SunRICE shows how processing rice waste can become a raw material for new and sustainable architecture. After Milan Design Week, the installation will become nourishment to be reintroduced into the garden’s soil.
Acclaimed film director David Lynch invites Salone del Mobile visitors to an enigmatic cinematic experience in Milan.
Coffee, exotic rums, balsamic vinegar and gelato are the ingredients of some of the best Food and Beverage projects and exhibitions at Milan Design Week 2024.
The world’s most important design fair is about to kick off. Photographer Monica Spezia has captured the making of Salone del Mobile.
The Triennale Design Museum pays homage to the late architect, designer, and artist Alessandro Mendini with the Io Sono Un Drago retrospective, featuring over 400 works in different formats, materials, and subjects.
Design-for-thought in Milan: a tribute to the gentle genius of Alessandro Mendini, a convivial design space to foster dialogue across the Mediterranean Sea, a school kitchen for Nairobi‘s largest slum and the Taiwanese perspective on today’s pressing global issues.
A gigantic trompe-oil on the Central Station’s facade, suspended climbing nets, colourful ‘brutalist’ smart toilets, a love boat for giant cats and more. Check out these immersive design installations at Milan Design Week 2024.
Are you ready for the most influential event on Design Planet? Archipanic rounds up the must-visit destinations of Milan Design Week 2024.
Salone del Mobile 2024: Thinking Rooms by David Lynch, underwater design narratives and new layouts developed with neuroscience and Artificial Intelligence.
Francesco Faccin, Lorenzo Damiani, Zanellato Bortolotto, and more focus on good design at the Fatto Bene exhibition in Milan.
A total blue Venetian chandelier, ‘desacralized’ cascades of light, luminous balances interweaving nature with technology, and more. Five unconventional chandeliers reimagining The Great Classic with contemporary values.
Nendo and Daniel Arsham are quite a disruptive couple, literally. Check what they have been up to in Milan at the Break to Make exhibition.
From the Vespa to the Arco Lamp. Triennale Milano celebrates its 100th anniversary with the new permanent exhibition ‘Italian Design Museum’ curated by Marco Sammicheli.
At the Istituto dei Ciechi in Milan, WonderGlass collective exhibition Abrakadabra stages installations created by Paul Cocksedge, Tom Dixon, Elisa Ossino, Elena Salmistraro, and more.
The ’Beyond the Surface’ installation by OMA Studio for SolidNature invited visitors to a subterranean journey and a secret garden in the heart of Milan.
Cascades of light, Japanese temples, and Christian symbolism inspire furniture designs by Rick Owen, Faina, Studiopepe, and more at the ‘Desacralized’ exhibition in Milan.
Architectural cakes, ‘silent’ furniture designs, mist-inspired perfumes, shape-shifting fashion, and textile crafts. Five Ukrainian creatives share an exceptional vision for the future at the CONTINUUM exhibition in Milan.
Milan Design Week enters the famed San Vittore prison, where inmates who joined a circular design workshop crafted upcycled furniture and tableware and presented it at the ‘Without Invitation’ behind-bars exhibition.
At Salone del Mobile, Preciosa Lighting invites visitors to experience the Crystal Beat installation featuring a grid of hand-blown crystal tubes glowing along with music.
Time-challenging glassware collections, deep-blue-tinged antiques found in flea markets, and a Renaissance Milanese villa are the ingredients of Fferrone’s ultramarine banquet and installation capturing the essence of ‘Neo-Grannysm.’
A giant cloud chandelier, a signature-like lamp, a Wassily Kandinsky-inspired fashionable hat turned into a light, a glowing grid pulsing with music, and more. Sixteen out-of-the-box lighting designs at Euroluce 2023.
Green design and mass consumerism? Maarten Baas and G-Star RAW’s thought-provoking MORE OR LESS exhibition features a jet and cabinets dressed in denim.
Humanistic, human-centred, and focused on people’s connections. This is what 5Vie Design District is about. We talked with the organisers about the founding values of this edition. Check what we liked the most.
Atelier Biagetti presents THE KING, an installation recreating the living room of a fantastical house, the quintessential expression of a gigantic ego.
From modernist masterpieces to marimbas, cat’s nests, or chess boards. Hackability of the Stool is a playful style and design exercise exploring mass production and customization.
Design for social, mental, and physical well-being, tech-crafts, a circular village, and resilient Lebanese creatives. Isola Design Festival 2023 invited designers to challenge contemporary issues with creativity.
Rossana Orlandi, the good mother of Milan Design Week, has opened the doors of her gallery hosting brilliant furniture designs going beyond sustainability in the name of ‘Responsibility.’ We talked with Rossana and selected Seven highlights at Rossana Orlandi Collectible 2023.
Triennale Milano dedicates an exhibition to the poetic and loving drawings of critic, editor, writer, and artist Lisa Ponti.
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.
Desacralized chandeliers, Elvis’ sofas, repurposed broken furniture, ultramarine tableware, and knitted chairs. 15 must-visit design exhibitions in Milano.
