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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
Doshi Levien’s Impossible Wood chair for Moroso was inspired by a
Seventies-era Martin Puryear sculpture in curved wood, but its
construction is pure 21st century. Using a material known as liquid
wood—it’s part wood fiber, part polypropylene, and mixes the patinated
look of timber with the fluidity of plastic—the British design couple
created a chair that mimics the appearance of bentwood classics yet owes
its improbable curves to injection molding.
May 2011
Photos courtesy of the designers
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