Salone del Mobile 2010

14-19 April, Milan

THIS IS A BOX

PAV. 7 STAND D15 - E18 / Porro Showroom, Via Durini 15

«Freedom would not be to choose between black and white, but to abjure such prescribed choices ».

Theodor Adorno

Generated by the movement of a square module in space to develop objects that vary in terms of their materials, colours and functional uses, the Modern system of units, worktops and shelves created by Piero Lissoni in 1997 returns to playing a key role in the Porro presentation at the Milan Salone del Mobile 2010.

Reworked across-the-board with reduced thicknesses, a new graphic look, different types of base, new finishes, more immediate opening solutions and configurations made-to-measure for contemporary living and working spaces, it will be the main protagonist of both the “This is a box” display at the fair and the “Still Life, Moving Life” installation at the showroom at Via Durini 15.

In the first case in a black and white vein as per the Piero Lissoni mood, in the second case playing on the contrast with the colours of yellow, magenta, cyan and black, Modern will be placed centre stage to show the endless possibilities for developing this open, flexible system, which offers the maximum freedom in creating the ideal combination of elements.

THIS IS A BOX

PAV. 7 STAND D15 - E18

Set up: Piero Lissoni. Projects: Piero Lissoni, Christophe Pillet, Front.

With the exception of few calibrated touches of black and grey, the Porro 2010 stand conceived by Piero Lissoni chooses white, the colour of abstraction and poetic identity, to cover its forms and create a fluid and uncontaminated living environment, which is neither intrusive nor noisy.

While the day and night systems have been improved, the product collections are extended with new proposals by Piero Lissoni, Christophe Pillet and Front: chairs, armchairs, bookcases, wardrobes, mirrors and small accessories, where invisible technologies are at the service of the maximum expressive possibilities, for a continually adapting nomadic home.

In 2010 the day system of Modern boxes designed by Piero Lissoni together with the Porro Research Centre is the object of major restyling, to update it again in the light of contemporary requirements.

With a touch of delicacy, without foregoing technical solidity, its square modular grid has a reduced thickness, 12 mm, in a work of calibrated subtraction that gives rise to an airy matrix as a starting point in order to also develop sizeable volumes.

New fronts reduced of 8mm on all sides compared to the serial-produced doors revolutionise its external appearance creating a very pleasant graphic interplay of profiles and edgings, giving the surface three-dimensionality and a new dynamism. An apparently aesthetic choice reveals to the careful eye an opening solution in the thickness, avoiding even more the presence of protruding handles for an elegant, impactful visual effect.

Always with lightness and movement as the watchwords, the Modern types of sideboard and closed unit are renewed by adding wheels or using a new base, a painted metal plate available in all the colours of the sample collection and in two heights, 15 and 26 cm.

Finally, Modern 2010 is also renewed from the perspective of materials. Alongside the ascetic purity of hemlock, the warm, seductive tones of mongoi, the dark, strong notes of "carbone" oak - the three natural woods with different characteristics and natural beauty that Porro uses to define its settings and modulate its tones - also added for this year is dyed black hemlock finish, which combines a chic sobriety with a surface rich in grain and natural to the touch.

To show its new characteristics, Modern is organised into eight compositions distributed around the stand, there to be discovered one at a time: structured solutions on the wall, rather than compact free-standing units, also suitable for the smallest homes, where careful organisation of the space is necessary down to the smallest detail.

Also among the new creations by Piero Lissoni for Porro is Neve, with its rigorous yet soft lines, which reinterprets the classic wooden chair in a contemporary vein. While the support structure is characterised by a format of distinct lines of various thicknesses, slightly inclined, giving it a pleasant aerodynamicity, the roundness of the spindle legs and the slim curvature of the back and suspended seat soften its figure, making it extremely intimate and pleasant. The use of black dyed ash accentuates its decoration and at the same time ensures its elegance, giving it a vintage 1950s appearance. Taking up forms and sensations that are part of the collective memory, available with and without arms, Neve is not an object designed to surprise, but to fit harmoniously into every context as though it had always been an indispensable part of it.

The Ex libris bookcase, delicate to the touch and the gaze, designed to put a rich collection of volumes in a real showcase with glass doors and an iron profile, also bears the signature of the same designer, who has been art director for Porro since 1987. The transparency of fronts, sides and shelves encounters the decisive notes of the “carbone” oak back, for a piece with a throwback design with its roots in memory, reinterpreting a furnishing classic with contemporary technologies; because elegance is ageless, evoking images and memories with a strong emotional value in those who possess it.

Completing Lissoni’s proposals is the new Modern Light bench, where a black C-shape only 12 mm thick reaches the width of 240 cm. In the space it appears like a stylised mark, a strong line that reflects the aesthetics of the designer reduced to the minimum terms, highlighting Porro’s capacity to handle materials by pushing them to the limits of their structural potential.

The 2010 catalogue is further enriched by pieces that have come about through the association with French designer Christophe Pillet for the supply of the bedrooms for the Hotel Sezz in Saint Tropez. To furnish 37 rooms, 30 junior suites and two villas overlooking the park that surrounds this new resort in a minimalist style, the designer has in fact decided to insert just a few pieces with strong personalities and a timeless style, approaching Porro, with whom he has worked since 2005, for their construction.

Harmonious lines and relaxed posture distinguish the Jade lounge armchair: presented by Porro in black leather but designed for the hotel in turquoise - the colour of travel and the sea, the horizon and positiveness - it appears to be suspended on a black dyed ash structure with cross base, supported at four points. It is accompanied by the Shahan small table, its ideal completion, which cites it in the cross back wooden support structure, supporting a circular top. Rigour of project and formal harmony together for a highly versatile piece, which can live in the environments of the home and in offices and luxury hotels, demonstrating that the company is increasingly moving across various territories.

Finally, the association continues between Porro and the three Swedish designers Front, one of the most interesting female firms on the contemporary design panorama, who confirm themselves as interpreters of the brand by adding new creations to the three units of the Black and White Collection presented last year: a vertical cabinet, a square sideboard and a horizontal wall unit with coplanar doors covered by light, poetic signs, curtains that rustle as though brushed by a hand, flounce fabrics, regular squares areas, for a more intimate and feminine living environment.

Interplays of light, a touch of magic and the enchanted atmospheres of Swedish nights: these are the characteristics of Shadow Light lamps, launched in Italy last November.

Available in a floor variation on a slim lacquered white stem and a pendant version, ideal as a light above a dinner table or meeting table, they have a tidy, minimal design when turned off, in tune with the furnishing brand that has made elegant formal simplicity its business card. Thanks, however, to their particular “double skin” lampshade, an external white diffuser that conceals a chromed semi-dome inside studded with holes of various diameters, for a system of shadows and multiple reflections, once turned on they are covered in dots, projecting a fun and charming dotted motif throughout the room, a cascade of little bubbles to make the air more sparkling.

In this case too the use of the dots combined with the three-dimensional effects generated by the light creates a trompe l’œil that deceives the gaze and transports us into a fairytale world, where the forms of the furnishings that surround us are softened by delicate fabrics, decorations and threads in movement.

Two new accessories are making their debut as part of the Porro presentation for 2010; in these the functions of each individual object are doubled or tripled, for the sake of flexibility but also to surprise us a little; intriguing yet discreet pieces, which take up the project characteristics that are typical of the brand, namely formal elegance, geometrical forms, functionality, softening them with the feminine and visionary touch of Front.

The first of these, Mirror Table, is a rectangular mirror with frame that incorporates a wooden console table, a shelf designed for placing small objects on, which, when reflected in the mirror, creates the deceptive image of a round table. Ideal for the entrance to a house, in the living environment or even in the bedroom, thanks to its reflective effects, Mirror Table is like a door opening up to imaginary locations, combining poetry and functionality.

Balancing Boxes, on the other hand, is a small table consisting of a series of irregularly overlapping painted metal boxes, as though poised in space. Visually it appears like a box falling into a void, as immortalised by a photograph or in a Futurist painting. Inclinations, interpenetrations and a multifaceted image, giving different sensations if we look at it from different angles.

Alongside the latest innovations, the day and night systems and products in the collection are reworked in new versions and finishes.

System, the modular bookcase characterised by typical open shelves that make it a piece of furniture that is indispensable for the home and the working environment, this year is distinguished by new multi-material variations, where glass, natural woods and paint coverings coexist harmoniously, increasing its beauty.

Presented at the entrance to the stand in the all black version, an imposing two-faced composition of seven modules made of dyed black hemlock with two transparent glass sliding doors and matt black lacquered folding doors, System acts as a perspective screen that marks out visually, without separating, the day environments onto which it faces.

Changing decisively in the chromatic scale, System is also presented in all white, with matt lacquered structure in the new moon white colour, with the new internal crosspieces that allow a more rational use of each sub-module: a perfect order, to be visible internally thanks to the new transparent glass back panels and doors, with iron profile.

On the opposing side of the stand to the entrance, also confirmed again for 2010 is the zone devoted to Storage, the Porro system of wardrobes, open wardrobes and walk-in closets.

A composition that develops longitudinally combines the wardrobe with coplanar and hinged doors, at the centre, with two open side modules.

While the internal structure is proposed in the new ash hemlock finish with wall-mounted accessories, the metal parts are painted in a similar colour, for a greater visual uniformity. These interiors with neutral colours have new back-painted white glass doors, made for the first time without the presence of a perimeter frame, with the effect of a continuous resistant surface with a recessed handle.

Opposite, a “carbone” oak walk-in closet is proposed in the new self-bearing solution, in which the upright is a continuous closed profile that does not require fixing to the wall. A practical solution that facilitates the use of Storage in any environment.

Storage is in a final composition where the serial-produced “carbone” oak walk-in closet is concealed by the Pivot partitions by Decoma Design painted moon white, which, thanks to a mechanism entirely contained in the core of each panel, a unique patented technology, perform a light silent movement of complete rotation with the possibility of locking at every 90°, with an anchoring system that is not invasive, which does not damage flooring and ceilings.

At the centre of the stand, eight settings in succession reveal the versatility of the products in the collection, which are capable of ranging from the day and night environments of the home to executive and operational offices, to the communal areas and bedrooms of hotels, restaurants and luxury resorts that choose the warm, elegant and neat style of Porro design.

In the night setting, the first Modern composition on wheels is presented as a graphic cage consisting of 4x4 square open modules made of black hemlock, in the new slim reduced thickness grid. Perfect as a bookcase or object holder, it stands alongside the Offshore bed by Piero Lissoni. Simplicity and intimacy, modest dimensions and soft forms characterise this project, which has come about from the interaction of four elements in the space. The white aluminium support base of the mattress, standing on four legs, has a slim headboard in the new bright moon white finish. Completing the composition are a platform and a night table in the new black hemlock finish, dark notes that stand out in contrast with the surrounding white. The first slides under the bed, the second is an independent satellite: a compact cubic volume with a drawer, which is opened naturally through a central hole. Finally, conceived to contain clothes in an orderly way without foregoing a glamorous touch, the Boxes 6-drawer unit is proposed in the new mirror surface finish, which transforms it into a sculptural object that is resplendent with multiple reflections.

In the dining room, surrounded by the new Neve chairs, the Minimo table made of solid hemlock wood in the new dyed black variation adds a sophisticated touch to the simplicity, balance and symmetry typical of Japanese furnishings that distinguish this piece. The top has a single horizontal board, raised on inclined interlocking supports: a composition reduced to the minimum terms, with Zen aesthetics, where every element present performs a clear structural function.

The second Modern composition has been conceived to respond to the storage needs of a dining room: a long narrow sideboard with matt moon white structure and doors, divided into three bays, the side ones of which with folding doors, the central one with drawer, raised on the new painted metal base.

The 3 subsequent day environments are all built by combining Neve chairs with Fractal tables: 4 in the square version with L-shaped white painted aluminium legs and extra-clear glass top, 2 in the rectangular version with black painted aluminium structure and extra-clear glass top. Contrast of polished/opaque, minimum thickness and rounded edges, which soften the rigorous geometries giving visual continuity, these are the characteristic features of this sectional table, built in 2009. Conceived as a genuine system in which to choose your preferred combination, this product is highly versatile and capable of fitting perfectly in both the home and the office. Its essential structure with white or black painted or polished aluminium L-shaped reduced section legs can have tops of various materials, from transparent or back-painted white or black glass, to “carbone” oak wood or high-resistance lacquered, for a more elegant and pleasant modifiable, personalisable space.

On the walls three further Modern compositions are proposed. The third Modern composition is a monolithic matt moon white volume with new reduced fronts, in which the visual interplay of the edgings is complemented by surface articulation of the composition, which appears to be “sculpted” at the centre by a central band that acts as a drawer for cutlery, at the top with two conventional square doors to contain dishes and glasses, and at the bottom with two further large drawers for tablecloths and everything necessary to lay the table. Geometrical abstraction and extreme functionality in a practical ultra-compact volume, also suitable for smaller environments where a more rational organisation of space can make a difference.

The fourth Modern composition consists of two standard moon white Modern units, one with folding door, the other with double drawer, proposed with new painted metal base, on which stands a composition of 4x2 slim black hemlock square units in two rows, the upper one of which open, the lower one closed by backs. Finally, in the fifth Modern composition, on a moon white board is a wall-mounted black hemlock suspended bench that acts as a support for a composition of 4x3 black hemlock units, in a genuine combination of pure forms, in dialogue with the reduced thickness of the new Modern Light bench.

An artificial forest composed of 16 revolving Sidewalls, the Porro vertical bookcase consisting of overlapping modules of various heights plays on the most classic pairing, that between black and white: a totemic presence capable in its simplicity of personalising an environment, enriching it with new dynamisms.

The display continues with a second bedroom, where the bed is Lipla, designed by Jean Marie Massaud, one of the most characteristic and successful products in the Porro catalogue. Its strong profile, generated by a line that is broken to give rise to the headboard, is softened by the use of a new large texture woven fabric, which is added to a wide spectrum of possibilities of coverings, from fabrics to leathers, which cling perfectly to its pronounced forms. Lipla is accompanied by the sixth Modern composition, a moon white 6-drawer unit on the new metal plate base.

The meeting room gathers around the Synapsis table designed by Jean Marie Massaud in 2006, a spider’s web of white lacquered welded steel rods that delicately supports an ultra-thin matt white lacquered top, the comfortable and wrap-around Soft Chair by Christophe Pillet, present last year. Designed for the dining room or a more reassuring and informal meeting room, they are on display here with a covering in an ivory white coloured large-texture fabric, but they are available with a choice of all the fabrics in the sample collection. Freely arranged in the space, two Jade lounge armchairs by Christophe Pillet, presented in black together with the Shahan small table. On the walls, the seventh Modern composition is organised in a unit alternating randomly between moon white and black hemlock elements of various dimensions, while mounted opposite is the eighth Modern composition, which contrasts open modules in solid dyed black hemlock wood with boxes with structures and hinged doors made of matt white HDS, a new-generation material that is the result of internal research that has proven to be most suited to intensive and prolonged use over time, for those who do not wish to forego the aesthetic quality of Porro design even in their own working environment.

A final environment proposes, one beside the other, the new Ex libris bookcase by Piero Lissoni, while 4 Shadow Light lamps by Front in the floor version and 20 pendant lamps scenographically light the entire stand; it is conceived for those who do not forget emotions, in their own homes and in the workplace, combining them with the aesthetic performance and technology of Porro furnishings.

FUORI SALONE: STILL LIFE, MOVING LIFE

Domestic scenographies and instants of stolen life: variations in magenta, yellow, cyan and black.

Layout design: Piero Lissoni. Projects: Piero Lissoni, Christophe Pillet, Front.

Porro duriniquindici showroom, Via Durini 15 Milan. From 14 to 19 April, from 10am to 9pm.

Press Preview: 13 April from 10am to 8pm.

An all dark exhibition space from which there emerge, illuminated by neon lights, four settings in the colours of magenta, yellow, cyan and black.

The “Still Life, Moving Life” installation captures the gaze with its garish colours; it came about as a result of an insight by Piero Lissoni, the creative mind behind both presentations of the brand at the 2010 Salone del Mobile, and is staged at the Porro duriniquindici showroom with the contribution of Elisa Ossino.

Available at the fair in the purity of white, the latest innovations and most famous pieces in the collection abandon their more usual guises here, natural materials and neutral colours, to take on the stronger, bolder shades of the spectrum, in technicolor, and to take their places as the characters in a play in lively, unusual sets.

The effect is one of small monochrome sets, compositions of objects that show all Porro’s love of and attention to detail, recreating slices of everyday life one beside the other, home interiors with slow living and quality design as the watchwords.

Magenta

A trapezoid box covered with soft carpeting hosts the bedroom of a contemporary dandy.

The Offshore bed, with its modest dimensions and soft forms, is painted magenta and covered in sheets of the same colour, and accompanied by the new Neve chair, also designed by Piero Lissoni.

Mounted on the walls are two Modern open 40x40 cubes, while the whole scene is reflected in the new Mirror Table by Front, with console table in the same shade.

A candle, an alarm clock, books, spectacles, a bottle of syrup, a blister of pills, a duralex glass, a clothes-stand, a shirt, a tie and a pot complete the setting, all coloured in this trendiest, most audacious shade, for a bedroom that is fully equipped to handle the minor stresses of everyday life, in the most frantic of Italian cities.

Black

A square with an inclined side, characterised on the floor by an industrial parquet of small parallel panels, proposes a studio setting with an “all black look”.

The H Chair by Christophe Pillet with black lacquered structure and black leather seat stands beside the Fractal table by Piero Lissoni in the 160cm square version with L-shaped aluminium legs and glass top, also painted dark. All around, a Modern open 40x40cm black cube, a Modern Material House blackboard effect lacquered base and square sideboard from the Black and White Collection by Front proposed in the negative, with dark surfaces decorated by a pale design.

Piles of books, file-holders and sample books, a penholder, 100 Bic pens, an old lamp, a pencil sharpener with crank, a paperweight, set-squares, a stapler, a staple remover, a tray with paperclips, erasers and rubber bands, all entirely painted black, for the elegant office of a dark minimalist, without any concessions as regards colour.

Yellow

A yellow box with a conical shape, which, accentuating the perspective, narrows the back wall, to highlight a bright shiny living area capable of immediately lifting the mood.

There it is on a yellow-painted herringbone parquet, the Nouvelle Vague thermoplastic chaise longue by Christophe Pillet, an open S-shape that imposes itself in the space due to its great expressive power, while from the walls emerge three Modern open 40x40cm cubes, all monochrome.

A vase, a collection of figurines, a table lamp, two antique small tables, a telephone, a framed picture, an ashtray with cigarette butts, a floor lamp, yellow books, a newspaper provide the finishing touches for the scene: all painted in the most intense, energetic and striking colour in nature.

Cyan

Finally a rectangular cyan volume, personalised on the floor by a regular grid of 20x20cm tiles, contains an informal dining environment conceived for a dreamer.

In the foreground, the Ferro 240x85cm table made of soldered curved sheet metal is surrounded by a Spindle chair made of harmonious chromed steel with a greatly reduced section, with seat and back made of curved plywood, the new Neve ash wood chair, and the Como small armchair with wooden structure and fabric seat, all from a design by Piero Lissoni and painted turquoise. Mounted on the walls are two Modern open square units and a horizontal sideboard, standing on which are a bottle, a pitcher, glasses, a fruit bowl, a woven cable and a bulb-holder, a floor lamp, cups large and small, saucers and dishes and a stool, all in the freshest, most sparkling colour, the colour of the sea and the sky.

4 micro-architectures, distributed over the two storeys of the showroom to create a story, bring out the chameleonic properties of Porro, revealing that not only black and white, but also pure colour, fully belong to its armoury.

“Still Life, Moving Life” is an installation that plays with total homogeneity and bewildering contrasts, capable of arousing sensations, memories, impressions and changes of taste and mood in the observer: 4 possibilities of life, in which everyone can freely choose the combination that most represents their own temperament, their own ideal home and their own lifestyle.

iSaloni 2010

Ufficio Fabbrica Creativa - “The Italian Way”

Fiera Milano, Rho, Stella Polare Congress Centre, Sala Franci

But it doesn’t end here...

The Spindle chair by Piero Lissoni with chromed structure and black leather seat and H.Chair by Christophe Pillet with chromed structure and white leather seat have been chosen for the layout design of the “Ufficio Fabbrica Creativa. The Italian Way!” forum, which will take place on Friday 16 April, from 12 noon to 2pm, at Fiera Milano, Rho, Congress Centre, Sala Franci: over 300 office chairs arranged around five long tables to represent all the creativity of Italian furniture companies.

The event will have an innovative format, proposing a new vision: a new way of conceiving, planning and fitting and furnishing the work spaces that, in line with the image of products made in Italy, combine comfort and productivity, design and functionality.

That is why Porro had to be there, with its pieces aimed at those who conceive the working environment with the same intimacy with which they experience their own home, establishing a close bond with every object selected to furnish, enhance and personalise spaces.

A need increasingly felt in both larger and smaller working environments, judging by the numerous office supplies recently gained by the brand: from the use of complete compositions of the Homework collection in the offices of Hartl Powercrusher in St. Valentin, Austria, specialising in the production of earth moving machinery, to the spaces of Avelar Energy in Milan, a leading company in the sector of the distribution of energy sources, arriving at the furnishing of an executive office inside the Tre Torri, the business complex that has renewed the skyline of the city of Brescia.

Le Narghilé, Nouvel objet de désir

Porro takes also part to the curious “Le Narghilé, Nouvel objet de désir” exhibition of Airdiem, the Paris-based company created by Eric and Emmanuelle Gormand out of their desire to re-invent the smoking room as a special place for sensual pleasure and conviviality.

Inside Superstudiopiù, via Tortona 54, 2 Nuvola small tables in spring green colour, one Endless Plastic bookcase in natural plastic and 3 Sidewall vertical bookcases in spring green, powder blue and storm blue, host a funny collection conceived by international designers to transform Narghilé into a cosmopolitan and universal object. 

Elle Decor Caffè 2010

Superstudio Più at Via Tortona 27, Milan

Finally, as every year Porro has been involved in the creation of Elle Decor Caffè, a lounge space inside Superstudiopiù conceived by Elle Decor Italia magazine, which this year celebrates its first 20 years of existence.

A safe refuge for a moment’s peace on the most chaotic days of the year, it can count on ten Spindle chairs, those contemporary icons by Piero Lissoni.

Minimal in style without foregoing comfort, they are presented in the version with harmonious steel structure with a greatly reduced section and white lacquered seat and back, with an effect of extreme visual lightness.

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SYSTEMS:

MODERN design Piero Lissoni + Porro Research Centre

Modern is inspired by a pure geometric form: the square. And by a simple idea: its movement in space. A module that repeats itself, developing objects that differ in materials, colours and functional destinations. Objects that differ - containers, tops, shelves - but have harmonic proportions and formal coherence.

In 2010 the day system Modern is the object of major restyling, to update it again in the light of contemporary requirements.

With a touch of delicacy, without foregoing technical solidity, its square modular grid has a reduced thickness, 12 mm, in a work of calibrated subtraction that gives rise to an airy matrix as a starting point in order to also develop sizeable volumes.

New fronts reduced of 8mm on all sides compared to the serial-produced doors revolutionise its external appearance creating a very pleasant graphic interplay of profiles and edgings, giving the surface three-dimensionality and a new dynamism. An apparently aesthetic choice reveals to the careful eye an opening solution in the thickness, for an elegant, impactful visual effect.

Always with lightness and movement as the watchwords, the Modern types of sideboard and closed unit are renewed by adding wheels or using a new base, a painted metal plate available in all the colours of the sample collection and in two heights, 15 and 26 cm.

Finally, Modern 2010 is also renewed from the perspective of materials. Alongside the ascetic purity of hemlock, the warm, seductive tones of mongoi, the dark, strong notes of "carbone" oak, also added for this year is dyed black hemlock finish, which combines a chic sobriety with a surface rich in grain and natural to the touch.

1^st composition: bookcase/object holder on wheels. Dimensions. L. 160 x H. 171 x D. 43 cm.

2^nd composition: sideboard on painted metal base. Dimensions. L. 360 x H. 66 x D. 58 cm.

3 ^rd composition: monolithic volume with new reduced fronts. Dimensions. L. 120 x H. 123 x D. 43 cm.

4 ^th composition: containers on painted metal base and 4 x 2 modules dyed black hemlock grid. Dimensions. L. 320 x H. 135 x D. 34/58 cm.

5^th composition: board with suspended bench and 4 x 3 modules dyed black hemlock grid. Dimensions. L. 360 x H. 163 x D. 34/60/80 cm.

6^th composition: chest of drawers on painted metal base. Dimensions. L. 160 x H. 75 x D. 58 cm.

7^th composition: unit alternating lacquered and dyed black hemlock modules on painted metal base. Dimensions. L. 240 x H. 115 x D. 43 cm.

8^th composition: hanging composition alternating open modules in solid dyed black hemlock wood with boxes with structures and hinged doors in HDS. Dimensions. L. 520 x H. 220 x D. 34 cm.

STORAGE design Piero Lissoni + Porro Research Centre

A complete program designed under the banner of rationality and functionality, Storage is a modular system that contains and shows the stored objects, transforming itself  from wardrobe to walk-in closet. It can obliterate its presence in small rooms and, at the same time, it is ideal for defining large spaces, creating some original living scenarios. Storage overcomes every dimensional barrier, satisfying - with its newly wrought concept - all organisational and stylistic requirements.

For 2010, the internal structure is proposed in the new ash hemlock finish with wall-mounted accessories, while the metal parts are painted in a similar colour, for a greater visual uniformity. These interiors with neutral colours have new back-painted white glass doors, made for the first time without the presence of a perimeter frame, with the effect of a continuous resistant surface with a recessed handle.

The walk-in closet is proposed together with Pivot partitions by Decoma Design painted moon white or in the new self-bearing solution, in which the upright is a continuous closed profile that does not require fixing to the wall. A practical solution that facilitates the use of Storage in any environment.

SYSTEM design Piero Lissoni + Porro Research Centre

Versatile, intelligent, flexible: System enters the home to meet the needs, the personalities, inclinations and lifestyles of those who live there. With the wide variety and superior quality of its finishes, it’s the ideal solution to plan custom furnishing projects, since it can be intelligently adapted to create highly diverse settings: classic, sophisticated, informal, or elegantly traditional. Multifunctional and eclectic due to the many functions it provides, System can be used as a bookcase, a module for electronic media, a study area, or even as an element to subdivide rooms and create equipped walls. Inspired by the precision and flexible project capabilities of fine contemporary design, System has a strong and balanced personality that can define room areas in a definitive way while improving their efficiency and appearance.

System 2010 is distinguished by new multi-material variations, where glass, natural woods and paint coverings coexist harmoniously, increasing its beauty.

Presented in the all black version, an imposing two-faced composition in dyed black hemlock with 2 transparent glass sliding doors and matt black lacquered folding doors, System acts as a perspective screen that marks out visually, without separating, the day environments onto which it faces. Changing decisively in the chromatic scale, System is also presented in all white, with matt lacquered structure in the new moon white colour, with the new internal crosspieces that allow a more rational use of each sub-module: a perfect order, to be visible internally thanks to the new transparent glass back panels and doors, with iron profile.

1^st composition: two-faced dyed black hemlock. Dimensions. L. 947,2 x H. 460 x D. 34,6 cm.

2^nd composition: moon white lacquer. Dimensions. L. 416,3 x H. 267 x D. 34,6 cm.

TABLES:

FRACTAL design Piero Lissoni

Fractal is a system of tables in several dimensions and finishes; it is a product highly versatile and capable of fitting perfectly home and office. Its essential structure with L-shaped reduced section legs black and white lacquered or natural glossy aluminium, can match tops of various materials, from transparent, etched or back-painted glass to lacquer or “carbone” oak wood, up to Corian®.

For the working use, Fractal is completed by office equipment such as hanging drawer units, computer holder, vertical courtesy panel, co­lumn for cable passage inside the section of the leg and top access.

Dimensions. Available in 42 dimensions.

Finishings. The table structure is available in black or white varnished aluminium or glossy aluminium; top in transparent glass, extrabright glass, sandblasted extrabright glass, white or black back-painted glass, white or black matt lacquer, Corian®, “carbone” oak, Carrara marble.

MINIMO design Piero Lissoni

Simplicity, equilibrium and symmetry, the basic principles of a typically Zen aesthetics, can be found in the Minimo table in hemlock or dyed black hemlock solid wood. The table top is a single horizontal beam, raised on support bases which are inclined and jointed. A project reduced to minimum terms where every element exerts a clear structural function. Generated by the free transformation, through an interplay of variations of scale and proportions, of the essential Groove bench, with which it can be perfectly combined, the imposing Minimo table is suitable for a large dining room and warmer, more inviting meeting rooms.

Dimensions. L. 260 x H. 74 x D. 95 cm; L. 300 x H. 74 x D. 100 cm; L. 360 x H. 74 x D. 100 cm.

Finishings. Top and legs in hemlock or black-painted hemlock solid wood.

SYNAPSIS design Jean Marie Massaud

The Synapsis table looks like a big oval with cut ends. The innovation of this item is represented by the bearing element: a plated steel wire grille that has been emptied and transformed in a web of welded pipes. The base looks very light when coupled with the light top which is available in Pral ®, in all the glossy lacquered shades of the sample collection in mongoi or in “carbone” oak. Synapsis is available in different dimensions, also in the new variation with square base of the chromium-plated or white-painted steel rod structure.