But, it’s important to say that still now the new idea is present. Furthermore, the young designer are more  and more creative.

As for chairs, armchairs and sofas, this year we chose the interesting models that characteristics are style, innovation and functionality.

The cities’ daily routine – which is every day more chaotic and difficult for the millions of people experiencing it – leads to a question: how can the urban environment surrounding us be made more comfortable, beautiful, and functional?

It means getting to know each other and the city, your neighbours, and the city’s squares, lanes, and hidden corners. It means experiencing the city, and not just cross it – it means imagining how it could be and trying to re-design it awarely.

Hence the second question: how can design change and improve the citizen’s relationship with public spaces? A series of solutions offer simple, feasible, and concrete alternatives that come from human-based design in the public space: functionality, services, the focus on the needs of a constantly changing fluid society, such as that in which we live. Think Public: that’s the only way to survive in the contemporary society. It means sharing thoughts and ideas, information and opinions, being open, and developing projects and collaborations.

For more info about events day by day visit the official web site www.publicdesignfestival.org

The best way to survive the frenzy is to prepare beforehand. The Milan icon design trail is back by popular demand and will offer much-needed solace. The build-up this year is more jittery than usual but there will still be brisk trade on the 220,000sq m fair ground, and the Zona Tortona promises plenty of activity as per usual.

This year the sumptuous Villa Reale by the Giardini Pubblici will become a British hub with the British Design Embassy setting up home here, in a space curated by Paul Smith. Next door the multi screen film installation Love & Money – 50 years of creative Britain is showing.
various venues, Milan
www.iconeye.com/designtrail

All projects, services, and installations presented at the Festival will not be simply “on display” – they will directly involve the visitors of the Salone and all the citizens of Milan.

Right when everyone’s attention is focussed on private spaces, Public Design Festival presents ideas and projects on public spaces, involving urban designers from all over the world, who will work on the designing of future-city public areas.

Public Design Festival Previews
Duepercinque – 2×5: A project to re-discover urban parking areas A parking place measures exactly 2x5m. This space, where people usually park cars, will be employed as an exhibition area to present the 10 winning projects of the Internationa duepercinque Competition, as well as some installations by esterni and by important designers

Special Guests: Special projects hosted at Public Design Festival
For the first time ever, a priceless work of research and selection will bring to Milan the most interesting and innovative projects dedicated to public spaces; collectives or single designers, architects, graphic designers, artists, and illustrators will be invited to re-think the city and its shared spaces, presenting new points of view, new ways to experience and go through these places, and trying to imagine a different city. Among our guests: Kacey Wong from Hong Kong, who took part in the last Venice Architecture Biennale; Santi Cirugeda from Spain, who will present his recetas urbanas project; and Winfred Baumann from Germany.

Defining Public Space: International Convention on public space philosophy
Exploring public spaces as both physical and virtual places, as places where interaction develops and human relationships evolve. This theme will be discussed during an international convention by philosophers, architects, writers, and urban thinkers.

Public Hotel
An alternative hospitality service

Bed Sharing “I’m looking for 2sqm” … “I offer 2sqm” … this is the chore of the alternative hospitality system created by esterni to put in touch people looking for a place to stay in Milan with people offering one. To submit a request and read the terms and conditions visit the website www.bedsharing.org, where you will also find a catalogue of hospitable places.

The Designers’ House
This year esterni, in collaboration with Milan’s Politecnico, will present for the 5th time the Designers’ House. A hostel-house offering a new idea of creative hospitality at a low price. The Designers’ House will also host workshops, meetings, exhibitions, and social experiments – to consider the different and manifold living systems possible.

Almost elusive, subtle, whispered. The white and beige shade becoming fil rouge of the outfit like a delicate breath. The message is loud and clear, very clear indeed: better focus on its many facets white and light beige. Nuance romantic, naive, fresh, innocent, but also sexy, glam, shameless, aggressive.

Even ‘bad’ at times. Always ready to spread an aura of light and not without sin on every inch of skin.

Colors that could even groped the array of beautiful dark lady in crisis. The white, a symbol of purity and innovation, electricity and technology, also works as a neutralizer of stress and anxiety, helping to detoxify the hectic and chaotic life of the metropolis. Nothing better then, that dress like flakes of snow in the metropolitan cold days.

There are many designers who have proposed is that the white to beige coats, evening dresses, sweaters over size, full of men’s jackets and trousers. From the delicacy of a beige dress Chanel more than grintoso signed Versace. Vere queens snow women Roberto Cavalli and Dolce&Gabbana who have clothes from ‘a thousand and one nights’ in total white. Inserts for the mini fur coat coupled with a skirt to egg, all white, signed Fendi.

An ode to white with cappottino, skirt, mesh and snow boots for the girl Blugirl, true maschiacce with a waistcoat, jacket and trousers for Les Copains and Elena Miro. Beige by the strong personality down John Richmond.

The White Laura Biagiotti can not totally lacking in the winter wardrobe of a true fashion – victim. Vaporous, extra, the warm white sweater Byblos. Lights at night with white access dell’Abate evening and eco fur Roccobarocco signed.

Z. Island by Zaha Hadid and DuPont Corian

Created for Corian-sponsored events and exhibitions around the world, the lots include the 40 objects featured in “Corian 40 Years – 40 Designers,” an international traveling exhibition highlighting inventions by the likes of Harry Allen, Jeffrey Bernett and India Mahdavi.

Also included are 14 architectural forms by Sottsass Associati that previously appeared at the 2000 “Exercises in Another Material” exhibit at the Museum of Contemporary Art in Chicago. Zaha Hadid is represented by a desk and bench that was featured in the 2006 “Z. Island by DuPont Corian” exhibit in Milan.

Installations include Ron Arad’s Upperworld Hotel, Battersea Power Station, from the 2004 edition of Biennale di Architettura di Venezia, and The Vitamin Bar by James Irvine, created for the 2003 “De-Lighted by Corian” exhibition in Milan.

source: www.interiordesign.net

The new Emporio Armani (PRODUCT) RED Julia Roberts T-shirt feature the symbolic “tree of life.” Within the tree’s foliage are the words “Revolution- Evolution-Devolution”, as acronym for RED. 

The great success again, for the actress who last season designed the bohemian-style bracelet for Emporio Armani, which baceme a best seller.

“Julia has halped to create beautiful and unique designs for both women and man , which will be a visible reminder of the part that we can all play in fighthing AIDS in Africa”- has said italian stylist Giorgio Armani , commenting on their wonderfull collaboration.

The inside of the T-shirt features her personalised signature:” Julia for Emporio Armani (PRODUCT) RED“. The Tee is available in grey, red, white and black colours.

(RED)TM is a global initiative whose primary objective is to engage the private sector in the fight against AIDS in Africa by channelling funds from the sale of (PRODUCT) RED products directly to The Global Fund for AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria.

The vast knowledge of chocolate combined with modern. Processing techniques enables Pastry Gertosio. To achieve real chocolate works. Also to be produced in small quantities.

The possibilities are endless and range from tablets Chocolate, to more complex and extensive, Customized packages. All solutions are ideal for those who want to achieve something unique, like special shape for Christmas as any event to make.

Been born in 2004 to the Victoria & Albert Museum of London, the review exposes outfit selects to you from the private collection of the V&. At and from the personal archives of the English designer directly. That Italian represents the most recent stage than a tour that in last the four years she has touched Canberra, Shanghais, Taipei, Tokyo, Düsseldorf, Bangkok and San Francisco.

From the geometric destructions of the first collections to the challenges of years ’90, the stylish paradigm of Vivienne Westwood reflects one systematic exploration of the history of the custom. This retrospective gives back to the spectator, in all the their original forms, the wealth of ideas that has animated in the years the creations of the designer. And it bewitches for the density and complexity of the references to the artist and literary limbs.

An organic distance, guided from the love for the culture but also from a no tired need continuously to test the cultural limits of our society.