Every year, the Best Design Awards celebrates excellence in graphic, spatial, product, interactive and motion design within the design community in New Zealand.On the evening of this year's event, guests were asked to participate and contribute to the 'Best' Zettel'z pendant with an illustration of ‘an object that inspires them the most’.ECC was lucky to view all the entries to select one favourite. We met with the winner Ethan, who later received the one-of-a-kind Zettel’z pendant with submissions from the event to take home.Watch the full interview below.  

The iGuzzini Light Experience is officially open at the ECC Showroom in Auckland. One of only seven in the world, the Light Experience is both a multi-sensory physical and virtual space where you can engage with the latest iGuzzini technologies. Showcasing more than just luminaries, the interactive space is designed to explore and observe each individual fitting’s capabilities and scope, in isolation or in unison with others.  The endless possibilities demonstrated through adjustments of light direction, intensity, colour options or colour temperature across the product range, serve to inspire thoughtful application in architectural and urban design. Come by and view world-class lighting technology in an immersive and tailored context. To book in for your iGuzzini Light Experience,...

 

Moooi takes on counterfeiting with the introduction of The Button, a digital proof of authenticity gradually being rolled out through the Moooi Collection. Hand-in-hand with the Moooi Originals campaign, Moooi is telling the world that design brands and designers deserve protection to keep creating new products and investing in marketing their designs.  

The first ever digital version of our award-winning Milan Report is here!

Today was quite a different experience as we headed into the design districts in central Milan. While the confines of a tradeshow offer convenience in terms of the number of brands you can see, stepping out into town and seeing things in a localised environment brought the products to life.

Today we concentrated on Euroluce, the lighting fair within a fair. Each year the Milan Fair shows furniture, and alternates between lighting and bathrooms/kitchens. This year there is much ground for ECC to cover being a lighting year.

We are back at the fairgrounds today visiting two more furniture halls. The fairgrounds are like a mini city and it is a real challenge to get through and view as much as possible.

We were met on the Minotti stand by Mr Minotti this morning before the morning crowds arrived. Being the best (in our opinion) of the luxury brands there is great interest to see the stand, but limited capacity to accommodate the crowds. To solve this issue Minotti showcased several settings behind curved glass walls, so that everyone got a taste of the Minotti style.

Welcome to the coverage of the 2019 Milan Furniture Fair. We start today, officially the day before the fair opens, to tell you a bit about what we saw on our first day out and about. We also attended the press opening of the Moooi exhibition and spoke exclusively to Marcel Wanders.