Wallpaper* design editor Rosa Bertoli selects her prime 10 furnishings launches of 2022, a 12 months filled with design weeks, festivals and occasions. From model launches to new collaborations, from the workplace to the outside, we spotlight the colorful, the intelligent and the basic. Scroll down for the 12 months’s greatest furnishings debuts (in no explicit order).
TOP 10 FURNITURE LAUNCHES OF 2022
01. OMA’s workplace furnishings for UniFor
In 2014, German publishing behemoth Axel Springer chosen OMA to design its new Berlin HQ, with a view to creating working environments that ‘help the cultural transformation in the direction of a digital publishing home’. The customized furnishings for the venture, produced by Italian workplace furnishings specialist UniFor (a part of Molteni Group) take into account new strategies of collaborative work, making an allowance for completely different workforce sizes and makes use of of house, and devised a multilevel open-plan set-up, with dynamic clusters of desks and breakout areas with partitions, sofas and workstations. The gathering is an evolution of OMA’s work on the extra casual areas of the Axel Springer Campus. It consists of over 100 parts divided by measurement and typology, which lend themselves to many configurations. Among the many key items, explains Barone, are the ‘Tables’, ranging in measurement from 0.1 to 6 sq m and outlined by a double-deck tabletop.
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02. Zara Residence by Vincent Van Duysen
In 2022, Zara Residence introduced a brand new collaboration with Vincent Van Duysen, that includes furnishings and residential equipment within the distinctive subtle model of the Belgian architect. The primary of a sequence of collaborative items (a part of an ongoing assortment scheduled to be up to date with new designs twice a 12 months) centered on the lounge, with sofas, armchairs, tables, desks and consoles, in addition to lighting, ceramics and textiles. ‘I appeared again and severely mirrored on my previous works,’ mentioned Van Duysen. This primary assortment is impressed by the evolution of Van Duysen’s personal Antwerp houses: his lounge within the Nineteen Eighties, when he had simply moved again to Belgium from Milan, and his house now. Some delicate, distinctive motifs outline these areas, they usually recur within the assortment: purity of traces, geometries, pure supplies together with wooden, stone and linen and a palette of impartial colors (bone, midnight blue, darkish inexperienced) that give a peaceable and meditative tone to the environments.
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03. Paola Lenti and Estudio Campana seating
‘Engaged on this venture has been a present for us,’ mentioned designers Humberto and Fernando Campana of their new collaboration with the Italian firm Paola Lenti. Entitled ‘Metamorphosis’, to counsel the transformation of supplies within the arms of the designers, this assortment and goals to boost consciousness of the way forward for sustainable productions, and the fantastic thing about supplies with previous lives. The seating sequence, developed by the Brazilians in shut collaboration with the corporate, are fabricated from waste items of carpet or textile, now prepared for a brand new life. The model’s eponymous founder, Paola Lenti, despatched an enormous field stuffed with small fragments of vibrant materials to Brazil. The Campanas known as it a ‘treasure’, capable of generate limitless outcomes. ‘What may a easy piece of rope be became? A flower? A seaweed? What may a fraction of cloth develop into? How may we play with colors?’ puzzled Lenti. Impressed by nature and named after varied forms of bugs, the ensuing assortment transforms undesirable supplies into one-off items that tackle natural types; every handmade piece is barely completely different, relying on ‘the catch of the day’.
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04. Holloway Li’s debut furnishings assortment with Uma
Impressed by the optimism of the Nineties, the ‘T4’ assortment by London-based structure apply Holloway Li in collaboration with Turkish producer Uma options sweet hues and a playful design. The gathering additionally marks the furnishings debut for the apply, led by inside architects Alex Holloway and Na Li. Cool Britannia and Nineties design icons reminiscent of inflatable chairs and lava lamps, in addition to TV references (suppose Massive Brother’s Diary Room or ‘the golden period of the chat present couch’) kind the premise for the gathering which, the architects clarify, ‘is an homage to the visible language of vibrant onscreen scenography that dominated earlier than the flip of the millenium.’
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05. ‘Frankly Yours’ by India Mahdavi for Svenkst Tenn
Designer India Mahdavi staged a takeover of Svenskt Tenn’s gallery house on the event of Stockholm Design Week 2022. The start line for the house is Frank’s ‘Vegetable Tree’ print, a multicoloured composition of fruits and flowers on white textile cladding the room’s partitions of their entirety. ‘The “Vegetable Tree” print brings us again to the foundation of life: nature in its purest kind,’ feedback Mahdavi. The venture was titled ‘Frankly Yours’ and noticed the Parisian designer experimenting with the legacy of the model, utilizing iconic prints and objects, in addition to new pewter items and a lamp designed for the event. The pewter trays, Mahdavi explains, are a tribute to Svenskt Tenn’s founder, Estrid Ericson. ‘On the age of 30, again in 1924, she was already such an instance for girls: a powerful and unbiased entrepreneur,’ says Mahdavi. ‘The entire venture honours the historical past, the origins and the work made by Svenskt Tenn, Estrid Ericson and Josef Frank.’
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06. Kwangho Lee and Hem collaboration
Korean designer Kwangho Lee’s ongoing knotted sequence caught the eye of Petrus Palmér, founding father of Hem: ‘I discovered Kwangho’s woven ropework fascinating for its obsessive nature, the popular culture references and the intense colors,’ he says. He commissioned Lee to create new items for the model, and the ensuing assortment marks the primary time the designer’s visible language is translated for large-scale manufacturing and out there to a wider viewers. For Hem, Lee created a lounge chair whose design stems from one of many knotted ‘Obsession’ items: angular and ponderous, the ‘Hunk’ chair is outlined by 4 blocks in an archetypal armchair kind, a pure development of the straightforward knotted designs that impressed the piece. Accessible with or with out armrests, the chair is accompanied by a sequence of tables, fabricated from folded and bent steel and developed from ‘New Armor’, a 2013 assortment of lacquered bronze furnishings impressed by the physique armour utilized in Korea’s Joseon dynasty (1392-1910).
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07. New model Koyori
New furnishings model Koyori filters Japanese aesthetics by way of the prism of borderless modern design, dropped at life by way of the ability of notable Japanese producers. Genuine, crafted and diligent are three key phrases that outline Koyori, based on Munetoshi Koda, its government director and a furnishings trade veteran: ‘By collaborating with modern designers from throughout the globe, we purpose to ship furnishings of dependable high quality and inside equipment which are elegant, with designs that transcend borders.’ The model launched with a sequence of chair designs by Ronan and Erwan Bouroullec and Gam Fratesi.
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08. Almendra by Patricia Urquiola for Flos
Patricia Urquiola’s newest creation for Flos is a sustainable lighting system that includes natural shapes impressed by the fruit and flowers of almond timber. ‘When it comes to kind, ‘Almendra’ is a quite simple piece,’ says Urquiola. ‘However you may organise it in many various methods. Both in a linear composition, which is extra extreme but less complicated, or you need to use the parabolic-shaped items to make it really feel extra natural.’ She envisions ‘Almendra’ as a flexible spatial centrepiece, hanging both as a singular piece or in complicated compositions in each home landscapes and public areas: ‘It takes the place of what, up to now, would have been a chandelier.’ In line with Urquiola, the title ‘Almendra’, that means almond in her native Spanish, is a reference to the seed of its namesake’s flowering tree, which impressed the lights’ ovoid form. She reckons this may be traced again to childhood visits to Ibiza along with her household the place, every winter, orchards stuffed with the spindly fruit timber burst into blossoming pink-tinged clouds. ‘Nature is simply the most effective instance of modularity,’ she says.
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09. Hans Bølling furnishings with Brdr Krüger and AHEC
Whereas nonagenarian Danish architect and designer Hans Bølling’s output has included main architectural tasks reminiscent of a Japanese boarding faculty in south Denmark, nowadays he devotes his time to the furnishings tasks that had as soon as been a mere passion. His newest items: a lounge chair (his first), a stool and a espresso desk, all created in collaboration with Danish furnishings label Brdr Krüger, which have been launched with an exhibition, ‘Home of Hans Bølling’, on the model’s Copenhagen showroom throughout 3 Days of Design 2022.
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10. Fendi Casa’s new furnishings assortment
Fendi Casa unveiled its newest assortment of furnishings, created in collaboration with a roster of worldwide creatives. Orchestrated by the maison’s inventive director of menswear and equipment, Silvia Venturini Fendi, the gathering options contributions from main designers reminiscent of Piero Lissoni, Atelier Oï, Dimorestudio, Marcel Wanders Studio, and Cristina Celestino and Chiara Andreatti. The gathering is an evolution that absolutely represents the model’s dedication to design: ‘It options cutting-edge designs; it’s extra eclectic and consistent with our collections for women and men, who I might think about dwelling in these new areas,’ explains Venturini Fendi. ‘Every little thing may be very natural and aligned with our DNA.’ To mark its launch, the gathering was photographed on the property of Catalan sculptor Xavier Corberó, whose concrete arches kind a backdrop for the gathering’s wealthy textures.
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