Collector Mag’s top 5 highlights from Salone del Mobile 2023
Milan’s annual design event ‘Salone del Mobile’ took place last week. High on the collector agenda, people from around the world gathered in the Italian city to observe the latest innovations and concepts driving the design industry forward, amongst them some desirable collectibles. Discover our top 5 highlights!
1.Loewe’s chairs
Images courtesy of Loewe
This year, LOEWE returned to Salone del Mobile with a collection of chairs reimagined by artisans to become one-of-a-kind collectible items. The selling exhibition took place in the courtyard of Palazzo Isimbardi, Corso Monforte, 35, Milan 20122. There, the Spanish brand unveiled thirty stick chairs—both antique and newly crafted— and eight paper loom chairs to illustrate the functional and decorative value of chairs. The initiative led by creative director Jonathan Anderson, saw these chairs embellished with natural fibres including raffia. The weaving techniques and colourful materials used brought a playful interpretation to familiar designs. The project saw a showcase of weaving techniques in different materials close to the LOEWE lexicon, while others were completely unexpected.
2.Loro Piana’s ‘Apacheta’
Courtesy of Loro Piana
The Cortile della Seta at via della Moscova 33 played host to “Apacheta”, the new project by Loro Piana Interiors for Milano Design Week. For the occasion the space was been transformed into a dreamlike panorama imagined by the designer and artist Cristián Mohaded, inspired by the landscapes of Argentina. An infinite white that echoed the pumice stone desert welcomed the "Apacheta" furnishings between towers swathed in their discontinued fabrics. The experience continued with two outdoor installations situated in Piazzetta Brera and the courtyard of Loro Piana's store in via Montenapoleone 27.
Courtesy of Loro Piana
Courtesy of Loro Piana
3.Buccellati’s Venini ‘Rosso Maraviglia’
Images courtesy of Buccellati
Images courtesy of Buccellati
Buccellati loves to combine silver with the most diverse materials, and among these Murano glass. As early as the 70s, jam jars became glass flowers and vegetables, with silver lids reproducing leaves and petioles. In 2016 the first collaboration with Venini kicks off to expand and embellish the already well-known Caviar line. Several years on, in occasion of the Salone del Mobile 2023, Buccellati and Venini:two Italian excellences passionate about craftsmanship and tradition, which are symbols in the world of high quality and prestige of workmanship, uniqueness and timeless elegance- launch the "Rosso Maraviglia" including this iteration of the famous Venini fazzoletto vase.
Rosso Maraviglia Large Vase
4-La Double J’s wallpaper
La DoubleJ wallpaper at Apophis Club. Photo: Mariela Medina
For this year’s Salone de Mobile, La DoubleJ celebrated the most important moment of the design world calendar by wrapping Milano in wonder, wallpapering the bathrooms of some of their favourite spots around the city with their highest vibe prints. Some of the venues included in the toilette tour included La DoubleJ store, Fioraio Bianchi Caffè, Giacomo Bistrot, Apophis Club, Pasticceria Cucchi and Trattoria Torre Di Pisa to name a few. All wallpapers are available for bespoke projects.
La DoubleJ wallpaper at La Trattoria di Pisa. Photo: Mariela Medina
La DoubleJ wallpaper at Pasticceria Cova. Photo: Mariela Medina
5- Dior’s armchair by PHILIPPE STARCK
Monsieur Dior armchair - Courtesy of Maison Dior
For this edition of the Salone del Mobile, Dior Maison and Philippe Starck continued their collaboration and unveiled the Monsieur Dior armchair, a tribute to the emblematic figure of the couturier in the heart of Palazzo Citterio in Milan. “After Miss Dior, unveiled in 2022 – the chair inspired by the iconic Medallion – it was natural to expand the family with Monsieur Dior, this new armchair,” comments Philippe Starck. Symbols of supreme savoir-faire combined with the most advanced technologies, these exceptional pieces are revealed in different materials and colours (polished or lacquered aluminum, ecru bouclé fabric and pink, black or fluorescent orange toile de Jouy), and are surrounded by the most comprehensive collection of furniture ever created for the House.
Monsieur Dior armchair - Courtesy of Maison Dior
Monsieur Dior armchair - Courtesy of Maison Dior