WHAT’S NEW IN KITCHENWARE?

At this year’s Milan Furniture Fair, Istanbul-based design brand Nude launched new lines by respected French designer Inga Sempé and awardwinning American designer Joe Doucet. Winning our hearts, however, were Chamfer, a solid set of three glass jars by London-based designer Philippe Malouin; and Cupola, a series of three elegant glass domes with brass handles and marble bases by Pentagon Design, an agency led by Finn-ish designers Arni Aromaa and Sauli Suomela.

Italian company bosa called on the expertise of Spanish designer Jaime Hayon. The re-sulting dinnerware collection is a labour of love: white porcelain with hand-printed detailing in black and 24-karat gold. e15 also favours a hands-on approach. Its new stoneware col-lection, Salina, is handmade in a small workshop in the southwest of Germany. Each piece carries the signature of the potter as well as an e15 logo at the bottom.

Driade has marked 2016 with several new additions to its Art of the Objects collection. Top picks include Red Square by Giorgio Bonaguro, a collection of transparent hand-blown glass vases inspired by the ancient domes of the Cathedral of St Basil in Moscow’s Red Square. Also of note is the Geeky collection by Analogia Project, a brilliantly modern inter-pretation of ancient Greek pottery.

The discovery of an original wall tile designed by Mogens Lassen around the 1950s was the inspiration for by Lassen’s new series of table trivets. “The central motif of the tile was so pretty and had so much history that we felt it deserved to be set into production. We couldn’t just let it lie there,” explains Nadia Lassen, director and co-owner. “This initial idea has resulted in a set of table trivets that are so decorative they can be left on the table even when not in use.”

The new trivets are available in two patterns: Exes, which is an ode to classic architecture, and Maze, which incorporates an original Lassen-designed pattern inspired by the linear, stringent forms familiar to the collection.

Patricia Urquiola has created a new tableware collection, called Trama, for Kartell. En-compassing plates, jugs and glasses, the collection draws inspiration from Japanese ceramics and the textures and natural, opaque colours of the earth. The plates are coarse to the touch and feature graphics intended to highlight the collection’s simplicity. The glasses and jugs, in contrast, are smooth, yet bear the same markings as the plates.

Also for Kartell, Piero Lissoni has designed Tynn, a new line of jugs and glasses made from methacrylate and inspired by the master glassmakers of Murano. The collection stands out for its slightly irregular shape that sits perfectly with the play of transparency and colour.