Design Conversations

From August 26th to September 19, the road leading from Venice to Verona will be teeming with eco-sustainability. I am talking about Sustainable Design Week, a sustainable design initiative that kicked off in Venice during the preview of the Biennale and arrives in Verona Saturday, September 11th on the occasion of the 25th anniversary of the “Abitare il Tempo” exposition.

What is it about? It’s a new way of talking about sustainability. One event divided between two great cities of the Veneto (Venice and Verona) with the aim of reawakening consciousness of eco-sustainability through design, art, music and entertainment.

In Venice, through this weekend, you will find “Newcode Design” in the Architecture Biennale and Pavilion 8 of Abitare il Tempo: a traveling exhibition dedicated to sustainable design and curated by Elogico in collaboration with the Associazione Fuoriscala.

The second part of the Festival, “Onirica 2010” will open in Verona next Saturday.
From September 11th through the 19th in the Palazzo della Gran Guardia you will be able to visit exhibitions of designers and artists who have advanced the cause of eco-sustainability and participated in debates, workshops and laboratories on the life cycle of products and environmental impact, in order to better understand how to not overburden the ecosystem.

LAGO will also take part in the events with Ricciolo, an eco-sustainable roll-up stool.

But this time the package won’t be put together for you in advance! To show you that it really doesn’t take much to be eco, we are having you put together Ricciolo yourselves! The instructions are very simple: take the cardboard, roll it, stick on the label and try out the seat. Perhaps it won’t be excessively comfortable, but it’s without a doubt environmentally friendly!

Speaking of which, since you’re already here, calculate your impact on the environment! You might discover that you are much less ecological than you thought…

A few weeks after the opening of the lagostore in the Grand Duchy of Luxembourg with our long-time friend Eugenio, and at the end of the first year of collaboration with our rather promising sales agents Vincent, Steffan, Cindy and Johan, we deem it appropriate to involve you in our next adventure in Flanders. The 22nd edition of INTERIEUR, the design biennial organised by the non-profit INTERIEUR FOUNDATION, will be held at Kortrijk (Courtrai for the Walloons) from the 15th to the 24th October.
The key to the success of this constantly growing event is the thorough selection of the attending companies and its reasonable and undistracting size, as well as its central geographic location easily reachable from Paris, Lille, Brussels, Amsterdam, Cologne… In short, there is nothing flamboyant about this exhibition that offers you an exhaustive overview, in a day, of the “well-established” and “emerging” design scene.
What will we “say” in Courtrai?

The forthcoming arrival of the AIR SOFAS collection allows us to finally express the whole concept of the “LAGO living”. We’re going to try and make an institutionally functional location like the fair a bit more homebred. We’re going to try to facilitate relationships and bridge the communication gap, we’ll cook, prepare coffee and, of course, we’ll work. A boost of daily routine in spite of the idea that design excellence should always be sleek and pompous. The objective is to create a network of enthusiasts who can fully appreciate this informal approach, and improve through compairison.
Give us your input!
INTERIEUR Courtrai 15-24 October 2010 Hall 4 – Stand 438