Vroom, vroom. The Formabilio Van never stops traveling to bring the sharing-design across Europe.
Vienna Design Week is the second stage of this weird trip: from September 26 to October 5, we will be proud to represent some of innovation in made in Italy furniture production at the Italian Institute of Culture in Vienna. We will set up a special exhibition showing the best of Formabilio furniture design in the enchanting rooms of this sophisticated and historical location at the very heart of Vienna.
Of course we always travel in good company, so this morning at our headquarter in Cison di Valmarino the Londoners Team handed on the baton to the next lucky quartet which will drive to the town of the Sacher Torte…Such an exciting moment!
Let’s meet The Viennese Team: Jacopo Biasio, Andrea Brugnera , Stefano Visconti, Loris De Grandi.
You should already know the magic word: #formabiliontour!
Follow us tweeting & instagrammin’ pics from the best Design in town in Vienna!
SUBMIT A HEADQUARTERS DESIGN FOR A FURNITURE PIECE!
Actually, a great working station is what PoMo workers need.
There’s something kind of omnipotence about working at home.
The way your room converts into a studio room, with all the connected needs: the storage system, the cable organizer, the table lamps…The way you can chat with people from the other side of the world while wearing odd socks. Use that magic to combine this business attitude with a comfy personality.
Your challenge is to submit a home-office inspired design for a furniture piece.
12 designers, their special previews and an adventurous tour around the Europe of Design.
We are excited to present FORMABILIO ON TOUR, the first brave step towards Formabilio conquest of the entire world, which will bring us together in the discovery of three capitals of International Design.
This autumn promises to be hot for the sharing-design Community!
THE ROUTE: our road trip begins in London at Super Brands, the trade show dedicated to the most progressive furniture, lighting and interiors brands within the London Design Festival. For the second stage, the wind of the coolest design will lead us to Wien, where we will showcase our new products in the 7th edition of the colourful Vienna Design Week, a huge event enabling people to experience the many-faceted creative work in the fields of product, furniture and industrial design as well as experimental design. At the cry of bellicose 'Gimme some more!' we’ll drive to Lodz, to leave our mark at Lodsz Design Festival, currently the East-Central Europe's most significant and intern recognized design event.
THE TEAM: 12 intrepid creative felllows from Formabilio Community will accompany us in this journey on behalf of all of you, Formabilio people! It will be an opportunity to get together, exchange ideas and opinions, to spread the philosophy of sharing design and meet new sexy people.
The Londoners: Ivana Mannavola, Giancarlo Cutello, Marco Furlan and Fabrizio Mistretta.
Armed with very many digital stuffs, we are going to document everything and constantly invade the privacy of the crew: not-to-be-missed events, curious places, smart people so that you will not lose the best of the news emerging from the world of Design.
While we work hard, you can follow the Tour from the comfort of your smartphone/tablet etc.
Follow the hashtag #formabiliontour on Facebook and Twitter and in this page.
September Design creatures are ready to invade the world and your home won’t ever be the same.
Can a month coming after summer and before autumn be thrilling? We think it does and want to share with you this enthusiastic point of view.
We’ve teamed up these months together with the Formabilio Community, the technical Committee, our designers and craftsmen to select the best furniture among thousands furniture design projects we received and try to make them real.
That’s why we’re so excited to introduce our new designs to you, day by day throughout September.
Inspiration for our Designers came from both sustainable materials – for the first time we adopted ceramics – and vibrant, creative visions: from the green landscapes of New Zeland to the hyperactive elegance of urban living, passing through zen atmospheres and fairy tales reminiscences.
A special preview of new products – such as new Cora pouf - will be exhibited next week, September from 18th -21th at Super Brands London, in the very heart of the London Design Festival, one of the largest Design events in the world.
Hope to see you at the fascinating location of Old Thruman Brewery, hall 41.
You can also follow #formabiliontour hashtag on Twitter or Facebook to check-out the all not to be missed places, people and events taking place in London next week.
How are you? You all, 100.000 happy people?! Yes, because today we have reached one-hundred-thousand members of this disruptive creativity fandom that’s Formabilio Community!
To send all our sincere lovin’ to you, we just say THANK YOU with all our (blue) heart, with brain and the strongest passion… Moreover, with a special e-mail (so, please, check your mailbox)! We have the strong belief that you are the very core of Formabilio crazy project, and we’ll doing everyday all the best to always make you feel at home when enter this space and give your creativity a concrete chance!
Putting on our thinking cap, how about your holidays? We wonder you’re having your well-deserved relax after a year of hard work, maybe drinking your ice – cocktail at the seaside or exploring wild and mystic natural sites…
Be kind and send us a post-card to Cison di Valmarino, because we’re open! Our team of tireless guys and eager beaver girls will keep on working hard to welcome you back with an AMAZING SEPTEMBER!
New Formabilious headquarter (bigger team = bigger home!), new home collection, new people, new partnership, and new lands to be conquered all across Europe!
Did we arouse your curiosity? Hope so :)
So have a renewing and funny summer and let’s meet up again in September!
From Old French ‘pique’ (to steal) and ‘nique’ (trivial stuffs), a real picnic practice has always required friends and family, sharing (everybody should prepare something), merry feeling, better if en plein air.
We had a lot of fun in visualizing the best set for each one of you: hope you enjoy too and maybe find the picnic set that fits your wishes!
(Cards are free to be shared!)
Never ending inspiration about:
Picnic Food
Picnic Blankets
Picnic Baskets
Picnic Seats&Tables
Picnic DIY and Handmade
Picnic Events
Picnic Games
Special credits | Gnambox, Desig Milk, Designlovefest, OhHappyDay, Electric picninc, Design Sponge, Geek Dads, Wired
Designed by Chiara Pellicano – our last interview here – among the 6 young co-founder of emergent Design Studio Gradosei and winning product of one of the former design contest of our Community, ‘Essential’, the dining table Dedalo answer entirely Formabilio brief: minimal, flawlessly sober, a ‘no-frills’ design.
A perspective play for the piedistal, composed by two twin trapezoids, slided and turned
Warm tones of olm wood for teh table top recall a sort of rural and craft tradition
The inspiration of this project is of a poetical accuracy: “Dedalo came into being from two layers overlapped. Elegance, movement and balance had to reach the perfect bond. The solution came while working on a graphic planning: merge and move geometries to gain the optical illusion of a third shape. The answer was in a perspective play between two twin trapezoids, slided and turned […] The result of a never-ending labyrinth baptized this dining table as “Dedalo”, from Greek myth”, tells the Designer.
It has to be said: less is more. Because the behind the pleasure of pure aesthetics there’s hard work, both in project and in production.
Here lays the powerful magnetism of this dining table, which in the middle of a Thursday evening dinner will make you ask your friend to stand up – please! -, pull away chairs and bend you down on the floor, to admire once again that irregular and still so symmetrical pedestal, those strict and snow white legs that are as thick as thieves with the top, that if called ‘basic’ is almost baroque!
The lightness you don’t expect – without taking a Kundera! - , thanks also to the virtuous match between the warm tones of olm wood (recalling a rural and craftmanship tradition) with the nearly industrial touch of the bearing base, made of white-lacquered beech.
Creativity, project and materials: missing something? Hands and passions of our craft Italian companies!
Nice week to everybody and enjoy the Community!
L’insostenibile leggerezza di Dedalo
Firmato da Chiara Pellicano – la nostra intervista qui - tra i 6 giovanissimi co-founder del promettente studio romano Gradosei e vincitore di Essential, uno dei primi design contest per talenti creativi della nostra Community, il tavolo Dedalo risponde perfettamente al brief di Formabilio: minimalista, impeccabilmente sobrio, ridotto all'osso, un design ‘no-frills’. L’ispirazione è di un rigore poetico: “Dedalo ha avuto origine da due lucidi sovrapposti. Eleganza, movimento ed equilibrio dovevano raggiungere il perfetto connubio. La soluzione arrivò durante una progettazione grafica, tra rotazioni e traslazioni geometriche. Fondere e muovere geometrie piane per ottenere l’illusione ottica di una terza forma. La risposta fu nel gioco prospettico di due trapezi identici, ruotati e ribaltati tra loro. […] Il risultato infinito di un labirinto consegnò al progetto il nome Dedalo”, ci racconta la Designer.
E’ il caso di dirlo: ‘less is more’. Perché la gratificazione di un’estetica semplice cela profondità di studio, progettuale e produttivo. Sta qui il magnetismo di questo arredo, che nel bel mezzo di una cena del giovedì ti fa chiedere agli amici – tutti e 8 – di alzarsi, scostare le sedie, e metterti gattoni per dare ancora uno sguardo a quel piedistallo perfettamente irregolare eppure così simmetrico, a quelle gambe rigorose e candide che, chissà come, vanno d’amore d’accordo con un piano d’appoggio che dire ‘basico’ è quasi barocco.
La leggerezza che non ti aspetti – senza scomodare Kundera -, grazie anche alla combinazione dei toni caldi dell’Olmo, che richiama contesti della tradizione rurale, e il tocco ai limiti dell’industrial della base, in faggio laccato bianco.
Creatività, progetto, materia…Cosa manca? Le mani e la passione delle nostre aziende italiane!
Pic | Grading a cover for a new stool among 100% recycled fabric samples with our style&design dept.
Pic | Family Portrait: a member of Formabilio Team holding a piece of glove compartment set ‘Racchetta’
Actually, we love hues and this does not pass by unnoticed. We hunt them unceasingly, choose them painstaking together with our partner companies and our Designers, we collect them with obsessive edge, waiting for the perfect furniture piece that will make flow the ideal furniture mix for you, good-design lovers. Among a timeless beige and the elegance of a dark grey, we often give way to a blue chair, a mint-turquoise side table or an emerald glove compartment, and we exactly feel attached to these gutsy nuances.
Maybe it’s because ‘Emerald’ has been elected as the colour of 2013, and that it transmit balance, harmony and a sense of “new life”.
Perhaps it’s due to the fact that people mentioned it 102 million times on social media, connecting it with such as familiar concept to Formabilio like respect for environment-friendly stuffs and quality of life.
Possibly, it’s because Pantone choose a blue/green tone for its online blog ‘Design’ section, or more honestly because it makes us happy and happiness, you know, it’s contagious!
For these and many other reasons, we want to give a small but sincere tribute to all the colours, tactfully influencing our everyday life, our home and decor and our feelings, by retracing a 50 years chromatic history, through the vibrant infographic realized by Pantone to celebrate an important anniversary.
Have a nice trip and…We’ll be in touch soon!
Pic | Credit: Pantone. 'Emerald' as the Colour of The Year 2013
Pic | Credit: Pantone. Most mentioned colours
True Colours: del turchese menta, e dei colori
E’ un dato di fatto e non passa inosservato: ci piacciono i colori. Li cerchiamo incessantemente, li scegliamo con cura certosina insieme ai produttori e ai nostri Designer, li collezioniamo con piglio ossessivo, in trepidante attesa del prodotto giusto che farà scaturire la combinazione ideale per voi. Tra un beige intramontabile e l’eleganza di un grigio scuro, cediamo sempre volentieri a una sedia blu oceano, un tavolino turchese menta o un portaoggetti verde smeraldo, e proprio a queste nuance siamo particolarmente affezionati. Sarà che è “Emerald” il colore del 2013, che trasmette equilibrio, armonia e un senso di “rigenerazione”. Sarà che 102 milioni di volte si è parlato di lui sui social, associandolo a concetti cari a Formabilio come il rispetto per l’ambiente e la qualità della vita a contatto con la natura.Sarà che è il colore scelto da Pantone per la sezione ‘Design’ del suo blog. Sarà che ci mette allegria, e l’allegria si sa, è contagiosa :) Per questo vogliamo celebrarlo, insieme a tutti i colori che ogni giorno influenzano la nostra vita, il nostro gusto e il nostro modo di sentire, ripercorrendo una storia cromatica lunga 50 anni, con un assaggio dell’infografica realizzata da Pantone per festeggiare un anniversario importante.
The Design Addicted's Guide to the Living Room Galaxy
This dusty sitting-room is going to self-destruct in 5…4…3…2…1
Please reload your living room.
However, DON’T PANIC: we collected for you some simple guide lines we follow too, when selecting the right project for Formabilio Collection.
We hope they will be useful to get you in the right mood for a contemporary inspiration, both in in choosing the furniture piece that fits to your home space or sketching your own design project. Let’s start the trip.
How does the contemporary living room look like?
Some time ago, we read an interesting article about The Future Of The Living Room, simply explaining how social changes in the home are driving new developments in the living room. As the theorist of “media convergence” Henry Jenkins suggests, "We can understand the future if we understand what people are doing when it's hard".
In terrestrial idiom, it means we are always in a hurry, watch TV while Twitting, work from home and often live in urban spaces and shoot down the partition between the traditional living room, dining room and kitchen.
Few, concrete sparks for imagine your own next living room. Let’s start the trip
1. Welcome home
When you choose a piece of furniture ask yourself: do I feel comfy with it? Comfort is the new black: it’s always à la mode.
Vico Magistretti sofa Sinbad – love to feel embrace by this soft blanket
2. Coffee or laptop?
Volumes transforms themselves adapting to most varied needs: read a book in solitude, stay with friends, and work from home using your laptop. So think flexible and multifunction.
Formabilio coffee-table Budapest – play with two modular elements
3.Who made this?
Anonomity and distance vs passion and humanization: you can catch it in a glance, when evaluating a design product. Valuing craftsmanship and local tradition goes well with a global and fine taste. So take your time to inquire and make the right choice!
4. Size does matters
Day or night, open or closed, always make sure of not too much spaces is required. Smart objects have a functional and democratic soul: no matter where you live, you can enjoy the pleasure of design exactly at the moment you need it. And then easily put it back.
Formabilio sofa-bed Sofista – pullout arms means it’s easy to adapt Sofista becoming a chaise longue, ora a single bed.
5. Never seen before
Living Room is the place where you can express and exhibit your bright ideas: so don’t be afraid to dare, also by mixing in & out elements.
Indoor Amaca – an exotic swing looks good in exact setting
If you enjoyed this post, we can keep in touch in our community!
we must admit that too much time has passed since we’ve open our wooden & eco-friendly heart to you: sorry about that, now we’re back again with oodles of Summer news!
As Inside Awards 2014 shortlist has been revealed and Princess Zaha Hadid gains the Design of the Year Prize, worldwide design-lovers are seeking for the best outdoor experience to share with neighbours. So our Design Team worn its best summer outfit, turned on the bluetooth speakers and create the first products of Formabilio Outdoor Collection.
We’re really proud to introduce to you Argo table & stools Family and the rainproof version of our best seller Facile! Sofa!
Pic|Argo Table&Stools| Outdoor Collection
Pic|Facile! Sofa | Outdoor Collection | Having a break while shooting…
Fresh ideas, new products, bigger catalogue…New artisanship skills required! That’s also why three new manufacturing companies have officially joined Formabilio project: Artelight produces the lighting projects such as Lucix and Bloemi, F. lli Poli is in charge for prototypes and metal products using cold metal stamping, metal cutting and 2d or 3d laser cutting, Effediemme takes care of panel wood products.
Small size, high expertise, ancient family tradition, strong innovation, research, flexibility and promptness, attention to energy saving policies and environmental sustainability are common features among them.
Pic|New Formabilio manufacturing companies | F. lli Poli
We hope you welcomed the Outdoor Collection and start wondering about you relaxing on Facile! sofa, maybe enjoying a good reading… Something such this one we’ve just run into and like to share with you all: if you’re going to the Venice to see 14th Architecture Biennale, don’t miss the chance to discover the amazing modern architectural wonders of the city and take a glimpse to Venice Architecture Guide, a very practical guide leading you between Carlo Scarpa and Davide Chipperfield’ works!
Pic | Venice Architecture Guide edited by Dom Publishers
How to dream marvellously well with a perfect mate!!!
Designers no longer mere day-dreamers (lovely hipsters).
They’re positive, sceptical, disruptive and of course sometimes creative :-)…
This used to be an artistic pursuit.
Now tech has made it mainstream
For you, just 5 suggestions, we know you are a perfect sleepers!
1 Create a place where is allowed to mess around. Tappeto Volante
Enzo Mari, 1989 - Flou
2 Don’t conform yourself, be foolish. Dilly Dally
Luigi Massoni, 1968
3 Unexpected mix of materials and forms, will make a better design Do-Lo-Rez
Ron Arad, 2008 - Moroso
4 A melting pot is awesome, exciting and cool and at the same times it brings unique perspectives Reclining Chair
Marcel Breuer, 1936
5 Create new relationship between people, ambient and design Neoz
Philippe Starck, 1997 - Driade
How to design well when you’re low on material choices
Ten advices, old ideas, new design!
1 small innovations that make a big difference Clouds
Ronan e Erwan Bourroullec, 2012
2 simple, positive, vibrant Sciangai
De Pas, D'Urbino, Lomazzi, 1973 - Zanotta
3 brave: designer approach is super-emotional Boa
Fernando e Humberto Campana, 2002 - Edra
4 everyone knows what “Less is More” means Elisée
Pierre Paulin, 2009 - Magis
5 proud wood, metal and fabric... Folding Screen
Charles & Ray Eames, 1946
6 friendly, eco-sustainable and always looking for the fun times in life Salkim
U:B Studio, 2006 - Das Rote Paket
7 confidence in talent
Spiderweb Chair
Joseph Forakis, 2010
8 smart no-waste attitude that looks perfect really it’s just being good design
Cloverleaf
Verner Panton, 1969 - Verpan
9 magic forms means magic numbers
Birds on a wire
E. Barber & J. Osgerby, 2007 - Magis
10 it’s design! Everyone loves design. Nuage
Philippe Nigro, 2012 - Foscarini
First define your project’s goals, then imagine the project idea they should stand for,then make an action plan (innovation, design and industrial feasibility), and finally make sure they’ll live happily ever after.
May has brought a little sunshine to Cison di Valmarino and our roses are now in full bloom. Here Formabilio’s team works busily to all things anticipated at the meeting in Milan. Exciting news to come from the development side: we are going to launch our 33rd contest and it will be possible to enter as a Group, Yeah!! Get ready and start to think who could be your perfect partner.
Sales team is absorbed making Mother’s day unforgettable: if you didn’t get the chance to enjoy the promotion on the cushions Inpasta and Pi’gio here is your fix, get one of our Gift Cards, perfect for a last minute present ;)
You know we like to keep the promises we make. You have asked for more “physical” meetings, then you should mark this down: May 22nd at 6.30 pm in Rome-Enjoy Showroom Via San Silverio, 19.
It will be another important moment to meet up, talk, get your suggestions, make a toast and, most of all, see and try our furniture pieces!
Confirm your attendance here
MILAN and ROME are the first two cities to host FORMABILIO IN TOUCH, the project has the aim to select 10 exclusive showrooms in Italy where to display our furniture, so to give you the opportunity to see and experience the beauty and comfort of our products, check out the locations:
MILANO | StudioA by Area Pavimenti via Vittadini 1 |Open Mon - Fri 9:00/13:30- 14:30/18:30 where LAMBRO, PI’GIO POUF, ZIPPIÙ and NODO BUFFET are already visible
ROMA | Showroom Enjoy Via San Silverio, 19. Opening May 22nd.
Well, what to say, besides terrible weather forecasts this month, Formabilio’s community, can enjoy the hottest news and releases!
Every day should be the Earth day. Every day we should do little things to help save our planet, small investments for the future.
A lifestyle that everyone of us can opt for, with a little bit of awareness, like recycling your rubbish, use public transports or electric cars, switch off the lights when there is no need, save water. Is a question of choice, conscious and sustainable.
For us, Formabilio, the concept of sustainability is very important. It is in our philosophy and in our production process. This means constant research of innovative solutions and the latest materials, smart and eco-friendly.
Take for example DiNuovo® fabrics. We use them for our upholstered items, aren’t they beautiful?
They also are “good” you know….
The fabrics of the brand DiNuovo® are made from yarn 100% regenerated, with the smart employ of sustainable procedures, energy saving, avoiding water waste and the use of polluting chemicals for dyeing -reclaiming the finest fibers -like cotton- that otherwise would be wasted.
This manufacturing process is indeed good for the environment: it spares Earth from cotton intensive cultivation, pesticides, chemical fertilizers.
The Nabuk-effect fabric of Decube armchair, synthetic and with a low environmental impact, is derived from recycled plastic fibers, like plastic bottles, and then dyed with natural, non-toxic products, obviously 100% recyclable!
This approach is renewed every day and shared with our partner companies and designers.
We are convinced that one of the main aspects of Design is also to rethink behaviors and habits in a positive way.
Respect for the environment is definitely a good start.
In Milan, last week, we had the chance to meet many of you, know your stories and peek, even if a moment, at your lives.
You came to visit us, some with their family, to whom you have shown the products we have built together or that now are in your houses.
You introduced us to your friends, divulged Formabilio’s story and shared the pictures taken during your visits to us.
We are quite a few…
Formabilio is a big family, companies, designers, community. We have met together in a room, it was beautiful, it felt real as old friends meet again after a long time apart.
The web has given the chance, even to those that couldn’t join us, to be present and to give their opinions, be involved and supportive.
During these days in Milan you have boosted us with energy, positivity and contagious enthusiasm.
You are generous, open minded and creative.
Together we will do great things!
Milan has been just one of the many occasions that we want to happen in order to meet you all.
So stay tuned, soon, as always, there are going to be many crispy news.
