POISSON BY DONDOLO

Poisson is a wooden rocking toy for children from 18 months to 4 years by Dondolo a new brand of objects and toys by Arno Liegeon.
Dondolo, rock into a make-believe!

COPERNIC LAMPS BY JULIE LANSOM

Copernic Lamps by Julie Lansom, a 27 years old photographer and designer based in Paris, are unique: they are hand-painted in her workshop in Paris and they are made of MDF wood. 

LABORATORIOGRAFICO

Laboratoriografico is a project by Elisa and Luca: it comes mainly from their passion for graphics applied to the paper, so enjoy their beautiful works!

ETTORE SPALLETTI @ MARIAN GOODMAN GALLERY LONDON

Marian Goodman Gallery London presents Every dawn, is first: its first exhibition by Ettore Spalletti, combining recent and important earlier paintings, sculpture and works on paper in an encompassing yet atemporal installation that permeates and subtly alters the gallery’s interior architecture. 
Spalletti presents a series of multi-panel paintings in azure blue. Some torque away from the wall, reaching into the room and saturating it with colour, which itself becomes both physical and structural. Each work balances a gently insistent presence with an ethereal materiality. The main upper gallery displays his most recent paintings, including the multi-panel Passeggio works that recall the sea and landscape views from around his studio in Abruzzo, on the Italian Adriatic Coast. A levitating blue field, supporting an ovoid alabaster sculpture, fills the adjacent upper side gallery as a site-specific installation.
Image credit: Thierry Bal  - Copyright Ettore Spalletti and courtesy of Ettore Spalletti and Marian Goodman Gallery

 

CRESCENDO BY ALESSANDRO SANNA

Crescendo is the new book edited by Gallucci Editore: from conception to birth, Alessandro Sanna tells the wonder of life growing with watercolors. Its illustrations compose a delicate story through images, constructed by the shape of the mother's belly. The book is accompanied by a Cd that contains 18 minutes of music specially composed and performed by Paolo Fresu.

CHILDREN'S HOME OF THE FUTURE

Here there is the Children’s Home of the Future, a pioneering project by Cebra - a Danish architecture and design practice - for an entirely new type of 24-hour care centre for marginalized children. 

LINES & DOTS BY GOULA/FIGUERA STUDIO

The first product in the Home Adventures collection by Goula/Figuera Studio, called Lines & Dots, is a suspended light fitting.

“decorative illumination is the field of design that gives more freedom to shape and which, as a consequence, is much closer to the world of art” 

In the case of Lines & Dots this reality goes one step further: light, a key element, relinquishesall its importance to the material, the metal, in this particular case working as would a sculptor. 

BOLOGNA CHILDREN'S BOOK FAIR

Let's start with 2016 Bologna Children's Book Fair! The venue and the event for all those people working in kids' content today (and not only), till April 7th. Do not miss it!
Drawings by:
1 Almeras Camille
2 Alonso Cynthia
3 Blau Aliosma
4 Di Giorgio Maria Chiara
5 Giordano Philip

 

 

DOUBT BY CARSTEN HOLLER @ HANGAR BICOCCA

On April 6 Pirelli HangarBicocca will open Doubt, Carsten Höller’s solo exhibition. His work summons upon different states of mind: joy, illusion, and of course, “doubt”, which opens the door to new ways of perceiving reality. The exhibition, curated by Vicente Todolí, includes more than twenty large-scale works, both existent and new, aligned alongthe middle axis of the space. This alignment of works forms a central dividing wall, where visitors will see/experience only half of a given work, and have to remember the half they have seen until they encounter the other half on the other side. Large-scale installations, videos and photographs play with the spatial and temporal coordinates of the exhibition venue, charting a course between symmetry, duplication and reversal. 

KARLA BLACK @ DAVID ZWIRNER NY

Combining traditional artistic materials such as chalk, paper, paint, and plaster with everyday items including eye shadow, earth, ribbon, toilet paper, and cotton wool, Karla Black’s works at David Zwirner Gallery in New York are at once elaborate and simple, expressive and restrained. They challenge their own medium by being “almost” or “only just” objects with a close affinity to painting, performance art, and installation. As the artist notes, the “most important thing about the work is that it prioritizes material experience over language as a way to learn about and understand the world.”

CUBETTO BY PRIMO TOYS

Cubetto by Primo Toys is a playful wooden robot that helps young children discover programming through storytelling, adventure and collaboration.

DOUDOU OU ES-TU?

Designed by an architect and written in collaboration with a teacher, Les Maisons de Léon by Marcel & Joachim is a new ingenious book collection in which the house is built over the cut pages. This is the beautiful Doudou où es-tu?
Photos by Mélanie Desriaux

PAPARAJOTE FACTORY

Paparajote Factory began in a Mediterranean city, from the hands of Pilar Larrotcha and Sonia de la Iglesia. These products are developed based on the simple thought of making you happier by touching textiles which recall comfort, warmth elegance and quality. The name Paparajote comes from a traditional Murcian dessert made from a lemon tree leaf dipped in batter, deep fried and covered with sugar and cinnamon. The dough is then eaten hot while the lemon leaf is being thrown away.

FUDJE

FUDJE is a new design brand set up by the partners of edje architects, Julie and Elena, with offices in Athens, Greece. Being brought up and having lived in both South Africa and Greece Julie and Elena have always taken inspiration from both countries in their work. By revisiting local craftsmanship and traditional techniques fudje aims to produce a contemporary aesthetic in childrens’ furniture.

 

TOUTES LES CHOSES AVEC LESQUELLES...

Toutes les choses avec lesquelles... is a book edited by Helium with drawings by Gaia Stella. It's an illustration book about a mysterious narrator who numbers, piece by piece, everything there is in his house. Furniture to sit or lie down, utensils to cook, to tinker with or to gardening, and all outdoor games... But who is he?

FRACTALS AND SERENDIPITY

Fractals and Serendipity is a fantastic workshop with visual artist Alexandra Kehayoglou from 17th to 23rd of July 2016 at Boisbuchet. In this workshop you’ll find and reproduce the imperfect balance of patterns in nature through textile and wood work. The exercise of reproducing nature faces you with the challenge of competing with the slow, intricate, chaotic and pseudo-perfect mechanisms of creation. 

THE ALCHEMY OF COLOUR

In the white room of Palazzo Mocenigo, until the 10th of April 2016, The Alchemy of Colour: a “journey” through the different natural dying techniques of textiles. The exhibition, while explaining one of our first technological enterprise, reveals how human evolution, both cultural and economical and scientific advancement have always gone hand in hand. Curated by Stefano Panconesi, Sissi Castellano, Chiara Squarcina and Augusto Panini the display presents primary materials and products of the dyeing process. Mainly base textiles and hanks, they are the result of a natural process created using a colour palette derived from natural colours- roots, stems, bark, leaves, flowers, fruits and some insects- from witch the original pigments are obtained: yellow, red, blue, orange, green and purple.

TRUECOLORS BY VISSER & MEIJWAARD

Truecolors collection by Visser & Meijwaard is inspired by the quality of industrial PVC cloth. 
The collection consists of a series of benches, stools, cabinets and bags made from this strong cloth. Truecolors is a contemporary design collection in which versatility of color and use are key.
The cabinets and stools are built up from oak frames with a PVC upholstery. Because of the zipper the cushion covers can be replaced and the cabinets can be opened and closed.
Photos by Kevin Rijnders

 

PICCOLA ORSA BY JO WEAVER

Piccola Orsa comes out: a children's book published by Orecchio Acerbo, written and illustrated by Jo Weaver. This book is about a fantastic adventure  in the forest of a bear and her lovely cub.