During Milan Design Week, the Yamakawa brand showed its collection in the luxurious interiors of the baroque Litta Palace, the famous palace and the oldest theater in Milan, whose history began in the middle of the 17th century.

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The Japanese company is famous for producing ultramodern forms of its furniture from quite traditional material - rattan. Braided elements are created by hand, according to old technology. In the new collection - the work of a young Indonesian designer Alvin Titrovirjo. The Linger bench, with its fluid asymmetric structure, resembles the parametric masterpieces of Zaha Hadid. And Petal's chair looks like a giant flower due to a high figured back: curved rattan whips fasten thin strips of skin.

The history of the Yamakawa brand began with a small workshop in Tokyo in 1952, and today it is a major international brand that works with the world's best rattan grown in the forests of Indonesia.

The 2017 Yamakawa catalog, created under the leadership of art director Paola Bellani, all the best models of the company. Photographer Francesca Ferrari captured objects in the streets of Tokyo and among the lush greenery of the island of Bali. Stressing that a fashionable basket can be found both in the city and at the resort, in the spirit of the indoor / outdoor trend, when the border between the house and the garden is almost erased.