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Publishers at Salone del Mobile 2022
2022 was the year of all reissues. For the last part of the Salon del Mobile at Milan Design Week, publishers – B&B Italia, Tacchini, Flos, Acerbis – revived their mythical pieces, from the 1960s to today, in versions each more stylish than the next. Other younger and more contemporary houses, such as cc-tapis, boldly revealed their latest creative collaborations. Back to Milan.
Tacchini's utopianism
@ Andrea Ferrari
At Tacchini, the big star was Mario Bellini's Le Mura sofa, a classic of radical Italian design, reissued fifty years after its creation with impeccable sand-coloured leather. The sofa was sacred in the heart of a utopian installation designed by Lorenzo Bini (Studio Binocle). Other pieces by Tacchini punctuated the whole with a natural and soft material library in perfect tones: Noé Duchaufour-Lawrance's Dolmen marble tables, the new blue edition of Tobia Scarpa's Pigreco chair; the Alma rattan and limestone lamp by Studiopepe...
The remastered Acerbis archive
© Acerbis
Acerbis has anchored in modernity a selection of pieces that have marked Italian design, revised according to the vision of the brand's new creative directors: David Lopez Quincoces and Francesco Meda.In this collection entitled "Remasters", Nanda Vigo's Storet chest of drawers is enriched with high-gloss lacquered drawers and brand new proportions ; ; Roberto Monsani's System Lifeis adorned with yellow satin glass checkerboards edged with fine ribs and diffused LED lighting; the Life sofa by the same designer retains its modular silhouette but lengthens and is dressed in velvet, walnut and ash.
B&B Italia's new-look icons
© Tommaso Sartori
Another Bellini icon was restyled at the Salone del Mobile for its anniversary, this time for the publisher B&B Italia: the Bambole armchair created in 1972. For the occasion, the designer asked British fashion designer Stella McCartney to personalise his creation. The result is a chair in her most beautiful Fungi Forest SS22 print. Edward Barber and Jay Osgerby's Tobi-Ishi table was also blowing out its candles. For its tenth birthday, it is transformed into a Gothic relic with bands of white Carrara and green Alpi marble inspired by Italian cathedrals.
The visible becomes invisible at Flos
© Mattia Balsamini
To crystallise the sixtieth anniversary of the iconic Arco luminaire created in 1962 by brothers Achille and Pier Giacomo Castiglioni, the same year the publisher was founded, Flos unveiled "Arco K 2022". The transparent version of the lighting, with a new crystal block base that enhances the satin-finished stainless steel structure with fabulous beams of light.
The carpet as a spatial entity at cc-tapis
Collection Tempore de Duccio Maria Gambi © Claudia Zalla
The most daring carpet brand of the decade, Cc-carpet, did not celebrate any particular date but continued to expand its empire through its latest creative collaborations. This year, artists and designers Bethan Laura Wood, Odd Matter, Patricia Urquiola, Mae Engelgeer and Duccio Maria Gambi raised the textile piece and redefined it as a spatial entity through their respective influences.
