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The great Italian architect Andrea Palladio (1508-1580) is said to have inspired our love of columns, and now he has also inspired a new collection of tables by Claesson Koivisto Rune for Artifort. Palladio is a minimalist collection of tables. Each is made up of cylindrical legs and a circular or rectangular tabletop, which the designers duly describe as a...

Designed by Mariví Calvo, Koi is a huge carp made of light and wood, a spectacular light structure, half-lamp, half-sculpture. The inspiration for this wonderful idea came from an interlacing wood system and the transparencies it produced when lit. The system, consisting in the overlaying of wooden slats as if they were fish scales, is called the “Koi Fabric”, and was...

The KE-ZU team have arrived in Milan and our resident (iPhone only) photographer has been busy snapping all the pre-Fair action.  

Wallpaper Editor-in-Chief and prolific designer in her own right, Suzanne Trocmé has been honoured with the 2012 Veuve Clicquot Business Woman Tribute Award.

RS Barcelona are all about fun. Their 2012 collection, debuting this week in Milan, is no exception - an explosion of practical, colourful designs for indoors and out.

Martí Guixé: infamously the anti-designer, well-known for liking to shake up the order of things: "he likes to turn things round" - in his latest commission by BD he continues to do so.

All eyes might well be set on Milan but for most attending the event there is the small matter of 1000's of kilometres in air travel to contend with before any of the fun can begin. In Hamburg, developments in airliner interiors are being discussed and awarded as we speak.

At last we have a sneak peek of Artifort's new pieces: Shark and Reflex. On show in Milan this week.

A second glance at some of the other exhibitors at the upcoming Salone Mobile 2011 in Milan in April.