Magis celebrates 40th anniversary with Milan furniture and accessory launches
Milan 2016: Italian furniture brand Magis has launched furniture and accessories by designers Konstantin Grcic, the Bouroullec brothers and Jerszy Seymour in Milan to mark the company's 40th anniversary (+ slideshow).
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Magis' exhibition at last week's Salone del Mobile furniture fair was dedicated to the brand's history, and featured new designs along with its iconic products.
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The company described it as "an exhibition that sums up the collaboration between Magis and some of the biggest names on the international design scene in the past decades".
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For 2016, German designer Grcic has created a series of tables and benches called Brut. The eclectic collection ranges from small circular side tables to long, rectangular glass-topped designs – but all are made using cast iron in some way.
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"The project makes reference to cast iron's typical industrial uses and applies its material grammar to the realm of contemporary furniture," said Grcic, who is currently exhibiting a set of abstract seats in Paris.
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The designer has also produced a small mule-shaped doorstop named Ettore using the material, created for Magis' anniversary.
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French brothers Ronan and Erwan Bouroullec have extended their Officina collection of tables and chairs into a range of home accessories.
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Taking similar forms to the furniture's iron bases, the new designs include candlesticks, candelabras, a coat stand and wall hangers, a valet, and a freestanding mirror.
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"All these pieces feature a forged iron structure, with the allure of a raw material handed down through the centuries, alive, with those slight imperfections that once again make each item in this collection unique, with a profoundly refined and elegant spirit," said the duo.
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Also new this year is a set of lightweight high stools and tables by German designer Jerszy Seymour.
Each piece is made from recyclable welded aluminium sections with surfaces splattered with paint.
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Seymour titled the range: Bureau for the Study of Vivid Blue Every-Colour Inhabitations of the Planet, the Transformation of Reality, and a Multitude of Happy Endings. Magis has shortened this to Happy Endings.
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Dutch designer Marcel Wanders has contributed a new edition to his Cyborg range of chairs, named Daisy, which pairs a perforated aluminium back with a polycarbonate base.
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As part of a trend for children's furniture in Milan this year, Swiss studio Big-Game has added a miniature height-adjustable chair to Magis' Me Too range, while artist Benedetta Mori Ubaldini has created a latticed floating fish.
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Older pieces on show at the fair included designs by Philippe Starck, Naoto Fukasawa and Eero Aarnio – who is the subject of a current exhibition at Helsinki Design Museum.
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Also during Milan design week, which took place from 12 to 17 April 2016, Magis organised an exhibition at its showroom on Corso Garibaldi.
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The showcase was dedicated to Jaime Hayón's Mila chair, which debuted last year and is now available for market in two new variations.