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Salone del Mobile 2023 Reaches Creative Heights

The Salone del Mobile, the world’s leading furniture and interior décor fair held from 17th–23rd April at Milan’s RHO fairground, attracted overall 307,418 visitors from 181 countries across the globe. Jörg Zutter reports The stakeholders, organisers, exhibitors, visitors and industry experts unanimously agree: the 2023 fair will be celebrated as an enormous success (with a 15% increase in visitors on last year’s edition). The fringe fair FuoriSalone, a parallel event presented during Milan Design Week,...

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Hommés Studio Takes Us to the Sun

Arts & Collections

HOMMÉS Studio, alongside TAPIS Studio, under the umbrella of HOUSE OF HOMMÉS, presents NEOCOSMOS – Take Me To The Sun, a cosmic exhibition that will take place in Milan Design Week, 18th-23rd April 2023. Presented in two iconic sites, it debuts at Salone del Mobile Milano at Hall 18 Stand E01, and will return to Palazzo delle Meraviglie in Museo Bagatti Valsecchi (MonteNapoleone district). After the success of the previous edition, HOMMÉS promises to shake...

Life & Culture

Milan Design Week Returns to April Dates

Arts & Collections

Milan Design Week returns to its usual spot in April, having taken place in June for two consecutive years due to the coronavirus pandemic. The festival runs from 17th to 23rd April 2023. As usual the largest event taking place during Milan Design Week is Salone del Mobile, located at Fiera Milano exhibition centre from 18th to 23rd April 2023. The furniture fair anticipates more than 370,000 visitors and presents thousands of brands showcasing furniture,...

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Collection of 1930s Gerald Summers Furniture Up for Sale

Arts & Collections

An important collection of the work of English modernist designer Gerald Summers (1899-1967) comes up for sale in London later this month. The MODERN MADE auction at Lyon & Turnbull on October 28th includes 23 pieces of 1930s furniture by Summers, lovingly acquired over many years. Gerald Summers and his partner Marjorie Butcher opened their London shop, Makers of Simple Furniture, in 1931. For a decade, until the firm’s closed with the onset of the...

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Bespoke Furniture Company Ahu Launches Inaugural Collection

Manny Berhanu

High-end and bespoke furniture design brand Ahu has launched its inaugural collection at the 2021 London Design Festival. Based in both London and Istanbul, Ahu produces custom and limited-edition collectible designs that are both functional and sculptural. Each piece is hand-made in Istanbul by master craftsmen in specialised, small ateliers using the highest quality materials and finishes. Founded by long-time friends and Central Saint Martins alumni Eda Akaltun and Mevce Çıracı, the pieces combine works...

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Lyon & Turnbull’s Modern Made Auction Offers Important European Design Works

Chris Jenkins

Celebrating the best of European design from pottery by Hans Coper to jewellery by Henning Koppel and furniture by John Makepeace, Lyon & Turnbull’s Modern Made auction on October 23rd brings to market important works from across the European design canon. (All images courtesy of Lyon & Turnbull) Works by Modern British artists are headlined by The Red Curtain, a key Camden Town school oil by William Ratcliffe (1870-1955). Dated to c.1916 (it was included...

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Continuing the Illustrious History of Furniture Making

Chris Jenkins

Modern British furniture manufacturing leads the world, with its design flair and traditional hand skills setting the highest standards. But what does it take to continue an illustrious history of furniture-making? British furniture-making has always set the highest standards in design and manufacturing quality, and it’s fascinating to realise how much its styles and materials are influenced by world history. From the Restoration period of the 1660s-1680s, when the return of the king and his...

Life & Culture

How Is the Luxury Furniture Market Developing Worldwide?

Chris Jenkins

A recent report by Mordor Intelligence estimated that the world’s luxury furniture market is likely to grow by 4.7 percent between 2018 and 2023. The report says that innovations in manufacturing technology, as well as a growing appreciation for the potential of local design, are helping global market leaders to meet the needs of an increasingly demanding luxury furniture market. As major manufacturers expand their offering by acquiring local designers and manufacturers, premium materials such as leather, glass, metal and woods— including mahogany and alder—are all being pressed into...

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Alderley House Auction Puts 500 Lots of Georgian and Victorian Furnishings On Sale

Chris Jenkins

Auctioneers Sworders will recreate the feel of a Georgian country house when the principal contents of Alderley House in Gloucestershire come up for sale on July 23rd 2019. The stand-alone auction in the auctioneer’s award-winning Stansted Mountfitchet headquarters will feature more than 500 lots. The present-day Alderley House is a mid-19th century Grade II listed country house designed by the English architect Lewis Vulliamy and built for Robert Blagden Hale in the small village of...

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Queen Victoria’s Travelling Bed to Feature in Upcoming Exhibition

Hannah Foskett

More than a century after it left the royal household, five years after Queen Victoria’s death in 1901, a travelling mahogany bed used by the monarch has been acquired by Historic Royal Palaces (HRP). The relic is set to feature at a May exhibition marking the bicentenary of the Queen’s birth. Auctioneer Andrew Aldridge, from Henry Aldridge & Son auctioneers in Devizes, Wiltshire, described the collapsible single bed as a ‘heavy and sturdy’ item. Made...

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