The List - A blog by Antonella Dedini - Dedenlist

This month’s issue of The List presents a selection of award-winning designs and the reasons for their success, which most certainly include the designers’ natural predisposition for risk, spontaneity and experimentation. The Compasso d'Oro award is the oldest and highest honor in industrial design. 

This month's 12th edition of The List is all about the concept of freedom on a broad scale, addressing how art and design improve our lives and often suggest new ways to be free.

This month’s The List celebrates rest and relaxation, especially en plein air as the summer approaches. If relaxation had a shape, what would it be? It would definitely be more in the form of a chair than a bed, which is certainly for resting but which has changed little over the centuries. 

Mysterious and fascinating objects, mirrors have long created magical effects, can trick the eye, and have been used to make spaces bigger and brighter. If mirrors could talk, they would tell tales of what they have seen over time: expressions, emotions, physical changes, secrets and stories which have been reflected on their surfaces.

This month’s The List is an exploration of objects that are inspired after the essential forms of the egg and its fragility but also its perfection and resilience. At Easter, eggs are symbolic religiously, are found on tables as decorations, are made from chocolate, and are filled with candy so children can search for them in Easter egg hunts. 

 

This month’s The List is all about lighting design as seen from various points of view. From lighting seen as a transversal look at the world of lamps and lighting fixtures to how various uses of a lamp determine its shape and not vice versa.

The List #7 All About Love - Let’s see Valentine’s Day as a celebration of passion and respect for one’s partner and with whom we have decided to share our lives and keeping with this theme, this month’s The List is all about objects and works of art and design about love.

This month’s list is all about unique storage units and draws as usual on art, the history of design, and on new products by contemporary designers. 

 

This month's edition of The List is all about handbags. Based on research published by the Daily Mail, the average handbag weighs 2.5kg. It’s a sort of arm extension, an indispensable and portable tool kit that contains a bit of everything and anything.

This month’s “The List” is dedicated to all things festive and food enjoyed around the table. We’ll explore various examples in art and cinema that portray the symbolic and expressive power of gathering around the table. Paintings, installations and films help us to remember that, as philosopher Kant stated, the highest good is the dinner party: eating well, in good company, at a beautifully laid table.

The October month List is about bookcases and bookshelves. They are the display cases of life and of the person who lives in that space: beloved books, special gifts, collections or small decorative objects. Only when bookshelves are full can they truly express themselves.

This month's list concerns materials, their new production processes and up-cycle, and how they have influenced furniture's contemporary aesthetics and functionality.

We are proud to publish the very first edition of The List, Deden Design List’s monthly feature for Design Italy. This first list is dedicated exclusively to outdoor furniture. Patios, terraces, gardens, yards, and the like need furniture that has two functions: that of keeping in step with the styles of the time, as well as providing maximum comfort.