Called Everyday Objects, Big-Game's show at Galleria 70 will feature Cargo, a collection of items for Italian brand Alessi that were inspired by the aesthetic of Swiss toolboxes from the 1930s. There's a pair of small trays for storing anything from tools to stationary, plus a hammer with an ash handle.

For Japanese brand Karimoku New Standard, the designers have produced the Castor table to match their earlier Castor chair and stool.

The Castor tables come flat-packed and once assembled can be easily stacked. The round legs sit level with the tabletops at each rounded corner, so the tables can still be placed side-by-side.

Also on show at the exhibition will be Beam, an aluminium and ash coat hook that borrows its form from the peg rails in American Shaker houses. Beam is designed for Danish brand Hay.

Previous Big-Game projects featured on Dezeen include a series of cork toy boats launched in 2011 and the Bold chair from 2007 (below), which will also be shown as part of the Everyday Objects exhibition. See more design by Big-Game on Dezeen.

Everyday Objects will take place at Galleria 70, Corso di Porta Nuova 36/38, from 9 to 14 April.

Photography is by Michel Bonvin.

Here's some more information about each product from Big-Game:

BIG-GAME presents new everyday objects for Alessi, Hay, and Karimoku New Standard.

BEAM coat hanger, prototype for Hay

We were always fascinated by the peg rails found in American Shaker houses. Instead of hiding the mess, they somehow make it manageable. So when we were asked to think about something that could be in entrances, we readapted this idea with a metal profile. You can slide in the amount of hooks you want. It can be short or long depending on where you want to put it. You can also leave a note on it.

CARGO box, prototype for Alessi

A while ago, we were asked by Alberto Alessi to design "anonymous Swiss objects". As a reference, he gave us the classic 30’s Swiss metal toolboxes.

Our idea was to make some universal plastic containers with a wooden handle, bringing the functionality of toolboxes to the home. The CARGO boxes can be used to store all kinds of things, from stationery to sewing gear, tools to kitchen stuff.

CARGO hammer, prototype for Alessi

As a part of the series, we also made a simple hammer (everybody needs one at home).

CARGO catch all, prototype for Alessi

Along with two boxes and the hammer, the CARGO series also includes a circular catchall tray inspired by the traditional Japanese wooden carrying boxes called okamochi.

CASTOR chair, product for Karimoku New Standard

To design the CASTOR chair, we were inspired by the ergonomics of the wooden chairs that you find in old Swiss cafés that are famously very comfortable. It's made in Japan from solid oak by a company called Karimoku New Standard. The wood comes from trees that have irregular shapes and generally end up as paper pulp. The company's motto is: An object made of wood has to live at least as long as the tree it was made from.

CASTOR tables, prototype for Karimoku New Standard

Part from the chair, the CASTOR family also includes a stool, a bench, a shelf, and two tables. The tables are designed to be flat packed. Even though the feet are on the outside, the round edge has just the right dimension so you can put two tables together. We made them compact, as we wanted them to fit into various sized interiors, as well as cafés and restaurants. The tables stack, and the rectangle is twice the size of the square, so it’s easy to assemble them in various configurations.

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Swiss designers Big-Game launched an armchair that looks like a quilt-covered deckchair at the Villa Noailles design festival in France this weekend.

Designed for French brand Moustache, the Bold armchair joins the fabric-covered Bold chair (below), which was part of Moustache's inaugural collection when the brand launched in Milan in 2009.

The armchair (below) is upholstered in quilted fabric. Above: the Bold chair from 2009.

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Here's a (very) little bit of text from Big-Game:

BOLD armchair

The BOLD armchair is a one seater upholstered armchair developed for the French brand Moustache (www.moustache.fr).

The thick proportions make this comfortable seat a part of the BOLD family.

The upholstered structure is entirely covered with thick quilted fabric.

Picture by Martin Haldimann

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Milan 2011: here's another project from Lausanne studio Big-Game (see their furniture in  our earlier story) this time a series of cork toy boats for Portugese company Materia.

The toys, titled Bote, have a cork base with an interchangeable plastic mast or cabin.

The series will be on show at Via San Marco 38, Milan, April 12–17.

Photographs are by Julien Chavaillaz.

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BIG-GAME has made a series of floating boats in cork and plastic for the new Portuguese company Materia.

It will be launched in Milan during the design week April 12–17 at Via San Marco 38.

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Atelier Book Chair by Kana Nakanishi	Arche Toys by Floris Hovers	WOOD by Ten

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Designers Big-Game of Lausanne have made a series of mirrors from car windscreens.

Called FLAT mirrors, the project involved collecting windscreens from cars with flat windows: a Citröen 2 CV, Renault 4L, Volkwagen Beatle and Fiat Panda.

These were then silvered to create a mirrored surface.

Photographs are by ECAL/Julien Chavaillaz

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Designers Big-Game of Lausanne have won the Swiss Federal Design Award with their shelving system comprising aluminium slats on wooden frame.

Called Floors, the product is designed for simple self-assembly with the machined aluminium pieces slotting into grooves in two ash frames.

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The information that follows is from Big-Game:

FLOORS is a simple, self assembled, shelving system. The work started with the use of standard aluminium profiles, commonly used in architecture to support heavy loads.

The machined aluminium profiles, which replace wooden planks, serve both as props and assembly system. The uprights are made of ash, a hard and affordable wood that allows the section to be minimal.

Starting with references such as industrial or cellar shelves, or the Gorm System (most affordable shelving system from IKEA), our goal was to make a simplified and optimized system for the domestic context.

The drawing of the object is basic and keeps the archetypal shape of a shelf. This dictates an intuitive assembly system. FLOORS is a modular system and makes it possible to create different progressive combinations.

Big-Game is a design studio founded in 2004 by Grégoire Jeanmonod (Swiss), Elric Petit (Belgian) and Augustin Scott de Martinville (French). It is now based in Lausanne (Switzerland).

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