After the Re-Chair chair created by Antonio Citterio and the Eleganza armchair, the collaboration between Kartell and illycaffè is renewed for the Salone del Mobile 2024 in the name of the circular economy with the new AI Console designed by Philippe Starck with the help of 'artificial intelligence. Innovation at the service of elegance that embraces the search for the essential in a piece of furniture designed for entrances and hallways thanks to its slim line and central leg, available in white, black, gray and rust orange.
The AI Console, created with the recycling system of illy Iperespresso capsules, fits fully into this year's theme of the Salone del Mobile 'Materia natura' and will be the fulcrum of the installation which will animate the Flagship store from 15 to 21 April Illy in Via Montenapoleone with an installation dedicated to innovation and sustainability. "Together with Kartell, with whom we share the need for the transition towards increasingly innovative and sustainable production processes, we have managed to put into practice solutions that have transformed our recycled capsules into design objects" says Cristina Scocchia, CEO of illycaffè. "A partnership - she adds - which allows us to best express, interpret and enhance the values of illycaffè which, for over 90 years, has placed innovation, quality and beauty at the center of its strategy".
The AI Console, explains Lorenza Luti, Marketing and Retail Director of Kartell, is the third Kartell product created using the illy capsule recycling system "and represents a further step forward in our mission to combine technological innovation and sustainability. Thank you thanks to the collaboration between Kartell and illy - he comments - we managed to create one-of-a-kind products in 2022, which not only satisfy the needs of functionality and design, but also those of environmental responsibility". Finally, this year's novelty will be the design by illycaffè, in collaboration with Kartell, of the press office of the Interni Magazine at the University of Milan which, from 15 to 28 April, will be animated by the installation 'Cross Vision for the Future '. The layout project is inspired by arabica coffee plantations, with walls depicting coffee plants and furnishings selected to ensure comfort and elegance.