Wallpaper* Design Awards 2011: And the winners in the ‘Best Domestic Design’ Category are…

To design is to make art out of the everyday, finding new typologies for established objects and the ones that don’t exist yet. No designer has tackled this task with as much grace as Angelo Mangiarotti, whose entire collection for Agapecasa is now available exclusively in the UK at Chaplins.

B&B Italia’s UP50 is both an ode to freedom and a comfortable design on which to live. To say it inspires strong reactions would be an understatement. And yet for all of the controversy, no design in the last 50 years has come close to making such a strong political statement.

To celebrate the launch of our new Poltrona Frau studio at Chaplins, we’ll be taking a look at the history of a brand that has personified the Made in Italy design movement, while becoming a global talisman of luxury living.