Edible Reveries: Studio Yellowdot x Artisia – Photography is by Andrea Fongo.
Design. Pasta, for Italians, is never just pasta. It carries memory, ritual and craft. Artisia, Barilla’s forward-thinking brand, celebrates the ingredient that the country holds most dear, reimagined through the lens of design. Edible Reveries, an exhibition by Studio Yellowdot at the very heart of the Porta Venezia Design District, is where Artisia’s world becomes something you can step inside. Dreamlike, unhurried — A place that rewards slowing down, and provides a serendipitous and relaxing oasis amid Milan Design Week’s hustle and bustle.
The starting point was a precise creative brief: to translate the pleasure of eating Artisia’s one-bite creations into a living environment. Studio Yellowdot’s response was Tattile — Italian for tactile — a site-specific, conceptual furniture collection of 3D-printed seats that evoke oversized pasta pieces, scaled up to something you can actually sit on. Day bed, chaise longue, rocking chair with resting plates: each piece is 3D-printed in wood-composite filament by Barcelona’s LaMàquina, its forms at once digital and deeply familiar.
“For us, 3D-printed pasta isn’t just food, but a gesture. What starts in code becomes tangible, engaging sight, texture, and taste,” say Bodin Hon and Dilara Kan Hon of Studio Yellowdot. “We focused on the exchange between hand, object, and bite— where digital precision becomes something tactile and intimate.”
Atmosphere, as ever, does a great deal of the work. Floor lamps cast Artisia’s creations in a warm, suspended glow; curtains in precious fabric by French textile maison Élitis lend the space its particular quality of stillness. Edible Reveries doesn’t shout — it hums, quietly and with considerable confidence.
The culinary dimension is equally considered. Each day, Artisia’s chefs host intimate tasting workshops built around Spaghetto 3D — an eccentric single-filament nest, patiently coiled into a miniature sculpture of remarkable intricacy — paired with non-alcoholic aperitifs from Cantina Pizzolato.
The sessions also open a window onto Artisia’s process: one that begins with algorithms, moves through hand-kneading of water and semolina in the Italian tradition, and arrives at a specially engineered 3D printer that bridges the artisanal and the computational with quiet precision. Craft and code, it turns out, make rather good companions.
Studio Yellowdot extended that same logic into a new pasta collection developed for the occasion — contoured surfaces bearing the soft impression of a fingertip, shaped as an infinity-inspired shell, designed to be filled and layered. “Tattile pasta design echoes hand-pinched dough and weaves human instinct into a precise algorithmic process,” the designers explain.
Edible Reveries explores new rituals of shared dining. Artisia’s bite-sized creations reimagine the many ways pasta may be enjoyed — as scenographic finger food at the aperitif hour, as eclectic starters, and as the occasional unexpected dessert. In short, it’s pasta — but not quite as you know it.
Tattile pasta design with potato cream, goat cheese, pimenton and wild garlic.
All photos are by Andrea Fongo.
Cantina Pizzolato’s alcohol-free spritzer is offered at Edible Reveries.
