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This year in Berlin, the institutional circuit DESIGN WEEK network presents an exhibition that brings together products of fashion, interior, industrial design with the aim to inform the German public about the Italian creativity and quality.

Scope of this exhibition is to create a business network among designers, enterprises, retailers and the German public.The exhibited works have been selected for the high quality of working processes to show the relationship between innovation and tradition.

The exhibition points out the talent and creative potential of small Italian creators, enterprises,

ITALIAN DESIGNselected by Venice Design WeekHow can design REvive tradition? Traditional production systems and innovative design

artisans and designers coming from industrial, fashion and product design.In Italy there are many high quality and innovative creative design companies, dispersed throughout the country; when it comes to micro enterprises, artisans and designers with difficulty manage to enter the international market.In order to facilitate their integration, DESIGN WEEK network has started a network of relationships within the international design weeks, featuring events aimed at enhancing “Good Design” , performing exhibitions in design centers and other strategic meeting points, located in high-frequency and shopping areas.

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DESIGN WEEK network organisiert in Zusammenarbeit mit Venice Design Week, stilwerk und der design akademie berlin eine Design-Ausstellung mit innovativen Design-Produkten aus Italien. Die Ausstellung findet vom 22. bis 30. Mai im Foyer des Stilwerks in Berlin statt. Sie ist die erste von einer Reihe von Veranstaltungen, die das Ziel haben, ein Netzwerk aus Designern, Firmen, Einzelhändlern und Benutzern zu knüpfen.

In Italien gibt es über das gesamte Territorium verteilt viele kreative Unternehmen, die auf hohem gestalterischen und qualitativen Niveau arbeiten und sehr innovativ sind; es sind Kleinunternehmen, Handwerker und Designer, die sich jedoch nur mit großen Schwierigkeiten auf internationalen Märkten positionieren können.

Mit dem Ziel, die Arbeit dieser Protagonisten zu erleichtern und ihr Potential zu fördern, hat das DESIGN WEEK network ein Beziehungsgeflecht aus internationalen „Design Weeks“ gebildet und eine Serie von Aktivitäten und Veranstaltungen initiert um das “Gute Design” in Ausstellungen in Design-Zentren oder anderen strategischen Orten mit hoher Publikumsfrequenz zu propagieren.

Dieses Jahr hat der institutionelle Kreis des DESIGN WEEK network eine Ausstellung in Berlin organisiert, die Produkte aus Mode-, Interior- und Industrial-Design zusammenbringt, und der deutschen Öffentlichkeit Kreativität und Qualität dieser hierzulande noch recht wenig bekannten Realitäten vorzustellen.

ITALIAN DESIGNausgewählt von Venice Design WeekWie kann Tradition mit Hilfe von Design wiederentdeckt werden? Traditionelle Produktions-Systeme und innovatives Design

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Open Source Workshop

OSW is a networked office based in Milan (Italy) and New Orleans (USA). The founding partnersoperate through an expanded platform that combines design practice, research, and teaching as the core of their interdisciplinary experimentations. The office operates as a permanent workshop looking at architecture and design as an inclusive practice. The three founding partners are: Marcella Del Signore (Architect), Giuseppe Morando (Architect) and Elena Del Signore (Designer).

designer: opensourceworkshop.netmanufacturer: AMR amrrecchia.it

It is a diffuse furniture system that generates a continuous interior space by adapting simultaneously to any vertical and horizontal sur-face while defining an immersive spatial atmosphere. Its form recalls a natural system that emerges from the structure beneath. It is adaptable to both residential and commercial spaces.

HELIX

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Eduardo Otero Rodriguez

is a designer who uses a humankind approach for developing his projects. His goal is to create unique design products that involve aesthetic, ergonomics and sustainability at an emotional level.In the last 3 years he has beenworking in Packaging, Industrialand Strategic design and hasthe opportunity to develop projectsfor brands like: Colgate Palmolive, Ratiopharm, Müller, Barilla, Novacart, BMW, Mini, Volkswagen, Skross, CWS-Bocco, DMI and Dometic.

Connex it’s a universal desk system that’s endlessly adaptable and customizable.Connex is a solid desk with a simple, minimalist shape. Its design adapts to various office and home styles. Connex is an ideal workstation for the office and home dimension. A functional desk ideal for everyday applications.

designer: Eduardo Otero Rodriguezfacebook.com/ideduardormanufacturer: CFM centrofiniturametalli.itdalpiandesign.com

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Vitruvio Design

has been founded by a group of interior designers, taking care of culture and tradition in the use of innovative materials.Their experience in artisan workshops has allowed the development of several prototypes and products.In the last few years Vitruvio hasdeveloped a new businessfocused on self-production design.Each product has its own story. Its design is the combination of the Italian artisans tradition and refined materials.Vitruvio is based both in Venice andin Potenza, Basilicata.

designer: vitruviodesign.it

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designers: Burhenne + Donndorfmanufacturer: ercolemoretti.it

Matthias Burhenne

collaborates with international studios in Stuttgart, London, Milan, Shanghai. He has lectured design and technology in Milan, Turin, Venice and Bolzano. With his company ISOLUZIONI he operates in the kitchen and interior and product design.

Karen Donndorf

is a designer living in Berlin. In 1991 she graduated in Industrial Design in Stuttgart. She collaborates with design studios in Hanover and Hamburg. From 2004 to 2008 she has been engaged in designtranfer at the University of the Arts Berlin. Since 1997 she owns a design studio in Cologne, and from 2002 in Berlin too.

it is an intimate light for table, side board or the floor. “oblò” is the Italian expression for “bull´s eye” of a ship. Like looking through a bull’s eye, the light object invites into the “world of its glass dome”, “oblò” is handmade with murrine.

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Habits was founded in 2004 by Innocenzo Rifino and Diego Rossi, following a few years’ independent professional experience: Japan, robotics, lighting, interaction design. The latest example of this design is Digital Habits, enterprise program for the Open Source Design. Award-winning products: the honorable mention at Compasso d’Oro 2004 for the suspension lamp Zeno; four Design Plus (Zeno 2002 pendant lamp, lamp suspension Supergiù 2006, E04 pendant lamp 2008,, notebook for notes Quattrogiga, 2012, two Red Dot (E04 pendant lamp 2008, keypad intercom outdoor SENSE 316 2013, bluetooth speaker P.A.C.O. 2014, home gestural control keyboard ONE 2014). The studio holds two patents of invention and one patent of use.

An original mixture of yesteryear’s languages and modern technologies: the antiquity of women’s handiwork and the modernity of laser techniques blend to perfection in this pair of stainless steel coffee tables with crochet work. Aristocratic richness and lustre in pure, streamlined shapes.

Merlotdesigner: habits.itmanufacturer: letterag.it

AmarCORDIt is a surprising coat-rack: rock-climbing ropes take on life and, defying the law of gravity, become a place on which to hang jackets, scarves and coats. It is available an “easy” version with black or white rods. The solid, gleaming black stone base is a contrast to the elusive dynamism of the scaling ropes.

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The most famous scene of “Romeo and Juliet” and “Waiting for Godot” becomes the setting to turn stage designer and create atmospheres and play of lights and colours.Theatrical quotations for these atmosphere lights that re-create a small stage on which you can turn on or off the lights. The scene can turn right and left. The basement shows the backstage disorder.Led light on request.

Portable Drama

designer: habits.itmanufacturer: letterag.it

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designer: Fabio Guariccimanufacturer: letterag.it

“Home pets” Who does not wish the sweet company of a pet? Bow-wow and Miao -wow are two perfect friends of man: they do not foul, they do not eat the carpets, they do not scratch. But they keep magazines and books in their fluorescent folds of their acrylic coat.

Fabio Guaricci 1981, Acquaviva delle Fonti (BA).

Graduated from the design faculty of the Milan Polytechnic in 2008. After having spent a year at the Industrial design Department of NTNU in Trondheim, Norway, he has worked together with Stefano Giovannoni and Luca Fois. An enthusiasm for manufacturing technologies and materials, combined with a ludic approach to design, has almost naturally led him to design the first collection of wooden toys for Milaniwood, a cooperation that commenced in 2005 and that is still ongoing. Appreciative of issues associated with sustainability, he works as a freelance, also on manufacturing systems, specializing in branding, communication and exhibition design.

BAU and MIAO

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The spaces for storing books in Bookshape look like the casts of an unpredictable bookcase, shapes in which to put the most precious books, to help them … stand out. A culture sculpture. Bookshape is a wide range of bookcases, made in metal or metal/wood new version, Big and Slim free standing version and also as a wall module.

Davide Radaelli 1977, Milan.“A project of mine should say something and do so as simply as possible”.

Davide Radaelli, was born in Milan, where he lives and works. After graduating in Industrial Design from the Milan Polytechnic in 2002, Davide Radaelli has specialized in industrial design, interior architecture, retail & exhibition design, graphic design and set designs for movies and advertising productions.Also active in the field of music, he works as sound designer and composer for videos, multimedia productions and installations.Various works by him have been shown in international exhibitions and published by the international press.He currently dedicates himself to the subject at the Design Faculty of the Milan Polytechnic, and is a visiting lecturer at other design schools.

designer: Davide Radaelli manufacturer: letterag.it

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SLAQ design studiois the result of the cooperation of the designers Stefano Lisa and Alberto Quazzo. Their common desire to create a unique and flexible design, adaptable to all needs, ranges from interior design, contracts and product design. SLAQ studio distinguishes for the simplicity, beauty and functionality of the products.

designer: slaqdesign.commanufacturer: legnamipriola.com

It is a combination of seat and table made of iron and solid oak. They are double use and you can turn them into tables or seats. Their height and shape are variable. All furniture can be customized by Priola furnishings using different types of woods and colours. They are an exclusive handcrafted production.

Solitario

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A shrug which can be used as a scarf and a belt - it is made with a fabric screen-printed with photochromic and thermochromics dyes - the pattern responds to the surrounding environment (sunlight and temperature) and changes accordingly.

Annalisa Simonellaallenomis has been conceived by Annalisa Simonella, an Italian designer living in Scotland. Her background is in architectural engineering and she has applied her knowledge in materials and thermal comfort to create multifunctional and technological fashion which is also stylish and sustainable. Her first collection including transformable and modular pieces has been featured in ‘A Practical Guide for Sustainable Fashion’ by Alison Gwilt, a textbook for fashion students and professionals.

allenomis is a brand and design studio set up in 2012. The luxury womenswear garments designed by allenomis are responsive and responsible. Responsive because they are designed to respond to the climate and the immediate context, allowing the wearer to respond to the increasing complexity of living in an urban environment and the variety of activities we face in our daily lives. Responsible because they are designed to be durable and timeless: not only the materials are sourced following ethical principles and their production is kept local but each garment is meant to be used and cherished for a long time thanks to the high quality materials, superior tailoring and the no-season approach.

designer: Annalisa Simonellamanufacturer: allenomis.com

hansha pattern

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designer: chiarapizzinato.itfabrics: luigi-bevilacqua.com

Chiara PizzinatoThe Chiara Pizzinato Atelier results from the personal history and life experiences of its owner, Chiara. From her mother, a seamstress, she has derived the fondness for fabrics, whereas from her passion and love for botany and the green world (degree in Natural Sciences at the University of Padua and Master Degree in Environmental Sciences at the Fondation Universitaire Luxembourgeoise in Belgium) she draws the inspiration for the garments and accessories she makes.These steps and her job at an environmental engineering company are the benchmarks on her path towards the opening of the Atelier, as well as her decision to attend a course on patchwork, which led her to the rediscovery of the world of fabrics, which she had always been surrounded by, and to the choice of going her own way, thus starting her own first activity in the early 2000s.

Bevilacqua Pizzinato’s ShowroomBevilacqua Pizzinato’s headquarters are in Venice, Santa Croce, 1320. Here you can both find clothes, accessories and bags, and see how the fabrics they are made of are produced. The showroom is located in the same palace as the Tessiture Bevilacqua, one of the oldest weaving factories in Venice.It is so that when visiting the Tessitura, you will see how weavers work on 18th-century handlooms, which the Tessitura still uses, following ancient methods. You will therefore understand why Bevilacqua Pizzinato’s creations are unique and precious.

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designer: Michele Mamprin

Michele Mamprin1988, Conegliano Treviso.

“Life is a great work of art in which love is the heart of everything”.

He attended the Faculty of Industrial Product Design at the Milan Politecnic.He took part in group and solo exhibitions in Italy and abroad during the main design week. Collaborates with Sovrappensiero Design Studio.Over the years, he developed a greatinterest in interior architecture,design, graphics and art.

It is a ceramic and wood piggy bank thought for a couple. An object

that helps to save while having fun creating a duel between two people.

Decide for what to duel, write it, start saving and once done start over again. An object simple and

intuitive to use, with a refinement of materials and finishes that enhance the craftsmanship and the made in

Italy. In life everything is a challenge, even saving!

Versus

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designer: Matteo Ugolinimanufacturer: ecotono.it

Matteo UgoliniecotonoOikos + Tonosfrom the Greek: house & tensionEcotono a transition area between two environments. It is where two communities meet and integrate.Ecotono is a continue tension towards change and progess.We believe it isn’t only creativity but mainly knowing and understanding which needs to be satisfied.Creating, re-inventing, improving, simplifying and going beyond original function of each item.

Sherwood coffee table is the exemplification of Ecotono’s idea of design, in fact in just one item Sherwood integrates lighting, smart furniture and speaker.It is perfect for domestic situation, for the bedroom or for the living room, but also for the hotel’s halls and even for the hotel’s rooms.

Sherwood coffee table

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Wood-Skin Wood-Skin S.r.l. was established in 2013 in Milan by a talented team of individuals working together to use traditional techniques in innovative ways, incorporating technology to achieve new possibilities in building and design. Wood-Skin® is a process and a product, thought to challenge the conventional approach to wood and other flat materials, to transform defined structure to new, creative possibilities. Wood-Skin® is stronger and more versatile than independent materials. The innovative digital fabrication process takes life thanks to the interaction between a textile core, wood and a special company software.

designer: wood-skin.commanufacturer: BIESSE

Programmable tableThrough a collaboration between MIT’s Self-Assembly Lab and Wood-Skin S.r.l. a revolutionary type of furniture has been designed. The Programmable Table brings into the game an entirely new category of furniture that actively transforms itself, from shipping to full-functionality.The Programmable Table is a new vision for the future of smart and self- transforming household products.This prototype, unveiled at the 2015 Fuori Salone del Mobile in Milan in collaboration with BIESSE, demonstrates the first highly-active and reconfigurable furniture that mediates between various conditions: shipping, storage and a variety of uses. Via a number of transformations through the use of the Wood-Skin® process, this table takes advantage of an embedded pre-stressed textile to turn into precise ways. Once in-place, the furniture may be reconfigured into other shapes or flattened again for storage and moving.

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Self-Assembly Furniture - The Programmable Table

A Collaboration between:

Wood-Skin S.r.l and Self-Assembly Lab, MIT;

Technical sponsor: BIESSE S.p.a

Through a collaboration between MIT’s Self-Assembly Lab and Wood-Skin S.r.l. a revolutionary type of furniture has been designed. The Programmable Table brings into the game an entirely new category of furniture that actively transforms itself, from shipping to full-functionality.

This prototype, unveiled at the 2015 Fuori Salone del Mobile in Milan in collaboration with BIESSE, demonstrates the first highly-active and reconfigurable furniture that mediates between various conditions: shipping, storage and a variety of uses. Via a number of transformations through the use of the Wood-Skin® process, this table takes advantage of an embedded pre-stressed textile to turn into precise ways. Once in-place, the furniture may be reconfigured into other shapes or flattened again for storage and moving.

By minimizing the volume during shipping, the flat-packed Programmable product is extremely efficient and economical for distribution. Furthermore, this product eliminates the need for human or machine assembly of complex parts and can simply be removed from the package, allowing it to dynamically jump into shape. The Programmable Table is a new vision for the future of smart and self-transforming household products.

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STUDIO GUSCETTISince the beginning of the 50’s the team Guscetti have been developing and building landscape, urban and architectural projects, infrastructures, interior and pure design planning. In 1999 the brothers Giovanni and Francesca Guscetti,who were both architects and graduated at the ETH in Zurich, took over the founders engineer Alberto Guscetti and architect Aldo Guscetti. Their research is leaning towards a real, determined, long-lasting and shared architecture, able to interact with the land and to overcome the condition of unique object.

designer: guscetti.chmanufacturer: fioronidesign.it

It is a functional sculpture, a folding ladder with tapered solid walnut pillars and natural steel pins.Element taken from the alpine tradition, re-designed for manifold applications in the contemporary home: towelrack, clothes hanger, a useful folding ladder or just a simple decorative element.

Rascana

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ACT_ROMEGIALLI The architects team composed by Gianmatteo Romegialli, Angela Maria Romegialli, Erika Gaggia, deals directly with architecture, urban design , interior and pure design. The cultural value of making architecture, the sense and atmosphere of a place, its history: these are the elements behind the team’s studies.The research of the essential and deep characteristics of a site, interpreted and made contemporary to enhance and revitalize the history, identity and culture of an area.

It is a table with walnut or chestnut solid wood top, crafted by assembling five boards, asymmetrically cut, which determine a particular geometrical interlocking design. The structure consists of two simple parts made of steel sections in different colors. Available in three different sizes, it is a fine table with great aesthetic impact, which brings elegance into any home.

designer: actromegialli.itmanufacturer: fioronidesign.it

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It is a large low table with top of solid walnut or chestnut. Its specially-tapered plan gives formal lightness. Asymmetrically but well-balanced egg-shaped, it becomes almost a graphic sign, a great impact on the domestic architecture. Its shape, the special machining of the top and the solid walnut or chestnut wood make it especially charming.

Soglio

designer: actromegialli.itmanufacturer: fioronidesign.it

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Cicli Brianza ft RV proposes a bike and a bike configurator that allows the creation of a completely customized bike, according to your driv-ing style and design, to be delivered directly at your home.exhibition partner: Artigiani del marmo

designer: Davide Rossi and Nicola Viganòmanufacturer: ciclibrianza.it

Make Your Bike!CICLI BRIANZA ft RV The project Cicli Brianza was born from the idea of Davide Rossi and Nicola Viganò, two young businessmen of Brianza, who, thanks to the experience of many years in online sales concerning motorbike’s accessories and spare parts, decide to invest more in their real PASSION , the bicycle.

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Bertotti designerBorn in 1953 in Venice, Ilario Bertotti attended the Venice Art Institute. Soon he started his activity of illus-trator and graphic designer, found-ing advertising agencies as Virtual Design, Sintesi and Imago.

In the latest years he has worked on planning and setting up of exhibi-tions, exhibit booths, retail corners and displays with his studio Bertotti Design.

designer: Ilario Bertottimanufacturer: AMR amrrecchia.it

It is a linear and solid shaped chair, where you can sit and say: let’s enjoy some relax!It’s incredibly lightweight because it’s made of polystyrene, but it’s also highly resistant due to the very special resin finish.

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Since 1980 CFM deals of finishing materials from metals to composites with different techniques for various sectors. Since 1999, CFM makes products designed for architects and designers. CFM transfers this know-how into objects of craftmanship that give material effects not obtainable with industrial production processs.

designer: Michele Salvatomanufacturer: centrofiniturametalli.it

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design akademie berlinSRH Hochschule für Kommunikation und Design

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Design Impacts: Enhancing Regeneration and RenewalTraditional production systems and innovative design

For the first time this year in Berlin, the newly founded Design Week Network has organized an exclusively selected Italian design exhibition incooperation with the Venice Design Week, the stilwerk Berlin and thedesign akademie berlin.

On 26th May, at 5 pm at the design akademie berlin will be held the conference: Design Impacts: Enhancing Regeneration and Renewal. During the conference the Venice Design Week founder Lisa Balasso, the United Everything Studio, producer of the “Selected Design Exhibition” (Graz Design Monat), Professor Monica Calcagno of Ca’ Foscari University Venice and the Direction of the design akademie berlin Prof. Dr. Dörte Schultze-Seehof will discuss on the above mentioned theme.

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design akademie berlinSRH Hochschule für Kommunikation und Design

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Wenn die Gestaltung die Tradition verstärkt, regeneriert und erneuertTraditionelle Produktionssysteme und innovatives Design

Das neu gegründete Design Week Network hat in diesem Jahr erstmalig in Zusammenarbeit mit der Venice Design Week, dem stilwerk Berlin und der design akademie berlin eine Ausstellung mit exklusiv ausgewählten italian Design Produkten in Berlin organisiert.Am 26. Mai um 17 Uhr, in der design akademie berlin im Rahmen der oben genannten Initiative, wird eine Konferenz über das gleiche Thema stattfinden.Teilnehmer der Konferenz:die Venice Design Week Gründerin Lisa Balasso, das United Everything Studio, Veranstalter der “Selected Design Exhibition” (Graz Design Monat), Monica Calcagno Professorin von der Ca’ Foscari Universität Venedig und die Rektorin der design akademie berlin Prof. Dr. Dörte Schultze-Seehof.

We would like to thank Boris Bullwinkel, Cecilia Bertolissi, Claudio Paggiarin, Diego Castellaro, Dörte Schultze-Seehof, Federico Fracasso, Francesco Da Rin De Lorenzo, Maggie Siner, Manelli Hosseini, Michele Salvato, Monica Calcagno, Mouna Nasta, Jobst Eversman, Patricia Enge, Taddeo Zuccheri, Valeria Pagani, VITRARIA, Ulrike Schmälter.

05/2015 Venezia Italygraphic design33.it

edited byarch. Lisa Balasso

concept:DESIGN WEEK networkin cooperation withVenice Design Week and vogliadarte.it

exhibition:Berlin 22 - 30 May 2015

Venice 3 - 11 October 2015Moscow 13 - 18 October 2015Paris January 2016

press office:agency Bullwinkel

exhibition architectsarch. Emilia Peregodarinperego.com

partner:design akademie berlinCa’ Foscari / Design Management

technical partners:Michela Coduttiisoluzioni.comD33 sas and design33.euAMR amrrecchia.itCFM centrofiniturametalli.itDalpiandesign.itTrendeventi

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design akademie berlinSRH Hochschule für Kommunikation und Design

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