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The annual Salone Internazionale del Mobile furniture fair in Milan is all about size and scale: the greatest number of visitors, the most champagne consumed, more products than any one person could ever see. This year marked its 50th anniversary, meaning even grander gestures—including a virtual forest created in the shadow of Teatro alla Scala. Here, our picks from the show.
May 2011
With his penchant for high-backed, cocoonlike chairs, Spanish designer
Jaime Hayon for years seemed to be riffing on the language of Danish
design icon Arne Jacobsen. So it was fitting that Hayon recently teamed
up with Jacobsen’s former patron and producer, Fritz Hansen, to create
Favn, a curving, frame-backed sofa with a name that’s Danish for
“embrace”—and an expertly stitched shell that offers a modern take on
midcentury.
May 2011
Photos courtesy of the designers
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