Maria Paola Stola manages the special edition of the Fiat 500 Diabolika.

During one of my transits in Italy at the end of July I had the pleasure to participate in an interesting encounter with the designer Maria Paola Stola (the clever and beautiful wife of Alfredo Stola, founder of Studiotorino) at the Salt laboratory. There I got to know, appreciate and touch with my own hands the Diabolika (before it even came out): the captivating personalization of the new Fiat 500 – presented officially on September 12^th as a part of the Torino World Design Capital – unexpected union between the famous comic book of the Giussani sisters and one of the timeless Fiat myths, recently re-launched and splendidly renewed. More details below the cut.

Digital Printing Automotive Leather (DPAL) on the front seats

A limited edition that distinguishes itself by the sensual mat black of the body, embellished with red details – typical of Studiotorino – and by the magnetic, or should I say diabolic, scowl of the character engraved on the special Pirelli tyres. On the inside, the unmistakably sinister and intriguing atmospheres created ad hoc by Astorina (the lucky editor of Diabolik) are reproduced on the high quality and extremely resistant leather of the seats: it is an original application of digital stamping on the automotive leather that gives the result a distinguished finish. Considering the different experimentations personally conducted by Maria Paola in collaboration with Mycrom, the none too few troubles associated with color branding and the rejects due to the natural imperfections of leather, this Diabolika turned out pretty fabulous indeed.

naturali della pelle stessa. Only 50 units of this irresistible little gem (and not just for the Diabolik fans!) will be produced, with a final price that is still to be determined. It will be displayed for the international audience during the Motor Show in Paris in October.

Translated by Silvia — Lately at the Furniture Fair in Milan we have been able to admire the urban trendy touch on one of the most famous pieces in the history of design: a piercing applied on the sensual lips of DARK LADY, the new tainted black version of the Bocca sofa.

The original model in red created by Studio 65 in Turin in 1975 in homage to Salvador Dalì has become so famous as to be included in the permanent collection of New York’s MoMA, Paris’ Louvre, Milan’s Permanent Design Collection of Italian design and Denver’s Museum of Modern Art.

Strong piece in the “I Multipli” collection of about180 pieces, Bocca is indeed one of the most famous along with Pratone, Cactus and Capitello. Made from cold-expanded polyurethane a dressed in stretchy material, Bocca and its new version DARK LADY, produced in limited edition of only 1000 pieces, are produces by Gufram, the historical Italian company which is now a part of the Charme group (with Cappellini, Poltrona Frau and Gebruder Thonet).

Strangely though… in the States, this mythical and sexy sofa is known as MARILYN, a love seat, so-called by Eleanore Stendig from Stendig, Inc. in New York, the first importer of Bocca on American soil. The reference is clear!
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Translated by Silvia — ATYPYK will be present at Milan’s Design Week and will leave, as usual, an ironically rule-breaking and originally desecrating sign of its passage.

From this provocative studio based in Paris, we have already been able to appreciate Wooferang, Moon Carpet, the Bon Apetit! Tie, and now also the Clean Fast Race gloves, gloves made of (pink!) rubber for the new generations always in a hurry to complete domestic tasks. There are also the Kamasutra Condoms, with glow-in-the-dark packaging and the 64 erotic positions from which to take inspiration; Python tape, the sticky tape decorated in python print, to seal with style and the Break Up Handkerchief, the handkerchief to be used in case of love tragedies….

Images and information in the link below.

Wooferang pet toy

From the 17^th to the 21^st of April at the DESIGNERS BLOCK exhibition (Argelati pool, Via Segantini Giovanni, 6, Milano), we will be able to admire in the flesh the latest ATYPYK novelties born from the irreverent minds of Ivan Duval and Jean Sebastien Ides.

See you tonight at the Opening Party of the event from 6 to 11pm. If this first day at the Furniture Salon will not have totally consumed you (probable as it is!), then do not lose yourself the next DESIGNERS BLOCK Party of Saturday 19^th from 8 to 12pm.

In this unmissable event of this year’s FuoriSalone you will also find Alice Rosignoli, Ninette Van Jamp, whom we’ve spoken about in older posts.
In the meantime, you will find here some very ATYPYK creations!

DESIGNERS BLOCK at the Argelati pool
From 11am to 8pm
Via Segantini Giovanni, 6
Piazza Arcole / Via Fillippo Argelati
20143
Milan

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Talk Bubble Conversational Paperclips

Condom Kamasutra

Break Up Letter Handkerchief

MAGIC Hat – Tissue dispenser

ICON sticky notes

Python tape

Gun Handled Umbrella

Translated by Silvia — A touch of moon light for furniture which reminds us of the Thai Full Moon Parties at Ko Phangan down the Haad Rin beach, and of full-moon summer nights from when we were kids, rocked by a story and the hypnotic sound of the sea.

Fullmoon is born from the creativity of the Greek designer Sotirios Papdopoulos for the Italian company EnneZero from Pordenone (the same one that created the furniture collection for Giuseppe Canavese, dedicated to the fascinating and sensual Valentina of Guido Crepax): a 24 piece limited edition piece of furniture with luminous special effects that recreates the luminescence of the full moon thanks to an ecologically safe varnish (ELI: “ecolightinside” created by Papadopoulos himself) of a gelatinous consistency. Thanks to the addition of a special ecological power, it takes on light-in-the-dark properties, to give the home the suggestive lunar influxes to which Man and nature have been attracted since the dead of time.

This novelty will be on show at the temporary SOHO gallery that will be held during Milan’s Furniture and Design week, for the “dEMOsign” exhibition from the 18^th to the 20^th of April 2008.

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