Rossana Orlandi Eyewear

Posted on 23/03/2017 by Mimi Berlin Amsterdam

Rossana Orlandi Eyewear

Rossana Orlandi is a design curator and shop owner of Spazio Rossana Orlandi in Milan. You can recognize her by her large white vintage spectacles with blue tinted glasses. (and by her UGGs in winter-time and her Repetto flats in the Summer) She is also her own marketing-tool; in the shape of Rossana Orlandi Eyewear “Through the years this stylish big-size vintage sunglasses became a signature of Rossana Orlandi. In 2015 she decided to lounch the production of this iconic shape. The first shades were presented at galleria Rossana Orlandi during Salone del Mobile 2015.” (read more rossanaorlandi.com) The glasses come in an Unlimited Edition (of course, why not?!) and cost €340,-

Ms Orlandi (photo by Mimi Berlin)

Ms Orlandi’s glasses (photo courtesy of RO Eyewear)

Fuorisalone 2015: Spazio Rossana Orlandi

Posted on 21/04/2015 by Mimi Berlin Amsterdam

Fuorisalone 2015: Spazio Rossana Orlandi

Corners by Kyuhyung Cho

Planet Lamp by Mette Schelde

Material Rack by Germans Ermičs

‘Full Color Candle’ by Wonmin Park

Arita

Arita Pottery

Thomas Eyck presents “bottom ash observatory” an incinerated municipal solid waste expedition by Christien Meindertsma photographed by Mathijs Labadie

wall stitch project

wall stitch project by Yoy

Lamp by Rick Tegelaar

from Scarlet Splendour

Lucky Piggy Bank by Seiji Fujimoto (Tokyo Midtown Award Exhibition in Milan 2015)

Rossana Olandi 2015

Kyuhyung Cho / Wallstitch project / Scarlet Splendour / Rick Tegelaar / Mette Schelde / Wonmin Park / Arita / t.e. / Germans Ermičs

This year, at Spazio Rossana Orlandi, more space than usual was reserved for Nika Zupanc, we are fans of Ms Zupanc! (<click to read our post) Also a nice surprise was the debut collection of Scarlet Splendour, furniture and lighting designed by Matteo Cibic; luxury galore in black, white and gold, in a way it matches the work of Nika Zupanc. Having that said: The choices for designs on exhibit at Spazio Rossana Orlandi were a bit too eclectic for us, you all know us at Mimi Berlin, we like to categorize things! Par exemple/For instance; Damiano Spelta’s work, which is fun but a bit overwhelming, was scattered throughout the building. An over-sized-ladies-purse-as-couch in pink placed aside, let’s say, the work of Piet Hein Eek, is too much of a miss-match for us to concentrate on anything. And why was a vintage prototype of a 7.5 meters long Torpedo placed in the room next to the quirky dinnerware by Astier de Villatte? Well, guess we should see Spazio Rossana Orlandi as a department store which caters to all kinds of customers and carries all kinds of designers; from experimental starters to commercial giants. We’ll just have to have fun with that……the next time we visit.

Eli Bensusan

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Grandmother Tips project by Alessandra Baldereschi

marimekko

panerai watches

An Original U-boat on show forpanerai watches

panerai watches

damiano spelta

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rossana orlandi shop, on exhibit; piet hein eek

Damiano Spelta’s couch; rossana orlandi shop

rossana orlandi shop

courtyard; by Damiano Spelta

courtyard; by Gufram

Damiano Spelta / Gufram / Von Pelt / Marimekko / Panerai / Eli Bensusan / Alessandra Baldereschi

Marmo Fluido recipes in natural resin at Spazio Rossana Orlandi, is a project by Pietrasanta Industries and Carmine Deganello. They are a new series of products made by Massimiliano Adami, Carmine Deganello, Pepe Heykoop, Roel Huisman, Sjoerd Jonkers, Jorrit Taekema, Jeroen Wand, Sander Wassink and Jólan van der Wiel. Marmo Fluido is first heated and then poured, this natural resin is as strong as marble and simultaneously as fluid as water. Its flexible nature allows for a variety of moulding materials and options. All participants made the most of this exciting freedom: they chose leather, wood, cardboard, and even ice to give manifold shapes to this material.

Marmo Fluido recipes in natural resin

3-D printing with Marmo Fluido

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Pepe Heykoop

Jolan van der Wiel

Roel Huisman

Jeroen wand; plaster vase

Sander Wassink; Bricoleur of modernity 2.0

View Nika Zupanc at Spazio Rossana Orlandi in 2015 HERE

Fuorisalone 2015; Nika Zupanc at Spazio Rossana Orlandi

Posted on 16/04/2015 by Mimi Berlin Amsterdam

Fuorisalone 2015; Nika Zupanc at Spazio Rossana Orlandi

Collection III, Nika Zupanc for Sé

Nika Zupanc for Francfranc

Naked Chair and Naked Desk by Nika Zupanc

Bubble Lamp

Secretaria Desk

Nika Zupanc for Francfranc

This year at Milan Design Week 2015, Spazio Rossana Orlandi reserved more space than usual for the designs of Nika Zupanc. Also on show; the Naked Chair and Naked Desk, made from highly polished brass, were designed by Ms Zupanc for Rossana Orlandi. Continue reading →

Untold at the Museo Bagatti Valsecchi

Posted on 21/04/2014 by Mimi Berlin Amsterdam

Untold, an exhibition curated by Rossana Orlandi at the Museo Bagatti Valsecchi during Milan Design Week 2014. Museo Bagatti Valsecchi is a historic house museum which showcases the collection of the brothers Bagatti Valsecchi who decorated their house (at the end of the 19th century) mainly in a Neo-Renaissance style, including their collection of paintings and decorative arts of the 15th and 16th centuries. Rossana Orlandi gathered modern day furniture/art/design and placed them in this antique environment. We never visited this museum, the location sure was a nice surprise. But it would have been a great visit without the added modern design as well. We, at Mimi Berlin, thought the exhibited designs, (which were all very pretty) weren’t always a bonus to the house. As always, that’s only in our opinion and of course we made some pictures so you can judge for yourself……