While Salone de Mobile is turning 50 this year, the venerable design institution is paying heed to the new up-and-comers with its 14th installment of SaloneSatellite, a special exhibition for designers under 35. In the past 13 years, more than 6,000 designers from almost 200 different schools have participated and big names like Front, Lorenzo Damiani, and Sean Yoo have gone on to cement their place in the next 50 years of design history. Here are the picks that caught our eye:
The Cut Desk from Jessika
Kalleskog has a Midcentury feel with its simple lines and chestnut
veneer and then a distinctly sculptural, 21st century bent when the cut
becomes visible. Its success is it’s deceptive simplicity. contour.cc
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