Milan Design week is only some weeks away and we’re planning on what to see and the place to go now the primary emails and press invitations hit my mailbox. In fact I’m all the time searching for the sudden, new designers and excellent merchandise. A designer that caught my eye for Milan design week is Munich based mostly Selma Lazrak. Selma Lazrak is a designer and architect from Morocco.
From object to structure, the work of her studio focuses on the hyperlink between design, identification and territory. The Sahara assortment is impressed by a vocabulary of dunes, desertic landscapes and natural varieties encountered throughout the childhood of the designer spent between Morocco and the Center East.
ALCOBA Desk
She is going to current ALCOBA desk on the Isola Design Gallery, a curated exhibition at Through Pastrengo 14, with collectible and bespoke design merchandise made by impartial designers. ALCOBA is an interpretation of the character based in these lands with influences from Moroccan vernacular structure.
Selma: “The intention was to seize the essence of a heritage and a land and mix them right into a vocabulary of varieties. The which means of the phrase Alcoba in Arabic is the Alcove discovered within the Moroccan and Moorish structure. Walnut, chosen for its color and warmness is hand made by native artisans to create the purest angles and curves. We’re pushing the boundaries of fabric processing through the use of a singular mixture of the newest know-how with exact hand-finishing.”
AMUD
AMUD is impressed by the structure of the columns based within the metropolis of Fez in Morocco. The chamfered edges of the pillars are impressed by the character of the area and the layered heritage of all of the civilizations that populated these lands, from the Romans to the Arab-Andalusians. The piece is a tribute to nature and crafts of Morocco.
Pictures © Selma Lazrak
