Objets Nomades by Louis Vuitton at Palazzo Serbelloni in Milan

Posted on 18/04/2019 by Mimi Berlin Amsterdam

Objets Nomades 2019

Louis Vuitton shows its latest ‘Objets Nomades’ collection in six spaces at the Palazzo Serbelloni in Milan during Milan Design Week 2019. “Since the launch in 2012, the Louis Vuitton Objets Nomades collection has grown into a collection forty-five limited-edition travel-inspired objects imagined by some of the world’s most renowned designers.”

Discotheque

Maybe it’s us, at Mimi Berlin, but this presentation felt like we were visiting one big and very luxurious discotheque in the 1980s. The tone was set at the entrance; a winding stairwell, completely lit in blue with loud pumping music in our eardrums. Heavenly!

The designs for ‘Objets Nomades’ all have in common that they are inspired by travel furniture. The newest design, the Anemona table by Atelier Biagetti, made sure we were travelling in our minds into the deep sea.

Campana Jungle

The first room we entered is filled with designs by the Campana brothers. A Jungle themed-room; The jungle seen in a tropical, colorful and cartoonesk way. Sofa’s and hanging chairs reminiscent of fruit, sided by multicolored palm-leaves in a sparsely lit space. That sounds laim but this furniture is SO high-end, well made and pretty that it’s absolutely not!

Bomboca Sofa by Fernando & Humberto Campana

Cocoons and Bomboca Sofa by Fernando & Humberto Campana

Marcel Wanders

New designs by Marcel Wanders are the Diamond sofa and chair and the Venezia lamp

Bell Lamp

The largest room at the Palazzo Serbelloni has the calmest vibe. The ceiling is covered in hunderds of Bell Lamps made from paper. The original Bell lamp is made in leather and (Murano) glass and is designed by Barber & Osgerby for the 2012 Objet Nomades collection, the first edition.

Lune chair designed by Marcel Wanders in 2017

Overlay Bowl by Patricia Urquiola. Lounge Chair by Marcel Wanders. Spiral Lamps by Atelier Oï. Concertina Table by Raw Edges. Bell Lamp by Barber & Osgerby

By the way. It seems to us that the furniture produced by Louis Vuitton used to be foldable or just much smaller in size, what do you think? See previous collections on this by clicking here

Raw Edges

The last room, a white one with mirrors, is filled with the Dolls Chairs, designed by Raw Edges, all upholstered differently. Again, accompanied by loud and danceable music. See more of this room in the video below.

Honestly, we, at Mimi Berlin, had a blast with all this glittery shine and up-scale glamour!

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Moooi at Milan Design Week 2019

Posted on 15/04/2019 by Mimi Berlin Amsterdam

Moooi, A Life Extraordinary

Moooi is presenting at a new location this year, to be exact the Mediateca Santa Teresa building, situated at the via della Moscova 28 in the Brera Design district. Also brand new are two new Moooi designs. The BFF Sofa designed by Marcel Wanders and The Party, lamps by Dutch designer-duo Kranen/Gille. The lamp is hard to be missed at the venue; it is made in ceramics in the shape of a face and comes in many, mucho varieties. The newest Moooi couch is harder to get a glimpse of, because the visitors are lounging and even sleeping on it. (FYI; We visited at the end of the day.)

moooi at the new location the Mediateca Santa Teresa

The Party, lamp at Moooi. Milan Design Week 2019

According to Moooi’s PR; Luxurious, Whimsical and Original are main keywords for this presentation. We, at Mimi Berlin, think they are right.

Foam Wall Coverings

It’s the first time we noticed the interesting ‘Extinct Animals Collection‘ a collection of soft foam-like, 3D wallcoverings in different patterns (as you can see in the images we took above; in brique, in a pattern that’s named ‘Dwarf Rhino’) These walls remind us of the old-fashioned wallpaper often used in hotels and kitchens in the seventies, they cover unevenness very well. We think it’s a smart move to present it as being luxurious!

Moooi Tokyo Blue

Downstairs you can find the presentation ‘Moooi Tokyo Blue’: everything in indigo blue also furniture in a slightly Japanese setting: workshops with denim and (smelly) dyed leather are on show here as well. A collaboration with Amsterdam Jeans city, ECCO Leather and Shin-Denim and Moooi.

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Mendini Tribute Cinema at Moooi Mimi <3 the Font

Posted on 15/04/2019 by Mimi Berlin Amsterdam

Mendini Tribute Cinema

The Mendini Tribute Cinema is an initiative by Marcel Wanders and Milano Design Film Festival, it’s in honour of Alessandro Mendini. Seen at the Moooi venue at the Mediateca Santa Teresa, via della Moscova 28 in Milan. We, at Mimi Berlin, loved the simple font use for this pop-up cinema……….

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The Emanuelle Chair: a Sex Icon made of Rattan

Posted on 08/05/2018 by Mimi Berlin Amsterdam

Emanuelle Chair

The Peacock chair became the Emanuelle Chair In the 1970s. This throne-like chair with a massive back made of rattan, became a tool for being sexy after the release of the film and the poster-image for the rated X movie Emanuelle; in which the lead-actress Sylvia Kristel posed topless in such a chair. (She did that, or had to, for many years to come.) It became an iconic image associated with sensuality and/or plain sex. Anyone who posed in a Peacock chair became sensual in an instant. And so, it those days you will find images from Julio Iglesias to Brigitte Bardot in a Peacock chair. Amazing!

1976 Summer Fashion By Couture Designers ©Getty Images

1976 Summer Fashion By Couture Designers 1976 Summer Fashion By Couture Designers. EMMANUELLE’ chez CHANEL: Dans un fauteuil en rotin, Sylvia Kristel, héroïne des deux ‘EMMANUELLE’, pose en studio, vêtue d’une robe longue en mousseline rose pâle dont le haut est surpiqué, parée d’un gilet à manche longues, en guipure blanche, rehaussée de motifs jaune d’or. Prise de vue de face sur fond orange vif. (Photo by Jean-Claude Deutsch/Paris Match via Getty Images)

Interior

Photo by Francis Giacobetti, 1974

PHOTO magazine may 2067, Photo by Francis Giacobetti, 1974

Exotic Morticia Addams Chair

For people who were old enough to watch TV in the 1960s: you know the chair probably as being linked to the The Addams Family tv series. Mom Morticia Addams sat in one all the time. If you were born in the early 1900’s the peacock chair would have an exotic connotation to it as well, For the first time western culture came in touch with Asian design and materials.There lies the origins of the peacock chair: to be specific in the Philippines.

Twenty First Century designer adaptations of the Peacock chair
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Fuorisalone 2015: Moooi

Posted on 14/04/2015 by Mimi Berlin Amsterdam

Fuorisalone 2015: Moooi

The entrance; Marcel Wanders’ giant rocking unicorn, Arion

Marcel Wanders

foldable Shift Lounge Chairs by Jonas Forsman voor Moooi

Jonas Forsman

The Statistocrat lamp By Atelier Van Lieshout for Moooi

The Statistocrat lamps’ By Atelier Van Lieshout for Moooi

Joep van Lieshout

Sonya Pletes in front of her carpet design

Marcel Wanders’ giant rocking unicorn, Arion

Neri & Hu in front of their carpet designs

Front Design in front of their carpet designs

Moooi did it again! Showcasing their designs in a spectaculair presentation during Fuorisalone 2015 at the via Savona 56 in the Tortona area; 21 settings were unfold in a combination of 9 home environments, emphasized by 39 artistic photographs, with a towering height of 4.5 meters, made by Rahi Rezvani as backdrop. Continue reading →

The Andaz Hotel Amsterdam

Posted on 07/03/2013 by Mimi Berlin Amsterdam

We attended the launch of the 10th issue of NRC DeLuxe magazine, this soiree was held at the Andaz Hotel in Amsterdam. The hotel (opened october 2012) is designed by Marcel Wanders, you would think this is a Boutique Hotel, but it’s an experience, according to the Andaz/Hyatt website. Everywhere your eyes wander they meet (Dutch) design and yes, that’s quite an experience.

It’s overwhelming, above the registration area with 3 huge (christmas?) bells filled with glittering chandeliers above the “desks”
The main lobby has an open plan filled with lights and elevators. The main theme in this hotel is Holland: red, white and blue, tulips, dutch tiles, the red light district etc. Are these walls the work of the Dutch artist Hugo Kaagman?

Behind the registration tables; a huge cupboard filled with Dutch Design allsorts. On the left, next to the red vase; a quirky photo of Queen Beatrix of the Netherlands (she’ll be princess from April 30th 2013) The black lamp is from moooi designed by Nika Zupanc.

The carpet is dutch-themed as well: A mix of Delft Blue patterns and the sailing routes from the Golden Age (this info is from the top of our heads, do not quote without checking)
The view from the lobby into the restaurant, notice the big spoon shape hidden in a pattern of blue and white Dutch tile like pattern.
Tulip shaped chairs.
The restroom area with an intimate red-light-district (one of Amsterdam’s main attractions)
feel to it.

We came for the launch of the fashion issue of NRC DeLuxe magazine remember? So we had to walk through the garden to the Andaz Studio’s situated in the Keizersgracht building.

The painted wall belongs to the neighbours, it’s an eyecatcher!
Modern and funny statues in the garden of the Andaz hotel.

The Andaz Studio’s situated in the Keizersgracht building.
Ms Edelkoort was interviewed by Monique Snoeijen

Peter Vandermeersch, editor in chief of NRC Handelsblad with, in the middle Ms Edelkoort, trend forecaster and chief editor of DeLuxe magazine Monique Snoeijen. Ms Edelkoort guest curated this fashion issue (#10, March 2013) You can find more pictures taken at this soiree via our Party Page.

The Andaz Studio’s treat the eye to more rest, in comparison with the main building that is.

What a nice surprise, Mr Wanders himself walked into the hotel just as we left! Thank you for taking time to pose for us Mr Wanders, xoxo Horst Berlin