Hysteria: exploring femininity beyond cliches through art, design… and sex toys
For the HYSTERIA exhibition, Alpha District in Milan invited a group of creatives to investigate women’s violence and sexuality and reinterpret sex toys.
A flame for research: 10 candleholders to fight cancer
Hope, togetherness, grief and remembrance are the intimate feelings that inspired international designers such as Jaime Hayon, Federica Biasi, Luca Nichetto and Marcel Wanders to create ten candleholders for the A FLAME OF RESEARCH project by Mingardo. The unique pieces will be auctioned to support cancer research.
Salone del Mobile 2021: ‘Supersalone’ opens its doors in Milan
Design is coming home, in Milan. Salone del Mobile 2021 opens its doors with the Supersalone special format and event.
Fuorisalone 2021: 20 top destinations at Milan Design Week
Finally, Milan Design Week is back! Supersized beach cabins, a courtyard filled with orchids and a pavilion made from sustainable chairs. Fuorisalone 2021 unveils former military barracks and forgotten bakery factories and unlocks new destinations in the unexplored west side of the city.
Stefano Boeri unveils Supersalone: the exceptional edition of Milan’s Salone del Mobile 2021
Great news from Milan this week. On September 5-10, Salone del Mobile. Milano will be back with Supersalone, an innovative edition and format taking over the city’s fair and La Triennale design museum.
Inside Alpha District, the brand-new design destination to debut at Milan Design Week
Archipanic talks with FORO Studio, the architecture firm behind Alpha District, Milan’s ultimate and larger design neighbourhood.
The 59th Salone del Mobile has been confirmed. See you in Milan this September
After a turbulent week of discussions, Federlegno announced that the 59th Salone del Mobile will go ahead with a curated edition.
Salone del Mobile “in the balance,” says Milan’s mayor after the fair’s president resignation
Salone del Mobile hangs ‘in the balance’ as Italian furniture companies – including the big ones – withdraw from the fair, now postponed to September due to Covid-19, over concerns foreign exhibitors and buyers won’t come to Milan.
Tom Dixon virtually launches the ‘Burst’ chandelier and the ‘Hydro’ chair in Milan
Tom Dixon visited Milan as a hologram to launch the BURST and HYDRO collections across two iconic architectures in town by Ignazio Gardella and Oscar Niemeyer.
Milano Design City 2021: the best physical and virtual events on show
Milano Design City 2021: the world’s design capital hosts a phygital week with product launches, installations, archi-walks, virtual talks, and exhibitions.
Fuorisalone 2021 to go ahead as planned, say organisers
The virtual edition of Milan Design City kicked off with great news: Fuorisalone 2021 will reconquer Milan this September. Milan Design Week is back.
Salone del Mobile.Milano postponed to 5-10 September 2021 due to coronavirus
We will have to wait until September 2021 to finally enjoy Milan Design Week. Salone del Mobile.Milano postponed its 60th edition which, for the first time, will bring together Euroluce, Eurocucina and all the product categories, representing a special moment.
Sara Ricciardi’s ‘NO SIGNAL ZONE’ Instagram Un/Friendly installation
If you bumped into a very Instagram friendly installation inviting you to disconnect, would you be able to explore it or would you manage to resist from sharing it on social media? With the NO SIGNAL ZONE installation, Sara Ricciardi challenged the “To Selfie or Not To Selfie” dilemma.
Farewell Enzo Mari: Italian design Maestro has passed away, aged 88
Farewell Enzo Mari. Prominent designer, philosopher, professor and “Giant” innovator died leaving a legacy in human-based design thinking.
Milano Design City: 10 furniture designs launched at Fuorisalone fall edition
Fuorisalone fall edition: origami-like tables, armchairs experimenting with binary geometry, seats inspired by milking stools and a tribute to Beirut resilience.
Pinterest: the best of MilanoDesignCity is on Archipanic!
MilanoDesignCity: we have created a Pinterest gallery featuring some of the best design launches, exhibitions and installations on show in town.
Milan shining: 6 lighting designs debuting at Milano Design City
Covid-19 sanitizing light technology, ‘dimmable’ measuring tapes and luminous suspended mathematical grids… 6 lighting designs debuting at Milano Design City. Milan shining!
Milano Design City: 8 highlights on show
Orphan of its major design week, Milan shows its reinvigorated resilience with Milano Design City, a 2 weeks programme of virtual and physical events, product design launches, exhibitions, talks and showrooms openings. Until October 10.
Sansiro 2.0: Angelo Renna re-imagines Milan’s iconic stadium as a memorial to the victims of Covid-19
35.000 cypresses, as many as the victim of COVID-19 in Italy, stand in the ‘SANSIRO 2.0 – A A MONUMENT FOR LIFE’ memorial envisioned by Angelo Renna. The proposal repurposes Milan’s iconic stadium as a silent place for contemplation, saving it from demolition.
Artist and architect of light Nanda Vigo passed away aged 83
Master of light, transparency and immateriality, Nanda Vigo was one of the most visionary postwar Italian architects and artists. Her creative journey began as a child fascinated by Giuseppe Terragni’s architecture and Flash Gordon comics. During her carrier she collaborated with some of the most influential avant-garde movements and creative minds such as the Zero Group, Lucio Fontana, Piero Manzoni and Gio Ponti.
Corona virus: Ventura Projects ends operations due to Milan Design Week cancelation
After a decade of design innovation at Milan Design Week and beyond, Ventura Projects ends operations due to the economic impact of COVID-19.
‘One step at a time’: Milan’s open call to fight COVID-19 with design-thinking
With the ‘One step at a time’ communication campaign the City of Milan calls on architects and designers to find creative solutions to create social-distancing devices.
Coronavirus: Dezeen launches inaugural Virtual Design Festival
The inaugural Virtual Design Festival organised by influential magazine Dezeen kicked off. The event was conceived as an innovative way to support the global design community hardly hit by the economic consequences of the pandemic.
Fuorisalone 2020: 4 digital formats announced in the wake of Salone del Mobile 2020 cancelation due to COVID-19
Fuorisalone 2020: in April and from 15 to 21 June the Milan Design Week diffused festival extend its influence digitally with ‘Fuorisalone TV’ and ‘Fuorisalone Meets’ virtual platforms as well as special e-fairs dedicated to Chinese and Japanese design.
Milan Design Week 2020: Salone del Mobile canceled
Milan Design Week – It’s official. The world’s leading furniture fair Salone del Mobile has been suspended due to COVID-19 pandemic.
COVID-19: Carlo Ratti turns shipping containers into CURA intensive-care pods
CURA, the acronym for Connected Units for Respiratory Ailments – is a modular open-source solution that could be as fast to mount as a hospital tent, but as safe as an isolation ward and it can be deployed in few hours.
Coronavirus: Italian architect Vittorio Gregotti passes away aged 92
“In the globalized world, we architects are only asked to amaze. My advice to younger generations is not to distance from your roots.” Said late architect and urbanist Vittorio Gregotti known for important projects in Milan and across the world.
Milan vs Corona virus – Check our architecture & design blog from the city
Milan vs Corona virus – Check our architecture & design blog from the city.
Paola C’s BLURRED ROOMS exhibition unveils convivial tableware and glassware
böjte-bottari has created the BLURRED ROOMS exhibition for Paola C to showcase new collections by Neri and Hu, Jaime Hayon and (a+b) dominoni, quaquaro.
TAKT Project’s GLOW-GROW exhibition goes beyond natural and artificial
A line of light glimmers, grows and drips at Ventura Centrale. The GLOW-GROW installation by TAKT Projects combines natural and artificial processes.