venerdì 30 aprile 2010

Legno Liquido: GreenLantern, il futuro era già iniziato e qualcuno non se n'è accorto...




Forget about soggy, heat-vulnerable bio-plastic bags. A new material has come to the attention of the design community that has the texture, the quality and even the smell of wood, yet it can be worked like plastic. Unlike the latter, though, it is fully recyclable and one hundred per cent biodegradable. It sounds like a dream yet it is a definite reality. That was unveiled at the last Fuori Salone in Milan.

In fact, this year during the FuoriSalone in Milano, Romolo Stanco will introduce the first designed object in liquid wood. Its name is GreenLantern and it was designed and developed with the idea of becoming a ‘manifesto’ on the potential of liquid wood. Green-Lantern is a vase and, at the same time, a lamp. The idea of coupling two functions stems from the desire to develop habits inspired by a sustainable lifestyle and, in essence, to tell the world, in a poetical way, about the potential of liquid wood. First, the shape of the object is defined through a very curvaceous body – a form that would be unobtainable using traditional wood and that clearly illustrates what can be obtained through injection-moulding Arboform...

Laura Traldi

Read more:

http://lauratraldi.wordpress.com/2010/04/29/the-wood-of-the-future-its-liquid/

martedì 13 aprile 2010

Appuntamenti Salone del Mobile





GreenLantern @ Fuorisalone

April 14th h. 18.30
Edizioni Galleria Colombari presents:
GreenLantern, liquid wood pot_lamp design Romolo Stanco.

Romolo Stanco su SKY

Romolo Stanco a DesignBook
Leonardo canale 418 - Sky

Mercoledì 14 Aprile ore 23:30
Giovedì 15 Aprile ore 15:30
Venerdì 16 Aprile ore 04:30
Sabato 17 Aprile ore 23:30
Lunedì 19 Aprile ore 15:30
Martedì 20 Aprile ore 04:30

VideoChat @ Appartamentolago

April 18th h. 11.00
Giorgio Tartaro condurrà in diretta via web
da questo sito – con una chat per le
“domande dal pubblico” – un incontro con
ospiti davvero imperdibili: Romolo Stanco,
Giò Pagani, Odoardo Fioravanti e Jacopo Zibardi

http://brera.appartamentolago.com/