From 18 to 23 April, on the occasion of the Milan Design Week, at the Salone del Mobile new furnishings have been proposed to respond to the increasingly complex needs of users and to promote individual and collective well-being. Naturally La Mercanti was there to catch all the news in the sector of office furniture and contract furniture.

As always, the Salone del Mobile is a meeting place, where new opportunities arise in the world of design and projects; at the same time it is a laboratory of creativity, experimentation and contamination of styles and ideas that concern the whole world. It is a place available and open to discussion, to bring out innovation and propose contents of cultural and professional value. Like every year, visitors were able to see the new trends for the furniture and furnishing sector with the use of recent technologies. When technology changes lifestyles, furniture adapts to this change: the home space becomes an office and the work space becomes as warm and welcoming as the home.

The materials most used to produce the furnishings are certainly wood and metal.
Natural and sustainable, wood is now an undisputed protagonist and is confirmed as the most loved material by almost all brands. We tend to keep it as natural as possible by treating it with transparent or opaque finishes so as to leave its veins visible. Simple and minimal lines are often chosen by playing on not too accentuated curvatures that highlight the craftsmanship of the products.
Technology and design merge in the furnishings in which metal is used, forged into slender but very solid shapes to create useful, intelligent and particular solutions.

There were many brands at the Salone Del Mobile 2023. Among these there was Caimi Brevetti proposing furnishings in which the technology of its sound-absorbing fabrics, from this year in ECONYL, recycled nylon fiber, blends with everyday objects, creating hybrid furnishings. The novelties by Caimi Brevetti can be summed up in Lucrezio, a sound-absorbing table designed by Caimi Lab and Integral, a sound-absorbing panel that engages a LED light source to enrich the possibilities of use.
In the LaPalma collections, many novelties are full of imagination to create aesthetically and qualitatively satisfying environments, designed to encourage work, relaxation or conviviality. Here is the completely renovated space of Lapalma for Architects, once again proposing itself as a place of inspiration, creativity and dialogue for architects and interior designers. LaPalma has proposed 10 environments inspired by contemporary places where flexible and sustainable collections emerge that convey contents such as sustainability, well-being and inclusion.

Metropolis is an USA monthly magazine about architecture and design, with a focus on sustainability. It is based in New York and has been published since 1981. With a national event series, print publications, and round-the-year digital coverage, Metropolis is building common ground for the A&D community.

La Mercanti ad in the March’s issue reflects the company business strategy in the North America market focusing the workplace interiors area with the Jera modern executive desk by Las Mobili. The name Jera recalls a Celtic era when essential and monolithic forms prevailed. The executive desk has been designed with an architectural approach. It is characterised by clever craftsmanship, found in the attention to detail, the original design in a pure made in Italy style. The project’s strength lies in its thick planes, joinery between planes and the vertical and horizontal overhangs.

La Mercanti company since 1997, develops and implements design executive offices and tailored solutions for modern office interior design. Series of Italian desk with clean, minimalist lines, conceived to meet the needs of high-level work environments, boardrooms, and other prestigious spaces. These elements are designed to facilitate the use of technology in an unobtrusive manner and are characterized by high technological and ergonomic performance.

For many years, Metropolis has been the architecture and design industry’s most compelling storyteller. Metropolis’ s editorial scope spans design at all scales—from the smallest products to interior design. Metropolis has always sought out, and featured, the game changers in the industry, from emerging talent to established individuals and organizations. And each issue contains stories that link design to evolving furniture trends, from big data to the maker movement.

The new executive office furniture collections have been presented at Orgatec in Cologne, at Salone del Mobile in Milan (and soon at NeoCon in Chicago), ready to interpret different design environments and brand new design proposals. From the world of management were born projects oriented towards comfort and maximum versatility.

Elite by Las Mobili: Executive collection where the worktop integrates with the structural base which also has a storage function. The only finishing features are the tops and doors of the drawer unit. A functional workstation embellished by wall panelling with shelves and optional LED lighting.

Euclideo by i4Mariani: A desk that goes beyond the function, becoming a real sculpture, a privileged piece, a physical presence. It is Euclideo, design Ferruccio Laviani: it is the evolution of the executive system towards a contemporary concept of furniture that is less tied to the traditional iconography of this functional typology. “It is the combination of two volumes that gives life, on one hand, to the work surface in contrast to the cabinet, deputy as container.

Lay by Archiutti: flexible, dynamic, informal, sharing. Lay is meant to fit the multiple and contemporaneous ways of living the working space. The light and firm lines, the technical aspects and the use of colors meet the individual need of characterizing its own environment. A strong personality project positioning resolutely towards the research of quality of materials and aesthetic of products. The U joint is the visual and structural hub of the system, crossing point of two diagonals and distinguishing element of multiple configurations. Realized in die cast aluminium, it is available in multiple colors. A complete furnishing program for the different working spaces (operative, meeting, executive and break). Multiple configurations can be created choosing among details, colors and modules that make the office space essential, coherent and pleasant.

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