The 2010 Salone previews are coming in thick and fast now; and here's Michael Young's selection of furniture which he'll be launching in Milan this week.

First up is a furniture collection for Emeco, the US Aluminum Chair Company. Last year they did something special with Frank Gehry, and this year, Young's rather handsome stacking chairs, barstools and tables marks Emeco's first foray into component-based design; incorporating cast aluminum seats and backs with carved ash-wood legs. The ash-wood components are made by Emeco’s partner, an Amish factory in nearby Lancaster County PA, providing the collection its name, Lancaster.

Michael Young has also designed 'Chair-4A' as part of his extended “Works in China” collection. Created as part of Alexi Robinson’s hip restaurant group SML, the project was designed for local launch in Hong Kong earlier this year. The project explores new technologies and typologies made available only by working with highly skilled engineering facilities in Shenzhen, China. For Young the chair was developed through observation of Mac book industries.

“I realised that if I could capture the engineering skills employed by local industry and put that depth of knowledge in aluminium research in furniture design using a similar mass-produced nature, I could design a state of the art and relevant chair. In recent years chairs have taken all nature of shape and form due to the use of plastics, but plastic in itself is not a pleasant material to use. Its tactility and its aging process are highly unpleasant. For the same price I can use recycled aluminium and in fact create a more sustainable chair that also creates jobs rather than having man just pressing a button. The tooling is complex but we created a chair that lasts a lifetime, engineered beyond plastic technology and far more sustainable,” says Young.

For Swedese, Young has created a compact swivel chair called 'Avalon', designed as as nod towards the man that first inspired him to become a designer, Vernor Panton. We can see Vernor's influence in Avalon's soft curves and array of colour choices - we think it works well as both an homage and as a new piece.

And last up, is a design for the Italian kitchen giants Scavolini.

“The project was designed from the point of view that we should create beauty out of horizons, splitting planes in a horizontal axis and discovering all the possibilities within that so that we may explore and exploit some refreshing functionalities with a fresh point of view,” says Young of his geometric colour blocked kitchen unit.