Explore the theme of opening, reflect on a daily gesture (that of opening) and on its implications without stopping just at the object itself. This is the brief that Shin Azumi and Gabriele Pezzini set to a group of six international designers, Sebastian Bergne, Fabio Bortolani, Matali Crasset, El Ultimo Grito, Kazuyo Komoda and Vogt+Weizenegger, who with them have developed 13 products that deal with opening and closing. These products, ready for production, mark the start of Elmes, a new European brand from the Japanese company Union Corporation, one of the biggest producers of handles in the east. E.S.

Museo Minguzzi, via Palermo 11
Hours 5-9.4.2006, h. 9-21
Cocktail 5.4.200, h. 18.30

http://www.openyourmind-elmes.com