Milan Design Week for Foodies: From Espresso to Negroni Sbagliato
Underground breakfasts, designer listening bars, Swedish food markets, and joyful champagne installations. The ultimate Milan Design Week guide for foodies.
Best of Milan Design Week 2026: Your Essential Guide
From Polish Modernism to Uzbek crafts, US White House interiors, unconventional chopsticks and 3D-printed pasta. Gear up for Milan Design Week 2026.
Isola Design Festival 2026 is going to be a creative safari in Milan
The festival that put a Milanese district on the map is reinventing itself. Before it does, Isola Design Festival 2026 delivers one final, unmissable edition — our pick of the best.
Qualia of Things: 5Vie puts feeling at the heart of Milan Design Week
From Hungarian crafts to floral installations and an ode to motherhood. With the ‘Qualia of Things’ theme, 5Vie celebrates emotion over function.
Milan Design Week 2026: fifteen highlights at Porta Venezia Design District
Mindfulness, taste and club culture collide at Milan’s Porta Venezia Design District, proving that design is very much an act.
Inverse Ruin: Gijs Van Vaerenbergh’s Impossible Temple Is Suspended in Time
The ‘Inverse Ruin’ installation reimagines an ancient temple from the top down as a floating structure — and reframes the way we look at ruins altogether.
Sabine Marcelis’ Roll x cc-tapis moves beyond the two-dimensional rug
Inspired by the simple gesture of unrolling a carpet, Roll is a rug-turned-seat suspended between function and sculpture.
‘WHITE OUT’ Exhibition Explores Winter Sports’ Design in Milan
The WHITE OUT exhibition at Triennale Milano explores how design has shaped the evolution of winter sports—and how winter sports, in turn, have driven innovation in design.
Marco Balich’s Milano-Cortina 2026 Olympic cauldrons will pulsate with kinetic design
Drawing inspiration from the sun and the genius of Leonardo da Vinci, the Winter Olympics’ cauldrons expand and contract, sparking a captivating dialogue between light, form, and the Games’ spirit.
Iconic BIC Cristal pen reimagined and switched on as a playful lamp
Unveiled at Maison & Objet, Seletti’s new lamp marks 75 years of the legendary BIC Cristal pen, showing how design icons “can be reborn to illuminate our homes.”
Tabula Rara: architects and designers reimagine the Christmas table at Rossana Orlandi Gallery
From fluo Bohemian glassware to Ibizan underwood crafted in resin… The Tabula Rara exhibition in Milan reminds us that design truly comes alive when shared.
Artisia rethinks the art of making pasta with 3D-printing technology
Italian brand Artisia digitally crafts handmade pasta for jaw-dropping finger food. Have a merry – and 3D-printed – Christmas gourmet party!
Carlo Ratti unveils Alpine bivouac for Milano-Cortina Winter Games
From a temporary urban pavilion to an Alpine bivouac. This architecture stores energy and harvests water, bringing together digital fabrication and landscape sensitivity.
Students Will Take Over Milan Winter Olympic Village After The Games
Milan Winter Olympic Village by Skidmore, Owings & Merrill balances architectural ambition with civic purpose, weaving together new homes, revitalised heritage structures, and generous green public spaces. After the athletes fly home, the new complex is set to welcome students in time for the next academic year.
Milano-Cortina Winter Olympics Medals: “Every victory is shared”
Inspired by Italian avant-garde design, the Milano-Cortina Winter Olympics medals celebrate unity and collective achievement.
EDIT Napoli’s CULT installations dialogue with Naples’ cityscape
Mediterranean nomad living units, volcanic stone architectures and a stylised Noah’s ark playground. Seven CULT installations in the southern Italian city.
EDIT Napoli 2025: Design, Dialogue, and the Soul of a City
EDIT Napoli 2025 celebrates independent design, blending heritage and craftsmanship with a fresh wave of contemporary creativity.
Surface Design Innovations at Cersaie 2025
Ceramic walls that come alive as screens, concrete lighter than you’d expect, and chemistry that makes tiles tactile—or even saves water. These surface design innovations will surprise you.
Eight Bathroom design collections at Cersaie 2025
Pulviscular patterns, mineral textures, and bold geometries define these eight bathroom design collections, shaping spaces with elegance and functionality.
Cersaie 2025: three key trends from the ceramic and surface design show
At Cersaie 2025, walls become storytellers, tiles highlight tactility, and surfaces reimagine tradition with a contemporary edge.
Alessandro Mendini’s Nativo Washbasin Shines Like a Galaxy
The Nativo washbasin sparkles with Alessandro Mendini’s pulviscular dots in a poetic re-edition by Azzurra Ceramica.
Alessandro Enriquez Brings Colour and Style to the Braccialieri boutique resort in Sicily
A pool with red-and-white checkerboard tiles inspired by Sicilian traditional kitchens, luxury suites and ‘glamping’ cottages with sweeping views across the Val di Noto, designer furniture, and a vibrant cafe. At Braccialieri, every detail is a celebration of place. It’s where fashion, design, and Sicilian culture come together—not just to impress, but to welcome you home.
Radicepura Garden Festival 2025 Celebrates ‘Chaos and Order’ with Mediterranean Landscape Design in Sicily
The Radicepura Garden Festival 2025 brings together emerging talents and seasoned landscape masters through Mediterranean gardens that inspire, challenge, and pursue harmony.
Sixteen national pavilions at the 2025 Venice Architecture Biennale
We selected sixteen national pavilions at the Venice Biennale 2025 that explore how architects can react to climate change with natural, artificial, and collective intelligence.
Magnificat exhibition in Milan pays tribute to independent design
Refined yet humble craftsmanship, genuine storytelling, and an honest upcycling attitude defined the Magnificat exhibition, which highlighted the human-centred and materials research-driven values of independent designers.
Italy Pavilion at Expo 2025 Osaka celebrates the country’s ‘Ideal City’
Inspired by the Renaissance vision for the Ideal City, the Italian Pavilion by Mario Cucinella Architects invites visitors to experience the country’s art, architecture, science, and technology.
Carlo Ratti Unveils Essential, The 2026 Winter Olympics Torch Design
Essential is a pair of iridescent, sleek, cylindrical, lightweight torches “stripping away superfluous design to truly highlight the Olympic and Paralympic flame,” explains Carlo Ratti.
Sip and taste Milan Design Week 2025 at these ten gourmet events and installations
3D-printed pasta, a design kiosk blending coffee with mixology, and convivial cocktail bars. Are you ready to taste Milan Design Week?
Milan Design Week 2025: all the must-visit destinations in town
Check out our guide to the best of Milan Design Week 2025! From April 7 to 13, the world’s most influential design event injects creativity into historic courtyards, hidden gardens, former factories, forgotten greenhouses, and stunning palazzos.
Intelligens: Carlo Ratti’s Venice Architecture Biennale, a preview
Titled Intelligens, Carlo Ratti’s Biennale focuses on architecture that tackles climate change and today’s global issues with a collaborative and multidisciplinary approach. Kengo Kuma presents a high-tech installation upcycling fallen trees, Ukrainian architects harness AI to rebuild their country, and astronauts invite us to focus on our planet first.