Among the new products unveiled by La Chance this year was Italian designer Luca Nichetto's Earhart outdoor bench, which is named after aviation pioneer Amelia Earhart and finished in the shiny red of her Lockheed Vega aeroplane.

French designer Noé Duchaufour-Lawrance contributed a coffee table to complement his Borghese sofa, while Israeli designer Dan Yeffet and Lucie Koldova presented Apollo, a cone-shaped glass and marble floor lamp.

La Chance has also initiated new collaborations with Paris-based architects Tolila + Gilliland, who created a wall-mounted wood and marble coat hook called Jeeves, and German designer Sebastian Herkner, who came up with an occasional table to go with his Salute armchair.

Nathalie du Pasquier, a founding member of the influential Memphis Group, unveiled a rug called France, while Beijing architects PIDO (People's Industrial Design Office) came up with a tilted shelving system made of cross-shaped modules that can be positioned horizontally or diagonally.

French designer Guillaume Delvigne produced two pendant lamps – Hal, a thin LED disk that fits under different glass shades, and Swan, a large glass pendant (not pictured).

Finally, Spanish and Ecuadorian designers Jorge de la Cruz and Diana Vernaza Gonzenbach came up with Podium, a tubular candle holder that places one of its three candles at a lower height.

The collection was unveiled in the Brera district of Milan during the city's design week earlier this month – see all products and news from Milan 2013.

Last year's inaugural collection by La Chance included designs by Nichetto, Duchaufour-Lawrance, Note Design Studio and Francois Dumas, and we also filmed an interview with the brand's founder Jean-Baptiste Souletie while reporting on 2012's design week.

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One year after its launch during Salone 2012, La Chance is back in Milan to present 10 new products: tables, seating, shelves, but also a new range of lighting, a rug, and some accessories. The French brand carries on developing a distinctive style with references to Art Deco with a great variety of materials in graphic and decorative yet practical designs.

La Chance continues the collaboration with hyperactive designer Luca Nichetto who created Earhart, a scenic and aerial outdoor bench inspired by the aircraft industry. It is named after the American aviation pioneer Amelia Earhart and shares the shiny red color of her Lockheed plane. Noé Duchaufour Lawrance enriches the Borghese range with a coffee table that completes the acclaimed Borghese landscape sofa. They share the characteristic vegetal structure inspired by the pine trees of the Rome’s Villa Borghese. Dan Yeffet and Lucie Koldova pursue the research on marble they began with the Iconic standing mirror and present Apollo, a surprising floor lamp that makes marble glow.

In addition, La Chance has initiated new collaborations and continues its search for talents worldwide with Spanish, German, American, French, Italian, Ecuadorian and also Chinese designers join in the team. Franco-­American architects Tolila + Gilliland have updated the conservative valet / jacket stand into an elegant wallmounted object made of wood and marble. It is called Jeeves in reference to the P.G Wodehouse novel character, a butler who defines himself as a gentleman’s personal gentleman. La Chance also works with Nathalie du Pasquier – founding member of the Memphis group ­‐ who created a rug called France. Strong graphics and explosive colors are the ingredients to this rug in line with her most spectacular creations. The rising star of German design Sebastian Herkner presents Salute, an occasional table meant to stand proudly by the side of the most iconic armchairs.

French designer Guillaume Delvigne has designed two very different pendant lamps: Hal is a small and easy lamp with a very simple and pure construction: a thin LED disk on which you can put different glass shades. On the other hand, Swan is an opulent large glass pendant with smooth curvy lines. La Chance also confirms its will to work with emerging talents and collaborates with Spanish and Ecuadorian designers Jorge de la Cruz and Diana Vernaza who designed a candle holder called Podium. La Chance also initiates one of the first collaborations between a European and a leading member of the boiling Chinese design scene. Beijing based architects PIDO 众产品 (People’s Industrial Design Office) have created for La Chance a surprising tilted wall system that will be presented this year in Milan. The whole collection will be presented in La Chance showroom in the heart of the Brera district with a very French Red, White, and theme. Each room will have a different colour and atmosphere showing the various personalities of the brand, alternatively colorful and outgoing or sober and luxurious.

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Aoyama, which translates as "blue mountain", is named after a district of Tokyo and was launched at trade fair imm cologne last month.

The piece features three circular tabletops that overlap to form a single surface, with each top standing on slim rectangular legs. It's made from slabs of blue-tinted annealed glass that are glued together.

Other recent projects by Noé Duchaufour-Lawrance include the wooden slatted Market chair for Petite Friture and the leaf-like Naturoscopie II lights.

Other glass tables we've featured on Dezeen include the tessellated Isom tables by Sebastian Scherer and the almost invisible Luminous table by Tokujin Yoshioka.

imm cologne took place from 14 to 20 January. Other products launched at the fair included an asymmetrical desk by Thibault Desombre and the Ficelle chair by Osko+Deichmann that was inspired by cooked spaghetti.

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Launching at Maison&Objet this week, the design was inspired by and named after temporary coverings found at markets. The slats are mounted on cork so they flow over the solid oak chair frame and hang down the back.

We featured a four-piece collection by Petite Friture when the brand first launched in 2010. Other projects by Noé Duchaufour-Lawrance on Dezeen include a restaurant at the top of the tallest skyscraper in Paris and leaf-like LED lights.

The Maison&Objet trade fair for interior design, homeware and gifts takes place from 18 to 22 January and you can see all our stories about the event here.

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The white Naturoscopie II lights by Noé Duchaufour-Lawrance contain LEDs behind their perspex "leaves", which slowly brighten and fade to reflect different background colours.

Above: image shows close-up of black version of Naturoscopie II

"This collection is linked by the fact I really wanted to express something a little bit more intimate than through a functional object," Duchaufour-Lawrance told Dezeen at Design Miami, where he exhibited the lighting in the Galerie BSL booth. "It’s more sculptural, because it’s not really a light, it’s more an object that provides an emotion by the contemplation of it."

Above: image shows close-up of black version of Naturoscopie II

Other projects by the designer we've featured on Dezeen include an airport business lounge with tree-shaped lamps and a spiral bookcase inspired by an ammonite fossil.

Above: movie of the Naturoscopie collection showing the moving lights

Dezeen was in Miami last week covering all the highlights from Design Miami, including Asif Khan's "ice halo" of Swarovski crystals and Snarkitecture's sausage-like inflatables over the entrance to the fair – see all our stories from Design Miami.

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Naturoscopie II - Lights

This set of lights corresponds with the responsive transcription of the sun when it filters through tree foliage. Within each head, the sequence of the LEDs and their reflection on mirrors and coloured surfaces interpret this natural movement, in a both fugitive and perennial temporality. The light asserts itself in the form of sparkles and bright or mellow green, yellow or silver fragments.

In the mural compositions, the foliage pattern unfurls flat, on a single level parallel to the wall, the articulations of the heads making different positions possible. With the ceiling fixtures, the volume of the foliage opens out, the modules connecting at different heights.

4 wall hangings, with 2 and 3 heads:
H/175 x L/95 x W/14 cm (2 heads)
H/75 x L/135 x W/14 cm (2 heads)
H/140 x L/195 x W/14 cm (3 heads)
H/165 x L/105 x W/14 cm (3 heads)

3 ceiling fixtures, with 2, 3 and 5 heads:
H/33 x L/117 x W/78 cm (2 heads)
H/32 x L/165 x W/99 cm (3 heads)
H/38 x L/208 x W/154 cm (5 heads) – also available as a wall hanging.

Stainless steel, fibreglass, mirrors, paint and soft touch varnish, light diffusing plexiglas, LEDs. Two versions regarding the light diffusing plexiglas: matte finish or gloss finish.

Galerie BSL edition of 8 + 4 AP for each version.

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The lounge, for Air France, also features walls decorated with tree and leaf motifs.

Long thin lights hang like catkins from the ceiling above tables and chairs in the dining area.

Chairs and sofas for both working and relaxing are arranged in clusters between the paths.

This month Noé Duchaufour-Lawrance has also completed a restaurant at the top of a skyscraper and a bookcase with the shape of a fossil.

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Photography is by Luc Boegly.

Here's a few more details from the designers:

Air France Business Lounge

Brandimage and Noé Duchaufour-Lawrance have designed the new Air France business lounge at Paris' Charles de Gaulle airport.

This lounge has been conceived as a harmonious pathway, consisting of sections which are conducive to walking, acting as a prelude to the journey ahead. The architectural concept was inspired by a park and developed around a contemporary reinterpretation of the plant expression. Shapes, materials and colours conjure up nature and the organic world.

The paths are organised and give structure to the lounge like offshoots of a plant: taut lines and curved shapes go hand in hand with the vision and retain privacy without partitioning.

This upmarket lounge, which is over 3,000 sq m, is situated in the new S4 boarding satellite at Paris' Charles de Gaulle.

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