Italian time is the enhancement project of Italian designOrganized starting from the appointment of Design Week in Stockholm from the 4 7 2014 February,
thanks to the support of the Italian Embassy in Denmark, the Italian Embassy in Sweden, the ICE Sweden and the Institute of Italian Culture, splendid example of architecture and Italian design designed in the '50 by Gio Ponti who will be home.
Italian weather is a selection of Italian design collection according to the conductive thread of time: lifetime of a product, the time it takes to create it, to produce it, to complete its life cycle or to regenerate it, as it serves to give life and soul.
The protagonists of Italian Time are the enduring values that are rooted in the unique identity of Italian design, its 'to do' production, expressing his creative sense.
The project aims at creating a synergistic platform, Coordinated with defined image and a cultural program and professional meetings, representing a selection of excellence of Italian design in Scandinavia. The goal is to draw a scenario able to portray, in an appropriate setting for the Scandinavian market, the identity of Italian design today, presenting a selection of rich companies of authentic content, attention to craftsmanship of the project, workmanship valuable, innovative ways.
The curatorial cut coordinates the attendance in a system operation, chorus, emphasizing the values of a new identity and relationship to the material and function.
The platform was presented in a first stage, to dall'8 January 10 2014 in Copenhagen, Denmark at the first edition of Design Trade Fair. After this event the format will pass to the second stage during the Stockholm Design Week in February 2014 from 4 on February 7 2014.
They are part of the event Italian Time:
- Antonio Aricò www.antonioarico.com
- The penthouse Cristina Celestino www.designattico.com
- Clara Wells www.clarapozzetti.com
- Dario Cecchini www.dariocecchini.com
- Duccio Maria Stems www.ducciomariagambi.com
- Estel www.estel.com
- Francesco Faccin www.francescofaccin.it
- GamFratesi www.gamfratesi.com
- GT Design www.gtdesign.it
- The Po www.ilpodesign.com
- Internoitaliano www.internoitaliano.com
- Lanzavecchia + Wai www.lanzavecchia-wai.com
- RestartMilano www.restartmilano.com
- Serralunga www.serralunga.com
- Slowd www.slowd.it
- Stefano Pugliese www.stefanopugliese.com
- TobeUs www.tobeus.it
- valcucine www.valcucine.it
- Valerio Cometti + V12 Design www.v12design.com
This calendar of seminars to be held during the event 4 days:
- February 4 2014, 3 pm 'Digital Italian Forerunners'
- The Italian project between tradition, craftsmanship and new digital connections
- February 5 2014, 3 pm 'Italian food from scratch'
- The new Italian restaurant; The design tempodel
- February 6 2014, 3 pm 'Time to design, time for an object to last, time to respect'
- How long an object, that is necessary to create it, what you need to produce it
- February 7 2014, 3 pm 'North Connection: what makes successful italian design in northern Europe'
- Distribute Italian design in northern Europe
The press conference for the presentation of Italian Time will be held at the Italian Embassy in Stockholm on January 22 2014.
Italian weather is a project created and conceived by Patrizia Coggiola
The art direction and dell'allestimento project have signing Navone Associati www.navoneassociati.com
Re-Fire by Francesco Faccin preview for Italian Time
Tempo Italiano begins its adventure by presenting an exclusive preview of Francesco Faccin's project 'Re-Fire', manual fire ignition kit, built using contemporary tools and production processes, sophisticated and affordable for everyone.
Francesco Faccin responds with this project to the provocative message launched by the Tempo Italiano platform, which invited its participants to reflect on the current and past times of design, on the meaning of productive 'doing' today, on returning to the origin of true needs and action within sustainable value systems.
"With this project" Faccin says, “You can create fire with your own hands, in primitive mode. Let's start again from fire, the symbolic element that removed primitive man from the animal dimension and projected him towards the future of amazing innovations. Fire was invented and not discovered because it already exists in nature but it is necessary to know how to 'produce' it. Here begins the project, the refinement of skills, the ability to see, the overcoming of difficulties. So let's start again from the beginning, when we struggled to survive but everything was clear and limpid, without superfetations and semantic misunderstandings about 'things'. Let's start again with this approach by getting back in touch with that part of us that needs simple things, well built because they are necessary to survive, which bind us deeply to nature but exploiting the immense scientific and technical heritage that man has produced in these millennia ".
The 'Re-Fire' kit will be presented during a design performance on the opening night of the Tempo Italiano exhibition at the Italian Cultural Institute on February 5, 2014.
The penthouse Cristina Celestino
pure volumes and materials research, combined with timeless memories and emotions, are the values that underlie Attic, The production of furniture and lamps of Cristina Celestino: A work that is enriched by the local industrial and working skills of the craftsmen bent to small numbers and wealth of detail.
The search for niche production realities, combined with projects born also from the discovery of new potentialities hidden in traditional production techniques, has led to the birth of projects that, although perfectly industrializable, carry within themselves the charm of craftsmanship, the discovery of error and the luxury of time. At Tempo Italiano there will be the Atomizer table perfume collection inspired by the bottles of vintage fragrances and the Ecstasy toilet.
Duccio Maria Stems
Fiorentino based in Paris, Duccio Maria Stems creates pieces of furniture and sculptures, unique pieces and limited editions, concrete reinforced with glass fibers, Attendance poetic strong sculptural quality.
With Beton Bowls - containers that play on the disorientation between the expectation of the soft and the light and the surprise of the rigid and the heavy - Duccio Maria Gambi investigates the infinite possibilities of texturing and coloring of BeFUHP, a particular type of concrete.
At Tempo Italiano there will also be the Owl wall lamp, which during the day imposes its sculptural quality, due to the aesthetics of the material and the random signs on the surface and at night, it is a poetic presence, through the eclipse of the body that becomes a geometric shape against the background of the light that radiates from the inside.
Owl plays on this double level of presence and absence, on the negative positive of his physical substance which is alternately an added element and an element subtracted, addition and subtraction. Finally Tania, born from the recovery of a tank for liquids that is used as a mold. the concrete that is poured into it hardens and the original shape transfers its ergonomics to the new phantom object.
RestartMilano
RestartMilanoThe project Luca Liberals and Maurizio Navone created with the aim of proposing a series of artifacts deeply rooted in the history of design and executive ability typical of Italian production.
They are lamps, furniture and furnishing accessories that evoke memories and, at the same time, are grafted into the contemporary, with the explicit intention of becoming immediate classics.
The production of RestartMilano is entrusted to a network of artisans and small workshops to offer achievements in which the contribution of experience and by the producer becomes an integral part of the project.
