Italian architect Piero Lissoni has created a modular sofa system for B&B Italia, which can be reconfigured with 84 different components. Presented at this year’s Salone Del Mobile furniture fair in Milan, the Dock seating system is designed so that it can be assembled in numerous variations to suit different people’s needs.
Unveiled at Salone del Mobile furniture design fair in Milan was Dock, a modular seating system capable of 84 different configurations. Designed by Piero Lissoni for B&B Italia, Dock supersedes most modular seating arrangements in terms of versatility and flexibility in usage.
An icon among icons, the Up armchair by B&B Italia is one of the most well-known and familiar pieces on the international design scene. Since its launch it became a symbol of Italian design as a well as an authentic cultural and political icon.
The famous Up5_6 armchair designed by Gaetano Pesce celebrates its first fifty years. On the occasion of Milan Design Week, B&B Italia pays tribute, in the brand’s showroom in Via Durini with the installation “Up50. Anatomy of an Icon”. Designed by studio Calvi Brambilla, the focal point of this impressive installation is the Special Edition in beige and petroleum-blue stripes, a pattern that was included in the original colour chart that currently covers the entire space in a spectacular way.
Pierre Jeanneret’s furniture has been an important fixture of the Cassina collection for many years, part of the ranges he developed in collaboration with his cousin Le Corbusier and designer Charlotte Perriand. For Cassina to explore Jeanneret’s designs further says everything about the passion the Cassina Research and Development Centre puts into every project. Their interest in the heritage of the furniture Jeanneret designed for the Capitol Complex in Chandigarh arose from the Cassina’s need to complete its knowledge of the work of the three greats of Modernism: Le Corbusier, Pierre Jeanneret and Charlotte Perriand
It is day three and all eyes are on Cassina. more space heads to the Sala delle Colonne on Via Durini. located at the back of the Cassina showroom where the Chandigarh Project in tribute to the architect, designer and town planner Pierre Jeanneret has been unveiled. While next door, an installation by art director Patricia Urquiola The ‘Cassina Perspective’ is an eye-popping panorama of colours, textures, and products, from modern icons to new innovations, that reveals the depth of the Cassina collection and the breadth of their research.
