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In partnership with SaloneSatellite/Salone del Mobile.Milano, la Rinascente in Milan is putting on sale the creations by eight young talents promoted by the salonesatellite 2016.

Materials that check out new vocations, shapes that evoke extraordinary cultures and surprising artefacts. Once again this year, the young designers who stood out at the Salone Satellite 2016, can present and sell their creations in a prestigious top store window, the Design Supermarket of la Rinascente.

Il Satellite alla Rinascente — **Top**: Sara Ricciardi has developed a series of weights that should be experienced taking into account their material. Having all the same shape, their weight depends entirely on their composition. Aluminium, copper, brass, wood, plastic, plexiglass and marble. Which one will be the heaviest? An invitation to try, discover and explore different materials and their consistency. **Above**: the Bobina chair by Studio Nito is made of yarn in combination with resin. The construction is built by wrapping yarn threads around a mould

A project that for the fourth consecutive year sees partnership between La Rinascente, which has always give visibility to young talents, and SaloneSatellite/Salone del Mobile.Milano, the institution that for almost twenty years has brought to the Salone del Mobile the most promising designers under 35 years of age from all over the world. Curated by Marva Griffin, this year’s SaloneSatellite proposed the theme “New Materials>New Design”, inviting exploration of the newest that the science of materials has to offer. An ambitious challenge that calls on creativity and innovation, with focus on the concept of sustainability and defines design features of the future.

The collection Tint by Shinya Yoshida Design is a series of flower vases resulted from a fusion of computational design and handicraft

The Moris (Mauritius in Mauritian Creole) Collection of chairs is created through a merging of two Mauritian everyday design icons. The hand crafted Rotin furniture and the colourful Tanth baskets are found in boutiques and bazaars island wide

Iranian-American designer Shirin Ehya’s fantasia collection is a celebration of two cultures

Iungo by Nestor Campos is a wooden toy, created to develop creativity, self-expression and love for Nature in kids. Pieces can be joined in a intuitive way, so that no instructions are needed

Hav bowl is inspired by the dynamism of Kattegatt and Øresund. A wild, cold, brave and difficult Sea between Denmark and Sweden. Nordic culture has its roots on the sea, sailing, exploring, trading is part of its history

Eclipse and Bergen are candle trays part of the family called Silhouette. Eclipse is a candle tray inspired in the light shades that creates the sun when hiding behind the planets. Bergen is inspired in the light shades that Sun creates when hiding behind the mountains after the sunset

Animaro is a furniture design studio founded by Matt Gilbert based in East London. It seeks to bring playfulness to everyday objects through an exploration of moving parts and material properties. The Puzzle chair is made from 9mm birch ply with no glue or metal fixings and can be assembled in a few minutes. The chair holds itself stiff though the tensile properties of plywood

The Crane Lamp by Animaro is a playful moving desk lamp that can be adapted for different working set-ups

The Trail Console by Alcarol is made from a single wood plank, cut into three parts with a very thin blade and then joined so that in the corners the woodgrain matches perfectly like a single bent piece, and also the resin - through a special process - is a single piece and not seen separations between horizontal and vertical resin edges. The Stump Stool also engages with the Alcarol concept of environmental cross-section

The designers of tomorrow
la Rinascente, piazza Duomo, Milan

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