Disco on Mars exhibition by Atelier Biagetti x MCM during Milan Design Week 2026 – Photos by Alex Majoli.
Design. Fifty years is worth celebrating properly, and German luxury Haus MCM had something rather special in mind. Teaming up with Atelier Biagetti. The company has looked skyward with Disco on Mars, an exhibition that brings outer-space aesthetics face-to-face with a collection of design collectables. The Rotonda del Pellegrini, a former granary sitting comfortably in the shadow of Milan’s cathedral has been reimagined as a video-game-style spaceship soaring towards the Red Planet [Via delle Ore 3, Map].
At the heart of the experience is a roller-skating rink presided over by a robot DJ — because, naturally, no interplanetary party is complete without one. Sound shifts and pulses with the kind of energising, kinetic exuberance that only disco can conjure, transforming the arena into a shared dance floor where humans and robots move side by side, with choreographed performances running throughout the week.
Orbit by Atelier Biagetti x MCM.
The thinking behind it all is perhaps best captured in Alberto Biagetti’s own words. “Our collaborations with MCM are about pushing boundaries,” says the Atelier Biagetti co-founder. “With Disco on Mars, we wanted to explore the aesthetics of space travel and have them become a metaphor for freedom. Objects are not merely products, but collectible, narrative devices — memories of a possible future, elements to be explored and activated, where sound unfolds as an invisible architecture, shaping the spatial experience.”
MACH-1 helmet by Atelier Biagetti x MCM.
Down on the ground floor, The Lab looks at where MCM has come from and where it might be going, anchored by a set of new limited-edition pieces that carry the exhibition’s cosmic spirit through into the objects themselves. Orbit is a robot-inspired pouffe, Gravity a weightless hand-weight, Mach-1 a space-age helmet — and then there’s Alphabet, a candle collection that draws quietly on the clean geometry of Bauhaus design.
Alphabet, Bauhaus-inspired candles by Atelier Biagetti X MCM.
The journey upward leads somewhere altogether more contemplative. Beneath the Rotonda’s dome, a monumental sculpture is washed in Martian red, lending the top floor a quality of suspension — still, focused, and strangely timeless. It’s here that Disco on Mars reaches something close to its emotional peak.
Laura Baldassari, co-founder of Atelier Biagetti, performs Casta Diva — the aria from Vincenzo Bellini’s Norma — reshaped through an original electronic composition by Michele Tadini into something that sits well beyond the boundaries of the familiar. The voice is framed as a primordial technology, simultaneously ancient and yet to come, opening passages between one world and the next.
Gravity weight by Atelier Biagetti x MCM at the Disco on Mars exhibition in Milan Design Week.
Photos by Alex Majoli – The video above is by Alex Majoli, assistant Pablo Riccomi. Below, video by Archipanic.
