Furnishing goes modular

The Rado Star Prize Italia is an award founded by the Swiss watch brand, Rado, with the aim of promoting young talented designers. Once again this year, the award went to the best project among those forwarded by students at the Istituto Marangoni of Milan: “Proteus” by Mari Mussakhanova, a Product Design student from Kazakhstan. Mari has come up with the idea of a modular furnishing system that works at an atomic level: tiny components which can merge, as required, into items of furniture. With Proteus, it will no longer be necessary to throw out old furniture and buy new items, a new shape or form is all that’s needed.