Location Officine fiorentini
Days 16, 17, 18, 19, 20, 21,
Address via savona, 35
Zone tortona

Meta – A Unique Collection of Objects and Furniture created by Leading Designers and Master Artisans – to debut in Zona Tortona for the Salone Del Mobile 2008


The European launch of a new company, Meta, at the Salone Del Mobile 2008 celebrates the culmination of three years of intensive preparation and a unique collaboration between five designers and a select team of master-craftsmen. The result is a collection of objects and furniture of unquestioned quality working with covetable and often rare materials.

Each Meta designer has been given access to an encyclopaedic range of materials, methods of making and knowledge of archetypal form. The designers have worked with expert artisans who have offered their skills and know-how to realise each designer’s extraordinary vision. Without this partnership, none of the Meta objects would have been possible.

Meta is the antithesis of machine-age production. As each Meta object is touched, opened and used, it reveals more of the story of its making, of its layers of details, of its attentive satisfaction of all the senses.

The designers launching pieces in Milan are:

• Asymptote: two objects that gather and contain
• Barber Osgerby: two objects that are singular and celebratory
• Tord Boontje: two objects that conceal and reveal
• Matali Crasset: two objects that illuminate and reflect
• Wales and Wales: an object for creation and contemplation

Meta is the genesis of Mallet of Bond Street, London, one of the world’s pre-eminent antique houses. The designers have greatly benefited from Mallett’s unparalleled knowledge of the craft and skills of 18th Century furniture and works of art in developing the designs.