Window Shopping with Mimi Berlin in Milan during Designweek 2019

Posted on 10/04/2019 by Mimi Berlin Amsterdam

Window Shopping Fashionfix

Window shopping in Milan is one of Mimi’s greatest pleasures. This week is all about furniture and industrial design ’cause it’s Milan Design Week #mdw19, but we do need our fashionfix so we took a stroll along the shop windows of the high-end fashion brands in the area around the Via Montenapoleone. Below some pictures we made for y’all, who don’t have the time to go shopping for fashion design.

Transparent with silver, industrial, detailing at Fendi

Aquazzura, a shop disguised as a circus-tent

Mini Palais Bulles ("Bubble Palace") at Larusmiani

van Cleef & Arpels shop window design by Arthur Hoffner

window shopping Neon and a Giraffe at Krizia

Little Shop of Horrors Jungle at the Dolce and Gabanna Family Store

Artisanal tie-dye & basket at Isabel Marant

From Industrial to Discotheque to Safari

From the top of our heads (and thus in a nutshell) we could not help but spot the following ‘trends’. ‘Discotheque’ with neon colors, hologram, shine and glitter in silver, gold and bright colors. ‘Industrial’ with neon lights, concrete, silver detailing and transparency or plastic. On the ‘Safari’ side of the ‘shop-window-spectrum’ in Milan: animals, in particular the giraffe, monkeys and birds. Furthermore we’ve seen some tie-dye, at Prada and Stella McCartney only, and of course the color pink in all kinds of romantic shades.

window shopping roses at Blumarine x Calligaris

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Shop windows with a very romantic and girlie vibe, in pink: from pastel to shocking. Pink. The larger-than-life easter egg is made by Cova

See more shopping reports we made in Milan on this blog. clicketyclick

Seven Magic Mountains by Ugo Rondinone

Posted on 16/05/2016 by Mimi Berlin Amsterdam

Seven Magic Mountains by Ugo Rondinone

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All images Ugo Rondinone: Seven Magic Mountains, Las Vegas, Nevada, 2016. Photos by Gianfranco Gorgoni. Courtesy of Art Production Fund and Nevada Museum of Art.

If you’re not in the Las Vegas area you can also go to Rotterdam to see the work of Mr Rondinone Vocabulary of Solitude, is the title of Ugo Rondinon’s solo exhibition at museum Boijmans van Beuningen in Rotterdam. 13 February – 29 May 2016 ugoinboijmans

(via thisiscolossal)

Office Party with Chris Kabel

Posted on 04/06/2015 by Mimi Berlin Amsterdam

Office Party with Chris Kabel

(photocredits; JW Kaldenbach)
At the Salon/Paris presentation during The Grand Paris Design Festival, we bumped into to these very festive neon lights, designed by Chris Kabel. Mr Kabel created a device to cover the neon tubes with colorful, transparent garlands. When the Office Party is over you can just slide the garlands back! A nifty light design, Auch Haben! Continue reading →

Massimo Uberti’s Neon Rooms

Posted on 21/03/2014 by Mimi Berlin Amsterdam

Massimo Uberti works with neon, in fact it looks like he sketches with this medium. They are seemingly simple sketches but have a great impact….

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(via yellowtrace) Danke Schön Mathilda Admiral!

Ultrafragola

Posted on 29/01/2014 by Mimi Berlin Amsterdam

Ultrafragola is a mirror desgned by Ettore Sottsass in 1970. Suddenly we are in love with this mirror. It has a neon light in pink and it’s made from plastic and it’s Large. What else do you need to spice up a room? Right: Nothing. Auch Haben!

Ultrafragola mirror in the 1970s

Ultrafragola in the 1970s

Description: Ultrafragola; Mirrored glass with vacuum-formed opaline
acrylic with pink neon light. Produced by Poltronova, Italy. Both in its name and in its sinuous shape, this evocative and erotic ‘vanitas’ is a homage to Ettore Sottsass’s obsession for women. It was realised in materials that were unashamedly new: wavy vacuum-formed acrylic sheet and coloured neon light as opposed to the more traditional mirror made from gilded, carved wood. For Sottsass “Life is perceived by the senses before the intellect, and sexuality belongs to that sensorial vocabulary.” He intended this piece to carry deep meaning and yet carry a modern simplicity. In the home the object would assume a ritual value, as if it had sprung from the ancient oriental cultures in to the present. This was the only production piece from the Mobili Grigi collection that Sottsass designed for Poltronova in 1970 yet still looks as fresh today. (text via centrostudipoltronova)

Introducing Beja von Bis With NEON Art

Posted on 09/12/2013 by Mimi Berlin Amsterdam

Introducing Beja von Bis With NEON Art: It occurred to us that Beja von Bis has never been properly introduced on Mimi’s Blog. And that’s a darned, doggone shame on Mimi Berlin’s part!