Milan Design Week: Muuto Explores The Butterfly Effect

We are excited to present Muuto’s latest design trends at this year’s Milan Design Week. Here, Muuto joins forces with H+O and Vzug to create an instinctive installation in the renowned H+O Apartment Gallery in Brera—exploring the concept of the Butterfly Effect while introducing new designs by TAF Studio and Thomas Bentzen.

About the exhibition Butterfly Effect:

This is an apartment installation by H+O with Muuto and Vzug. For this year’s Milan Design Week, Muuto joins forces with Josephine Akvama Hoffmeyer and Elisa Ossino of H+O to create an immersive exhibition across their apartment gallery at Via Solferino 11 in Brera. Sharing a distinct passion for colour, form and tactility—they wanted to investigate how these impact our perception of a space and how it affects us.

A shift in perspective

Explore Muuto’s range of furniture, lighting, and accessories in an unexpected milieu; an apartment where rooms are set against fragments of cult film that provide a true shift in perspective. This year, we invite you to experience how colours, textures, deep tactility and art, allow us to see anew, to pause and reflect.

The exhibition is a physical manifestation of the profound effect. It suggests that seemingly small changes in our immediate environment can have a significant effect on everyday life and our sense of well-being. Embodied by the rounded curves of a chair, the deep hue of the bedroom wall or the warm materiality of a wooden tabletop, this idea is folded out across the familiarity of a home.

Muuto will also be launching two new designs in the H+O apartment. The generous Midst Table, designed by Swedish duo TAF Studio, is a refined, round dining table where friends and family gather. It is a natural focal point of the home, and there is always room for one more around it.

Introducing a new take on a 2012 design by Thomas Bentzen, Mingle Cushions is another new piece where contrasts are made to harmonize through a compelling mingling of colour and materials.

With distinctly different surfaces, one texture, one smooth, in contrastingly coloured textiles by Kvadrat, it is a playful yet elegant gesture.

“Midst Table is a meeting between the poetic and functional. The name refers to the centre of the table being a gravitational point, while its round shape cancels out hierarchy — there is no head of the table. Its shape naturally draws us in towards its middle, encouraging a meeting of minds and eyes. Our design process was one of subtraction and refinement. The Midst Table’s form and construction was inspired by an iconic architectural feature, the column, merging physical stability and steadfastness with a sense of elegance.” — TAF Studio on the design

A generous focal point

A natural focal point of the home, the Midst Table is a generous, round dining table where friends and family gather—and there is always room to squeeze in one more guest. It refutes a sense of hierarchy at the table, inviting a deeper sense of connection. Midst Table is where we meet, a place of communion and comfort for the everyday and occasional.

The Midst Table’s refined silhouette is simple yet characteristic, enhanced by distinct detailing and contrasting materiality; matte solid oak or linoleum on a monolithic base made of spun steel with a durable high gloss finish. It is an elegant piece for the home and for high-end dining.

Speaking to the elaborate ways in which we use our dining table these days, the spacious table top invites much more than dining; to play, read, work or immerse oneself in crafts projects at its side. In other words, a subtle contemporary recontextualization of an archetypal object.

About TAF Studio

TAF Studio is a Stockholm-based design and architecture practice, founded by Gabriella Lenke and Mattias Ståhlbom, working to breathe new life into domestic products through refined design.