Ikea's New Turntable, and 9 More Standouts From Milan Design Week

Salone del Mobile, one of the world's most respected design fairs, was back in Milan, Italy this week after being disrupted in the past. WIRED went to the stands, stalls and exhibitions to find the most interesting new products. Salone del Mobile is a melting pot of creative talent that transforms the city with pop ups as household global brands and aspiring design graduates rub along side by side showcasing their ideas in the Italian sunshine. It's a tough gig. The show starts design trends. The thing caught our attention.

Ikea Obegrnsad turntable.

This turntable has been designed in conjunction with Swedish House Mafia and is proof that the vinyl revolution has evolved beyond the listening rooms. The design will have a range of accessories, but details are sparse. Thankfully, it comes with a brand that is known for its quality, Audio Technica, which should elevate the performance beyond the standard and ensure your records aren't damaged, as can happen with cheap needles. The turntable will be one of a number of music oriented pieces that will be available in the fall.

The CEA designs a modular bathroom.

Save your jokes about prison toilets because this is an innovative modular bathroom system. By combining drainage, flush, and bidet functions alongside optional units featuring shower heads, screens, basins, and faucets, the idea is that it becomes much simpler to fit out a space as a bathroom. This hard-wearing design features stylish integrated lighting on the floor and rear-mounted lights that illuminate the wall it's positioned against. The price was requested by CEA designs.

Simon Schmitz is a lighting designer.

Simon Schmitz is a lighting designer based in Germany. There is no better example of this balance than in the lamp. This eye-catching 1.8-meter tall anodized aluminum, steel, and glass tower features two powerful 3000K LEDs that can be adjusted to act as either downlights, floodlights, or both, depending on the atmosphere you're looking to create. Structural bracing for the entire design is provided by the two red steel cables inside the glass tube. When the lights are on, the cooling element on the top looks like it is floating.

The homeware is 3D-printed from lemons.

Ohmie is a completely compostable lamp made from the peel of three Sicilian oranges. 3D printing can be done with the added biopolymeric base derived from vegetable starches. The company has adapted its material to use Mediterranean lemons. A magazine rack holder, a wall clock and a fruit bowl are the first items made with the bright yellow biopolymer. There are two more items in the Ribera collection, one of which is an open vase that makes flower stems disappear. Not only do these items look and smell appealing, but each has the natural aroma of the fruit from which it's made, which offsets approximately one kilogram of CO 2.

Pierre Murot has a wall lamp.

Pierre Murot graduated from cole Boulle with a degree in industrial design. New ways to work with forgotten natural materials are explored in his work. At Salone, he was showing a project that looked for innovative ways to work with clay, tweaking the process in order to create functional items. His original research project was carried out at a traditional clay brickyard in the Dordogne region of France and resulted in a collection of modular storage units that remind me of my student days.

The noise sideboard is owned by Cyryl Zakrewski.

At Salone 2022, many products try to use recycled plastic. Cyryl Zakrzewski, a Polish designer, believes that plastic should now be considered a luxury material. A piece of furniture that looks more like a map than a piece of furniture, Zakrzewski's Noise is made from recycled plastic and has signature panels. The synthetic material in the designer's Continuum collection is meant to look like natural stone until you get up close and personal with it.

Prostoria Rostrum has a sofa.

There was a lot of modularity at the show, with many brands showing products that can be tailored to your needs and space. We were so impressed by the work of Prostoria that we decided to buy a bathroom from them. The gray area in-between brought to us by the WFH revolution was the subject of the two modular sofas created by the company. As well as being able to scale the sofas to fit your space, they can each be fitted with accessories such as power elements, height-adjustable side tables, pouffes, planters, and even screen dividers.

The Pavoni Cellini Evoluzione coffee machine is made.

We are all for the simplicity of a modern bean-to-cup coffee machine, but it is hard not to fall in love with the La Pavoni coffee machine. Weighing 66 pounds and featuring two boilers, the Cellini Evoluzione combines professional quality components in a domestic-sized machine. The new machine is priced to take on the likes of La Marzocco and Rocket Espresso, and we were able to confirm it.

There is a circle and a square.

There is a light touch to the work that focuses on the importance of the handcrafted form with naturalistic shapes and materials that blend easily with modern functions. Three wireless-charging portable lamps are smooth, sculptural and wonderfully tactile, with the bulb, wireless charging coil and electronics buried deep within. They're subtle, practical, and inventive.

The mengel dinner table is made of wood.

A graduate of engineering, Mengel worked in the cement industry before starting his design career. He thinks that concrete can be used outside of construction. He wanted to create furniture that was inspired by the classics. The result weighed a lot.

Mengel used his engineering skills to make stronger, thinner slabs with less concrete. His 7.8-foot-long dinner table weighs 220 pounds when it is made from traditional stuff. Mengel says that the material used is kept to a minimum. The pieces take up the least amount of space in transportation. The price was requested from M3ng3l.