While international design brands competed for attention during Milan Design Week, Brazilian designers and manufacturers had a strong presence on the fairgrounds and on the streets, making their case in the spotlight. Brazil, the world’s sixth-largest furniture producer, has a distinctly South American feel, while still matching modern European design, with organic colors, sustainable practices, natural woods, fibers, ropes, We exhibited furniture that emphasizes the use of natural materials such as leather. Fabrics, wool and textiles. Here are his five highlights from this week’s show in Brazil.
Ornale Milano Showroom
Luxury furniture brand Ornale, with eight showrooms in the US and 14 in Brazil, expands into the European market with a new two-story, light-filled showroom in Milan’s 18th-century Palazzo Galarati Scotti . The showroom on Via Manzoni featured the brand’s modern wardrobe, kitchen and bathroom collections, accessories and furniture, as well as works by Brazilian artists.
Naturalia Collection by Etel Carmona
Designed in collaboration with Milan-based designer and architect Patricia Urquiola, the Naturalia collection includes coffee tables, sofas, benches and armchairs. The seats have wooden frames upholstered in fabrics similar to her two styles of “furniture clothing”: untreated summer cotton fabrics and wool versions made exclusively from textile industry surpluses. I am. The side and center tables are made from a vegetable resin that combines macera grass and tree sawdust dyed with natural pigments from Brazilian soil, and a plant-based bioplastic from the sugar cane industry. Available in the US at Etel Carmona’s Houston Gallery.
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