Milan Salone 2017: Time restraints

The historical setting of the San Simpliciano cloisters provided the inspiration for the theme, as the rhythm of time is crucial to life in a monastery. Curator Henrik Vibskov asked each designer to interpret a specific time of day or timespan.

‘Some of the participants addressed the theme in the way a material patinates and changes in colour over time,’ he explains. ‘Others seized on the social element at a specific time of day, like the liberating afternoon coffee-and-cake break or the point at which night turns into day.’

Kasper Friis Kjeldgaard produced a series of mobiles called Rotations. A small rotating disc was lowered into liquid wax. Over the course of several days, layers of wax formed a larger disc that highlighted the amount of time required to create the piece. Christina Schou Christensen used her allocated time of 11:44:33–12:36:01 as a numerical ratio to mix three randomly selected ingredients for the glazes of her Lunch Recipes collection of ceramic pieces.