Do you know how a food disposer works?
60% of American kitchens have one, and food waste disposers are becoming increasingly popular in Italy as well. But what exactly are they, and how do they work?
Design Soil is a Kobe Design University collective (composed of professors and students) founded in 2010. Committed to challenging the ordinary, it pursues the most experimental areas of design research. This year, it has brought 11 new designs to the Salone Satellite that explore the theories of the physicist Lagrange and centre on the same theme – the search for a point of equilibrium in unstable conditions when opposing forces meet. As ever in the work of Design Soil, the core focus centres on the careful observation of habits and behaviour.
Yuki Matsumoto has designed a simple modular element (a wooden cylinder and a piece of rope) that, when joined to a number of other pieces, gives rise to a furnishing and accessory collection, ranging from a swing to bookshelves to a birdhouse. Risako Matsumoto has also produced a minimal design for a simple flower vase that becomes lighter as the water evaporates and loses its balance.
Weena Lee’s wall shelf has five different potential positions, as many as the sides of a pentagon, and its point of stability is its centre; the Trinity stool by Junichiro Oshima is held together by a taut piece of rope.
Hiroyuki Ikeuchi’s Tensile modular bookcase — a project that Castiglioni would have appreciated — exploits the elastic properties of wood in a simple play of joints. It consists of only three pieces: a prop is inserted between an upright and a shelf to stabilise the whole. Finally, the intentionally unbalanced low Torque table by Nobu Miake gains stability from its slightly tilted legs.
Design Soil: Lagrangian Point
Salone Satellite
From 9 to 14 April 2013
Rho Fiera
Stand C-14
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The New Brevo House by Pedrali
Brevo has given its Parisian headquarters, La Maison Brevo, a major makeover, prioritizing innovation and employee well-being for its 400 staff members. The furnishings, curated by Pedrali, transform the 3,000 sq m of interior and exterior space into dynamic, stimulating environments that foster collaboration and diverse work styles.