Milan 09: Belgian designer Bram Boo will present several new works in Milan later this month, including the Paparazzi office chair (above).

Above: Overdose chair.

Above: Overdose desk

Above: Lazy desk

Above: Backstage cupboard

Above: Sleepless bed

Above: Gallant bed

Below are more details of each design plus info on Bram Boo's shows in Milan:

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BRAM BOO and the Milan design week 2009

Present at the following shows:

RED LIGHT DESIGN EVENT:
This erotic and sensual blended event, demonstrates how sensuality, seduction and eroticism drives our human impulses and how designers and leading manufacturers use this in their own creations. The goal is to show how design objects can be inspired by an impulse strictly connected to intimacy, how it can become a public object and how this object can then reclaim its private, personal world when used.

BRAM BOO presents at RED LIGHT DESIGN EVENT his "SLEEPLESS" bed, because of its particular shape, this bed offers you comfort and inspiration when making love...

date: April 22-27, 2009
location: Spazio Ilardo Team
Via Ludovico il Moro 27, EX-Richard-Ginori, Milano
opening hours: 12am - 12pm

The event is a joint effort of Jacco Bregonje and Jan Puylaert, Dutch designers living in Italy, and was made possible by the generous contribution of Ilardo Team.
www.redlightdesignevent.com/products.htm

PROPHETS and PENITENTS confessions of a chair  (a project of DAMn magazine)
A chair is a chair. Some close to religion, some are as ugly as sin.

To celebrate the existence of this daily-life four-legged comfort-bringer about 20 designers and artists were invited to express their personal confessions on chair prototyping. In the Oratorio della Passione at Sant Ambrogio, Milan's oldest church, these prototypes will be mixed with the typical monotone straw church chairs.

BRAM BOO is going to present his chair "OVERDOSE", like Saints are often represented surrounded by an aureole around their head, it inspired him to use function and especially an overdose of storage to create an aureole for anybody who is going to seat down in the chair!

date: 22-27 April
location: Oratorio della Passione, Sant Ambrogio
Piazza Sant Ambrogio, Milan
opening hours: 10am - 7pm
opening & coktail: 21 april 6pm
press preview: 21 april 5pm

An initiative of
Galleria Blanchaert - www.galleriablanchaert.it
DAMn, a magazine on contemporary culture - www.damnmagazine.net
Elena Agudo & Alexandra Waldburg-Wolfegg

"Paparazzi" chair
photographer: INK
function: this intriguing plywood office chair doubles as a functional storage system containing everything one may need when multi-tasking.
designer: bram boo
creation: 2007
material: plywood, aluminium, steel
dimensions: W70xD63xH100cm
limited edition

"Backstage" cupboard
photo: INK
function: cupboard with storage units on each sides
designer: bram boo
creation: 2006
material: lacquered mdf,plywood,steel
dimensions: W145xD80xH157

"Lazy" desk
photo: INK
function: desk with storage
designer: bram boo
creation: 2007
material: lacquered mdf
dimensions: W187xD60xH88cm

"Overdose" desk
photo: jasper willemen
funcyion: this desk with its storage units disposed in a nonchalant way on the tabletop gives you the opportunity to make order quite easily!
designer: bram boo
creation 2007/09
material: lacquered mdf, wood
dimensions: W231xD120xH140cm
still a prototype

"Overdose" chair
photo: Jasper willemen
function: made for an exhibition called "prophets and penitents" confessions of a chair. Fuori Salone Milan 2009
Like Saints, often are represented surrounded by an aureole around their head, it inspired me to use function and especially an overdose of storage to create an aureole for everybody who is seating in the chair!
designer: bram boo
creation: 2009
material: lacquered mdf, steel, wood
will be shown during the milan design week 2009

"Sleepless" bed
photo: jasper willemen
desigenr: bram boo
function: because of its particular shape, this bed offers you comfort and inspiration when making love...
creation: 2008
material: lacquered steel
will be shown as prototype during the milan design week 2009

"Gallant" bed
photo: jasper willemen
designer: bram boo
function: this bed is designed to create an intimate atmosphere before sleeping...
creation: 2008
prototype

See all our stories from Milan in our special MIlan 2009