SaloneSatellite was the first event to focus on young designers, instantly becoming the unrivaled place to meet with manufacturers, talent scouts and the most promising young designers, and is again running concurrently with the Salone del Mobile.Milano. Its creation in 1998 was essentially a declaration of faith in the creative potential of designers under 35. Many of the prototypes presented in the previous 18 editions have gone into production, and many of the 10 000 designers, who have taken part over the years, along with 270 international design schools, are now big names on the design scene.
For the 2010 Milan Design Week, Ivanka Concrete Design commissioned Gábor Miklós Szőke to create the Concrete Mixer to be presented at SaloneSatellite. The composition was inspired by the plaster cast of the dog from Pompeii. The two dogs are an allusion to the unbreakable bond between Katalin Ivánka and András Ivánka, the founders of the globally successful Hungarian concrete manufacturing company.
