Rossana Orlandi tasks architects and designers to rethink the door archetype
The famed Milanese gallerist tasked Patricia Urquiola, Maarten Baas, Kiki van Eijk, and more with creating statement doors that respond to the issues of our time.
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.
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.
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.
NOMAD Saint Moritz 2025: high-end design at high altitude
Check out what we liked the most at NOMAD Saint Moritz 2025: from William Kentridge’s black alphabet of bronze statues to Nacho Carbonell’s lighting designs and more.
Milan Design Week 2024: 20 must-visit districts and destinations
Are you ready for the most influential event on Design Planet? Archipanic rounds up the must-visit destinations of Milan Design Week 2024.
Nomad St. Moritz 2024: design serendipity in the Swiss Alps
Spiky cabinets, iridescent bed sculptures and pleated paper furniture. Design goes up to high altitude at Nomad St. Moritz 2024.
Seven ‘responsible’ highlights at Rossana Orlandi Collectible 2023
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.
Milan Design Week 2023: top 20 districts and group exhibitions
This is going to be a very long post. Archipanic’s founder and editor-in-chief Enrico Zilli mapped Milan Design Week 2023 top destinations. Buckle your belts for design on a roller coaster, a serendipitous marathon of creativity for people with comfy shoes.
NOMAD St. Moritz 2023: seven highlights in the Swiss Alps at the traveling design showcase
NOMAD St. Moritz 2023: from upcycled flags supporting Syrian and Turkish earthquake survivors to high-end 3d printed plastic design pieces raising awareness on the oceans’ pollution emergency.
NOMAD Capri 2022: 7 design highlights on the famed Italian island
The best of NOMAD Capri 2022 is on Archipanic. Vibrant fabrics dance with the breeze, biophilic ceramic totems and resin-based furniture recall infinite shades of its sea.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Paris Design Week 2019: 10 highlights in the Ville Lumière
A giant digitally-designed stool at Musée des Archives Nationales, Sou Fujimoto’s nature-driven architecture, emerging international talents in Vertbois rising creative neighborhood and more… 10 must-see exhibitions at Paris Design Week 2019.
Fuorisalone 2019: Milan’s top 25 exhibitions, installations and events
Rossana Orlandi’s ‘Guiltless Plastic’ project, Google smart installation exploring the psychology of design, a new creative district hosting the very first Republic of Design and more… The very best of Fuorisalone 2019 is on Archipanic!
Modernism and Russian AvantGarde-inspired rugs
Kandinsky, Malevich and El Lissitzky inspired interior designer Angelina Askeri to create a handcrafted and pastel-hued collection of Russian Avantgarde-inspired rugs.
At Galleria Rossana Orlandi Nada Debs presents playful designs which were both “handmade and earthmade”
Archipanic meets Lebanese designer Nada Debs who created playful and human-based furniture collections meshing Middle East craftsmanship with her international imprint.
Secolo XXI debuts in Milan with the Giardino Botanico collection of velvet chairs
The Giardino Botanico collection by Artefatto Design Studio for Secolo XXI pays homage to the pure and simple elegance of Nature.
Digitally reversed: when online design platforms left the web to shake hands in person
Sometimes online design platforms leave the screen. Because, beyond digital-driven technologies, “HUMAN touch is always at the centre” said AirBnb, eBay, ArchiProducts and Houzz to ArchiPanic.
Holy sit: Andreu Carulla’s designs accomodate with sober reverence
Austerity and comfort, humble attitude and smooth design. Bernardes collection by Andreu Carulla was created when an ex-convent turned into an art gallery needed to provide a holy sit to each of their many guests.