Salone Raritas: Collectible Design debuts at Salone del Mobile.Milano
Salone Raritas: For the first time, collectible design at the crossroads between unique pieces, high-end craftsmanship and art entered the heart of Milan furniture fair.
Jean Nouvel’s Fondation Cartier in Paris is an Artwork in Motion
The new home of the Fondation Cartier adapts seamlessly to artists and their ideas. Moving floors create a dynamic space of uninhibited inspiration.
‘The Shakers: A World in the Making’ exhibition at Vitra Design Museum
Form follows function… and devotion. Vitra Design Museum celebrates the Shakers, the 18th-century American religious community with a visionary design legacy.
Cool Off in Design: Outdoor Showers That Make a Splash
These seven portable, innovative, and colourful outdoor shower designs steal the scene by the pool or in the garden.
Sixteen exhibitions blending art and architecture beyond the Venice Biennale
Are you going to Venice for the Biennale? Make sure to explore outside the Arsenale and Giardini. We rounded up sixteen exhibitions across the city’s canals.
CONTRASTO: nendo and Formafantasma x WonderGlass in Milan
WonderGlass’s CONTRASTO exhibition in Milan displayed lighting collections highlighting the contrasting features of glass and glass-making.
Salone del Mobile 2024: 10 highlights at the world’s most influential design fair
Salone del Mobile 2024: Thinking Rooms by David Lynch, underwater design narratives and new layouts developed with neuroscience and Artificial Intelligence.
The Reading Room by Formafantasma at Stockholm Furniture Fair
With the Reading Room installation, acclaimed research-based studio Formafantasma invites you to discover its holistic approach to sustainability.
Fashion meets design: hype-free exhibitions and initiatives at Milan Design Week 2023
Irina Dzhus’ powerful message of freedom from Ukraine, Formafantasma’s multidisciplinary symposium for Prada, Issey Miyake’s high-tech R&D for fashion design, Armani’s home invitation, Hermès’ beton brut installation, and a greenwashing provocation from Maarten Baas and G-Star RAW. In Milan, fashion meets design with hype-free projects.
Salone del Mobile 2023 unveils a new exhibition format conceived as a city
Questioning the role of traditional trade fairs, Salone del Mobile 2023 announces a practical single-level exhibition display and rethinks the Euroluce lighting design show as a citadel of lights.
X MUSE vodka blends Scottish spirit-making with contemporary design
X MUSE, the first blended barley luxury vodka from Scotland, presents an immersive tasting experience by Formafantasma.
Archipanic’s design tour of 5vie 2022: fine crafts and contemporary Babel towers
A stone’s throw from Piazza del Duomo, the 5Vie design district features dozens of events and exhibitions tuning with the main theme ‘Prototyping Utopias’ inspired by the visionary approach of the iconic Archizoom collective. Check our design route to visit the best of it.
Milan Design Week 2022: 25 must-visit exhibitions and destinations
Lighting designs inspired by Brutalist churches and temples, a virtuous Babel tower, volcanic rock lightings, anamorphic murales and a design gin garden. The best of Milan Design Week 2022 is on Archipanic.
Venice 2022: 12 must-see exhibitions cross-pollinating art, architecture and design
Venice 2022: Forma Fantasma’s capsule exhibitions at La Biennale di Venezia, Homo Faber’s ode to craftsmanship, Galleria Nilufar’s design exhibition, Studio Drift’s mesmerising flying drones, the opening of the magnificent Procuratie Vecchie restored by David Chipperfield Architects and more…
Venice Biennale 2020: THE DISQUIETED MUSES exhibition brings contemporary arts together
THE DISQUIETED MUSES exhibition showcases documents sourced from La Biennale’s archives cross-pollinating art, architecture, cinema, dance, theatre and music. The displays by Formafantasma combines unpainted frames and tables in plywood, colored textiles and black and white blown up pictures.
Plant Fever upcoming exhibition explores the hidden potentials of plants
8 brilliant designs on show at the upcoming PLANT FEVER exhibition. From a digital interface that allows them to communicate with their owner to artichoke-chairs and pine needles rugs.
Euroluce 2019: fasten your belt, the ultimate lighting design trend is all about flexibility
Who said that lighting design should come in the shape of a hard object? At Euroluce 2019 innovative solutions snake on walls like electronic circuits, arch over furniture and stretch from floor to ceiling.
Nomad St Moritz 2019: 6 brilliant design installations plunged into the Swiss Alps
Quilted fabrics exploring the complexity of migration, handcrafted bioplastic vessels and nun-shaped lamps. 6 inspiring design series on show at Nomad St Moritz 2019.
10 convivial tableware designs looking great on the dinner table and under the Christmas Tree
From brutalist cheese platters to Memphis-style bottles and extravagant glassware pot-pourri. 10 convivial tableware designs to set on the table or wrap with a ribbon.
7 poetic designs on show at Design Miami/ Basel 2018
Snuggle-up alcoves within endangered monsters’ hugs, bespoke thrones in a barn and ‘watercoloured’ furniture… 7 poetic designs debuting at Design Miami/ Basel 2018.
Ore Streams: Formafantasma explores design solutions tackling the electronic waste global issue
Gold and silver are some of the most unsustainably recycled materials in the global electronic waste emergency. With the Ore Streams exhibition FormaFantasma looks into this challenge starting from an imaginary office design collection.
Maison & Objet 2018: 5 eclectic glass designs by influential designers and architects debut in Paris
5 eclectic glass designs launched at Maison & Object 2018: from Kengo Kuma’s charred crystal vases to Zaha Hadid’s rippling vessels and Tom Dixon’s home terrariums.
10 lighting installations at Milan Design Week 2017
Iridescent glass chairs, blossoming bubble tree-chandeliers and neon poetries in historical gardens. Don’t miss these 10 lighting installations at Milan Design Week.
Foundation exhibition by Formafantasma
With the Foundation exhibition at Spazio Krizia in Milan, Formafantasma showcases a display of studies in the field of lighting design.
Oh Milan! 10 stunning installations at Fuorisalone 2016
Get mesmerised in Milan! ArchiPanic picks 10 stunning installations on show at the world most important design week that hosts over 1.200 events, installations and exhibitions.
Anno Tropico: Formafantasma shines a light on design making
With the Anno Tropico exhibition, Formafantasma invites people to look into the light design creative process at Peep-Hole independent art centre in Milan.
Designers’ Cakes in Miami
At DesignMiami/ 2014, Chamber Gallery & Pin Up Magazine challenged the sweet tooth of Victor & Rolf, Alessandro Mendini, Studio Job and other estabilished designers who created bespoke cakes.
From then on installation by FormaFantasma for Established & Sons
Formafantasma designed an intimate kinetic installation made with marble, brass and fabric to celebrate Estabilished & Sons 10th anniversary at London Design Festival.