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The New Guard
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:
May 2011
It may be all the rage to move away from the traditional light bulb to
modern-looking LEDs but Kirsti Taiviola takes a step in a creative new
direction: hand-blown blubs are molded with carefully placed facets and
then illuminated with an LED rather than traditional filament. The
result is beautiful snowflake-like halo. kirstitaiviola.com
April 2011
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