
Nube. Comfort and style
Brianza-based Nube unveiled its latest upholstered furniture collections, spearheaded by Fabio Fantolino. The focus? Elegant comfort and quintessential Made in Italy craftsmanship.
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INfluence 2015, view of the exhibition at Studio Egret West, London. Every day 9.5 tonnes of the Metro newspaper is discarded on the London Underground. Inspired by Indian traditions of extreme recycling where reusing and repurposing is a fundamental part of the culture, Haptic's installation aims to visualise the sheer mass of waste that is produced through discarded free papers. 100 newspapers are shredded, sorted for colour and suspended from a bamboo frame, creating an undulating, stringy, multi-coloured ceiling

INfluence 2015, view of the exhibition at Studio Egret West, London. Acme chose brick because it is a ubiquitous material in western India that allows them to create something, much like the objects themselves, that is somewhere between the primitive and the highly sophisticated and generating a sense of repetition with variety, instability and weightiness. The 7220 bricks demarcate the exhibition area and create semi-informal piles to support the objects

INfluence 2015, view of the exhibition at Studio Egret West, London. Indian stainless teel dinnerware and the famous tiffin box represent India at its most resourceful. Robust, light, and easy to clean, these plates, goblets and containers have nevertheless an aesthetic of refinement. Undecorated, focused on stackability and hygiene, their reflectivity allows them to almost disappear while magnifying the food and colourful auces they contain. Studio Egret West's “wall” of two hundred pieces of dinnerware creates a screen of mirrors that moves like a giant mobile and also reflects the rest of the exhibition. It induces a visual chaos akin to the street scenes of India. When parts touch visitors hear the sound of Indian kitchens
INfluence 2015
curated by Arpna Gupta and Studio Egret West
with the support of Benchmark, Kingfisher and Vande Moortel

Windows become frames that narrate the space
A home filled with peace, built with a few essential gestures and a palette of materials in harmony with the surrounding landscape. The anthracite-colored windows by Edilpiù take center stage in this visual narrative.
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