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  • Milan Design Week: Products

    Milan Design Week: Products

    27th May 2009 | 0 comments | 2 people like this

    Premium today is less about extravagance and more about essentialism. It's about reduction: getting rid of the superfluousness in our lives. It's also about consuming responsibly, and being culturally aware and values conscious. The creative class especially wants to live in a world with fewer things, and more ideas, and as Philippe Starck said, "We have to replace beauty, which is a cultural concept, with goodness, which is a humanist...

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  • Milan Design Week: The Parties

    Milan Design Week: The Parties

    27th May 2009 | 0 comments | 1 person likes this

    It's important to allow what is sometimes considered to be 'time wasting' into your life: art, imagination, sleeping, or just being with people. And it's this time wasting where Milan comes to the fore. It's the hanging with friends at parties and random personal encounters that lend Milan Design Week its humaneness. Happiness does only exist when shared, and every night there were hundreds of parties that were testament to...

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