Home From Home: Diary 1

Per Me E Per Pochi, conversation table made from an old industrial stool, old books, old candle-holders

Old tie boxes are making friends with 70's chairs with metal frames, while piles of 50's warehouse trolleys are starting up courtyard conversations with benches, old office cabinets and chests which have peices missing. These are just some of the vintage or industrial furniture and objects that JAMESPLUMB have selected to rework and reinterpret in order to fill their Home From Home at Spazio Rossana Orlandi for the 2011 Fall/Winter season.

This curious and unintentional family, which is watched over by the designers dog  - the Bedlington Terrier "Wilfred" - is a silent and unconventional mix, being kept together waiting to be reworked.

The Milanese court at Matteo Bandello 14 - offering Autumn gems as olives, chesnuts, uva fragola and the changing colours of the garden - is animated by the JAMESPLUMB workshop 6 days a week, from 10 to 19.

"For us it is like a wunderkammer: we felt so amazed by the quality, vastness and diversity of Orlandi's Archive that we could work here forever" says JAMESPLUMB (Hannah Plumb, James Russell).

They have fallen in love with slices of old tree trunks Madame Orlandi kept from Triennale Park trimmed trees: the British designers are tracing their shape to cast original seats with a lightweight concrete. This is their approach to re-work the shape, function and aesthetics of the 70' chairs - after this they will become contemporary chairs/tables.

Stay tuned to discover what is their next tale and come to visit Spazio Rossana Orlandi in order to get live impressions on the work in progress.