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Better Nouveau. Digital materiality. A new design front is ahead of us: a field where designers and software meet, where thanks to a linguistic code many different and new ways of making concrete design are possible.
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Torino Lab. Typical Industrial Products. Three different subjects are needed in order to make design objects. Torino Lab finds them, puts them together, creates synergies and develops design projects, supporting their execution.
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Resign. Life projects. Design does not live on design only. For Resign this paradox means, other than working on a sustainable design, searching for an intimate relation between people.
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LACASADIPINOCCHIO Associazione Culturale. Expressing freedom. The things that can be done by 12 women detainees to whom is given the opportunity to express a part of their soul using cotton yarn are simply beautiful.
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Luisa Maiullari. The tools of the trade. Maybe it’s just a sheer coincidence or an elective kinship: there’s nothing more unpredictable than falling in love with a given material. Graduated in Architecture, Luisa Maiullari discovers metal thanks to her personal interest in materials.
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BASILE ARTECO Edizioni Design. Synergies creator. Working as a Design publisher is not so different from working as a book publisher. Sais Vincenzo Basile, the founder of one among the few “design publishing houses” in Italy.
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Bonapace Bottazzi Studio. Made of etics. When Denise Bonapace and Peter Bottazzi decided to Leave Milan to go to Liguria, something had changed. ” We wanted to give back to people living in town the opportunity to learn how to reuse old but good items” tells us Denise.
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HAND CRAFT DESIGN. Emotional microcosms. When nature makes its way through the pits and cracks of walls and floors, life takes root. With Hand Craft Design, small landscapes, that have been observed in old abandoned rural house, are transformed into interior design pieces.
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DORODESIGN. Iconic aluminum. Aluminum as a noble and natural material, as a niche resource, but also as a middle course between heaviness and lightness . Many motivations have pushed DORODESIGN to privilege aluminum for its first collection.
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MAGMAJewels. Femininity. Modeled by the wind that crosses the plaines of Salento, Pamela Maglie and Francesca Mozzatta’s design comes from a centuries-old local tradition and takes shapes among the numerous difficulties of being two small entrepreneurs in a land of borders.
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Positive. It’s positive design. “If I don’t have fun, I don’t have fun “ Luca Pegolo’s philosophy, designer of Studio D+, is convincing and tends to almost every aspects of his creativity. During Operae 2011 we will see him at work with Positive, his new brand dedicated to self-made production.
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Bologna Design. Concrete dialogues.Enrico Tonelli doesn’t like conflicts, opposites that never come into contact, impossible dialectic. His aim is to introduce wood and steel to innovative materials, trying new original design keys.
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IVDESIGN:IT: A talented couple Ivano Vianello and Francesca Braga are partners in work and life, according to a very common pattern abroad. These two designers are experts in breaking the mould and will prove it during Operae 2011. Continua a leggere
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Koko lab. Mixing art design and music. Pop iconography, musical soul, artistic inspiration and modernist design: these are the elements that characterize Koko Lab’s armchair collection, a unique example of contemporary remix.
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Minimum [Book]. Daily utopias. Natural talent, predisposition, intuition. Giuseppe Amato has added something magic to his mastery in working with wood.
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XYZfactory: autochtonous energy. Growing up in Puglia and trying not to get influenced by the colors and the shades of the primary materials offered by nature is not easy. XYZ factory studio is a living example in Operae 2011.
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Mario Pandiani: Design rewind. Seeing the finished object and imagining it under a different form: Mario Pandiani loves to invert the design course, abruptly turning around in order to destabilize the obvious and the eye of the beholder.
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Yet|Matilde. Exploring fabrics Transforming fabrics into tridimensional objects: this is Yet|Matilde studio’s challenge, which results will be shown at Operae 2011.
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Andrea Bella Concept. Monomaterial direction. For Andrea Bella there is just one challenge: create, with one only gesture, an object, complete with its own function. A gesture. An object. A function. As the painter does when, with just one stroke, he defines the silhouette of the figure on his canvas, giving life to it.
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Artdesignfactory. The familiar waste. Giuseppe Colucci has always lived his life divided between the lucid curves of steel used in his family business on one side, and the captivating veins of the wood used as an architect on the other. Two worlds apparently apart that in his collection of Artdesignfactory have come together. Continua a leggere
