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For an aperitif, of course, but anand to take a photo of Naviglio a Colori, the light installation that will color the waters of the canals in the stretch between the Pont de ferr and the Via Valenza bridge. Next month the design community heads to Italy for Milan design week, the largest event in the industry calendar. With hundreds of events spread across the city, we have created a digital guide to the week on Dezeen Events Guide with all the key details. As the craft of crystal and glassmaking was inscribed in UNESCO’s ‘Representative List of Intangible Cultural Heritage of Humanity’ in December 2023, Saint-Louis, Europe’s first glassmaker, immerses visitors at Milan Design Week with two new crystal collections.
Fast at Salone del Mobile 2024
Base Milano prepares an outdoor installation in the middle of Via Tortona, while MEET Digital Culture Center has curated a collaboration between 8 internationally-recognized designers including Foster + Partners, Zaha Hadid Architects, atelier oï, and Migliore+Servetto. The seventh edition of Alcova, an international platform for contemporary design, takes place in the iconic villas of Villa Borsani and Villa Bagatti Valsecchi in the Milan metropolitan area. The interplay between the two locations, a Modernist architectural work by Osvaldo Borsani, and an example of the Lombard Baroque style, create a unique experience for visitors, who will explore themes of technological innovation, sustainability, contemporary craft, and sociopolitical issues. As part of the program, Maniera will present new furniture by architect Junya Ishigami, while the Alcova Design Shop features an installation designed by Space Caviar with materials from Spazio Meta. Titled Ground Break, the exhibition showcases Ward’s exploration of performativity and collaborative projects, featuring over thirty years of practice, including early seminal works and new productions.
Astier de Villatte x Eva Jospin
For a taste of local luxury, the Bulgari Hotel's afternoon aperitivo in its private garden is a perfectly pinkies-up experience. This exclusive spot is where fair-goers come for a momentary retreat to indulge in meticulously crafted drinks amidst verdant surroundings. For those who prefer their spirits with a side of the unconventional, Norah Was Drunk is known for its trifecta of cocktails, absinthe, and canned fish. And then there's Bene Bene, rejecting extreme mixology for simple pleasures, pairing essential design with an audio system that resonates with the best of Milan's creative scene.
Quadro Design at Salone del Mobile 2024
This Milan Design Week, Bottega Veneta presented ‘On The Rocks’ at the Palazzo San Fedele, a special location for the brand as it was the setting for creative director Matthieu Blazy’s first show and is its soon-to-be Head Quarters. Partnering with Cassina and Fondation Le Corbusier, the brand focuses on the iconic ‘LC14 Tabouret Cabanon’ stool described as a timeless icon of Le Corbusier that illustrates the excellence of the Cassina carpentry workshop. First conceived by the designer for his Côte d'Azur cabin, it was inspired by a washed-up whisky box he found on the shores beneath the residence, hence the title of the installation, which saw several reiterations piled high, one on top of the other, symbolising a rugged coastline.
Crafted from silk twill in a palette that echoes Ditre Italia’s latest armchair collection, the pillows are available in six different chromatic iterations inspired by desaturated colors at sunset. The pillows are meant to complement Ditre Itali’s Blazer armchair, designed by Daniele Lo Scalzo Moscheri and evoking a garment’s cuff. “A central illuminated island, like a magical garden of stone and glass, welcomes the items of the collection in the midst of special lighting effects,” teased Caliri about the installation conceived to present the Roda project. Upholstered in Missoni fabrics in five different patterns, the range will include the modular sofa Mamba; the theatrical daybed Arena; the lounge chair Laze, and a series of poufs, among others. DropCity is a new center for architecture and design that will be born inside Magazzini Raccordati, the old warehouses of the Central Station (M2 and M3 Centrale FS or M1 Pasteur). Still work in progress, in the next few years, it will present itself as a hub where production ateliers, exhibition spaces, carpentry workshops, robotics and advanced prototyping coexist.
Salone del Mobile.Milano 8-13 April 2025
Gucci’s creative director Sabato de Sarno’s ‘Ancora’ campaign continues to fascinate in Milan as the brand unveiled Gucci Design Ancora in its newly reopened flagship on Via Montenapoleone. Entering through a carpeted staircase enclosed by lacquered walls in the dark red ‘Ancora Rosso’ shade that is a signature of the De Sarno era at Gucci, visitors were pleasantly surprised to witness an acid green installation set-up by the time they reached the top. Featuring Arflex furniture pieces designed by Cini Boeri imagined in exclusive Loro Piana fabrics, this showcase is a testament to Boeri's enduring appeal. The installation welcomed visitors to freely interact with the capsule furniture collection, to touch, sit and even lay down which injected the event with a joyous fervour in reflection of Boeri’s playful, enduring influence and visionary appeal. The centrepiece of Lasvit's exhibition, ‘Re/Creation’, situated at the beautiful Palazzo Isimbardi, was "Porta," a monumental installation by the brand's Art Director Maxim Velcovsky. The piece consists of 10 fused glass sculptures - with the largest reaching almost 5 meters high - demonstrating the fusion of artisanal craftsmanship with industrial ingenuity.
Delcourt Collection’s “Horses in My Dreams” Exhibition
At the 2024 edition of Milan Design Week, ZANAT (find more here) introduces the launch of the new collaboration with Japanese designer Naoto Fukasawa. In addition, the brand presents many other product novelties designed by Jean-marie Massaud, Patrick Norguet, Sebastian Herkner, Michele De Lucchi, and Ludovica + Roberto Palomba. During Milan Design Week, Porsche made a striking return with an impressive outdoor installation in the courtyard of Palazzo Clerici.
Milan Design Week 2024: Eight Meditative Highlights - COOL HUNTING® - Cool Hunting
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BiM – Bicocca incontra Milano (find more here), described as the workplace of the future, showcases an exhibition titled Salone Calmo. A Showcase of Campeggi Objects, an exhibition dedicated to Campeggi, an iconic Italian design brand known for the lively and whimsical features of its products, where transformable seating welcomes the public into the comfort of a slow experience, as opposed to the rush of the city. The second edition of the LABÒ Project (find more here), curated by Designer Blender, commences Milan Design Week in the Barona neighborhood. From April 15 to 18, 2024, the industrial spaces of the Società Prodotti Antibiotici Company (SPA) and the Rodolfo Ferrari Foundation showcase an array of international designers, artists, art galleries, and design companies. LABÒ draws inspiration from its location’s history in medical research spanning over 70 years, positioning itself as a hub for creativity and experimentation, where design, art, and innovation intersect to yield novel and remarkable outcomes. During Milan Design Week 2024, the new Aesop (find more here) store in Milan, located in Piazza Cordusio, is set to be transformed into a sensory artwork by Nicolas Schuybroek.
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DIMORECENTRALE – OCCUPAZIONE
The assembled group of listeners—which included Zawe Ashton, Poppy Delevingne, and Ella Richards, all decked out in head-to-toe Miu Miu—were captivated, and when it came time for the talk to end you could have heard a pin drop. (Until, that is, the room quickly erupted into applause.) Afterwards, guests chatted over canapés and spritzes in the charming book-lined lounge space, with many already beginning to thumb through their provided copies of Forbidden Notebook. It was a brilliantly executed new facet of Miu Miu’s tradition of championing women creatives—see their Women’s Tales film program as another example—and an unexpected highlight of Milan Design Week.
Preciosa Lighting unveils an immersive experience of its new Signature Design, Crystal Pixels, at Zona Tortona during Milan Design Week 2024. Titled Crystal Beat 2, the dramatic dynamic installation invites visitors to embrace the present moment while diving into the past. At Milan Design Week 2024, world-leading Norwegian aluminium and renewable energy company Hydro (find more here) will present the ground-breaking exhibition 100R – a celebration of Hydro CIRCAL 100R, the world’s first industrial-scale aluminium product made entirely of post-consumer scrap. Hydro put Norwegian designer Lars Beller Fjetland in charge of art direction, concept development and strategy for the 100R exhibition.
It’s on display until April 28 within the Interni Cross Vision exhibition, which celebrates the 70th anniversary of the renowned design magazine at the University of Milan, while from May to July it will be exhibited in Fidenza Village. The work will then return to its permanent home in France, in La Vallée Village, another shopping destination of the Bicester collection. Florence-based luxury retailer LuisaViaRoma has set roots in Milan with new headquarters and is eager to show them off to the local community.
The outdoor installation hopes to put the themes of relation and contact forward, focusing on shapes, materials, hues and depth. For Milan Design Week 2024, Bottega Veneta honors Le Corbusier and his LC14 Tabouret Cabanon table design, originally conceived by the Swiss-French architect and designer for his personal cabin, or ‘cabanon,’ located in Roquebrune-Cap-Martin on the French Riviera. Matthieu Blazy and Bottega Veneta partnered with Cassina and Fondation Le Corbusier for the indoor installation, adding the architect and designer’s Cabanon stools, which dominate most of the exhibition space. Fashion brand Issey Miyake's Milan exhibition Fold and Crease will present a project that it worked on together with Dutch collective We Make Carpets. Together, they have created a series of installations designed to evoke the craftsmanship of Miyake's clothing. Càntir, the traditional Catalan clay pitcher, has been reimagined by sixteen designers and artists from Barcelona for the Terra Rossa exhibition, which was curated by Júlia Esqué and has a concept by Apartamento Studios.
In collaboration with Ginori 1735, Saint Laurent reintroduced twelve original plates from the Villa Planchart Segnaposto collection. Crafted using traditional techniques and enveloped with motifs nodding to the architectural design, the decorative porcelain plates were meticulously hand-painting at Ginori 1735’s Italian factory, preserving the essence of Ponti’s visionary design. Inside the Issey Miyake boutique, art collective We Make Carpets created a series of surface installations. Visitors were greeted to the boutique with over 50,000 colored skewers and pins stuck into the foam base, highlighting both brands’s focus on meticulous material research and techniques. ‘The whole project is based on fold and crease, designs that you can either squeeze, cramp, or bend.
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