Category: Architects

Salone del Mobiles Milano

Posted on by Mandy Tori

Having  a life long passion for furniture, its been a dream of mine to attend Salone del Mobiles Milano (The Milan Furniture fair)

A good (furniture manufacturing) friend of mine gave me some very good advice, wear comfortable shoes, go fast the first day and choose who you want to go back to. Don’t party too hard on the 1st night and get there early while everyone is sleeping in!

Two weeks ago I had the privilege of spending four days in Milan getting amongst all the fabulous furniture designers, makers and their new product. Exhibitions, design talks and nightly showroom events were held all around the city. It’s so full on, too much to see and full of inspiration, impossible to see it all!

A few of my favourites; Sawaya & Moroni, Edra, Knoll, Moroso, Exporium, mobiles 114, Andrea World, Vitra, Enea, Kartell and many fantastic smaller companies from around Europe. Design students producing great work, trying to get their product noticed.  Lots of velvet, colour, interesting ottomans, furniture that changes from a sofa, to a bed hidden in the wall, coffee tables that double as stand up desks.  The big names like Kartell and Edra producing amazing  plastic product moulded in all sorts of shapes. Sophisticated pieces from Fendi casa, Poltrana Frau and Zanotta.

The city of Milan was alive with design, over 400 events in the Fuorisalone Brera district with furniture showrooms and fashion houses opening their doors to showcase exhibitions and new products.  It was truly inspirational, if you’ve ever thought about going I recommend to go next year. Enjoy

The Architect Says

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For me everyday is a new thing.

I approach each project with a new insecurity, almost like the first project I ever did and I get the sweats, I go in and start working, I’m not sure where I’m going- if I knew where I was going I wouldn’t do it.

Frank Gerhy 1929

 

 

Guggenheim Museum Bilbao Spain 1997

I had the pleasure of visiting my 1st Frank Gerhry building in 2011″,. It was raining heavily as my husband and I drove into Bilbao the Guggenheim building was our landmark.

 

Who would think this was a Health project?

Lou Ruvo Center for Brain Health Las Vegas medical centre Nevada 2010

10 things about Frank Gerhy

  1. Born Frank Owen Goldberg; February 28, 1929 (He changed his name in 1956 to Gerhry on his 1st wives Anita Snyders suggestion in part because of the anti-semitism he had experienced)
  2. A creative child, he was encouraged by his grandmother, Mrs. Caplan, with whom he would build little cities and imaginary houses out of scraps from her husband’s hardware store.
  3. Having grown up in Canada, Gehry is a huge fan of ice hockey, he has dual Canadian american citizenship
  4. Gehry moved to California in 1947, got a job driving a delivery truck, and studied at Los Angeles City College
  5. Gerhry structures are Deconstructive, they do not reflect a belief that form follows function Gehry’s style at times seems unfinished or even crude, but his work is consistent with the California “funk” art movement in the 1960s and early 1970s
  6. Gehry has gained a reputation for taking the budgets of his clients seriously, in an industry where complex and innovative designs like Gehry’s typically go over budget.
  7. He is the 1989 Canadian-American Pritzker Prize-winning architect’
  8. Gehry is a Distinguished Professor of Architecture at Columbia University and teaches advanced design studios at the Yale School of Architecture.
  9. Vanity Fair labelled him “the most important architect of our age” Gehry is considered a modern architectural icon and celebrity, a major “Starchitect”.
  10. He currently lives in Santa Monica, California, and continues to practice out of Los Angeles.