Salone del Mobile 2013:

Respiratory distress and fresh breath

Any newspaper reader or television viewer will inevitably know that times are hard in Italy and it was as if the companies held their breath and hesitated with the major design initiatives at this year's Salone del Mobile.

Although homeexhibitors as mentioned were reluctant on the news front, there was from a Danish perspective more fresh air in the Milanese spring.

We show a few examples of the good Danish strokes:

Bachelor Chair by Verner Panton

for Montana

                                            In front:

Forever young: 

                                            Frits Henningsen's

 wing chair from 1930, 

which is now called

                                                                                                Heritage Chair

 in Carl Hansen & Son's

auspices.

Howe has high expectations

for the relaunched

Arne Jacobsen-shell chair

Tongue.