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Like every year, Milan Design Week is an opportunity for Glas Italia to present the results of its constant research and innovation work on the expressive possibilities of glass, overcoming the most common aesthetic canons associated with the material and highlighting its multifaceted character. Creating incredibly modern and contemporary creations, likely to interact with space and other furniture elements with surprising colours and magical effects of reflections and transparencies.
The new works by Patricia Urquiola are an example of this, with the glass cast in different iridescent or mirroring shades, giving rise to optical illusions and perspective changes; or Nendo with his usual irony, playing with heterogeneous materials and creating containers, where the wood seems to be magically floating on the water.
The booth at Salone 2023 in Milan, Italy, spreading over an area of 400 sqm, showcases these novelties in the furniture collection, along with the new designs by Jean Nouvel, Piero Lissoni and Yabu Pushelberg, in environments elegantly enclosed within the Aladin and Sherazade doors and partitions systems designed by Piero Lissoni and articulated in all their design and aesthetic varieties. A proposal enriched this year by the new Sherazade Folding doors with a book folding system, designed to respond functionally to the requirements of modern interior design.
Finally, an area of the booth is dedicated to celebrating—15 years after the first presentation in 2008—the two latest projects by Ettore Sottsass: Gli Specchi di Dioniso, a collection of six small jewels with a multi-chromatic frame entirely handmade, and Shibam, an iconic mirror-sculpture with a strong personality.
STIR’s coverage of Milan Design Week 2023 showcases the best exhibitions, studios, designers, installations, brands, and special projects to look out for. Explore Euroluce 2023 and all the design districts—5Vie Art and Design, Brera Design District, Fuorisalone, Isola Design District, Tortona District, and Milano Design District—with us.
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