In a context of mutual sharing and enrichment, during the Fuorisalone exhibition (from Tuesday 17th to Sunday 22nd April) both inside and outside the showroom and in addition to exhibiting its product novelties, we will be making room for some handicraft and non-handicraft businesses that are close to the world of company responsibility and to the theories of degrowth, theories that have particularly inspired the demode engineered by Valcucine brand with its innovative Meccanica furniture system. On some of the work islands of Meccanica, IrideFixed, Caira Design, Patagonia Milano and ecocucina.org will repair, recycle, reuse and restore your products while showing you the manual aspects of these processes that is not usually emphasised enough. Caira design, inspired by the most experimental architectural, will destructure and recompose vintage bags using your old trousers (don’t forget to bring a tie in with you if you want a shoulder bag!!). Based on [...]
Italian savoir faire is recovering its central and important position all over the world; Valcucine is summoned to the challenge of internationalisation and to measure up to international markets, even in the [...]
Valcucine and Artissima are once again partners for the 2011 Italian contemporary art event, the major event on the international collectors’ scene. Together to promote art and quality design. For more than [...]
Pioneers in the pursuit of a synergy between functionality, innovative design and respect for the environment, Valcucine mainly bases its design on “design engineering”: in other words, on an effort to harmonise [...]
The Centre for Sustainable Design (CfSD) organises Sustainable Innovation 2011, an international event which provides a platform to discuss the opportunities and challenges related to sustainability, innovation, technology, product and service design [...]
The handful of A-list designers who descended upon Toronto last March had more than their fair share of work cut out for them. Invited by Azure Magazine, landscape architect Claude Cormier, architect [...]