Furniture, Design shopping in Milan
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Zanotta
Zanotta has worked with the best (Enzo Mari, Bruno Munari and Ettore Sottsass to name a few) but is most famous for bringing the body-hugging, structure-free sacco, or beanbag, to the world, bang on time for postbarricade debriefs. Also of the same vintage and still in production is the Quaderna table, launched by antidesign outfit Superstudio in 1970, and pointedly made in cheap, gridded laminate to express, ah, ‘political disillusionment’. In comparison, current-day experimentation can come across as a little try-hard.
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Edra
Masanori Umeda’s Gothic rose chair looks like it will eat you up whole if you dare to take your feet off the floor, and the Campana brother’s Leatherworks one seems as if salvaged from the Beyond Thunderdome props lot. During its 20-year history, Edra has never played safe and the Italian swagger and sauciness of its products can be an acquired taste, but one that promises a lot of fun.
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Cassina
In an excitable moment you could say sì and ship home Gió Ponti’s 1955 classic superleggera (superlight) chair. But even without booking container space, this showroom is a head rush for the design-conscious traveller. What a thrill to see, touch and plonk your bum on a Charles Rennie MacIntosh, Charlotte Perriand and Mario Bellini.
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Cappellini
Cappellini’s drama-filled main showroom is nestled away on the road to Como, but its Milan shop is no less an assault of what Italian design is all about: colour, expressive forms and luxury materials.
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