Milk Decoration – Number 50 (UK Version)

Style and inspiration for contemporary tribes

His name is Alan Eckstein. Former fashion designer, turned antiques dealer-designer, he is the founder of the The Somerset House gallery in Long Island City. A mecca for vintage design, a temple of eclecticism, where furniture from diverse backgrounds coexists in style. Pierre Chapo table, Silvio Coppola chairs, monumental sculpture of Noguchi lamps, his bold compositions emanate a striking modernity that breaks down barriers between genres.

There are a thousand and one ways to love and approach design. “In the flow”, like Alan. Through research and experimentation, like Andrea Trimarchi and Simone Farresin, the designers of the Formafantasma studio, whose holistic approach
and multidisciplinary works to define, in forms and concepts, the future of the discipline. As an outsider too, in the manner of the British artist-designer Faye Toogood, whose unconventional and playful approach allows her to move from one genre to another with the same avant-garde spirit and the same poetry.

At the dawn of the annual Salone del Mobile and its always highly anticipated creative revelations, it is this plurality of tastes, visions and approaches to design that this issue brings together.

Language: English