Porro launched Nao Tamura’s Origata console, designed by the Japanese New York-based designer, in 2024. It’s made from a folded aluminium sheetDieter Rams designed the original version of his 621 table for Vitsœ in 1962, in injection-moulded plastic. In 2014 it was re-engineered to take advantage of advances in plastic technologyAlvar Aalto designed Screen 100 in 1936 for Artek, the Finnish company that he set up. It’s a special favourite of Paul SmithPatricia Urquiola designed the Dudet 526 upholstered armchair for Cassina in 2021Bellhop was originally designed for the Design Museum’s restaurant as a table lamp by Barber Osgerby in 2016. Flos now makes a table lamp and a suspension versionPiero Lissoni designed the Eda-Mame sofa for B&B Italia in 2018Giampiero Tagliaferri designed Minotti’s Pattie armchair in off-white, made with structural plastic and a swivelling mechanism, in 2024Gio Ponti designed a range of chests of drawers in the early 1950s for Molteni&C. They are now being manufactured based on original drawings from the Ponti archive, using elm wood and brass feetPoliform’s Mush coffee table was designed in black elm by Jean-Marie Massaud in 2022Le Miniature collection pays homage to iconic furniture pieces by recreating them in miniature form, designed by Poltrona Frau Style & Design Centre. This includes the Miniature Archibald, a version of Jean-Marie Massaud’s Archibald Armchair, originally designed in 2009Joe Colombo designed the Additional System seating in 1967. It was in production until 1974 with Sormani. Tacchini put it back into production this year
Photography assistants Amar Gill and Daiki Tamija
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