unduetrestella wishes you happy holidays remembering the famous street piece by David Hammons, Bliz-aard Ball Sale (1983), the poetry of snowballs and ... every common life!
Let's meet again next year. The 2016 will be full of art, design, kids and imagination!
Photograph from Frieze Magazine, Issue 121, March 2009
Dellebollar are kind of small forest spirits who usually live in their moss balls. Dellebollar asleep most of the time, but do not let appearances deceive! They are always on guard and ready to listen to secrets, console and spread happiness, and when awake they are driven by a mad curiosity!
These fur balls are super cute ornaments created in Sweden with love by Jenny Dellemyr. They can be hang on the wall, used as dreamcatchers, put in the car or wherever you need a little buddy to keep you company. Dellebollar is also a wonderful welcome-to-world-gift.
Each of these small creatures are handmade and therefore unique!
AMAZING!
Mum and Dad Factory is a French company founded in 2012 by Clotilde Le Théo and Laetitia Olsak. Together, they make the bold gamble to offer parents an alternative to traditional furniture for children. The first project was the Mini lit, that adapts to the shape of babies. Then, they design the Toddler bed, which is very low and promotes the autonomy of the child. Recently, they create the Bench table, a versatile piece of furniture that can be use as a child desk or as an adult seat.
All their creations meets with simplicity, uniqueness and practicality and also promotes the use of quality materials exclusively manufactured by European partners, committed to decent work practices and environmental standards.
WE TOTALLY LOVE THEM!
Studio ROOF was launched in 2005 (as Kidsonroof) by Romy and Ilya together with their three children. Their inspiration has always been the beauty of childhood, the imagination, nature, peoples of the world, art and craftsmanship, and the urge to create, and to unfold a new imagery. In 2013, alongside the paper products, there suddenly appeared a small collection of furniture. The roof had become too small, the studio had grown and Studio ROOF was born.
Studio ROOF now produces two collections: the Paper Creative Collection with paper 3D
objects, toys, and paperware for ALL ages, and the Living Collection, which consists of home accessories and furniture. The imagination is always the motive behind the two collections.
SOO BEAUTIFUL!!!
Ocarina is the first MP3 player designed entirely for kids. With a securely set speaker, and a comfort fit for kids'hands, it doesn't need any headphones. Ocarina is totally childproof, with a strong body with rubber-coated and free of toxic substances. Ocarina contains 3 stories and 3 original songs, but you can also record up to 100 minutes in case you like to sing or tell fairy tales! So let classical music or mummy's voice lull the baby to sleep, Ocarina is also capable to turn itself off! Ocarina is 100% Made in Italy!
G R E A T!
Giovelab is a project by the italian designer and artist Giorgia Brunelli. Giovelab is also a dream, a place in the woods where nature silently transgresses beyond its boundaries and lets flowers blossom in cups and tiny animals rest on serving dishes. Giovelab "art de la table" creates poetic, imperfect and joyful objects to soften our everyday lives. Everyday objects mingle gracefully with dreamy artistic concepts, to achieve a unique emotional mix.
SO BEAUTIFUL!
Photo © Giovelab
The Swarovski Crystal World's Playtower fosters the widest range of play experiences on four different levels arranged on top of each other. The levels are connected by a unique vertical net that can be climbed up to a height of just over 14 meters. It offers the most varied activities from climbing, rocking, and swinging to sliding and even to what looks like floating. The façade of the tower, designed by architecture firm Snøhetta, consists of 160 crystallinefacets though no two are exactly alike. The paners are inprinted with a innovative pattern of millions of tiny animals. The view from inside to outside is visible at all times and at night, the structure is a spectacular body of light
Swarovski Kristallwelten, Kristallweltenstrasse 1, 6112 Wattens · Austria
Photo © Swarovski Kristallwelten
Here they are: the new Christmas cardboard balls of Elena Bergamini, fronte/retro printed with the magic illustrations by Roberta Errani!
They are available also at unduetrestellaSTORE!
CUCUMA is an italian brand founded by the super Elena Bergamini; it gathers projects of furniture design, papercut creations, experiments with the sewing machine, and all the design ideas turn into dreamy objects that can give a moment of lightness to everyday!
ALPHABET is an entire cardboard alphabet that can become coffee tables, side tables, solutions for exhibitions. Recyclable, lightweight and very durable. TANGRAM, is an ancient Chinese game, consisting of seven tablets of different form, arranged to form a square. Elena's TANGRAM grows in size allowing us to play both on the table or lying on the ground having so much fun with friends to create new forms!
AMAZING JOB ELENA! :)
During the 2015 United Nations Climate Summit in Paris the artist OLAFUR ELIASSON, in collaboration with the geologist Minik Rosing, has launched the public artwork Ice Watch at the Place du Panthéon. It aims to encourage public action against climate change at COP21. Let’s appreciate this unique opportunity – we, the world, can and must act now. Let’s transform climateknowledgeinto climate action. As an artist I hope my works touch people, which in turn can make something that may have previously seemed quite abstract more a reality. Art has the ability to change our perceptions and perspectives on the world, and Ice Watch makes the climate challenges we are facing tangible. I hope it will inspire shared commitment to taking climate
action, Olafur Eliasson said.
Ice Watch by Olafur Eliasson and Minik Rosing,
Photo: Martin Argyroglo
© 2015 Olafur Eliasson
Canendario 2016 by Alex Raso is wonderful! Sorry but it is impossible to mantain the double meaning of the Italian! Anyway dogs are the main characters!
On sale at unduetrestellaSTORE, Milano
Some pics from the beautiful show in Brescia at Galleria Massimo Minini, entitled "ENZO MARI eliminare il superfluo per ritrovare l’essenziale", Until 16 January 2016.
www.galleriaminini.it
'Photo: Bloomlab.it
Courtesy Galleria Massimo Minini.
I QUADERNINI DI MILANO, from November 26th to December 9th, 9am - 5pm, free entrance, SPAZIO EX FORNACE, Alzaia Naviglio Pavese 16, Milan.
How many things an old school notebook can tell you? Many! The notebooks, infact, can contain fragments of the lives of their young authors, and are important documents, not only to learn about the past and the history of education, but also to understand the psychology of the children who filled the pages. For the first time the cultural association Quaderni Aperti shows part of the collection that counts over 600 books dating from the the nineteenth century till today, from all over Italy, especially from Milan.
Some of the notebooks exhibited have been (almost) fully reproduced from the paper mill Arbos, others can be consulted digitally navigating among the 1000 images of the digital collection of Quaderni Aperti. I quadernini di Milano is not just an exhibition: in the two weeks of exposure will be made readings, workshops for schools, meetings and also an "exhibition inside the exhibition". Consult the full program here.
AMAZING JOB!
Photo Credit: Quaderni Aperti
unduetrestella is proud to present the new production of MARTINA DELLA VALLE pins!
Badges from vintage photos. Unique edition. Mounted on cardbord, 10x14 cm, 2 pagesOn sale at unduetrestellaSTORE and Punta della Dogana, Venice, Museo Internazionale della Ceramica, Faenza.
glöw be kind is a very nice brand from Argentina. The idea is to design products to provide solutions to the new needs that come with raising children. The brand focuses on practicality, quality and multifunctionality needed in everyday life. The aim is to simplify the beautiful (and exhausting!) task of being parents. For example the cradle CUNA can be transformed over the time into a bed, giving the kid independence to get on and off preventing falls that may occur.
glöw's products are made in Argentina, ensuring fair work conditions for all those involved in their realization. The design is simple and clean, and use fine materials with excellent quality.
SUPER!
Broot is a nice design brand from Argentina.
Very fond on beautiful details, but also to functionality, Broot creates easy, funny, practical and super nice objects. The design is so pure that can fit any kind of house's environment.
LOVE BROOT!
CARtools, designed by Floris Hoover for Magis Me Too is composed by 26 beech wood blocks painted with non-toxic paintings. The simplicity of the blocks recall those classic buildings with a linear appearance. The idea of the designer is to bring out the simplicity of the vehicles and in the same time to give more space to imagination and individuality. Changing, moving or shifting the various blocks you can create new combinations and images. These blocks become a tool of design, thought for children, but perfectly suitable even for adults!
WE LOVE IT!
The universe encore! is composed by wooden toys made of solid beech from European forests eco managed (FSC) painted with water varnishes and organic cotton rabbits sewn and embroidered by hand by a reintegration workshop.
In this "quartier lapin" all people are friends and kids have lots of fun while learning the principles of ecology. The écoquartier, infact, is an imitative play. Children imitate behaviors, appropriate them, integrate them and of course have fun their own way. Later they naturally apply the principles of ecology in everyday life: we are growing today the children that will live our planet tomorrow.
SO WELCOME IN THE ECOQUARTIER AND LET'S MEET THE RABBIT FAMILY :)
PONCHI PONCHI is the name of a game that Luciana, the designer of the brand, used to play at the swimming pool with her dad and sister. PONCHI PONCHI are innovative, colorful, safe, light and washable toys. They can be carried anywhere and allow to increase creativity!
They are conceived on the assumption that the best game is the representation, where children take an active role and create scenes, amusing themselves and also building new experiences!
TOTALLY IN LOVE WITH THEM!
ROLLARK® is a wonderful toy designed and manufactured in accordance with the philosophy of the Ember team, based in Budapest, devoted to bring real value with deep meaning and fresh feeling. ROLLARK® is a toy that helps the imagination: let's play with a boat in the sea, or with a track on the street... and more and more other adventures.
