Oscar Duboÿ picks four design pieces ripe for discovery
ARK, Living Divani, design by David Lopez Quincoces
The new edition of Design Watching, the Salone del Mobile.Milano column in which design professionals take the lead
Products, ideas, visions. Design Watching is the new monthly Salone del Mobile column that turns the spotlight on the vision of journalists and industry professionals in the design world. Following Marcela Fibbiani, Bianca Felicori and Marie Godfrain, it’s the turn of the Paris-based Italian-French journalist Oscar Duboÿ. Duboÿ works in design and interiors, collaborating with specialist industry publications such as the Architectural Digest, La Gazette Drouot, IDEAT, TLmag, Numéro, L'Architecture d'Aujourd'hui and Wallpaper. His work currently focuses on the interactions between art and collectable design.
Post Mundus, Gebrüder Thonet Vienna, design by Martino Gamper
Post Mundus, Gebrüder Thonet Vienna, design by Martino Gamper
I’m an avid fan of Gamper. Now that the design classics are being so greatly celebrated, being able to deconstruct them and remaster them in a contemporary yet totally coherent key takes real talent. He has that talent.
ARK, Living Divani, design by David Lopez Quincoces
ARK, Living Divani, design by David Lopez Quincoces
The contrast between the thin line of the feet at the front and the full base behind, between straight and concave lines, makes for a rather unexpected result, with a certain radical aesthetic that renders the armchair almost sculptural.
DIA, Martinelli Luce, design by Simon Schmitz
DIA, Martinelli Luce, design by Simon Schmitz
Aside from the two LEDs and the dual directionality of the light, the two red cables are visually rewarding, technical elements turned into a pure industrial aesthetic, the good looking kind, not always a given.
Florian, Acerbis, design by Vico Magistretti
Florian, Acerbis, design by Vico Magistretti
I promised myself I wouldn’t go for the usual historic pieces, but this one is irresistible. Because of the interplay between the low table, the chair handle and the butler’s tray which folds, disappears and becomes something else entirely. And as a tribute to the Master, obviously.
