Meetings at the exhibition ... There are many, and they are short: everyone is in a hurry to have more time. We bring to your attention a blitzinterview with our friends.
Alessandro Calligaris (Calligaris): I note with great joy that the Milan exhibition confirms every year: it is the main one in the world of furniture. It does not compare with any other. The main trends are the compatibility of furniture in different styles, the active use of color. I think this is due to the fact that very young people have joined the process of creating a house, and the market immediately responded. In our new collection this influence is also noticeable.
Francesco Bidzotto (Bizzotto): I have the most pleasant impressions of the number and level of visitors who visited our booth during the exhibition. Our preparation efforts were rewarded with their positive feedback. In the color tendencies presented at the exhibition white and green prevail, elegantly combined with silver and gold. An alternative to color is light, capable of revealing natural shades, wood texture. Glazed coatings are widely used.
Vladimir Kutepov (salon "FLET-interiors"): In the new furniture collections pleased with the most comfortable in the world of sofas FLEXFORM, a prominent representative of which is the model Cestone by Antonio Citterio. Not far behind, and CASSINA with its new product Eloro from Rodolfo Dordoni. Presently focused on design delights, the outrageous EDRA showed this year the concept of “furniture for life”, presenting the Mille e una notte oriental collection ...
The president W.W.T.S. Silverio Marian: When starting to work, designers perfectly understand the needs and wishes of a modern customer. This is the interior of MOBILEFFEKey West kitchen is the result of a creative union of the factory SNAIDERO and designer Massimo Yosa Gini. This is a new and unusual concept of an elegant solid wood kitchen. The memorable stands of the company LAGO, today advocating its design philosophy for young people - active, dynamic, with bright and rich colors.
Elena Arkhipova ( "Archisty"): The theme of the classics and various eclectic styles is still in fashion. We liked the new collections of factories EGO 024 and GIUSTI PORTOS. In general, light colors set the tone for the entire furniture festival. FIAM ITALIA presented several new products, including a chic collection - curved glass furniture decorated with delicate gold ornaments. As for the kitchens, I really liked the new version of the model Barrique (designer Rodolfo Dordoni) from ERNESTOMEDA.
Grande Agency President Anthony Grande: Milan exhibition reaffirmed the leading position of Italian design. Foreign visitors were about 65%, and the number of exhibiting companies is so large that it was unrealistic to see everything. But the common thing in what he saw was still - the atmosphere of the search for new ideas and concepts. Attempts to work in other styles that were not typical for them before are a feature of the skill of Italian designers. High-profile and high-profile Noir collection from CATTELAN ITALIA. And the famous designer Stefano Giovannoni in collaboration with VENETA CUISINE created an impressive ergonomic model Dune-the future global bestseller.
Interior Designer Marina Putilovskaya: The exhibition clearly demonstrated three trends. The first is the color, joyful and bold lime. The second is a huge amount of carving, gilding, rhinestones and feathers in new collections. A sort of furniture "Moulin Rouge" in down and feathers; Moreover, much of this today is focused on the tastes of our compatriots. The third trend is particularly noticeable in the example of kitchens - expensive exotic types of veneer, a unique tree - rosewood, olive, wenge ...
Designer Karlo Rampacci: This year, the exhibition was pleased with the abundance of bright colors. I love green, orange, pink, I use them in my collections, and in general I think that joyful colors influence people's attitude to things. This is true for the interior, and for clothes, and for cars ... I love when there is a lot of color in the interior, but I must admit that sometimes, to “cheer” the interior, one piece of furniture of some bright shade is enough.
Alexey Belyavsky (Angelina salon): I have been going to Milan for an exhibition since 1994. This year there is no such splash as it was two years ago, when glamor came into fashion. But in any development, the crisis moment is the accumulation of positive energy, that is, sooner or later the recovery will begin. The pavilion that I would have mentioned is the kitchen. The pleasant tendency that Italians began to be engaged in internal furnish, quality of materials raises. Kitchens began to be created in an alliance of technological solutions and interior design that was clear to me. Kitchens are not exhibited every year, you expect them more, and even the sensations of waiting are different, there is always a hidden hope in them.
Architect Igor Dotsenko: Two dozen pavilions, each the size of the Palace of Sports, were unrealistic to walk around in five days, but everything I managed to see could not fail to please. There is a growing interest in furniture, the buyer today seeks to live in a beautiful, even luxurious house, where every thing is a masterpiece. The era of minimalism is leaving, more and more attention is paid to gilding, crystals and expensive wood. Such as, for example, the thousand-year oak used for the collection of the ERGOSUM factory.
Andrea Turri (Turri): In the trend of art deco, as well as light, light colors - beige, cream, white. Now the factories have more projects to order, so to speak; and in general, items of furniture of individual execution are more and more demanded. This is understandable: the customer needs furniture that fully meets all his wishes, even the most demanding. Italian furniture makers are happy to work with Russia, paying much attention to customers from your country.
Elena Shlenkina (Molteni&C, Besana, Arca, Meroni Francesco): The most attractive and interesting was the EuroCucine exhibition, which presented many new design solutions this year. Furniture production has become high-tech. Thus, the new collection of the DREAM factory impressed visitors with its technological solutions, such as electronic door opening and touch control of faucets. And for new products from the company CHEST There is no better definition than innovative.
Stefano Urbinati (Lam Lee): The taste is changing - the design is increasingly eclectic, decorative. Art Deco, for example, today does not have a clear course - both the modern interior and the classic one strive for it. People want to create the atmosphere of their home themselves, to create an interior close to themselves, unlike any other. More and more furniture appears not for the pompous hall, but for a well decorated, cozy room.
Designer Pierrot Figure: I will note the main trends. On the one hand - a comfortable, cozy classic, on the other - a bright, youthful design, on the third - art deco and eclecticism mixed in with art deco. There is a tendency to saturation, interior density, theatrical details. In my opinion, Italian manufacturers distinguished themselves by presenting
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