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Weekend Max Mara in collaboration with Bitossi Ceramics will present “On Slowness,” an installation inside the fashion brand’s boutique at Corso Vittorio Emanuele II 5, curated by Objects of Common Interest and the creative agency Studio Blanco. These include the latest designs for the 2024 Design Week by designers Patricia Urquiola, Zaven, and Objects of Common Interest themselves. Additionally, there’s a selection of contemporary pieces from Bitossi, crafted by designers such as Muller Van Severen, Faye TooGood, Max Lamb, and Formafantasma. Taking place from 7 to 12 June, this year's Milan design week features hundreds of installations, talks, events and other exhibitions including Salone del Mobile, the world's most important furniture fair, which anchors the whole week. VENINI, the largest and most prestigious artistic glassmaker in Venice and one of the best renowned in the world presented an inspiring collection at Salone.
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Design Academy Eindhoven (DAE) celebrates its 75th anniversary with an extraordinary edition of its annual graduation show [Via Vincenzo Monti, 59, Map]. Bringing together original graduation works from 7.5 decades of DAE’s existence, the exhibition highlights the excellence and creativity that students and alumni have brought to the field and how design itself has transformed and adapted across the decades. With the Superbloom immersive and joyful exhibition, Los Angeles-based design collective RIOS brings the breath-taking bloom of Souther California to Milan. Visitors are guided through a sensory-filled journey creating simulations of biological processes such as rain falling, sprouts springing, and the spectacular blooming of wild fields. Among the most interesting initiatives, "The Art of Dreams" at Palazzo Clerici (Via Clerici 5 - M1 Cordusio), an immersive and dreamlike work in which the floral sculpture by designer Ruby Barber dialogues with technology and will be animated bylive performances.
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This meeting of eras manifested in the form of rich colors like bordeaux and petrol, as well as in materials like lacquer and steel (sometimes oxidized, other times satin-finished or chrome-plated). For Milan Design Week this year, Gucci’s creative director Sabato De Sarno reimagined a suite of Italian designs in the house’s Rosso Ancora red. See our Milan design week 2024 guide on Dezeen Events Guide for information about the many other exhibitions, installations and talks taking place throughout the week.
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The Paris-based fashion house goes back in time to 1953 and the private collection of Anala and Armando Planchart who commissioned the legendary architect Gio Ponti to create their hilltop Venezuelan villa overlooking Caracas. On finishing the project, Ponti commissioned artisans from Italy to help furnish the space and signed on the iconic tableware brand Ginori 1735 to create a collection of porcelain plates featuring motifs from around the villa and the couple’s initials. Design Space AlUla is the first permanent gallery in AlUla that aims to preserve the heritage of the region. It debuted this year at Milan Design Week with a special cultural project and an installation designed by Dutch architecture studio Cloud and renowned designer Sabine Marcelis. The exhibition explored traditional craft, materials and artisanal skills from the region, which was inline with Fuorisalone’s 2024 theme of ‘Materia Natura’.
To mark its design week debut, German luxury brand MCM will unveil the MCM Wearable Casa collection conceived with Atelier Biagetti and displayed at 17th-century Palazzo Cusani location. The iconic facade of the building that houses the TOILETPAPER, the magazine created by Cattelan, is decorated with the surreal Lipsticks image, in which male hands hold lipsticks, has made Via Balzaretti a destination for lovers of street art and unexpected corners of Milano. The neighborhood combines of Roman and medieval Milano, with installations and venues that add to the contemporary lifestyle and the latest research in design. A true feast of creativity animates the 5VIE, the five narrow streets converging on a square in central Milano. For more details on inclusion in Dezeen Events Guide, including in our guide to Milan design week, email [email protected].
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In sync with the playful ethos of the label and the Western wave that is currently trending across fashion, music and pop culture, the range will include gold chains with enameled pendants shaped as horses, cowboy boots and hats. Plan C is blending art performance and product launch by taking over the windows of the Banner store in the tony Via Sant’Andrea shopping street. An exclusive installation named “Unexpected Guest” and developed with Italian artist and director Maria Chiara Venturini will mix videos and physical objects — including the brand’s new Camera and Tote Folded bags launching exclusively at the retailer and at Plan C’s e-commerce this week. Interiors-to-fashion designer Faye Toogood has re-conceptualized the type of stately Poltrona Frau armchair the historic, Tolentino-based furniture maker is known for.
Wrapped in a special Miu Miu packaging, the titles selected and available at the event will be Aleramo’s 1906 book “A Woman” (considered Italy’s first feminist novel) and De Céspedes’s “Forbidden Notebook,” published in 1952. Panelists will include 2000 Pulitzer Prize winner Jhumpa Lahiri; Strega prize finalist Claudia Durastanti; critically acclaimed writer Sheila Heti; 2011 Campiello Opera Prima winner Viola Di Grado; Booker Prize long-listed author Selby Wynn Schwartz, and novelist, memoirist and film-maker Xiaolu Guo. The stories, the protagonists, the numbers to get a closer look at the design industry, from design to the most innovative materials and production processes. And then the behind the scenes of the most interesting companies and the protagonists who make them prestigious and shape their history. In the shadow of the Vertical Forest, the Isola district (M2 Garibaldi FS and Gioia and M5 Isola) is one of the most loved by the Milanese to go and have an aperitif in an atmospheric bar, listen to a jazz concert or go out for dinner. The top illustration, which references Milan's iconic Bar Basso, is by London-based illustrator and writer Rima Sabina Aouf.
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This year, the world’s largest design event is bound to take over the streets of the Italian city from April 15th to 21st, 2024. Featuring the renowned Salone del Mobile program, as well as a series of exhibitions and events across the city, there’s plenty to be excited about. French artist JR has unveiled his monumental public installation, La Nascita, just outside Milan Central Station. The installation features a series of printed images of rock formations meticulously applied onto aluminum slats.
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The bold vases embody the fusion of Eastern and Western traditions that Yang D’Haene expresses in her work, where she combines porcelain and stoneware with gestural incisions and encrustations disrupting the symmetry of the form and creating unexpected surfaces. Taller Marmo’s founders Riccardo Audisio and Yago Goicoechea will spotlight the work of Studio Sana Benzaitar, a female-led studio producing one-of-a-kind carpets and unique design pieces, at their recently opened Casa space. For the occasion, artist Sana Benzaitar also realized an exclusive rug paying tribute to the brand’s signature Mrs. Ross caftan and replicating the exact roomy shape of the fringed garment. Finnish design house Marimekko is to mark the anniversary of its most distinctive print Unikko, which was created by Maija Isola in 1964. For the occasion, the brand will launch Bar Unikko, a takeover of a Milan café, created in collaboration with interiors publication Apartamento.
Called “Fit+Form+Function,” it’s poised to highlight the combination of research and technology championed by the three partners since 2004. Italian sister brands Promemoria and Bottega Ghianda will present “Meraviglioso & Meravigliosa,” a showcase of new interior design pieces, rooted in Italy’s long woodworking expertise. Visitors will be able to book a 30-minute guided tour to discover the new scents with a brand representative as well as with Chiara Ravaioli, who founded Fornice Objects in 2019 to explore the intersections of sustainable materials, creative craftsmanship and 3D printing. Valextra has conscripted Italian graphic design firm Studio Temp to shed new light on its codes and heritage, unveiling a full roster of initiatives to coincide with Milan Design Week.
Visitors were invited to wander through the installation, following a maze-like path to get a closer look at the materials. Straordinaria was a collaboration between Studio we+, Elica, and Fondazione Ermanno Casoli, curated by Marcello Smarrelli. Inspired by the lightness of clouds, the artwork aimed to evoke a sense of dynamism and radiance, utilizing airy materials to capture the flow of air and warmth. Saudi Arabia’s Design Space AlUla transported visitors to the ancient oasis city’s natural and cultural landscape right in the heart of Milan’s historic design district, Brera. Designed by Sabine Marcelis and CLOUD, the exhibition showcased a captivating array of furniture objects and accessories, all in dialogue with the Fuorisalone theme of Materia Natura. Illuminated by a monumental lighting resembling a sun, the space glowed with a golden warmth, casting its radiance upon the yellow surroundings.
Your go-to guide for Milan Design Week 2024 - Business of Home
Your go-to guide for Milan Design Week 2024.
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Discover installation by Snøhetta, StudioMakkink & Bey’s Water School, FormaFantasma, Lambert & Fils, Gio Tirotto and more. Well, during the Design Week you will find another particular project by Studio Boeri Interiors, created in collaboration with Timberland. It is the Floating Forest, a multisensory floating garden with 600 plants, trees and essences, moored on the Darsena from 7 to 12 June (M2 Porta Genova).
Salone del Mobile and Fuorisalone ran from April 15 to 21, 2024, at Rho Fiera fairground and across Milan. JW Anderson from Wednesday will host “Days,” an installation showcasing 37 Patrick Carroll artworks made by stretching textiles he knitted onto stretcher bars as if they were paintings. Conversations will center on two landmark books by these authors, exploring women’s position in society, from motherhood to work.
There’s going to be three more of these colored-skewer pieces in the same size, so the final product will contain around 50,000 skewers. I don’t know how much there is in here now, but these will be about this quantity soon,’ Bob Waardenburg, one third of the collective, tells designboom. Florentine leather-goods brand Il Bisonte is having its second gig in home decor, teaming once again with New York-based interior designer Shawn Henderson. “A keepsake for you might be rocks and foraged curiosities, but it could be rare books and photographs for someone else. I wanted to create a collection of crafted leather forms that allow you to store and keep the important things to you,” Henderson said about the lineup. The latter complements the brand’s home collection, which includes travel backgammon and checker sets in leather or suede as well as baskets.
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