Inflatable! Blow Me Up Lamp Designed by Ingo Maurer

Posted on 07/05/2019 by Mimi Berlin Amsterdam

Inflatable Lamp

During Milan Design Week 2019 in April we, at Mimi Berlin, favoured some designs. One of them is the ‘Blow Me Up’ lamp signed by Ingo Maurer, but designed by him, Theo Möller, and Maurer’s team. As the name suggests this is an inflatable lamp, in the shape of a tube and made of plastic. One part is transparent the other part comes in a couple of metallic bright colors. What we like about the design is it’s simplicity and also that you can use tie-grips to hang it up, it isn’t the perfect lamp at all! It retails for about €270,- though.

Blow Me Up the Inflatable Lamp Designed by Ingo Maurer

M’ Afrique Detached

‘Blow Me Up’ was on show at the Moroso showroom in Via Pontaccio 10. The design isn’t new, it’s from 2017, but because of the fact that Moroso and Ingo Maurer are partners that didn’t matter we guess. Moroso’s ‘M’ Afrique Detached‘ installation is dedicated to this new partnership, ànd to the 10th anniversary of the M’ Afrique outdoor collection produced by Moroso furniture. Part of the designs in the M’afrique collection are made by crafstmen from Africa. The Shadowy Chair by Tord Boontje, for example, is made with a weaving technique used for fishing nets.

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“The inflatable tube Blow Me Up by Theo Möller, Ingo Maurer & Team was first presented at Euroluce 2017. It is flexible to use: You can lean it against a wall, fasten it to the ceiling or wall with small hooks and nylon cords. It comes wrapped up in a box and is pumped up by the user. The LED-strip illuminates the reflecting side of the tube, thus dispersing indirect light into the room. Since summer 2018 on, Blow Me Up will be available in two sizes, 120 and 180 cm with the option to choose in between four colours.” (read more ingo-maurer.com)

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Swedish Design Moves presents Home Gone Wild

Posted on 24/04/2019 by Mimi Berlin Amsterdam

Swedish Design Moves

Home Gone Wild is the name of the group exhibition by Swedish Design Moves Participating are 22 companies and several Swedish design institutes. We, at Mimi Berlin, visited the Home Gone Wild, or Hemma Gone Wild. (Hemma means Home we guess). presentation at the Fuorisalone (that’s in the city not at the fair) during Milan Design Week 2019.

Mimi’s take on the Home Gone Wild show.

We enjoyed this presentation very much because it gave a peak into what the future could hold for us; with a touch of humour to it. Next to showing not only wonderfully crafted furniture, this presentation could well be changing the mindset of how we handle interior-design today. How we decorate our home in the future, shifting priorities about design in general and gathered designs in our home.
At least, that’s what we got out of it.
Read the story below written by Swedish Design Moves.

When Nature takes over

For most Swedes, the idea of HEMMA (HOME) is closely linked to a strong connection with nature. While this relationship is often romantic, nature can also be something threatening. What happens when it takes over? Swedish Design Moves returns to Milan Design Week this year with HEMMA gone wild– a sequel to the 2018 exhibition, HEMMA – Stories of Home.

Joyn Studio

Curated and designed by Joyn Studio, HEMMA gone wild invites visitors to experience an abstract and playful vision of home, from hallway to living room and onwards through an unfolding scenography that showcases the best of Swedish design, drawn by curiosity and a mood of mystery.

Home is Hemma

Home is a place of refuge and security – but it can also be a place from which to escape. HEMMA gone wild explores the complex relationship that we have with home and the influences of both nature and technology as they shape our experience of living and our connectedness with the changing world around us. (read more at swedishdesignmoves.com)

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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I Think Therefore I Was Installation by Maarten Baas

Posted on 17/04/2019 by Mimi Berlin Amsterdam

Maarten Baas

Maarten Baas presented his newest work, the video installation ‘I Think Therefore I was‘ for the fiirst time at Ventura Centrale this year; 2019, at Milan Design Week.

We waited until MDW19 was over with our post, so we couldn’t spoil the surprise effect this installation could have. If you didn’t have the tme to visit; here’s your chance!

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Gaetano Pesce’s Up Chair Celebrates it’s 50th Anniversary

Posted on 12/04/2019 by Mimi Berlin Amsterdam

50th Anniversary

Gaetano Pesce designed the Up Series in 1969, so this year B&B Italia celebrates the 50th Anniversary of this iconic chair set. During Milan Design Week 2019 the showroom at the Brera Design District was filled to the rim with the armchair and pouf UP5_6, upholstered in green and beige stripes. A lovely installation which made us, at Mimi Berlin, very happy!

UP50 at B&B Italia showroom in Brera Milan

UP50 and Up Junior at B&B Italia showroom in Brera Milan

Suffering Majesty at Piazza del Duomo

The celebration of the “la Mamma’ chair continued at the Piazza del Duomo, where a humongous larger-than-life in salmon-pink replica of the chair is pierced with arrows and is surrounded by wild animals. The art-sculpture is named ‘Suffering Majesty’ and is made to continue the conversation on violence against women in Italy. It will be present until April 14th 2019.

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Milan Design Week 2019 Ventura Centrale

Posted on 11/04/2019 by Mimi Berlin Amsterdam

Ventura Centrale

Ventura Centrale hosts 16 presentations at the abandoned warehouses alongside Milan’s Central Station (centrale fs) during Milan Design Week 2019. This is the third edition of Ventura Centrale and there is lot’s to see and do this year. Visitor’s can try on wooden clogs, write their opinion down or get their bodies mapped: from artisinal to high-tech design and everything in-between; it’s all there!

unfuencer at Freitag und Georg Lendorff. DIY printing.

unfuencer at Freitag und Georg Lendorff.

A Piece of Sky x Sky-Frame Installation by Stephan Hürlemann

Bodies in motion presented by Humanscale. Designed by Todd Bracher and studio the green eyl

Presentations, a list.

The 16 vaults under the Ventura Centrale train station will this year be host to: Maarten Baas (The Netherlands), Aria (Italy), Noroo Group (Korea), AGC (Japan), Lavazza and Gufram (Italy), Rapt Studio (US), Sky-Frame (Switzerland), Lensvelt & Modular Lighting Instruments (The Netherlands, Belgium), Weltevree (The Netherlands), FREITAG (Switzerland), TAKT PROJECT (Japan), Yamaha Corporation Design Laboratory (Japan), Cosentino (Spain), Humanscale (US), DNP (Japan), dpot modern and contemporary Brazilian furniture (Brazil). Open from 10:00 – 20:00

Tip from Mimi Berlin

If you have little time to spare we, at Mimi Berlin, recommend you go see the Japanese DNP printed lighting installation first, and work your way back to the pop-up restaurant ‘Bar Baas’ at Dinky’s (by Maarten Baas and Lensvelt design) for lunch or dinner.