Lighting Designer Lindsey Adelman Shares Highlights from Salone del Mobile Inline
Photo: Courtesy of Lindsey Adelman1/13“Massimiliano is an incredibly talented architect and furniture designer who also shows with Nina Yashar of Nilufar Gallery. In this church, he designed and constructed a freestanding three-floor office for his firm without touching any of the historical frescoed walls. The installation for Salone was awe-inspired.”
Photo: Courtesy of Lindsey Adelman2/13“The Nendo Retrospective at Museo della Permanente presented apparently one-year’s worth of work in such a massive space it felt like a decade’s. Minimalist and pure with a wry sense of humor.”
Photo: Courtesy of Lindsey Adelman3/13“Me with Dimore Studio founders Britt Moran and Emiliano Salci. Dimore Studio keeps getting more amazing. They transformed their Milan live/work space once again; it felt like an eerie, emotional set of an intense film of a lost era.”
Photo: Courtesy of Lindsey Adelman4/13Palazzo Litta, a seventh-century Baroque marvel, reimagined by architect Michele de Lucchi
“I was seduced by the staggering romance of the Baroque details found in the walls, ceilings, and chandeliers. The exhibit presented by DAMN magazine included direction by Michele de Lucchi entitled the ‘Aesthetics of Misery.’ Such good drama.”
Photo: Courtesy of Lindsey Adelman5/13At Restart, designer Maurizio Navone paired Alcantara fabrics with artist and photographer **Carlo Mollino’**s nude Polaroids from the sixties and seventies, from the collectsion of gallerist Francesca Kauffman.
“This gallery on via Santa Marta showed a domestic setting of Mollino’s work, including a few of his famous Polaroids of dancers cleverly hung partially concealed by velvet curtains.”
Photo: Courtesy of Lindsey Adelman6/13In the neoclassical Palazzo Serbelloni, Caesarstone exhibited geometric and tactile quartz stone planters by Canadian designer Philippe Malouin.
“A fun show displaying many carving approaches to Ceasarstone made into planters and swings.”
Photo: Courtesy of Lindsey Adelman7/13“Me with Cherry Bomb Cages at Nilufar Depot, curated by gallery founder Nina Yashar. These two new over-scaled chandeliers look very normal-scale in Nina’s completely transformed warehouse. The ambitious exhibition, including over 3,000 historically significant vintage pieces, will remain up through the summer.”
Photo: Courtesy of Lindsey Adelman8/13Emerging technology on view at Spazio Rossana Orlandi. These primitive-looking 3-D-printed ceramics are the outcome of Adaptive Manufacturing, a collaboration between Olivier van Herpt and Sander Wassink and a custom-designed clay extruder.”
“The designers allow environmental factors to inform the course of the manufacturing and hence the final form.”
Photo: Courtesy of Lindsey Adelman9/13A highlight of “Arts & Crafts & Design: Time According to ÉCAL and Swiss Craftsman,” at Museo Bagatti Valsecchi, sponsored by watchmaker Vacheron Constantin, was this brass-handled tray with a liquid-like pattern of mahogany and wood veneer, designed by ECAL/Mareike Rittig.
“The wood marquetry was impressive as well as the symmetrical illusion created in the polished brass handle.”
Photo: Courtesy of Lindsey Adelman10/13“Formafantasma project with Fabrica Andrea and Simone Farresin of Formafantasma art-directing the resident designers at Fabrica to create a visceral, paired-down, yet intriguing show.”
Photo: Courtesy of Lindsey Adelman11/13This jacket, presented at Wallpaper* Handmade, is the result of a collab between landscape painter Jared Rue and Studio Toogood, a British firm dedicated to unisex outerwear, founded by interior and furniture designer Faye Toogood with her sister, Erica.
“Handmade. Rue applied his masterly approach to landscape painting to a brilliantly structured jacket by Erica and Faye Toogood incorporating hand-painted vines and actual white gold leaf.”
Photo: Courtesy of Lindsey Adelman12/13“Exercises in Seating,” at the Garage Sanremo, featured more than 40 of Brit designer **Max Lamb’**s chairs and stools.
“The installation made a regular car garage feel like a cathedral.”
Photo: Courtesy of Lindsey Adelman13/13Marry a bicycle and a birdcage and the result might be these steel rod Spokes lamps by Studio García Cumini Associati for Foscarini.
“I know how difficult it is to create something new in lighting using simple forms and this designer has definitely succeeded!”
