BIOPHILIA Collection by Ross Lovegrove for VONDOM

From Ross Lovegrove

BIOPHILIA Collection explores a new design language that forms a dialogue between time, form and space combining the pioneering organic design of Sagrada Famila by Antonio Gaudi, VONDOM expertise in advanced roto-moulded technology and my studios ongoing research into the transference of digital process into contemporary design. This enrichment process places its origin at a time when discovery of nature , its wonder and the resulting diversity of forms beginning with Art Nouveaux , an enduringly beautiful and sensual movement in art that brought the organic World brought inanimate objects to life through the fluid organic minds of designers, artists , photographers and architects alike. Taken out of craft and into the 21st century progressive domain of polymerization and industry BIOPHILIA is a collection, acknowledges this lineage but pushes the boundaries between material structure and form into a new modern territory as yet unseen, parametrically conceived and diametrically opposed to modernism in its expression.

3+ collection by Oskar Zieta

"The furniture is already in production and will be presented next month in Milan at the MOST exhibition and at EDIT by designjunction from 9 to 14 April – see all news and products from Milan this year.Zieta's previous work includes a bulging metal stool formed by inflating its legs with fluid – see all projects by Oskar Zieta."
Photographs are by Jedrzej Stelmaszek, Paulina Sikorska and Zieta Prozessdesign.

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ROMBO CHAIR BY J.C. KARICH

Wood and polymer, with no hardware at all, Rombo Chair by J.C. Karich creates a singular and flexible seating area with polymer-joined segments of ash plywood, built without nails or screws.

STOLEK CHAIR BY MICHAEL KONSTANTIN WOLKE

Stackable seating with nothing left hidden, Stolek Chair by Michael Konstantin Wolke, in beech and jute, reveals its structure, with pinned cords at the back that can be used to retighten the fabric when it stretches. 

Superbambi by Scoope Design

This piece of furniture by Scoope Design can switch between a chair, table or step ladder depending on how it's slotted together.Superbambi comprises two interlocking wooden sections that fit together in two ways or can be used separately.Scoope Design created an orange chair back with two long prongs that fit through angled channels in the back legs of the white base to form a seat.The base can also be used on its own as a small table or children's desk, with a top that slides off to reveal a turquoise surface.

Bronco Stool for SUPER-ETTE by Guillaume Delvigne

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Bikini island collection by Werner Aisslinger for Moroso

The furniture will be presented at Salone Internazionale del Mobile in Milan between from 9 to 14 April.
Berlin-based designer Werner Aisslinger will unveil brightly coloured chairs and a set of modular furniture for Italian brand Moroso in Milan next month.Werner Aisslinger's Bikini Wood dining chair and swivel chair for Morosocome in a variety of bold colour gradients. The backs of the wooden chairs are covered by a slim piece of leather or fabric.The Bikini Island collection comprises a range of modular units, including tables, poufs, cabinets and sofas in various fabrics.

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Tram Chair by Thomas Feichtner for TON

Austrian designer Thomas Feichtner has steam-bent and laminated wood to create a chair for Czech furniture brand TON.

The legs and back rest are steam-bent into shape by clamping cylindrical wooden poles in metal moulds at the same factory that Thonet's iconic bent-wood chairs were made.

The laminated-wood seat shells are supported underneath by two braces, which also connect the legs.Feichtner's chairs were named for their likeness to the plastic seats on the trams in Prague.Thomas Feichtner has also designed a chair with the seat suspended in a cubic oak frame and a chandelier with a single crystal, which he describes in this movie we filmed.

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