Archive of the Category 'Exhibitions and Events'

Here are some photos of our stand, designed by Michele De Lucchi for Refin Ceramiche, at Cersaie 2009. Specifically, we have chosen to publish an overview of the stand and a detail of the corner where the ceramics designed by De Lucchi is displayed, that is to say, the most important new collection released by DesignTaleStudio to mark the trade-fair.

CERSAIE 2009 is almost upon us: tomorrow, in Bologna, the most important exhibition in the ceramic tile industry starts, and this year promises to be very interesting, especially as all exhibitors feel the need to come up with “something new” to overcome the economic crisis and open the door to the future.

We will again focus on sustainable architecture and Italian design, continuing our ongoing collaboration with Michele De Lucchi, who made a dramatic impact at the recent Fuorisalone. In the photographs above, you can see a preview of the stand that the architect designed for this occasion, and is situated at stand B32 (Hall 36).

See you tomorrow with some more pictures of our stand and when we reveal the first DTS autumn mystery!

Here we are once again after the summer break with a summary of the various activities that will characterise September and October, a “hot” time for the ceramic industry. As always, we like to be a little “mysterious”, so we will reveal just a glimpse of things to come, but not everything, of course…

• Refin and DesignTaleStudio will be present at Cersaie 2009, taking place this year in Bologna from September 29 to October 3 and will once again see us teaming up with Michele De Lucchi following the same path we started together at the recent Fuorisalone. The absolute protagonist for DTS will be the new Gold and Platinum Tagli d’Autore and a brand-new collection … what a mystery!
• During October, the first Refin showroom will open in a famous Italian location: not a mere commercial venue but a place where we will organise numerous events promoting Italian architecture, design and ceramics. Where will this be? Another mystery!
• But it is not a mystery that, until November 22, we will be present at the Biennale in Venice with the Design On Stage design set organised by Laura Villani, photographs of which can be seen on our Flickr account.

What else can we say, if you are looking forward to finding out what these mysteries are… stay tuned!

The 53rd edition Biennale Internazionale d’Arte exhibition, this year entitled Making Worlds (Fare Mondi), to be held at the Gardens, at the Arsenale as well as other sites in Venice, will open to the public from June 7 to November 22, 2009, and will bring together in one exhibition more than 90 artists from around the world to showcase new works of art expressing a myriad of varied and diverse creative languages.

Refin will loan some of their DesignTale Studio works to the Fondazione Teatro La Fenice for the opening events as well as throughout the duration of the exhibition, and create the Fenice Design On Stage event. The celebrated rooms of the Gran Teatro la Fenice in Venece will host the exhibition of Pareti d’Autore by DesignTaleStudio created for the Design On Stage events of last years.  The works and set-design created by Michele De Lucchi, Sandra Bermudez, Karim Rashid, Elio Fiorucci and Romina Power will be exhibited and the guests will be given informative literature on DesignTaleStudio creative laboratory.

The inauguration of the event will be on Saturday, June 6, and the work will be exhibited in the theatre until September. This event represents a unique opportunity to once again underline the creative drive guiding DesignTaleStudio, which will be present at the Temple of International Art, the Biennale in Venice, with a strong co-marketing event.

For those who would like to attend the opening of the event, an invitation card (which should be compiled and sent to us) is attached.

Here is the official one-minute video summarising the crucial moments of our
event “From earth to the Earth” which took place at the Fuorisalone 2009:
the concept, Refin and DesignTaleStudio ceramic tiles, Michele De Lucchi and
his temporary architecture made of ceramic, the guests and visitors, the
Triennale exhibition. What do you think?

On Refin’s website, we have just published a celebrative page for the event with a complete photo- gallery and videos (which you will also find on our DesignTaleStudio Youtube channel).

In this second video, taken at the “Sustainable project” meeting we organised during the recent Fuorisalone, Paolo Tamborrini (Professor at the University Politecnico in Turin and author of the book “Design Sostenibile, oggetti, sistemi e comportamenti”), Mario Zoccatelli (president of Green Building Council Italy) and Davide Carra (in charge of Environmental and Quality systems for Gruppo Concorde) comment on the building industry in Italy: planners, manufacturers, builders.

During the recent event, “From earth to the Earth”, an interesting meeting called “Sustainable project” took place, a meeting that was focused on the themes of bio-building, sustainable design and made in Italy products. We will dedicate some posts to reviewing some of the most crucial moments of this meeting: in this first excerpt, Davide Carra, head of and Quality systems at Gruppo Concorde (which Refin, DesignTaleStudio’s parent company, is part of) talks about the problems that a ceramic tile company could face when adopting this kind of “sustainable” approach.

We have published some photos of our set design for “From earth to the Earth” - held during the Fuorisalone trade-fair at the Triennale in Milan on Flickr. Here are just a couple of the photos: an exterior shot and a detailed shot of the area dedicated to DesignTaleStudio ceramics, exclusively created by Michele De Lucchi with one of his renowned “imaginary architectures”, which was also made from ceramic.

The Fourisalone has closed and we will now start publishing some videos filmed during our event “From earth to the Earth” at the Triennale in Milan.

This is the recording of the introductory speech by architect Michele De Lucchi, the creator of our design set, during the press preview on Tuesday, April 21. Just a few words but extremely striking and sometimes even surprising, in fact, we all already knew about his love for wood, which he manifested in his work “casette a forma di casa“ (little houses in the shape of houses) but his recent rediscovery of ceramic and natural a href=”http://www.architetturadipietra.it/wp/?p=2436″>stones in general allows us to witness important creative opportunities.