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BESIDE – Unexpected tiles -

Carlo — Wed, 16 Feb 2011 14:34:20 +0000

Massimiliano Adami interprets ceramic mosaics for DesignTaleStudio.

Circuito Fuorisalone

Refin Studio - Foro Bonaparte 68 – Milan

12 – 17 April from 10 a.m. to 10 p.m.

Opening cocktail with Massimiliano Adami reserved for invited guests only: Thursday, April 14, 7-12.00 p.m. 14

Brera Design Night: Friday, April 15, 7-12.00 p.m.

BESIDE – Unexpected tiles – is Massimiliano Adami‘s latest project for DesignTaleStudio, the creative laboratory of Ceramiche Refin.

Following Terraviva, the project designed by Massimiliano Adami for the Fuorisalone 2010, the designer has created a new project, putting his unique touch on the ceramic mosaic and offering an unexpected, creative interpretation.

The design set of the project will be created by the designer at Refin Studio, Ceramiche Refin’s showroom in Milan, a place where architects, designers and planners can share their experience and views of the ceramic material.

Massimiliamo Adami puts his name to the Terraviva project for DesignTaleStudio

Carlo — Fri, 05 Nov 2010 15:51:15 +0000

Massimiliamo Adami puts his name to the Terraviva project: a new step in the company’s constant path of experimentation and ceramic research.

Terraviva is a return to the basic element of the tile itself, earth, to which man is indissolubly linked by a natural relationship that the designer tries to restore: the idea of residential floor is combined to that of “terrestrial floor” and cracks, often considered a defect, become a sign of nature and the distinctive trait of the collection.

The crack is reappraised for its symbolic meaning: crack as the sign of the passage of time from which no material can escape.

DesignTaleStudio at the Biennale in Venice.

Carlo — Wed, 01 Sep 2010 07:10:42 +0000

Pareti d’Autore by DesignTaleStudio will be present at the Biennale of Venice 2010, showcased at Ambient, the exhibition developed and organised by Laura Villani and which will be held in the enchanting setting and ambience of the Arsenale of Venice – Tesa alle Nappe 90.

Together with well-known artists and companies of the calibre of Paola Crema, Angelo Morucci and Mario Venturini , Gianmaria Potenza Favero&Milan, the path along Ambient has various pieces of the Pareti d’Autore collection, created by four interior designers and masters of architecture, namely Mario Bellini, Michele De Lucchi, Alessandro Mendini and Karim Rashid.

For his Pareti d’Autore project, Mario Bellini chose to cross the boundary into art, with a work that comes to life thanks to the hand of its creator who uses, with his clear references to conceptual art, his own signature over and over again as an artistic element.

Michele De Lucchi, designed for Pareti d’Autore a surface where the graphic trait becomes material, thanks to the use of glazes and glass grains manufactured using the most ancient techniques of craftsmen.

The Parete d’Autore created by Alessandro Mendini is a surface featuring an irregular geometrical design with the colour palette and with the characteristic playful approach so typical of one of the most recognised designers in the world.

The intricate and vibrant work by Karim Rashid combines silk-printing, glossy decalcomania and satin glazes for a Parete d’Autore expressing all the explosive creative flair of the designer.

All the works embrace art, design and architecture and can be intended as sculptures, design finishes, architectural elements or designer surfaces.

AMBIENT
Ambient, Art and Architecture
BY LAURA VILLANI
26 AUGUST – 26 SEPTEMBER 2010
ARSENALE DI VENEZIA-TESA ALLE NAPPE 90
An Expovenice Event

Three-dimensional square

Carlo — Wed, 17 Mar 2010 09:52:59 +0000

On Refin’s request, designers Massimiliano Adami, Lorenzo Damiani and Luca Nichetto have reinterpreted the ceramic product, thus outlining new perspectives.

This year, the project “Three-dimensional square” by Ceramiche Refin will be a lively presence at Fuorisalone.

Besides the remarkable installation in front of Triennale Palace, Refin’s exibition will be placed at Refin Studio showroom, as well. A recently inaugurated new space in the heart of Milan, to promote a dialogue between architects and professionals.

The project “Three-dimensional square” reflects Refin’s engagement in the fields of research, innovation, eco-sustainability and exploration of new horizons, to aspire to establish a new perspective in the ceramic world, through the projects of some of the most advanced designer in the international scene.

If it is true that the square is the classic shape of the ceramic tile, then it is also true that, not only does it stir symbolic memories in our minds, but also democratic ones.

But a square is also a two-dimensional geometric shape, and requires a certain amount of imagination to picture it as a three-dimensional form in the depths of space and time.

The seeming contradiction of the definition has a logic, an almost algorithmic one: three designers involved in one project, three paths to chose from in a bid to take ceramic covering to a new level of evolution.

But this third dimension is a treacherous one, an attempt at discovering other paths, to understand just how successfully product design can morph into process design, stimulating our senses, transmuting all possible destinations of use, implanting new ways of behaviour.

Experimentation is therefore not only the articulation of the results, but, first and foremost, is intrinsic to requirements.
Perspectives change and perhaps, if we look closely enough, a square can have more than three dimensions.
All 3 designers have discovered their own understanding of innovation, a transversal commitment to the corporate strategies, to enliven with new meaning, towards avant-garde explanations of creative research, eco-sustainability and craftsmanship.

While Massimiliano Adami has decided to work on the tile orthogonality, introducing a design destabilising its usual aesthetics towards a more natural, almost hand-made inspiration, Lorenzo Damiani focuses on the sustainability of the tile, trying to find the key that will unlock new recycling solutions, both materially and formally, while Luca Nichetto has fascinating new ideas to evaluate innovative production procedures, to stratify varying manufacturing processes and break down the components, elevating them to become protagonists.

Fuori Salone Circuit
Triennale di Milano
Refin Studio – Foro Buonaparte 68
April, 13 – 19; open from 10.00 until 22.00
Cocktail on invitation, Wednesday 14 April, from 6.00 pm until 10.00 pm