all over the world: Italy, USA, France, Germany, Russia, Canada, UK, Thailand, Japan ...
 In 2016, there will be many news and I can anticipate that Mad about Design will have new sections and participate at new events whom will share images and impressions with you.
  Finally, I take this opportunity to thank all the followers of Facebook, Instagram and Pinterest.
Thanks you so much and Happy Birthday Mad about Design!

Buon compleanno Mad about Design! Vorrei ringraziare tutti coloro che seguono e supportano questo blog ogni giorno.

Mad about Design ha partecipato a numerosi eventi tra i quali Operae, Paratissima, I Saloni e Expo Milano 2015.
Inoltre durante l'anno è stata creata la rubrica "Inspired Mind" dove attraverso un intervista abbiamo modo di conoscere un designer o un artista che ci presenta le sue opere. 
Mad about Design è orgogliosa di avere visitatori provenienti da tutto il mondo: Italia, Stati Uniti, Francia, Germania, Russia, Regno Unito, Canada, Thailandia, Giappone...
Numerose saranno le novità in questo 2016 e vi posso anticipare che Mad about Design avrá delle nuove rubriche e nuovi eventi a cui partecipare di cui condividerá immagini ed impressioni con tutti voi.
Infine colgo l'occasione per ringraziare tutti i followers su Facebook, Instagram e Pinterest.
Grazie davvero a tutti e buon compleanno Mad about Design!

Happy New Year

Happy New Year to all the design lovers from the blog Mad About Design!


Felice Anno Nuovo a tutti i design lovers da Mad About Design!

Merry Christmas

Merry Christmas from the blog Mad about Design!

Buon Natale dal blog Mad about Design!

Calza Ferm Living per un Natale di design

Hello Design Lovers! Christmas is coming, the streets of the towns are adorned with lights and decorations and our homes... and our homes?

If you are looking for sober Christmas decorations for a minimal apartment, stockings of Ferm Living are suitable for you.

These stocking are 100% cotton and available in four versions: grey or black stripes and gold or black little splat pattern.

Pattern with elegant and neutral colors make the stockings suitable for every space of the home, from living room to bedroom and you can hang them on wall, library or fireplace, if you are so lucky to have one.

But pay attetion! Ferm Living stocking are so beautiful and elegant that Santa could steal them instead of fill them!

 

Buongiorno Design Lovers! 

Il Natale si avvicina, le vie delle cittá sono decorate con addobbi e luminarie e le nostre case... e le nostre case?
Se cercate delle decorazioni natalizie sobrie per un appartamento minimal, i calzettoni di Ferm Living sono adatti a voi.

Cooking with Design: 3D Xmas Tree Mould by Lekué

Hello Design Lovers! Christmas is coming and also the column Cooking with Design is adorned festively presenting a design gadget for the kitchen with a Christmas theme: 3D Xmas Tree Mould by Lekué, a silicone mold to build your own greedy Christmas trees!
With 3D Xmas Tree Mould is possible to build three-dimensional tree in chocolate, caramel or cookie.
But these trees will arrive intact until Christmas Day?!

Buongiorno Design Lovers!Il Natale si avvicina e anche la rubrica Cooking with Design si addobba a festa presentando un simpatico gadget di design per la cucina a tema natalizio: 3D Xmas Tree Mould di Lekuè, uno stampo in silicone per costruire il proprio albero di Natale goloso!

Cooking with Design: Sugar House by Peleg Design

Hello Design Lovers! Since we are in the Christmas period, the column Cooking with Design dedicates today's post at this lovely snowball glass, which actually hides the sugar bowl The Sugar House designed by Ben Broyde, designer of Design Peleg, an Israeli company specializing in kitchen gadgets.
This sugar bowl contains in its interior a house attached to the bases of the glass ball. When you want sugar simply flip the ball, unscrew the base and as you use sugar, it turns out the house hidden inside.
The Sugar House obviously can be filled with white or cane sugar, but also salt or spices to a constantly changing panorama. 

Buongiorno Design Lovers! Siccome siamo in periodo natalizio, la rubrica Cooking with Design dedica il post di oggi a questa deliziosa palla di neve di vetro, che in realtà nasconde la zuccheriera di design The Sugar House ideata da Ben Broyde, designer del Peleg Design, compagnia israeliana specializzata in gadget da cucina di design.

L'Abete di Natale diventa green

Hello Design lovers! Obviously in this period, a post dedicated to the Christmas tree could not miss, the decoration of excellence in almost all our houses at Christmas time.
I chose a very unusual tree, far from the traditional idea of the Christmas tree filled with ornaments.
The Christmas tree of Bloomingville striking for its simplicity far from the concept of consumerism, exaggeration and unnecessary.
A linear tree, built entirely of wood with natural finish for a green and dematerialized Christmas .
Thanks to its small size (available in two versions: 70 or 30 cm) and the neutral color, the tree by Bloominville is suitable for every room of the house.
It does not seem you to experience the magic feeling of the forests of Scandinavia?
See you soon design lovers!


Buongiorno Design lovers! Ovviamente in questo periodo non poteva mancare un post dedicato all'albero di Natale, la decorazione d'eccellenza in quasi tutte le nostre case nel periodo natalizio.

Ho scelto un abete decisamente insolito, lontano dalla tradizionale idea dell'albero di Natale colmo di addobbi.

L'albero di Natale di Bloomingville colpisce per la sua semplicitá lontana dal concetto di consumismo, esagerazione e superfluo.

Mad about Design at Operae in Torino

Hello design lovers! This weekend Turin is the site of  Operae, the festival of independent and self-design, an exhibition  comes now with great success in its sixth edition.
For three days, from 6 to 8 November, in Turin Exhibition, you can meet new Italian and international talents of design, discover products and collections and participate in meetings and workshops.
In Operae, creativity, art and the future are the main protagonists everywhere.
Looking at the pictures I took today during the festival to believe!

Ciao design lovers! Questo weekend Torino è la sede di Operae, il festival del design indipendente e autoprodotto, una evento ormai giunto con grande successo alla sua sesta edizione. Quest'anno Operae ha luogo in contemporanea ad Artissima e Paratissima, altre due manifestazioni legate all'arte organizzate nel capoluogo piemontese.

Valigie pronte all'imbarco o cassettiera?

Suitcases ready for boarding at the airport or the new drawer designed by Jean Paul Gaultier for Roche Bobois? This sophisticated and original drawer is Malles, a piece of furniture that twists with the furniture that twists the conventions and reinterprets an object to create another with a completely different use. Malles is a numbered piece of furniture and a limited serie of 250 items.

Equipped with 3 doors, 3 drawers and a flap element with mirror, Malles is upholstered in full grain leather with a natural finish and stitching by saddler. All locks, the corner protections and the hinges come from the luggage. The creativity of Jean Paul Gaultier, anticonformist worldwide fashion designer and of Roche Bobois comes an original and sophisticated collection which united fashion and furniture, Malles is only a piece of furniture of this anticonventional collection of furniture.

Valigie pronte all'imbarco in aeroporto oppure la nuova cassettiera disegnata da Jean Paul Gautier per Roche Bobois?

Questa sofisticata e originale cassettiera è Malles, un mobile che stravolge le convenzioni e reinterpreta un oggetto per crearne uno dall'utilizzo completamente diverso.

Malles è un mobile numerato e a serie limitata a 250 esemplari.

Grain by Muuto, la lampada ecofriendly

 

Hello design lovers! The star of today is the lamp of Grain by Muuto.
Grain is designed by Jens Fager, one of the most interesting youong designer in the Swedish scene.
The pendant lamp GRAIN combines modern and minimal design with the use of new innovative materials. The lampshade of Grain is in fact composed by a mixture of bamboo fibers and polypropylene, enriched with small grains of fiber that make subtle changes of color and tone.
   In addition to supporting energy saving, Grain is equipped with an LED bulb of high quality that lasts up to 10,000 hours.
What do you think of the last news of Muuto, beautiful and eco-friendly?
Obviously Mad About Design loves it!

 

Buongiorno design lovers!Il protagonista di oggi è la lampada Grain di Muuto.

Grain è stata ideata da Jens Fager, un giovane designer  tra i più interessanti nel panorama svedese.

Hot Spot: Rosa quarzo il colore dell'anno 2016 per Pantone

Hello design lovers! Mad about Design today is pleased to reveal the color that Pantone has elected as tonality of the year 2016: Rose Quartz.
  So soon we should say goodbye to the color of the year 2015 of Marsala where you can find the post here, and welcome Rose Quartz.
Pantone is the highest state regulations in the field of color and each year choose the tonalities that influence furniture, clothes and make up.
The Rose Quartz is an elegant and delicate nuance which, as the name suggests, is inspired by the mineral.
A very refined color that conveys serenity and joy but unfortunately that has always been linked to the houses of our grandmothers or the bedrooms of girls.
What do you think of this color?
Below some furnishings from different designers proposed in Pink Quartz.

 

Buongiorno design lovers! Oggi Mad about Design ha il piacere di svelarvi il colore che Pantone ha eletto come tonalitá dell'anno 2016: Rosa Quarzo.

 Quindi tra poco saluteremo il colore dell'anno 2015 il Marsala di cui potete trovare il post qui, e benvenuto Rosa Quarzo.

Cooking with Design: Thompson by Peter Ibrugger

Hello design lovers!
The protagonist of the section Cooking with Design of this Friday is the original sugar bowl Thompson of the British designer Peter Ibrugger. This visionary designer has approached a simple object such as the sugar bowl with the bowler hat worn by men in early '900 and was born Thompson.
The sugar bowl Peter Ibrugger reminds fact the bowler Charlie Chaplin or the characters painted by the surrealist painter Magritte.
Thompson is in china and is available in white and black.
For a really unusual effect you can use it in conjunction with the Moustache Mug to keep warm our drinks. How about this gentleman on the table?

Buongiorno design lovers!

Il protagonista della rubrica Cooking with Design di questo venerdì è l'originale zuccheriera Thompson del designer inglese Peter Ibrugger. Questo designer visionario ha accostato un oggetto semplice come la zuccheriera al cappello a forma di bombetta portato dagli uomini ad inizio 900 ed è nata Thompson.

Cooking with Design: Salam teapot by Guy Degrenne

Hello Design lover! To remind you that it is Friday, as always our section Cooking with Design. The protagonist of today is Salam, the teapot by Guy Degrenne, the French designer that I discovered during my visit to Milan Expo at the France stand .  Created in 1957, Salam has a timeless design thanks to its simple and modern lines.

The collection Salam, whom this teapot in porcelain is part, includes several accessories for a complete tea service. Salam is perfect for winter afternoons or evenings during it'is ideal for warming up and relaxing because it can retain heat for a longer time than normal teapots thanks to its specific features.Available in three colors, white, red and black with matt finish and in various sizes from 2 to 8 cups.I think I am going to heat water ... nice weekend my dear design lovers!

 

Buongiorno Design lover! A ricordarvi che è venerdì, come sempre la nostra rubrica Cooking with Design. Il protagonista di oggi è la teiera Salam di Guy Degrenne, designer francese che ho scoperto durante la mia visita ad Expo Milano allo stand della Francia.

Design ispiration

Diagolinea, la libreria che sfida la forza di gravità

 

Hello my dear design lovers! The protagonist of today is DiagoLinea by Lago Design, a very special library suitable for design living rooms, offices, bedrooms and bathrooms. The main feature of DiagoLinea is its dynamic system of shelves that disrupts the rules of gravity and geometry.
The shelves of this unstructured library support each other, taking unexpected inclinations and underline more the "zero gravity" effect  can be inserted invisible bookends .
The unique wall mounting allows the individual elements of DiagoLinea to rotate on themselves in order to change the compositions during the time and having an always new library.

 

Buongiorno miei cari design lovers! Il protagonista di oggi è DiagoLinea di Iago Design, una libreria decisamente particolare adatta a soggiorni, uffici, camere da letto e bagni di design. La principale caratteristica di DiagoLinea è il suo sistema dinamico di mensole che scardina le regole della gravitá e della geometria.

Cooking with Design: Timer Gufo by E-My

Hello designers lovers! The section Cooking with design this Friday has as protagonist the timer Owl designers What's That e-my, a trademark by Guzzini.
Cakes burned or overcooked spaghetti? Thanks to your assistant timer Owl And-my all your food will be cooked to perfection.
Timer Owl has a nice shape and is available in different color combinations
Don't you already fall in love with these two big nice eyes?

Buongiorno designer lovers! La rubrica Cooking with Design questo venerdi ha come protagonista il timer Gufo dei designer What's That per E-my, un marchio di Guzzini.

Torte bruciate o spaghetti scotti? Grazie al vostro assistente timer gufo di E-my tutti i vostri cibi saranno cucinate alla perfezione.

Design ispiration

Design ispiration

Cooking with Design: Moustache Mug by Peter Ibrugger

    

       

Hello design lovers! The column Cooking with Design today presents a really ironic and fun accessory for  lovers of more irreverent designt Moustache Mug by the British designer Peter Ibrugger.
These original porcelain mugs are individually hand-finished with the design of two different mustache, one in front and one on the back.

Can you guess the famous moustache couples?

The English actor Charlie Chaplin and the Turkish Mustafa, the Belgian detective Poirot and an ipotetic French waitress Maurice, the American investigator Thomas Magnum of Magnum P.I. and the Chinese imaginary character Fu-Manchu.

 Moustache mugs are sold all across the world in many important museums such as Peggy Guggenheim Collection in Venice, the Vitra Design Museum in Ruhr am Weil and the Museum of Contemporary Art in Chicago.

Don't you already love these nice moustaches?

Have a nice weekend!

 

Buongiorno design lovers! La rubrica Cooking with Design oggi vi presenta un accessorio davvero ironico e divertente per gli amanti del design più irriverente, Moustache Mug del designer inglese Peter Ibrugger.

Queste originali tazze in porcellana rifinite a mano sono personalizzate con il disegno di due baffi diversi, uno davanti e l'altro sul retro.