Preview Ænd! project by Vittorio Simoni for Abet Laminati at the occasion of the 21st Biennale Interieur 08 Kortrijk

The Italian manufacturer of high quality laminate, Abet Laminati, is announcing the end of its own product. No, the company is not stopping it, but has developed an accessory as simple as it is revolutionary: the new collection Ænd! ensures that you can now also get laminate panels on which the pattern has an end point. Previously the end of a pattern would coincide with the end of the laminate panel. In this way, designers now have extra possibilities for covering furniture or other objects creatively with laminate. The new concept was designed for Abet Laminati by Belgian architect and designer Vittorio Simoni, the man who among others drew for the Hasselt Fashion Museum. For the new Ænd! line Simoni has also created three of his own patterns based on concepts from the worlds of wine, fashion and music. Lingue de Simoni, as the range is called, embeds the names of wine varieties “Vino”, fashion cities “Moda” and music styles “Musica” within a decorative pattern that, as it should, now also has an end.

Biennale Interieur 08 Kortrijk 17-26 October 2008

Stand 416 – Halle 6

Collaboration with Belgian architect Vittorio Simoni results in revolutionary design

Abet Laminati is announcing the end of laminate. No, the company is not stopping it, at the 21^st International Biennale Interieur 08 in Kortrijk, it is even presenting a completely new product: Ænd! Literally: the end of laminate and the beginning of new design possibilities. For this Abet called on Belgian architect and designer Vittorio Simoni.

Halle 4 : Stand 416

17th – 26th October 2008 : 10 am – 6 pm

Xpo Kortrijk (Belgium)

ABET LAMINATI chooses the prism for its stand. The space is marked by hexagonal shapes, variable modules which define the environment.
The solid figure is the heart of the stand. The prism seems to rise following the law of continuity typical of the harmony of Nature that ABET LAMINATI honours for over 50 years.
The prisms, whose facets are entirely covered with the endless range of products by ABET, from New Wood to Musk, become metaphors of the shapes created by  Mother Earth: they come out from the ground to create new and captivating finishes for furniture.
Thanks to all the series of products by Abet, the monoliths are covered each time with different laminates and they become actors of a natural world: they evoke wood, stone, metal and so on.
On the walls some hexagons show the strength of the magnetic laminate, a particular laminate with magnetic attraction which, in glossy white and dull anthracite, can be used as a blackboard.
Among the wide range of products proposed at the Zow, the peculiarity of the different surfaces can be clearly noticed thanks to a perfect balance between shapes and colours.
ABET LAMINATI presents, with its own style, the strength of nature in an interplay of geometric elements.

ABET LAMINATI : Pavilion 6 / Stand C6

: the International Exhibition of Components and Accessories for the Furniture Industry

Fiera di Pordenone 15 – 18 October 2008
Every day 9.30 – 18.30 – Saturday 9.30 – 17.00

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The constant dialogue between the world and culture of design led ABET LAMINATI to cooperate for the realization of the project Next Floor.

Designed by the architect Diego Grandi, Next Floor is a real installation: it has the structure of a lift realized by the firm Sele but it is also a work of art. The lift becomes a model of a world which is always changing.

Presented on the occasion of Abitare il Tempo, in the special section dedicated to Interior Architectures, the installation Next Floor has been chosen, together with other 11 projects, as the simulation of a domestic space, imagining possible and future scenarios for it.

Inside, Next Floor is covered with ABET laminates: Grainwood has been used for the walls and Diafos Digital Print for the ceiling. The latter is a special laminate which allows light, both artificial and natural, to filter. Lots of small green leaves have been printed on this laminate, according to the designer’s instructions. These wants to give the idea of an open sky above us. A real branch stretches from one side of the lift to the other: this is a strange element which suggests the idea of an enchanted world, a surreal place.  

The designer considers the lift as a world on its own, a place which allows, through a vertical movement, to travel in time and space. Diego Grandi, designer and teacher in important Italian Institutes, enlarges the boundaries of this object: it sets new scenarios. The lift becomes an open container able to symbolize different places, sometimes even enchanted ones. 

The sense of claustrophobia which sometimes characterizes the lift is not felt here; the vertical box opens its boundaries: from a microenvironment it becomes an endless variety of microcosms.

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Venue : Triennale di Milano from 16 until 21st of April 2008.  How to get there ?

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ABET LAMINATI is pleased to present the “Kasa Digitalia” project to the public at the 2008 International Furniture Fair in Milan (Salone del Mobile – Fuori Salone) . The project was created in collaboration with De Rosso and based on the designs of Karim Rashid. A collection of decorative items in bright and provocative colours that will give shape and meaning to the living spaces of the Kasa. An exceptional event, which represents a new chapter in the enthusiastic adventure of ABET in the area of Italian and international design.
On 16 April 2008, the “Kasa Digitalia” event/project will be opened to the public and to the press at the Triennale di Milano Design Museum. The project is organised by ABET LAMINATI SpA with the special collaboration of De Rosso, a partner specialising in furniture production. A new collection of bright and provocative colours and decorative items will give shape to KASA DIGITALIA: a unique and provocative technological domestic ambience entirely covered with ABET laminates printed using digital technology and fitted out in collaboration with De Rosso. Karim will meet the public and national and foreign press on 17 April at 18.00 at our stand on the ground floor (Galleria dell’Architettura) of the Triennale di Milano Design Museum.

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Zeroing colours and decor, returning to the essence of the material.
This is the idea by Paola Navone for telling the De Rosso story, the company of Italy’s Veneto region which is the creator of many of the Abet Laminati furnishings: ranging from the creations by Ettore Sottsass to the collections by Memphis and Alchimia; the sculpture-furniture following the projects by internationally famous architects carried out in Digital Print; and the creations in digital laminate created in 2003 by twenty-five young international architects which were presented at the Milan Triennial in the exhibition supervised by Paola Navone.
“Bianco 411″ – the title of the installation – is Abet white.
And this is what represents the essence of the project: a totally white and empty space. On the sides there are projecting consoles like a large extrusion to sit on in order to relish a moment of calm and formal cleanliness.
When every thing has been done, when the most beautiful ‘pages’ of decoration’s story and history have already been written, when we suffer or endure what is “too much” – nothing else is left than to start from the beginning: from white, from silence and from light so as to offer the traveller of design a moment of peace. A traveller bewildered and confused by those so many images of the Milanese week.
The only things present are a thousand Indian spoons, already used and therefore second-hand, collected by Paola Navone during her explorations of the world in search for a design without a name. They hang from the ceiling in their new silver-plating. On the white page of the space they write a message that it’s worth stopping to think about.
They talk about an anonymous design, often more beautiful and more meaningful than the one with a ‘name’ (and years before Bruno Munari had proposed awarding the Compasso d’Oro to the “Unknown Designer”). They talk about selection as the project gesture. It’s of no importance to create something new when there is already so much: sometimes just choosing is enough, remembering to look in places we’ve forgotten, places where it’s possible to find excellence. Places where it’s possible to find magic. (more…)

designEx prepares to celebrate his 20th year as Australia’s most comprehensive and innovative market-leading design event.
designEX is the premier exhibition in Australia for interior architecture and design. It offers a comprehensive showcase of new and innovative products, exciting features, prestigious awards and informative seminars and courses presented by leading industry professionals.
Abet Pty Ltd participates in the 20th edition of designEx (Hall 3 / Stand 1130).  During last years’ designEx edition (Melbourne), the SIDA Foundation (Society of Interior Designers of Australia) renumerated Abet Pty Ltd with the “Best Dressed Stand” award for the excellence in visual impact of the total display.

Against the backdrop of Turin being nominated “World Design Capital 2008”, numerous events, exhibitions, etc. are being organised in Turin and in Piedmont province throughout 2008. One of the events in which Abet Laminati, based in Bra, Piedmont, is involved as a partner, is the “Tra decor e decus” design competition. Professional designers as well as up-and-coming talent created new decors and patterns for decorative laminate. The panel of judges, under the leadership of Alessandro Mendini, nominated “Breaking the code”, a design by Francesca Diotti and Francesco Porro as the winner in the NABA category (Nuova Accademia di Belle Arti students). “E la Berta filava…pixel”, a design by Sara Magnone won in the PIEMONTE category (professional designers and up-and-coming talent). The winning designs were created as laminates by Abet Laminati using digital print technology and are currently the focus of attention at the “Tra decor en decus” exhibition at the “Forum Omegna”.  The winning designs were also applied in the form of a laminate to an item of furniture and are likewise being shown together with projects by designers including the following: Patricia Urquiola, Markus Benesch, Ugo La Pietra, Denis Santachiara, Italo Rota.  The exhibition at the Forum Omegna will continue to run up to 29/06/2008.

Digital Print “Breaking the code” design by Francesca Diotti an Francesco Porro

Digital Print “E la Berta filava…pixel” design by Sara Magnone