MILAN FAIR

Sancal present the FLASH collection at Salone Mobile this year with Karim Rashid, Luis Eslava Studio and others producing some of the most playful and comfortable designs we've seen in years!

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.

In recent years, the line between art and design has become more and more blurred. Today, it is not the object itself, but rather its economic functionality that can determines its categorization. Beta Bank are a German outfit examining how this impacts on innovation.

Meet Jarrod, the Australian born - Singapore based designer turning heads from Los Angeles to Milan with his own unique style.

Salone Mobile 2011 kicks off in Milan in April and the buzz is already evident from all the way over here in Sydney. We know many of you are going to be on the ground in Italy in coming weeks so we wanted to share some of the upcoming, not to be missed launches and installations.

"This is to show people that our design aesthetic goes beyond furniture, that as Asian we can extend even to designing transportation..."

(Franco Forci / For The Times) This year Nanimarquina departed from boundary-pushing rugs that simulate thick fields of spring flowers or thousands of red rose petals scattered on the floor. Instead of such highly tactile shapes, the new Digit collection by emerging designer Cristian Zuzunaga took the form of flat rugs in deeply saturated hues. The color blocks, Nanimarquina...

(Franco Forci / For The Times) Rarely has sheet metal possessed so much levity. Working for the Italian company Emu, the Israeli-born, Paris-based designer Arik Levy created outdoor chairs called Pattern, whose visual lightness belied their heft. The honeycomb cuts in the metal heightened the airy effect, as did the color palette, which included cotton candy blue, deep teal...

Visit BD BARCELONA at this years Milan Fair.  Launching the newest pieces by Jaime Hayon for his 'Showtime' collection as well as Ross Lovegrove's BD LOVE 2.0 and Konstantin Grcic's stunning "B Chair"! Not to be missed.