A “metissage” of thoughts, philosophies, images, colours and styles present Kartell today at the 2017 Salone
Milan, 4th April 2017
On the design planet, Kartell is a Nation daily life is depicted by a set of moods, nature, contaminated by different ideas and styles. knowledge, cultures and minds that intertwine, It has no limits or boundaries and no barriers interface, intersect each other, contaminate stand in the way of creativity, which roams each other and symbiotically evolve to breathe freely inside the Nation. Kartell’s population is life into lofty and unique moments of creativity a mixture of ethnic groups and thoughts. Its lying outside pre-established lines or trends. In a territory is crossed by rivers of colours and continuous overlapping of technological research vast expanses of projects and volcanoes from and ideas, the Kartell collection becomes which new technologies and the energies of “contaminated” and a part of increasingly different continuous innovation erupt. and less standardised universes with projects that ContamiNation is the theme with which Kartell is reflect the contemporary way of life not only in presenting itself and its new collection of products Italy, but all over the world. It is no longer a State forged from collaboration with international or a precise geographical location, but a truly designers and closely linked to the concepts of global nation made up of single contaminations, uniqueness and identity - and not only ethnic or a ContamiNation. cultural - that are synergically pooled together in New prototypes and several products that have the Kartell project. been finalised and are arriving in their final version, “Contamination” or better yet, “metissage”, is ready for sale, are major attractions at the trade the essence of the current project represented fair exhibition space. They represent Kartell’s in design as in art, literature, fashion. Thanks to essence made precisely of contamination and at the communication media that have altered the the same time capable of contaminating different speed of perceiving images and information, our styles and thoughts.
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Follow us on WeChat GENERIC: THE “UNIVERSAL MODELS” OF SEATING ACCORDING TO STARCK In the beginning was the essence of the chair, in the purity of its shape and function; then it was covered with new meanings. Now it is time to go back to the origin and discover the universal models with a task of sweeping away all the superstructures. It is an ambitious project with profoundly ethical aspects, where new targets to be met, in which creativity places itself in a perspective of service for everyone, are set for contemporary design. Starting from different reasons - economic, emotional, functional, cultural - Kartell’s goal is to identify the “generic” seating models for public areas thanks to Philippe Starck’s creative idea. They range from the world of offices to entertainment venues, and offer an exciting new added value to Kartell’s sales strategy in both the habitat and contract divisions.
Generic - Designed by Philippe Starck The Generic family launched last year with two chairs emerging from the concept of essential, a natural evolution of the most traditional seating, is extended and enriched this year with new models and a table boasting a functional and linear design. Added to the A and C models dedicated to the world of offices and coffee (coffee bars, restaurants, entertainment venues) with matt and soft touch finishes, which have now reached their final version, are the Generic for Venice and Generic Catwalk chairs with super glossy finishes.
NEW Generic for Venice is a tribute to Venice and the historic Harry’s Bar with its manager Arrigo Cipriani, son of the founder Giuseppe. The living room armchair interprets the mood of the small and aristocratic Venetian bar with its thousand facets with a discreet style combined with extreme comfort.
Generic Catwalk is dedicated to the world of haute couture and explores one of its interesting paradoxes. On the one hand is the richness and sophistication of high fashion with its elegant clothing and on the other, the need for extreme humility and simplicity of seating designed for the fashion shows, precisely to enhance the extraordinary beauty of the creations and the world of fashion surrounding them. The chair is proposed for both indoor and outdoor use.
NEW Generic B Bistrot is a new table idea, fruit of the designer’s spirit of observation that is able to look at everyday objects from a new perspective with the aim of improving their aesthetics and functionality.
TECHNOLOGY AND INNOVATION The mix of creative design and technological research is part of Kartell’s DNA. New materials constantly pose new challenges that the company has been taking up for many years with large investments to overcome new limits every time. After transparency, Kartell is staking everything on lightness by carrying forward the intuition of the super light chair Piuma, on new injection moulding techniques and on the search for new materials with the production of the Bio Chair.
NEW Matrix Chair – Designed by Tokujin Yoshioka Tokujin Yoshioka presents Matrix Chair made with an innovative 3D structure that gives the chair a theatrical effect of marvellous sophistication and lightness. A simple and essential shape that the designer has designed to create an innovative chair made by combining Tokujin Yoshioka’s creative and experimental ideas and Kartell’s sophisticated production technology. The chair is made by using an injection moulding techniques and a metal structure.
Piuma, Piumino and Piumone - Designed by Piero Lissoni The new stools Piumino (low) and Piumone (high) continue the project started with the Piuma armchair by Piero Lissoni, one of the most revolutionary and daring products in the evolution of technologies and materials used by Kartell, winner of Red Dot Best of the Best 2017 award. Behind the essential design are years of intense research to implement the use of an unprecedented mixture: a complex thermoplastic polymer with carbon fibre added that provides outstanding mechanical rigidity combined with extraordinary lightness. By adopting this mix of materials, not only are Piuma, Piumino and Piumore ultralight and very slender, but they are also incredibly strong.
Bio Chair – Designed by Antonio Citterio Kartell has developed a revolutionary material unique in the furniture industry, and is presenting a furniture project sustainable in an industrial perspective and that of top quality and high creative value. The Bio Chair designed by Antonio Citterio has now arrived in its final version, the result of research into BIODURA™, an innovative material made from renewable raw materials not involved in the production of foodstuffs. Kartell was the first to test this type of material in the furniture sector, and more specifically in its injection and moulding. The result? An elegant, durable and perfect chair that can be used both outdoors and indoors. Ideally, in the right conditions it can fall within biological cycles or be biodegraded at the end of its lifetime.
KARTELL IllumiNation The lighting sector in the Kartell Nation is an increasingly extensive territory: arising from its search for new stylistic and technological solutions are the new proposals for the décor sector and for lighting work spaces that carve out a prominent role for themselves in Kartell’s way of life.
NEW Bella - Designed by Ferruccio Laviani Exactly 13 years ago Kartell made a comeback in the world of lighting with a lamp that in terms of size, cost, technology and gamut of colours was to leave its mark to become, and still be, an iconic best-seller. So in the aftermath of the success of FL/Y, now it is Bella’s turn with a new collection of lampshades in two different sizes. The new textured finish and colour palette filled with pale and desaturated colours make the matt material more similar to biscuit than to glass, giving a new and more contemporary perception of plastic. The two different lampshade proportions define a more functional and neutral lamp in the small size, which becomes more distinctive and personal in the large size.
NEW Spin - Designed by Front Distinguished by the enveloping shapes of its curved blades, the Spin lamp by Front was forged starting from a single repeating shape, that of a twisting surface that gives the object 3D expressiveness and creates different lighting effects. Spin filters a warm and indirect light through its curved openings while emanating a direct and functional light downwards. The single blades repeated in sequence create a complex and aesthetically attractive shape inspired by nature but that at the same time calls to mind the industrial process with which the lamp was built. NEW Kabuki - Designed by Ferruccio Laviani The three new Kabuki mini, Kabuki outdoor and Kabuki suspension lamps have joined the floorlamp version. The product family retains the peculiar woven structure inspired by lace and recreated by adopting a very sophisticated injection technology, and it is distinguished by a perforated surface from which the light is diffused.
Lantern - Designed by Fabio Novembre Fabio Novembre has designed an original portable LED lamp, an injection moulded clear “rechargeable lantern” that is charged by setting it on a conductive base. The light is projected through the design’s graphic effect. Available in the amber, crystal, smoky grey, red, and wisteria versions.
Aledin - Designed by Alberto and Francesco Meda Aledin is a LED table lamp with articulated polycarbonate arms that have two aluminium slats that perform the conductor function in place of wires. In the Tec version, the lamp has a flat head, ideal for office use. In theDec version, the indoor lamp designed for decorative use has a luminous head with a small faceted cone.
Planet – Designed by Tokujin Yoshioka The Planet lamp family is enriched with the floor version in two sizes, 130 and 160 cm, to join the suspended, low table, and metal structure models. Its peculiarity is given by the slightly ovoidal shape of the transparent diffuser with a faceted surface both inside and outside that creates a rich array of reflections. The table and floor with stem are presented in three versions: smoky grey/black, yellow/gold, and clear/chrome.
KartellNation: LIFESTYLE TO EXPERIENCE Kartell’s proposal is a lifestyle experience to live to the fullest, where the single pieces are designed and proposed following specific outlooks of living but that offer the possibility to customise with new and endless trade-offs. Just like building blocks are joined together to give shape to an idea in construction games, the single Kartell products are part of a larger project, a full-scale lifestyle proposal that emerges from the brand’s collaboration with the most brilliant creative minds. The ideas and the combinations are endless. Every piece comes into contact with the others, becomes contaminated and can be reinterpreted in newer and newer ways to generate new living experiences.
NEW Be bop – Designed by Ludovica + Roberto Palomba A project that fuses together different languages. An armchair that blends together multiples expressions in just one language, taking up the lines of the more traditional carved stools of Africa mixed with America of the golden years of design, with a hint at Eames re-employing the concept of curved multilayer material. The result is a cultured and at the same time wild project. It is not a coincidence that its name, Be Bop, represents that jazz movement characterised by very fast tempos and innovative harmonic formulations. It is also available in the metal version and can have either a leather cushion or one in contrasting fabric.
NEW Design - Philippe Starck Cara Mosshart is the pure expression of the “less is more” concept. When you think of an armchair, you tend to think about “more”: bigger and more everything. This armchair is instead the practical demonstration that the less you do, the better it is. Rae Orrgray is not a simple table. It is a mental construction game. The closer we get to functionality, practicality and minimalism, the more we find elegance, also dictated by an unusual shape of the surface with its triangular and rounded line.
Top Top Console completes the TopTop table line and is distinguished by the clear PMMA leg with faceted top and metal foot. A console ideal for multiple uses, from home to contract.
NEW EUR – Designed by Fabio Novembre Fabio Novembre presents two new stools inspired by Rome’s Eur district. The cube and cylinder styles are moulded with the reproduction of the architecture of the Italian Palazzo della Civiltà. They are designed for different seating or support functions and can be placed in various rooms and styles. Thus the new object of the Kartell collection goes beyond the time line, just like the Palazzo has become one of the most fascinating architectural icons of our country over the years.
Dream’Air and L’Air du Temps - Designed by Eugenie Quillet Dream’Air has arrived in its final version. It is a completely brand new chair concept for Kartell, especially from a formal viewpoint. The chair comes out in a single mould with a seat that appears to levitate in its centre.
NEW Lightness is also the watchword of the new L’Air du Temps clock that lets time go by on a clear crystal surface.
Largo – Designed by Piero Lissoni Largo, a system of sofas with different configurations that offers solid support and linearity of design to the large cushions. Its selection of fabrics is enriched with the velvet versions in the shades of teal, pink, cardinal red, dove grey, acid green and forest green.
NEW Boxy - Designed by Ludovica + Roberto Palomba Emerging from the teamwork of Kartell and the design by Ludovica and Roberto Palomba are the new proposals of bathroom accessories. The soap dish is offered in clear, pink and green crystal. The toothbrush holder instead has a clear crystal base and a body in the shiny black, white, pink and green clear versions.
Trama e Jellies Family – Design Patricia Urquiola Patricia Urquiola has created a brand new tableware collection named Trama (a complete set of plates) that drew inspiration from Japanese ceramics and the sophisticated textures and natural, opaque colours of the earth. Like terracotta tea services in country houses, the plates are coarse to the touch and feature graphics that elegantly highlight the collection’s simplicity.
Meanwhile, the Jellies Family line, which heralded a new way of perceiving tableware by using transparent products moulded with various relief patterns, has been expanded to include a new sugar bowl and a teaspoon.
TABLES AND NEW TOPS Tables have always been a furnishing item essential for defining Kartell’s style. The proposals for the 2017 Salone explore new shapes and increasingly technological projects with finishes and sizes that define new furnishing solutions for living rooms and work spaces. Multiplo - Designed by Antonio Citterio Multiplo is a large family of tables, versatile in its uses, and designed for customisation by playing with its shapes (rounded square, round and oval) and pairing of bases (central base with two, three or four spokes) and tops (solid colour stoneware or marble and glass finish).
NEW Brand new items for the 2017 Salone are the low table Multiplo Low and Multiplo Coffee Table models 73 cm in height. Two versions enrich and complete the line and give offer the possibility to partner the tables with the living area sofas. The dining (or office) tables have also been given new dimensions, with 230 cm for the rounded rectangular shape and 135/160 cm in diameter for the round shape.
Sir Gio - Designed by Philippe Starck A table in a wide range of different colours that depicts a further innovation in the use of polycarbonate. The moulded plastic central leg, made with a high technological innovation mould, provides top performance and stability to support the glass top. The bases are available in 3 colours (clear, powder pink and smoky grey) and can be matched with 5 tops in the bronze, powder pink, smoky grey and yellow versions, with 15 possible colour combinations.
Blast - Designed by Philippe Starck The Blast line consists of two side-table shapes (square and rectangular with rounded corners) with clear bases and tops. Its design is a development of the Sir Gio table, so there is the possibility to associate and match different colours of bases and tops. The central core of the base can be chrome or metallic copper.
Glossy – Designed by Antonio Citterio The new marble finish that joins the white, black and red versions enriches this by now historic family of tables. They are ideal both for the home environment and the office, and are marked by an elegant and sophisticated design. The lightweight chrome-plated steel structure, unusual owing to the use of the detail of crossed element that joins the legs on each of the four sides, offers support to the top in different materials. The collection comes in the square, oval and round versions. Easy to push together, the square tables can create worktops to place in even the most representative office settings, such as the conference room.
KARTELL KIDS Two new projects enrich the Kartell Kids line, launched last year and made up of products specifically designed for kids, but with an impressive design component. The contribution of Fabio Novembre is added to that of Nendo, Ferruccio Laviani, Piero Lissoni and Philippe Starck, who have designed special pieces for Kartell. The personalisation of the Lou Lou Ghost chair and new graphics for the new Invisible table version are making their début in the catalogue.
NEW Villa – Designed by Fabio Novembre Starting from his personal experience with his two daughters, Fabio Novembre plays with scale architecture to build a doll house. Transposing this sentimental world in a Kartell imagination gave rise to micro architectures, small villas for the dreams of adults and kids alike. NEW Componibili Smile – Designed by Fabio Novembre The classic round hole of Componibili is reinterpreted with a wink, the product of emoji times. A timeless classic that acquires a new playful interpretation to perfectly insert it in kids’ living spaces.
NEW Invisible Kids – Designed by Tokujin Yoshioka An emotion expressed in a new way through technological innovation. This is the essence of Invisible, which was the first clear table made in a single square-shaped mould. A new child’s height version is reappraised with new designs for the world of Kids and retains the characteristics of lightness, strength, grace, elegance, practicality and style that have made it a true Kartell icon.
Customised Lou Lou Ghost – Designed by Philippe Starck The miniature of one of design’s most famous chairs is enriched with customisable graphics of the world of Kids. It is offered in the versions: Crystal/drawing versions, dinosaur and heart, Yellow/sun version, Pink/ princess versions and It’s a girl, Sky blue/prince versions and It’s a boy. It can also be customised with the child’s name in different fonts and colours.
NEW 2017 FINISHES In addition to the new products, Kartell is presented a few new versions of its best-sellers, reinterpreted with new finishes and new colours, in line with the Kartell philosophy that focuses on innovation and the continuing development of ideas, technologies and materials.
Componibili – Designed by Anna Castelli Ferrieri Kartell is celebrating the 50th anniversary of Componibili, one of the brand’s most iconic objects and absolutely the best and longest seller since 1967, the year it debuted at the Milan Salone del Mobile. To pay tribute to this important anniversary, the new colour versions of burgundy, military green and petrol blue are available, and they enrich the wide range of Kartell Componibili. A new version with four elements that completes the offer of two- and three-element versions is also being presented.
Bubble and Bubble Club – Designed by Philippe Starck A true icon made by Kartell and winner of the 2002 Compasso d’oro award is the full-body coloured polyethylene Bubble Club sofa. Pioneer of a new concept of furnishing accessory, the industrial sofa is entirely made of plastic. Besides the traditional colours, Bubble Club boasts two new shades: powder pink and olive green.
I Shine – Designed by Eugeni Quitllet The iconic vase by Eugeni Quitllet in clear PMMA has been enriched with new shades of colour in green and pink that exalt the elegant Art Deco geometries and retain the peculiarity of the plastic’s finish that is so sophisticated as to make it seem literally made of crystal.
For more information: Kartell - International Press Office Tel. +39.02.900121 Email: [email protected] Generic for Venice Generic Catwalk Generic B Bistrot Matrix Chair Philippe Starck Philippe Starck Philippe Starck Tokujin Yoshioka
Piumino Piumone Bio Chair Bella Piero Lissoni Piero Lissoni Antonio Citterio Ferruccio Laviani
Spin Kabuki mini Kabuki sospensione Lantern Front Ferruccio Laviani Ferruccio Laviani Fabio Novembre
Planet Be bop Cara Mosshart Ray Orrgray Tokujin Yoshioka Ludovica+Roberto Palomba Philippe Starck Philippe Starck
EUR L'Air du Temps Boxy Multiplo Coffee Table Fabio Novembre Eugeni Quillet Ludovica+Roberto Palomba Antonio Citterio
Villa Componibili Smile Invisible Kids Fabio Novembre Fabio Novembre Tokujin Yoshioka