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Design Edition
Love for beauty, passion for research, attention to change and initiative have led us to become part of the history of Italian design.
Special editions born thanks to the collaboration with well-known designers, architects, artists and stylists.
Abet Laminati was the first company to foresee that the laminate surface could also lend itself to being enriched with abstract and original graphic elaborations. The numerous collections born give to Abet catalog a vast and characteristically incisive choice.
Mare Nostrum | Matteo Ragni
Mare Nostrum
Mare Nostrum is a collection of decors that celebrates the sea, a symbol of vitality and biodiversity. It is an element that touches the coasts of every continent, uniting and connecting them. The decors are inspired by fish and waves, creating abstract and geometric patterns. Mare Nostrum carries a subliminal message to remind us to take care of our seas and our only planet, Earth.
Matteo Ragni
Matteo Ragni, born in 1972, twice Compasso d’Oro with Giulio Iacchetti, in 2001 with Moscardino for Pandora Design, which is part of MoMa’s permanent collection, in 2014 with the series of manhole covers for Montini. In 2008 he founded TobeUs, a brand of wooden toy cars handcrafted in Italy. He has received over the years many other prestigious awards such as the Wallpaper Design Award (2008), Italy’s National Award for Innovation “Premio dei Premi” established by the President of the Italian Republic (2012) and the Good Design Award (2015, 2021). Alongside his career as a designer, he also lectures at various Italian and international universities and works as an art director and architect.
Whimsy | Arthur Arbesser
Whimsy
A lively, playful and colorful collection. The world of fashion meets interior design and architecture thanks to the collaboration with the Viennese-born fashion designer, who has established his own personal style in consolidated patterns such as the classic Vichy check, circus-inspired zig zags or his unmistakable lines.
Arthur Arbesser
Internationally known as one of the most promising young designers, he has established his own sophisticated personal style, charged with energy with his recognizable prints associated with clean lines and careful choice of fabrics, his silhouettes radiate a kind of sensual modernity. In addition to his own brand, Arbesser is a consultant for various fashion houses and has worked together with companies such as Apple, Silhouette Eyewear, Hem and Yoox. Many collaborations as a costume designer for theaters including the costumes for the Vienna New Year’s Concert in 2019 and 2022.
Parade | Giulio Iacchetti
Parade
The starting point underlying the design research of the Milanese designer that characterizes Parade starts from pictorial and graphic experiments based on a free flow of ideas, where different colour techniques have given life to the Fatto a mano laminates. Then the Moduli family is added, which derives from an intense graphic research on the perfect module directly inspired by the world of Escher.
Giulio Iacchetti
Designer, author and curator of exhibitions and books. He designs for various companies including Alessi, Artemide, Coop, Danese Milano, Dnd, Moleskine, Nava. He founded the Internoitaliano brand, with which objects and furnishings were created in collaboration with a network of Italian artisans. “Cruciale”, “Ration K”, “Laundry Pegs” are just some of his exhibitions hosted by the Milan Triennale and the latest “Created in Italy” for the Ministry of Foreign Affairs. In 2009 the Milan Triennale dedicated an exhibition to him entitled “Giulio Iacchetti. Disobedient objects”. He won two Compassi d’Oro, for the “Moscardino” cutlery and for the “Sfera” manhole covers by Montini.
Digital Nature | Karim Rashid
Digital Nature
The decorative landscape imagined by the eclectic Karim Rashid is an immersion in postmodern iconography in which an entirely digital spirituality takes over the classic one of religion. A new language is born, it is made of digitized, deformed, hypertextualized symbols, which, however, are grafted onto the architectural world, contaminating and updating it.
Karim Rashid
Of Egyptian origins, he lives and works in New York where, in 1993, he opened his design studio. He deals with the interior design and architecture of hotels, restaurants and shops in the world but also with fashion, furniture, lighting, art and music for installations. His creations are part of the permanent collections of the most important museums in the world, including the MoMA in New York.
Bacterio | Ettore Sottsass
Bacterio
This is the reason from which the experimentation on laminates by Sottsass and later by the entire Memphis group began. The idea of the "bacterio" together with those one of other designs, derives from common and everyday materials and objects such as terrazzo, chain mail and sponges. For Bacterio, Sottsass detailed the surface texture and form of a Buddhist temple in Madurai, India, which he then abstracted into a field of black doodles.
Ettore Sottsass
Eclectic character in the Italian design scenario, he starts his activity in Milan in 1947. He dedicates himself to research and experimentation of formal art, architectur, design and literature. In the 70s he is one of the main characters of radical architecture and among its founders of the free individual creativity school ‘Global Tools’, participating to Domus and Casabella journals. He has been the originator of Memphis, one of the most interesting phenomena belonging to design furniture and object. His works and his crytical interventions are published on the main international architecture and design journals and are documented in pamphlets and publications dedicated to him.
Misura B-W | Superstudio
Misura B-W
A pattern which has become worldwide icon for its extraordinary graphic force contrasting a disarming simplicity. Superstudio: 'We would never think about a future all squares, a world made out of beauty and reason. Taken out black patterns in table tops, these are only there for angels's chess tables'.
Superstudio
The group was born in Florence in 1966, begetting theories and projects in the radical architecture world. In those years a cooperation with Abet Laminati started. In 1972 he takes part to the show ‘Italy: The New Domestic Landscape’ at Moma in New York with a room; between 1973 and 1975 he participates of ‘Global Tools’ taking part at several Triennale editions and in 1978 he organises a personal one at the National Institute of Architecture in Rome. From 1973 the group members takes didactic roles at Florence Faculty of Architecture.
Digital Circus | Paola Navone
Digital Circus
Delicacy and touchless but with a stong inspiration for the naturaòl world are the features distinguishing Neige, Ivy and Flore pop. On the other end with Broccato a sumptuous textile tradition is reminded, the one using precious tissues and yarns in furniture with the Jacquard frames.
Paola Navone
Architect, interior designer, product designer and founder of the Milan design studio OTTO. She is one of the most famous Italian designers in the world. She is a designer for many companies such as Baxter, Casamilano, Exteta, Ethimo, Gervasoni, Fontanarte, Poltrona Frau, Swatch, Poliform . Furthermore, she is an interior decorator, industrial surface designer, and creator of international events. She has curated many exhibitions and installations all over the world. She has received numerous prizes and awards: the first award of her career came in 1983 at the Osaka International Design Award. She has supported Abet Laminati in the design world for over twenty years as art director.
Digital Circus | Alessandro Mendini
Digital Circus
Decorative surfaces are for us cause and effect of images, times and situations, dumb witnesses, happy or not, coloured or not, mirroring utopia and expressive refoundings in constant mutuation. Now the look for a basic sign expressing centrality, calm, distance, concentration and expansion together occurring'. (Quot. Alessandro Mendini, Scritti, Skirà Ed. Milan, 2004)
Alessandro Mendini
Illustrious character in architecture and design, he has been associated to Nizzoli Associati studio until 1970 and founder of the Free School for the individual creativity ‘Global tools’ together with Sottsass. From 1970 up to mid 80s he has directed the most important design and architecture journals such as ‘Casabella’, ‘Domus’, for which he has worked as director in 2010 as well. Associated to Alchimia studio he has been counsaltant of several compaies as far as image and design are concerned. Curator of exhibitions and book author, he has represented an important stand point for the Italian design culture.
Febo | Ugo Nespolo
Febo
Ugo Nespolo's compositions are close to Pop Art and New Dadaism for the constant research of an ironic and transgressive content. The artists love experimenting the use of different materials and particular techniques, always looking for new meanings to be conveyed to objects. 'Febo' collection 10 decoratives are no exception; the hues are enlightened, with several connections to daily life, combining signes and lively designs.
Ugo Nespolo
Artist who made his debut on the art scene in the 1960s. His artwork was immediately characterised by an accentuated ironic and transgressive style, a personal sense of amusement that represented a trademark for Nespolo. In the Eighties, Ugo Nespolo built up a considerable amount of experience in applied art, and the Nineties saw a succession of exhibitions, prestigious collaborations, personal exhibitions and successes such as the solo show at the Alitalia headquarters in New York and the two exhibitions for the 2006 Winter Olympics in Turin.
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