Welcome to Milan Design Week 2026
Milan, we're back! From 20-26 April our team is taking on the biggest design event of the year
This year, Salone del Mobile will embrace collectible design with Salone Raritas, an initiative that will open the fair to limited-edition design and high-end creative manufacturing, and a new contract focus led by OMA.
Meanwhile, back in the city our kiosk is up and running (20-24 April) to present the new Wallpaper* Travel Guides, and we will be traveling across the city to discover design launches, new openings, installations and exhibitions that take over historical palazzos, courtyards and private apartments, including an array of new locations that have never been seen at Milan Design Week before.
Don't forget to fuel up: for the occasion, we put together a map of the best coffee in Milan according to the industry's leading creatives.
To make it easier for you to navigate, we've pinned a few of our highlights for what to see at Milan Design Week 2026 on this map below.
Meet the editors
Rosa Bertoli was born in Udine, Italy, and now lives in London. At Wallpaper*, she oversees design content as well as special editorial projects.
Olly Mason is the Head of Interiors at Wallpaper*. Over the past decade working for us, she has helped shape the interiors direction of the brand and guide the creation of Wallpaper’s interiors philosophy.
Ali Morris is a UK-based editor, writer and creative consultant specialising in design, interiors and architecture. In her 16 years as a design writer, Ali has travelled the world, crafting articles about creative projects, products, places and people.
With contributions from: Anna Fixsen, Charlotte Gunn, Anna Solomon, Ellie Stathaki
Touch down in Milan!
The team has landed in Milan and the finishing touches are being put on our Wallpaper* kiosk which will sell the relaunched Wallpaper* Travel Guides from Monday-Friday, 10-7pm.
We also have a fun treasure hunt running throughout the week. Starting Monday, if you collect four free asterisk pin badges from different locations around Milan, you can show them at the kiosk to receive a free guide. The locations are:
Pasticceria Cucchi
10 Corso Como
Oslo Made In Heaven
Frab's Magazines
The Wallpaper* kiosk is at Via Tivoli, corner Via Rivoli
A morning at the Travel Guides kiosk
The design crowd gathered for the opening of our Travel Guides kiosk this morning. Here's Design Director, Rosa Bertoli, and long-time contributor Nick Vinson ready to make the first sale.
Writer Charlotte Gunn
The Wallpaper* Kiosk is at Via Tivoli, corner Via Rivoli
An exclusive Alcova preview with the founders
Milan design week is back, and to kick off the week Wallpaper* visited one of the hottest tickets in town, @alcova.milano. A platform for emerging designers, Alcova has since 2018 set up shop in unlikely yet architecturally significant locations in Milan. This year, the exhibition returns to one of it's former locations, Baggio military hospital – a large, former military hospital and complex that has since been largely reclaimed by nature. The military hospital is joined by a second site this year – Villa Pestarini, the rationalist masterpiece by Franco Albini..
Speaking to co-founders Valentina Ciuffi and Joseph Grima, Wallpaper* got an exclusive preview at the location and the projects on show, which all investigate the future possibilities of design – an endeavour largely about ‘making beautiful things but with a good spirit’.
Inside Nike Air_Lab at Dropcity
At Dropcity, Nike has taken over five disused railway tunnels to create Air_Lab: an exploration of air as a design material.
Throughout the space, visitors can explore the Nike Air archives, attend workshops that spotlight air-driven design processes and see how Nike is innovating with new garments for extreme conditions. Read more about Air_Lab
Writer: Charlotte Gunn
Nike Air_Lab, Via Sammartini 72, 20125, Milan
Can you spot our Fiats around the city?
To mark the return of the beloved Wallpaper* Travel Guides, we've partnered with Fiat to dress four Topolino cars up to match the books. If you see them around Milan this week, take a picture and tag us on Instagram @wallpapermag
Writer Charlotte Gunn
Alcova takes over two of Milan’s most extraordinary venues
Design platform Alcova stages its annual showcase across two remarkable sites in Milan. First, Villa Pestarini – the only private residence designed by Franco Albini – is an essential pilgrimage for fans of Italian modernism. Alcova animates it with a series of interventions, including Patricia Urquiola’s installation for Haworth and Cassina and a debut furniture collection by Boccamonte celebrating architect Luisa Castiglioni.
At the Baggio Military Hospital, large-scale, site-specific works fill hangars, courtyards and a newly accessible church. The latter hosts an immersive installation by Leo Lague and Versa exploring design and spirituality, and is one to seek out.
The venues do a lot of the heavy lifting – especially the Baggio Military Hospital, whose vast, abandoned scale and slightly haunted atmosphere make it well worth the detour. What Alcova does so well, though, is the other half – staging thoughtful, rather than merely decorative, engagement. Read more about the new locations in Milan
Writer Anna Solomon
Villa Pestarini, Via Mogadiscio 2/4, 20146 Milan
Baggio Military Hospital, Via Giovanni Labus 10, 20147 Milan
Discover the launch of Kelly Wearstler's H&M Home collection
At Palazzo Acerbi for the launch of Kelly Wearstler H&M Home, with a multisensory set design by Studio Boum.
Palazzo Acerbi hasn't been seen before (one of the reasons Kelly Wearstler chose it for the launch), the details are insane throughout- make sure you look up AND down!
Writer Rosa Bertoli
Corso di Porta Romana, 3, 20122 Milano MI, Italy
Yinka Ilori injects joy into Veuve Clicquot’s world
For Milan Design Week, Veuve Clicquot has transposed its vibrant yellow branding into a limited-edition drinks accessories collection, developed with Yinka Ilori. The British-Nigerian designer draws on his heritage to create a world of optimistic motifs – hands cradling the sun, celestial forms, natural symbols. The calabash-inspired Sun Totems are the standout, grounding the collection in something more meaningful than surface-level exuberance (the fruit is traditionally used as a drinking vessel in West Africa), while upcycled materials and 3D knitting techniques give the collection a contemporary edge. Ilori was a smart choice: his instinct for colour maps naturally onto a brand whose identity is built around a joyful shade of yellow.
Writer Anna Solomon
Mediateca Santa Teresa, Via della Moscova 28, 20121 Milan
Come for the brews, stay for the views
Atop the majestic Torre Velasca, find some calm amidst the mayhem of Milan Design Week in Cromo's secret tea house. The structure is inspired by the Vietnamese Rong House which were traditionally built as ceremonial structures. A collaboration with Milan-based designer Bogdan Martoiu, the teahouse is designed from reflective utilitarian materials which mirror its surroundings. Don't leave without a cup of matcha on the roof, taking in views of the city.
Writer Charlotte Gunn
Cromo Tea House, Piazza Velasca, 3/5, 20122 Milan
Discover Kvadrat's tribute to Frans Dijkmeijer
Frans Dijkmeijer- Silent Pioneer by Kvadrat at Triennale is a touching tribute to the late textile designer featuring prototypes and personal collections.
The exhibition also features contemporary artworks that respond to Dijkmeijer’s work and personal passions, including this aural video installation by Francesco Tosini, titled 'to see a world in a grain of sand and heaven in a wild flower'. Read more about the wonderful world of Frans Dijkmeijer here
Writer Rosa Bertoli
Viale Emilio Alemagna, 6, 20121 Milano MI, Italy
Loro Piana's ode to plaid
Loro Piana presents 'STUDIES CHAPTER I: ON THE PLAID' located on Via Moscova 33. Check out our visual gallery above to see the ode to plaid within interiors.
Writer Olly Mason
Via della Moscova 33, 20121 Milano, Italy
Step inside Dimoregallery's new location
Dimoregallery opens its new location on Via San Vittore al Teatro, just steps from Piazza degli Affari, in the historic and cultural heart of Milan. Over two floors within a building that formerly housed a bank, and still retains its original vault, is now reinterpreted as a device for depth and atmosphere.
Writer Olly Mason
Via San Vittore al Teatro
Aesop illuminates with first ever table lamp
Aesop marks its first-ever foray into artificial lighting with the launch of Aposē, a beautifully handcrafted, limited edition table lamp. The piece is presented in an informative and highly atmospheric bespoke installation in Brera, designed by Australian architect and founder of March Studio, Rodney Eggleston. Set in the Santa Maria del Carmine church cloister, the space is made using circular construction methods and building site components. A series of videos tells the story of the product’s making. At the end of the video sequence, experienced in immersive, moody lighting, Aposē is seen alongside two further potential future iterations of the design - a ceiling and a floor light. Aesop’s, Marianne Lardilleux, told me: ‘The ‘Factory of Light’ installation is designed as a manifesto: a tribute to the creative process as much as the result. We wanted to expose the alchemy of artisanal savoir-faire, proving that the beauty of a piece like Aposē lies in the journey of its making. Its making is showcased both tangibly—through projections showing the artisans at work—and poetically, through the architecture, with interplay of light, textures, and scents.’
Writer Ellie Stathaki
Santa Maria del Carmine, Piazza del Carmine, 2, 20121 Milano MI,
Edward Barber & Jay Osgerby at Triennale Milano
‘Our work emerges gradually through studies of folded structures, movement, space, distortion, time and scale,’ reads a quote from Edward Barber & Jay Osgerby at the entrance of their exhibition ‘alphabet’ at Triennale Milano. The display of prototypes shows the breadth of the studio’s output and the precision with which they conceive all of their designs through time.
Writer Rosa Bertoli
Triennale Milano, Viale Emilio Alemagna, 6, 20121 Milano MI, Italy
Bang & Olufsen take audio outdoors
As part of a long-term collaboration with Italian natural stone house Antolini, Bang & Olufsen make their first foray into outdoor speakers. Due for release in autumn, the fully customisable speakers are in the final stages of being all-weather tested, ensuring they stay true to the brand's cradle to cradle ethos.
Writer Charlotte Gunn
Piazza Fontana &, Via S. Clemente, 20122 Milano MI, Italy
A killa’ villa
I just touched down from my New York to Milan red eye but HAD to make a beeline for Alcova’s presentation at Villa Pestarini, jet lag be damned! The building was designed in the rationalist style by Franco Albini in 1939, and has never been open to the public until now. The house is a gorgeous exercise in light, transparency and geometry, and the works presented inside pay homage to those principals. Patricia Urquiola’s collab with Haworth and Cassina is an obvious showstopper, but —as a house museum obsessive— I became obsessed with the vintage appliances, putty pink accents and wavy glass cabinets that hint at what it was like to inhabit a masterpiece.
Writer Anna Fixsen
Via Mogadiscio, 2/4, 20146 Milano MI, Italy
Inside a yurt space inspired by Uzbekistan’s Aral Sea
Craft rich and evocative, architect Kulapat Yantrasast’s show 'When Apricots Blossom' took inspiration from Uzbekistan’s Aral Sea. The region’s cultural legacy and its stories are told through a series of bread stamps he curated. The items are crafted by international designers in collaboration with local creatives. A specially constructed yurt space is the culmination of the exhibit and provides space for activities.
Writer Ellie Stathaki
Palazzo Citterio, Via Brera, 12. Milan, Italy
Build your own Eames House with this new kit
The Eameses’ legendary case study house is now a prefab architectural system that you can buy. The exhibition at Triennale Milano features a selection of parts, archival imagery and texts, as well as a few configurations and colour options to inspire you. ‘The actual plan is personal within the structural system’, Ray Eames wrote in a 1949 handwritten note. Read more about the new Eames House kit here.
Writer Rosa Bertoli
Viale Emilio Alemagna, 6, 20121 Milano MI, Italy
CC-Tapis gives Fornasetti’s symbolism textile form
CC-Tapis translates the symbolic universe of Fornasetti into handcrafted rugs, a pairing that immediately makes sense – the Italian brand's trompe-l'oeil sensibility translates naturally to the woven format. Each piece merges illusion, irony and storytelling in refined textures; Himalayan wool, merino and silk are selected to enhance optical nuance. One of the most quietly convincing collaborations of the week.
Writer Anna Solomon
Piazza Santo Stefano 10, 20122 Milan
‘La Casa Magica’ is Nilufar’s twisted vision of home
‘La Casa Magica’, presented at Nilufar’s Via della Spiga gallery, is curated by Alcova co-founder Valentina Ciuffi with creative direction by her studio, Studio Vedèt, and set design by Space Caviar. In a separate part of the complex which houses the gallery, ‘Le Pied-à-Terre Cosmopolite’ unfolds: the space is immediately recognisable as domestic, yet becomes fantastical: a bed frame twists in chrome, a mirror fractures – as though splattered – across the wall. Familiar objects become strange, producing an atmosphere that does indeed have a touch of magic about it.
Writer Anna Solomon
Ciuffi is one of Milan’s busiest curators this week, with projects across Alcova, Delvis Unlimited and Nilufar Gallery, where ‘La Casa Magica’ can be found. The showcase brings together an international roster of designers to explore the home as a symbolic and ritual space. Moving beyond function, it considers domestic interiors as sites of belief, storytelling and protection, where objects act as contemporary talismans rooted in cultural archetypes. A particular highlight is the spellbinding Murano glass ‘Boswellia’ lamp by Christian Pellizzari.
Writer Ali Morris
Via della Spiga 32, 20121 Milan
Interni Venosta inhabits a postwar Borsani apartment
One of the best things about Milan Design Week is the unprecedented access to some of the city’s most incredible spaces. Interni Venosta has opened an apartment designed by Osvaldo Borsani between 1947 and 1948, never before seen by the public.
A sculptural room divider and bas-relief fireplace anchor the space, and Interni Venosta responds with brass and steel vases, lacquered wood and burl, and champagne-toned seating.
What's impressive is how the collection avoids blending in too submissively or asserting itself too loudly: where Borsani worked in warmth and craft, Interni Venosta introduces just enough cool contrast.
Writer Anna Solomon
Via Bigli 21, 20121 Milan
Head to the Wallpaper* Kiosk
Don't forget to stop by the Wallpaper* kiosk at Via Rivoli, corner Via Tivoli to pick up one of our relaunched travel guides to Milan, London, New York and Paris. Buy all four guides and get a free bag.
The Wallpaper* Kiosk is at Via Tivoli, corner Via Rivoli
A near-spiritual experience at Palazzo Isimbardi
Walking into 16th century Palazzo Isimbardi for Rimadesio’s ‘Becoming’ installation is a near-spiritual experience. For the company's 70th anniversary, Swiss audio-visual artist collective, Encore studio, has created an oversized light box that represents the sound and light of memories.
Using 100 layers of standard office grade electro chromic films, the artists took lighting installations out of their usual dark boxes and placed them under the blue Milanese sky.
Writer Rosa Bertoli
Palazzo Isimbardi, Corso Monforte 35
Step into the design world of Lella and Massimo Vignelli
Lella and Massimo Vignelli, inseparable in life and work, were among the leading figures of twentieth-century design and graphic communication. Active from the 1950s onward, they worked for more than half a century, developing a rigorous and immediately recognisable visual language applied across graphic design, product design, furniture, and communication.
Writer Olly Mason
Triennale Milano, Viale Emilio Alemagna, 6, 20121 Milano MI, Italy
A family of furniture
Unifor and Herzog and de Meuron worked on a family of office furniture - looking elegant and clad in cork leather. Set in the Herzog and de Meuron designed Fondazione Feltrinelli building where the Unifor showroom is. There's even a ping pong table.
Writer Ellie Stathaki
Viale Pasubio, 5, 20154 Milano MI, Italy
Theatrics meets furniture
Last night Salone del Mobile invited us to Teatro La Scala: we had dinner on stage, among sets and lighting equipment, and the atmosphere was magical. In her welcome speech, Salone del Mobile President Maria Porro (who had a theatre background before moving to furniture) invited us to look up, to the rigging loft: ‘it’s a fantastic work of architecture, design, craftsmanship and respect for tradition.
Writer Rosa Bertoli
V. Filodrammatici, 2, 20121 Milano MI, Italy
A waterfall in Milan
Swiss architecture and design studio atelier oï created a waterfall for Geberit, to demonstrate how water flow can connect design and function. The installation represents the bathroom company's approach to water from a technical and innovation perspective, to create precise function behind an aesthetically convincing form. For the installation, 300 stainless-steel springs are stretched across the space, from which water droplets glide on defined paths, creating tension between precision and freedom.
Rosa Bertoli
Opificio 31, Via Tortona 31, 20144 Milan, Italy
Polish Modernism 16 floors up
Back at Torre Velasca, the Visteria Foundation and curators Federica Sala and Anna Maga stage 'Polish Modernism: a struggle for beauty', an overview of the ways modernism has developed throughout Polish Design history and connecting old and contemporary works to demonstrate the continuous inspiration of the movement for the country’s creatives.
Rosa Bertoli
Torre Velasca, Piazza Velasca, 3/5, 20122 Milano MI, Italy
Energy raising with Belmond x LaDoubleJ
We took a welcome break atop the ‘star quarters’ of LaDoubleJ, where the terrace is transformed into a Tuscan garden to celebrate the brand’s upcoming collaboration with hoteliers Belmond. Villa San Michele, a Belmond Hotel, Florence, is set to reopen next week following a refurbishment and has partnered with the Italian label on a first-of-its-kind project, creating custom-designed LaDoubleJ spaces alongside a curated programme of ‘energy-raising’ wellness experiences, from breathwork and yoga to sound healing.
During the sunset event, guests sipped lavender and butterfly pea tea Tom Collins while a healer moved through the space performing smudging — a ritual that involves burning sage or palo santo to cleanse the space and those within it.
Writer Ali Morris
Via Vigevano 18, Milan 20144
Toogood goes to town with tone and texture at Tacchhini
At Tacchini, British designer Faye Toogood plundered the brand’s material archives to create a series of nine spaces, each defined by a distinct tonal palette – from deep, restorative greens to calming stone. In true Toogood fashion, the installation also goes to town with texture – an installation that has to be touched, as much as it is seen, inviting visitors to engage with the surfaces, finishes and tactility.
Writer Ali Morris
Largo Treves 5, 20121 Milan
Aperitivo and Finnish flowers with Marimekko
In a canny design week move, Finnish brand Marimekko has taken over the garden courtyard and restaurant at the Hosteria Grand Hotel, renaming it for the week ‘Osteria Fiori di Marimekko’. Here guests can enjoy a welcome aperitivo served in the brand’s ceramics by staff dressed in its newest floral designs, ‘Kukasta Kukkaan’ by Erja Hirvi. This is brand immersion at its finest.
Writer Ali Morris
Via Ascanio Sforza 75, 20141 Milan
Range Rover transports us to the River Tay in Scotland
Range Rover is back in Milan this year with an equally ambitious installation, setting out the staggering level of detail behind the brand’s bespoke offering. Here, the marque has partnered with spatial designer Robert Storey of Storey Studio — whose previous collaborators include Loro Piana and Hermès — to create a multi-sensory, sequenced experience.
It begins with a film directed by Paris-based Argentinian filmmaker Felipe Sanguinetti, and continues with illustrations by four artists, translated into intricate embroidery by the brand’s in-house team. The experience culminates in the reveal of the ‘Pearl of Tay’, a one-of-a-kind Range Rover Bespoke commission inspired by the freshwater pearl of Scotland’s River Tay.
Conceived as a landscape, the space is flanked by mirrored vitrines housing 14 objects curated by Wallpaper*’s own Hugo Macdonald of Bard.
Writer Ali Morris
Galleria Meravigli, Via Meravigli 5, 20123 Milan
Off to the races
The 64th edition of the Salone del Mobile furniture fair just kicked off at Fiera Milano Rho on the outskirts of the city. Apart from the huge offering of international exhibitors, this year has tons in store, including the biannual kitchen exhibition, Eurocucina, and for the first time, a collectible design showcase, Salone Raritas. I’m just about to dive in — please send a spritz in case of emergency!
Writer Anna Fixsen
Fiera Milano Rho
New designs inspired by nature at Palazzo Molteni
Palazzo Molteni features all of the company’s new designs by Christophe Delcourt, Gam Fratesi, Cristian Mohaded , Vincent van Duysen, Studio Klass and Naoto Fukasawa. This year’s collection is defined by textured materials and colours referencing nature.
The top floor hosts the Molteni Gallery, dedicated to temporary art exhibition. This week, the space features an exhibition of sculptures by Michele De Lucchi. Titled ‘The Architect’s Relief’, the exhibition is dedicated to sculptures made of wood sewn with metal wire and they are made by the architect as a way to escape from the scale and constrictions of the structural work. The sculptures are accompanied by drawings and sketches.
Writer Rosa Bertoli
Via Alessandro Manzoni, 9, 20121 Milano MI, Italy
Inside a secret garden
At Garden Senato, Molteni worked with Elisa Ossino to create a hidden garden in the heart of the city. Titled ‘Responsive Nature’, the installation comprises six gardens that frame the companies outdoor design collections, interacting with foliage, flowers, water and architecture.
Writer Rosa Bertoli
Via Senato, 14, 20121 Milano MI, Italy
‘Gucci Memoria’ sees Demna reimagine the house’s 105-year history as a series of tapestries
Gucci creative director Demna marks his first Milan Design Week with a playful presentation at Chiostri di San Simpliciano, seeing the Georgian designer reimagine the Italian house’s 105-year history through a series of Renaissance-inspired tapestries (he even makes a cameo in the final tableau, clad in a leather jacket and baseball cap). Also in the 15th-century cloisters are a series of Gucci-branded vending machines – drinks dispensed have names like ‘Fashion Icon’ and ‘Drama Queen’ – while a bucolic garden of wildflowers recalls the house’s signature Flora motif.
‘Gucci’s history in the 105 years since it was founded is filled with ups and downs. It has such a colourful past with lot of stories to tell,’ Demna tells Wallpaper*. ‘This being my first Fuorisalone, I wanted to tell the entire story of the house from the beginning, so we made these tapestries that take inspiration from the style of Botticelli to tell Gucci’s story. You see all the different eras of Gucci represented in these scenes, either literally or symbolically. The good times, the bad times, the drama; and the scenes are super elaborate, there are lots of symbolic details that tie back to Gucci’s codes.’
Writer Jack Moss
Gucci Memoria’ is open to the public from 21 to 26 April 2026 at the Chiostri di San Simpliciano, Piazza Paolo VI, 6, Milan. Registration is available on Gucci.com
At Rossana Orlandi, 70 makers rethink the door
RoCollectible, Galleria Rossana Orlandi’s annual showcase, takes the door – threshold, boundary, passage, barrier, however you see it – as its conceptual starting point. Over 70 designers, artists and architects respond, curated by Rossana Orlandi and her daughter, Nicoletta Brugnoni.
It’s a richer premise than it first appears, and the breadth of contributors prevents repetition. Highlights include Roberto Sironi’s ‘Future Memories’, produced with Japanese carpentry workshop Sansui, using reclaimed timber from traditional kominka houses. Other interpretations, such as Atelier L’Inconnu’s sculptural rattan works, are more oblique – but Orlandi’s strength is allowing work to breathe without over-explanation.
Writer Anna Solomon
Via Matteo Bandello 14, 20123 Milan
A rugged adventure in ceramic with Hannes Peer
‘Terrain’, designed by architect Hannes Peer in conversation with Officine Saffi Lab, presents as a large-scale ceramic high relief. Aggregated tiles of varying shapes and glazes – soft blues, reds, and sand – form a meticulous yet uneven surface, with the reverse revealing a more fragmented, exposed composition. A must if you find yourself in Zona Sarpi.
Writer: Gabriel Annouka
Fondazione Officine Saffi, Via Giovanni Battista Niccolini 35a, Milan
Design meets technology at Istituto Marangoni Milano Design
At Istituto Marangoni Milano Design, ‘Design Awakens’ explores objects that perceive, spaces that respond, and systems that adapt to human presence. Across the Via Cerva hub, installations in collaboration with brands such as Alessi, Poltrona Frau, Cappellini and Jaipur Rugs result in a vision of design that shifts from static objects to evolving relationships between people, technology, and space.
Writer: Rosie Cave
Via Cerva 24, 20122 Milano
The Wallpaper* Milan Treasure Hunt
Across four of our favourite Milan locations – all referenced in our new Travel Guides – we have placed unique Wallpaper* pin badges. Move from one stop to the next, collect each badge, and complete the set.
Once you have them all, return to the Wallpaper* Kiosk, at Via Tivoli, corner Via Rivoli, to receive a free copy of one of our brand new travel guides.
The locations:
(1) Frab's bookshop (@frabs_magazines)- Via Giuseppe Sirtori, 11, 20129 Milano MI, Italy
(2) Cucchi x Marni (@pasticceria.cucchi) - Corso Genova, 1, Milan, Italy 20123
(3)10 Corso Como (@10corsocomo) - 20154 Milano MI, Italy
(4) Oslo Made in Heaven (@oslo_madeinheaven) - Via Filippo Corridoni, 1, 20122 Milano MI, Italy
(5) Wallpaper* Kiosk - Via Rivoli, corner Via Tivoli
Alcova's synergy between architecture and design
There is synergy between architecture and design at Alcova. Objects of Common Interest’s installation offers a fun spatial moment (the design studio founders Eleni Petaloti and Leonidas Trampoukis have strong architecture roots). ARP founder and Wallpaper* Architects' Directory alumna Argyro Pouliovali creates a family of tables using Thassos marble to striking effect. The Architectural Association school from London presents a never seen before show of objects in its exhibition, 'Coalescence'.
Writer Ellie Stathaki
Lavanderia Space L3, Centro Ospedaliero Militare, Milan
studioutte & De Troupe's installation is a nod to a private club
Camera Fissa is a project by studioutte and De Troupe, presented at the studioutte headquarters in Milan. For this exhibition, studioutte used the codes of a private club to create
full decor within a textile environment developed with Dedar. The title, 'Camera Fissa', references the cinematic term for a fixed camera: a pace experienced from a single, centred viewpoint, framed by curtains. Defined by a controlled decorative monumentality, the interior appears still yet dynamic, while architecture, light, and surfaces shift through inhabitation.
Writer Olly Mason
Via Volturno, 45, 20124 Milano MI, Italy
Five studios, five cities, one palazzo
Artemest returns to Palazzo Donizetti for the fourth edition of L’Appartamento, this year themed around Italian grandeur. Five international studios – Sasha Adler Design, March and White Design, Rockwell Group, Charlap Hyman & Herrero and Urijowan Interiors – each reinterpret a cultural capital: Venice, Florence, Rome, Naples and Palermo.
The framework brings clarity to a showcase that could otherwise feel unwieldy, while the diverse studios produce genuinely distinct atmospheres.
Writer Anna Solomon
Palazzo Donizetti, Via Gaetano Donizetti 48, 20122 Milan
High Baroque meets high street at Kelly Wearstler x H&M
After our design director attended the press preview yesterday, I couldn’t resist also popping in to see Kelly Wearstler’s furniture collaboration with H&M Home, which launches across 28 markets this week, presented within Palazzo Acerbi, a 17th-century Baroque palace long closed to the public. Chairs, tables, lamps and tabletop pieces sit beneath soaring frescoed ceilings – a juxtaposition that is both incongruous and inspired.
The modular constraint imposed on each piece is interesting, given Wearstler’s typically exuberant style, though anyone familiar with her Proper hotels will recognise her distinctive touch. H&M knows how to scale; Wearstler knows how to make a room feel alive, and here, the two click.
Writer Anna Solomon
Palazzo Acerbi, Corso di Porta Romana 3, Milan
6:AM fills a swimming pool with glass, sound and repetition
6:AM presents ‘Over and Over and Over and Over’ at Piscina Romano, a 1929 public swimming pool and one of Milan’s most striking venues. Repetition is the guiding principle: lamps form luminous sequences, glass modules build walls and singular objects scale into architectural systems.
New works include ‘Batch’ – blown glass cubes first created for Bottega Veneta’s S/S 2026 runway – alongside limited editions developed with Hannes Peer. A standout is Invernomuto’s sound installation ‘Triton’, which transforms data from a living ecosystem of amphibians in northern Italy into a sonic composition.
Writer Anna Solomon
Piscina Romano, Via Giuseppe Zanoia 2, 20131 Milan
60 books, 60 perspectives’: Jil Sander opens a ‘Reference Library’
For his first Milan Design Week at the house, Jil Sander creative director Simone Bellotti drafted Studioutte to create a ‘Reference Library’ in the brand’s Milanese headquarters. In the low-lit, hushed space – a recording of a voice shushing recalled tetchy librarians – 60 books sat on specially lit plinths, with guests handed white gloves on entry to peruse the various volumes. Each of the books had been selected by notable figures selected by Jil Sander and Apartamento (the magazine collaborated on the installation), from musician Lykke Li to Sofia Coppola, as well as figures from the world of design. ‘I chose for this library – improvised and temporary, as a gift to the city of Milan for just a few days,’ says Bellotti.
Writer Jack Moss
Reference Library runs until April 24, 2026 at Via Luca Beltrami 5, Milan
Noé Duchaufour-Lawrance’s lamps for Dior are inspired by haute couture silhouettes
Set amid an intricate scene constructed from woven bamboo comprising flowers, wheat, insects and bees, Dior chose Milan Design Week to present a new collection of lamps created by the French interior designer Noé Duchaufour-Lawrance. Spanning various sizes, the table lamps – some of which are portable – are constructed from either hand-blown Murano glass or Madame bamboo (the latter made by craftspeople in Kyoto, Japan) and are designed to evoke the house’s cannage quilting or haute couture silhouettes. Namely, the contours of the Corolle skirt, part of Christian Dior’s 1947 nipped-waist Bar suit, the contours of which would revolutionise mid-century fashion.
Writer Jack Moss
Palazzo Landriani, Via Borgonuovo, 25, 20121 Milan
Inside the new permanent Milan gallery The Line
New permanent Milan gallery The Line launches its activities with a show during design week. The exhibition brings together seven international architects and designers such as Marcio Kogan, AAU Anastas, Kengo Kuma and Bernard Khoury. The theme is 'survival' and the pieces on display, made in natural stone by Casone and atmospherically illuminated by PSLab, each have the same starting point - an identical block of African black stone.
Writer Ellie Stathaki
Via San Giovanni alla Paglia 6, Milan
Checkmate
An oversized chessboard brings Harry Nuriev's bold take to Milan. The immersive installation, titled 'Transformism', was created with perfumer Clive Christian (Nurriev's Crosby Studios also designed the brand's London flagship). The piece, which draws on the Clive Christian perfume bottle, is set on a terrace at Museo Bagatti Valsecchi.
Writer Ellie Stathaki
On the terrace at Museo Bagatti Valsecchi, Via Gesù, 5, 20121 Milano MI, Italy
Rugs on the rooftop
On the rooftop of Convey, Ege Carpets presents its new collection ‘Common Ground’. Curated by creative director Gabriella Khalil, these new designs showcase Khalil’s bold style, with four new earth-toned designs (titled Ribbon, Imprint, Swell and Maze). Writer: Rosie Cave
Via San Senatore 10, 20122 Milan
Convey by Simple Flair returns for 2026
Following its debut last year, group show Convey took over a historic building at Via San Senatore 10 in Milan. Designed by Ottavio Cabiati and Luigi Brambilla in 1958, the six-floor space played host to a mix of international designers and brands curated by Milan-based creative studio Simple Flair.
Big enough to feel like a destination, but not so sprawling to overwhelm, we particularly enjoyed ‘Something Blue’ by London brand Completed Works, Joshi/Greene’s rail system and Chiara Lionello’s ceramic and aluminium vases.
Writer Ali Morris
Via San Senatore 10 Milan, Italy
Where Swiss design comes with coffee
Promoted by Pro Helvetia, Shared Matter brings together projects by emerging Swiss designers, spanning realised works and ongoing research. Thoughtful curation, striking type, and complimentary coffee at Spaziovento.
Writer: Gabriel Annouka
SPAZIOVENTO Via Pinamonte da Vimercate 4, 20121 Milano
A shop of luxury ‘essentials’
Magniberg and NM3 stage a residential installation that doubles as a shop of exclusive essentials – its title, ‘What Money Can Buy’ is the clearest statement of intent. It's a match made in heaven. Writer: Rosa Bertoli
Kvadrat Residential showroom, corso Monforte 15 (through the courtyard)
A landscape inspired by '2001: A Space Odyssey'
At Flos, Konstantin Grcic imagined a landscape inspired by 2001: A Space Odyssey to be inhabited by his Nocturne collection . The lamp is shown among furniture printed on glass, like ghost shadows of familiar designs, and on an illuminated floor that gives an artificial glow to the setting. ‘The space feels more imagined than real,' reads a note introducing the exhibition. ‘Like the lamps themselves, it exists somewhere between presence and illusion-simple, quiet, and open to interpretation.’
Writer Rosa Bertoli
Corso Monforte 15
Erwan Bouroullec’s 'Maap' for Flos
Erwan Bouroullec’s 'Maap' for Flos is presented as a wall of light in the company’s showroom. See the creative home where Erwan Bouroullec's designs come to life, below.
Writer Rosa Bertoli
Corso Monforte
Discover emerging Catalan designers
Dos Mil Quatre-Cents Setanta Grams. Una Mostra di Design Catalano presents 12 pieces by emerging Catalan designers at Ventana, each set to 2470 grams. A single, calculated weight, drawn from averaged measurements of IKEA furniture and lighting, sets the terms across ceramics, textiles, metal and glass within a compact display.
Writer Gabriel Annouka
VENTANA, Via Plinio 37
Discover Aldo Cibic's ceramic landscapes
'Aldo Cibic: Small Ritual Landscapes' at Antonia Jannone Disegni di Architettura presents ceramic landscapes conceived as architectural fragments, formed through slab construction. Alongside the 11 sculptures, original drawings tracing each work are also on view.
Writer Gabriel Annouka
Antonia Jannone Disegni di Architettura, Corso Garibaldi 125, 20121 Milano
Bottling sunshine with Yinka Ilori
This morning, I popped by a panel discussion hosted by Wallpaper* and Veuve Clicquot set within Yinka Ilori's cheery installation, Chasing the Sun. The chat, hosted by Wallpaper*'s Milan editor Laura May Todd, delved into creativity and how design, by centering storytelling and optimism, can be a force of good in the world. Ilori's mission? To 'touch people through joy.' Cheers to that!
Be sure to pop by the space, which includes an outdoor Veuve Clicquot cafe and gift store filled with Ilori-designed merch, while you still can!
Read more about the Yinka Ilori' x Veuve Clicquot collaboration here
Writer Anna Fixsen
Mediateca Santa Teresa, Via della Moscova 28, 20121 Milan
Nieuwe Instituut explores sustainability and community through design
Rotterdam's museum for architecture and design, Nieuwe Instituut, is in Milan again this year, presenting CIVICITY at Villa Mirabello. The exhibition (new director Yesomi Umolu's first) zooms into the sustainability, social and spatial challenges of global fairs and takes the form of a dynamic creative residency for the duration of the festival. Designers Demo-practice and Ned Kaar are the two main, new participants this year – the output includes the notion of pizza as a key cultural element that brings together local and migrant communities.
Writer Ellie Stathaki
Via Villa Mirabello, 6, 20125 Milan
Salone del Mobile’s first Contract Forum
One of Salone del Mobile’s big announcements this year was its dedicated Contract Forum day, which aims to kick-start a discussion and offer a taste of what Salone Contract 2027 will offer in a year’s time. During a day of panels and lectures at the main fairground’s Drafting Futures Arena, lead architects Rem Koohlaas and David Gianotten of OMA guided a conversation around what contract means, who is it for, and what we can expect from the first-ever Salone focus on contract furniture and spaces.
Writer Ellie Stathaki
Drafting Futures Arena (Pavilion 14) at the Fiera Milano, Rho fairgrounds
Antoine Billore presents an apartment of curiosities
A heady scent emanating from a leafy courtyard in Milan’s Loreto neighbourhood this week is the only indication of the treasures that lie within. Step inside to find a ground-floor apartment furnished by ‘off-beat’ antiques dealer Antoine Billore – one of this year’s under-the-radar highlights. Conceived by Billore as a cabinet of curiosities, the home is filled with antiques he has sourced, shown alongside his own small furniture collection featuring wooden marquetry.
‘L’appartement’ taps into a growing appetite for more attainable, imperfect interiors in an industry often dominated by high polish, while capturing the feel of nosing around someone’s private home – which, if we’re honest, is every design enthusiast’s guilty pleasure. The scent, meanwhile, comes courtesy of L’Artisan Parfumeur, which partnered with Billore on the show to celebrate its 50th anniversary.
Writer Ali Morris
Via Giovanni Lulli 2, Milan 20131
Nina Yashar imagines a collector’s apartment at Via della Spiga
Nilufar’s ‘Le Pied-à-Terre Cosmopolite’, curated by Nina Yashar, transforms part of the Milanese gallery into a 70 sqm apartment imagined as the home of a worldly collector. Devoid of windows, atmosphere is built through carefully placed lighting and rich colour. As Yashar puts it, it is ‘a compact space yet intensely lived in, where every object tells a story and design becomes a natural part of everyday life.’
Writer Ali Morris
Nilufar Gallery, Via della Spiga, 32, 20121 Milan
Pierre Frey’s ‘Allegory of the Loom’ lands in Milan
Conceived as a scenographic showcase by art director and designer Johanna de Clisson, Maison Pierre Frey’s ‘Allegory of the Loom’ is an immersive installation celebrating the house’s textile expertise. Housed within a structure designed to resemble a newly landed spaceship, lengths of patterned fabric unfurl across platforms and seating, revealing the material, process and craftsmanship behind the collection. Beyond the installation, pieces are arranged within the showroom’s wood-panelled interior, picking up the colours of the ceiling mural above.
Writer Ali Morris
Via Fatebenefratelli, 3, 20121 Milan
Laila Gohar’s delightful vegetable carousel
If there's one thing that broke our Insta feeds this Milan Design Week, it was the whimsical veggie carousel Laila Gohar created for Scandinavian lifestyle brand Arket. Even though it was ubiquitous on my socials, the experience of taking a spin on a gigantic radish proved to be the highlight of my week. It was sheer joy to watch design creatures, parents and bambini alike queue up to give the carousel a whirl — all with huge grins on their faces. Read more about Laila Gohar's carousel for Arket here
Anna Fixsen
Giardino delle Arti, Via Aldo Palazzeschi, 00137 Rome, Italy
A peek inside Piero Fornasetti’s former residence
A private tour of Casa Fornasetti was a welcome surprise at a dînatoire hosted by PR agency Alpha Kilo and investor Daniel English. The former home and studio of the legendary designer remains in family ownership, housing his archive, atelier and the offices of his foundation. Long familiar to the international design community for its annual Salone gathering – a fixture of the week’s closing celebrations. Overflowing with art, objects, books, colour and pattern at every turn, it is a maximalist’s dream.
Visits by appointment only.
Writer Ali Morris
Salone del Mobile highlights: Knoll
At the fair, Knoll presented a mix of its historical icons by the likes of Mies van der Rohe and Eero Saarinen, alongside contemporary pieces by Willo Perron and Dozie Kanu, demonstrating the strength of its portfolio that successfully merges design tradition, innovation, and modernity.
Writer Rosa Bertoli
Fiera Milano Rho, Strada Statale del Sempione, 28 20017 Rho (Milan)
Salone del Mobile highlights: Gufram, Memphis and Meritalia
Gufram, Memphis and Meritalia’s shared booth is a brilliant effort to showcase how you can live with radical design in a domestic environment, with iconic reissues including Masanori Umeda’s Ring for Memphis and new works by Faye Toogood, Philippe Malouin and Objects of Common Interest for Meritalia.
Writer Rosa Bertoli
Fiera Milano Rho, Strada Statale del Sempione, 28 20017 Rho (Milan)
Salone del Mobile highlights: Minotti
At Minotti, Orion by Giampiero Tagliaferri is a modular constellation of seating based on an aluminium frame, while his Doheny shelving system is based on a central track (inspired by Doheny Drive in LA).
Writer Rosa Bertoli
Fiera Milano Rho, Strada Statale del Sempione, 28 20017 Rho (Milan)
Salone del Mobile highlights: Minotti
Elsewhere at the Minotti stand, the company displays a showcase of the breadth of its expertise with upholstered furniture, with a diverse offering including pieces by GamFratesi, Nendo, Hannes Peer and Marcio Kogan.
Writer Rosa Bertoli
Fiera Milano Rho, Strada Statale del Sempione, 28 20017 Rho (Milan)
Salone del Mobile highlights: B&B Italia
B&B Italia’s stand by Formafantasma instantly suggests the company’s new vision, defined by clarity and dedicated to elevating the pure furniture designs by Vincent Van Duysen, Ronan Bouroullec and Michael Anastassiades.
Writer Rosa Bertoli
Fiera Milano Rho, Strada Statale del Sempione, 28 20017 Rho (Milan)
Salone del Mobile highlights: B&B Italia
Richard Sapper’s Nena, a 1984 folding design, is brought back in a delicious velvet palette. Originally designed for B&B Italia, it is equipped with a hook and imagined to be hung in a wardrobe for storage.
Writer Rosa Bertoli
Fiera Milano Rho, Strada Statale del Sempione, 28 20017 Rho (Milan)
Salone del Mobile highlights: Tacchini
Entering Tacchini’s booth, one has the impression of stepping into a 1980s-inspired house – Faye Toogood’s Butter seating system appears in different material interpretations, a mix of extreme comfort and versatile design.
Writer Rosa Bertoli
Fiera Milano Rho, Strada Statale del Sempione, 28 20017 Rho (Milan)
Celebrating 40 years of Technogym’s Unica
Forty years ago, Nerio Alessandri’s Unica transformed gym equipment into a one-stop-shop piece of design. The Technogym showroom installation celebrates this milestone by looking back at the personalities – from sport to pop culture – who have been Unica users throughout its history, starting with Sylvester Stallone.
Writer Rosa Bertoli
Technogym Milano, Via Durini 1, 20122 Milan,
Giobagnara Art Editions and Gary Hume collaborate
Among the week’s most inspiring collaborations is this series of limited edition pieces by Giobagnara Art Editions and Gary Hume: cast aluminium and leather marquetry referencing the British artist’s work on trays, boxes, room dividers, and a drinks cabinet. The collaboration was orchestrated by the always brilliant Wallpaper* Quality Maniac at Large, Nick Vinson.
Writer Rosa Bertoli
Via della Spiga 33, Milan
Chopsticks are at the heart of this showcase
At S-3 Site, ‘Chopsticks’ explores the object as a vessel of memory and tradition, with 16 East Asian creatives reinterpreting it through their own cultural lens.
Writer Gabriel Annouka
Via Pietro Giannone 3, Milano
New works by LS gomma
The doorman almost didn't let us into the building but we are very happy we managed to persuade him and were able to see these new works by LS gomma, a design studio working in mesh wire ‘painted’ with rubber.
Writer Rosa Bertoli
Address: by invitation only
Casa NM3 explores domestic opportunities with their designs
Casa NM3 is an opportunity for the Milanese studio to showcase the domestic opportunities of their products. Based on simple modular models, their metal sheets become display units, tables, seating and beds, and the new works include a marble-topped table and a lamp created in collaboration with 6:AM.
Writer Rosa Bertoli
Via Carlo Farini 93
A reimagined Frankfurt kitchen
This tiny, blink-and-you’ll-miss-it underground space hosts Antwerp studio Soft Baroque’s interpretation of the Frankfurt kitchen. Titled ‘Ghost Kitchen’, the installation is ‘an attempt to inject energy, deserialise and fantasise about the standard chipboard material’ that is often used in standard kitchens nowadays,
Writer Rosa Bertoli
Via Leone Pancaldo 12
Singapore designers showcase problem-solving prowess
DesignSingapore Council returns to Milan this year with a new exhibition titled ‘Prototype Island’. Curated by Hunn Wai, co-founder of Lanzavecchia + Wai and assistant curator Eian Siew, the exhibition explores Singapore as a living prototype nation, showcasing 15 evolving, optimising and future-proofing designs from Singapore-based designers. Writer: Rosie Cave
10 Corso Como becomes a crossroads for contemporary visions
An iconic destination for Fuorisalone, the concept store 10 Corso Como becomes a crossroads for contemporary visions, with collective showcases across fashion, design, and jewellery.
Moncler takes over the Gallery to present its new summer collection, while the Project Room hosts 'Fluid Re-Collection' by Linde Freya Tangelder in collaboration with Cassina. In the Pop-Up, Visionnaire presents a capsule design NM3, and the Mezzanine features an installation by Imperfettolab. In the store, KINRADEN unveils its new 'Stilos' collection alongside a selection of high jewellery with an architectural design.
See our image gallery above featuring Moncler’s ‘Have A Puffy Summer’ giant inflated octopus on top of the building, Visionnaire’s collaboration capsule with Milanese studio NM3, including a daybed, table, lounge chair and stools, and the 'Fluid Re-Collection' by Linde Freya Tangelder in collaboration with Cassina.
Writer Olly Mason
Corso Como, 10, 20154 Milano MI, Italy
Flaer’s nature-inspired worlds debut in Milan
For its Milan Design Week debut, Flaer staged its furniture across three immersive rooms where its new collections inhabit natural scenarios enriched by the light of the desert and the sea.
Writer Rosa Bertoli
Via Fatebenefratelli 5, Milan
Cassina’s curiosity cabinet
Cassina under the creative direction of Patricia Urquiola is always a cabinet of larger-than-life curiosities. Among the company's new launches is the new Ardys sofa by Urquiola, an embodiment of the designer's ongoing research into the way classic upholstered furniture can be innovated through new materials and techniques, and 1980s chairs by Gaetano Pesce that make it into the catalogue for the first time (they had strictly been a collector's item until now). Elsewhere in the showroom, Ronan Bouroullec's Treflo table features a four metre long glass top, the longest possible for the material ('for a piece of glass, it is an honour to get to this dimension,' Urquiola poetically explained). It was also great to see new lighting designs by Mario Tsai among the company's offering.
Cassina's ongoing celebrations of I Maestri, the masters of mid century design, is taking a new turn as the company prepares to celebrate its first century next year. Upholstered in bright yellow velvet, iconic designs by Le Corbusier and Afra and Tobia Scarpa are presented in a theatre-like setting on the showroom's top floor. 'I don't want to be nostalgic, or use the word "timeless": I believe in a transformative approach to design that transcend time,' Urquiola told us.
Writer Rosa Bertoli
Via Durini 16, Milan
Dedar presents Versi Liberi
The uniqueness of textile customisation encounters the immediacy of a ready-made product.
Versi Liberi emphatically reinvents the traditional textile genre of the placed motif, popular from the seventeenth to the nineteenth centuries: its refinement and expressive force are combined to bring it into the world of contemporary interior design. Thanks to elaborate embroidery and printing techniques, which confer a marked three-dimensionality, Versi Liberi fabrics give interiors a strong identity.
The placed fabrics are accompanied by the large-scale panels for curtain use.
Through this new format, Versi Liberi broadens its visual scope and revisits the idea of flounce fabrics, bringing it decisively into the contemporary context. Each of these large panels combines two fabrics from the collection to create a wide expanse of colour. A special faux embroidery technique provides the joining stitch between them, producing a subtle gradation.
Versi Liberi is expressed through a visual and tactile language that spans time: the past is reconciled with the present, revealing the full transformative power of textile within space. Embroidery, freed from any form of affectation, becomes an essential mark.
Writer Olly Mason
Versi Liberi, Via Lazzaretto 15, Milan
Margraf x Hannes Peer
La Casa Di Marmo, the immersive installation presented by Margraf on the occasion of Milan Design Week, created in collaboration with Hannes Peer. The project explores the dialogue between material and design, placing Santafiora stone, Margraf’s new exclusive material, at the centre of a narrative that redefines the relationship between natural stone and architecture. The space transforms a private underground garage into an immersive and serene space.
Writer Olly Mason
Spazio Cernaia, Via Cernaia 1, Milan
Rubelli presents ‘Ai Weiwei – About Silk’
Exploring the boundaries of art and textiles, the Venetian textile company Rubelli presents an immersive installation at its Milan showroom featuring two original designs by Chinese artist and activist Ai Weiwei. 'The Animal that Looks like a Llama but is Actually an Alpaca' and 'Finger' feature bold motifs such as surveillance cameras, chains, and the Twitter bird that trace the artist's history and struggles. For the first time, Ai Weiwei entrusts his message to silk – a material that connects his homeland to Rubelli's craft and expertise in Italy. The installation, under the creative direction of Formafantasma, will also showcase a collection of historical artifacts and an original documentary film about the project created by Argentine director Felipe Sanguinetti.
Writer Olly Mason
Via Fatebenefratelli 9, Milan
Taxi for Wallpaper*!
Have you seen these cars? A fleet of Fiat Topolinos has been whizzing about Milan, each car custom-dressed in a livery to match one of our four new Wallpaper* Travel guides – to Milan, Paris, New York and London – which we launched in the city this week. Small truly has been beautiful, especially when it came to getting up close to the city’s landmarks for a bit of four-wheeled sightseeing. If you’ve spotted this cute quartet around Milan this week, post your pictures and tag us on Instagram @wallpapermag
Its Muller Van Severen's birthday! Blow out the candle(holders)
Muller Van Severen celebrate its fifteenth anniversary with an exhibition of giant candle-holders made of aluminium, and alluding to some of the shapes that are recurring in the pair's work. The exhibition, in collaboration with Apartamento, Tim Van Laere Gallery, and BD Barcelona (who have also created small version of the candle-holders, available to buy on-site), also marks the debut of the studio's monograph, titled A Lot of Work chronicling the designer's visual universe.
Writer Rosa Bertoli
Ordet , Via Filippino Lippi 4, 20131 Milan
'The Private Lives of Objects' at Flexform
At Flexform, an exhibition titled 'The Private Lives of Objects' featured new furniture including new chairs by Patrick Norguet and a table by Sebastian Herkner. The pieces were shown against a backdrop of larger-than-life illustrations bringing a playful approach to the space, featuring popular games reproduced in pastel colours, from Checkers to Jenga.
Writer Rosa Bertoli
Via della Moscova, Milan
Reimagining heritage at Barovier & Toso
The Barovier & Toso showroom in Milan offered a masterclass in innovating a historical glass brand. Under Luca Nichetto's art direction (which among other things features a newly launched brand identity by Studio Blanco), the Venetian glass company presented new and exciting work by the likes of Claesson Koivisto Rune, Studio Lani, Keiji Ashizawa and García Cumini.
Writer Rosa Bertoli
Via Durini, 5, 20122 Milan
Even dogs love Edra's new releases
Milan is a city of great dogs, but our favourite last week was Blu, Edra co-founder and vice-president Monica Mazzei's Australian shepherd. He made for a fun accompaniment to the Tuscan company's new collections, which included extruded polycarbonate lamps by Jacopo Foggini welcoming us into the courtyard (pictured), and a sofa by Francesco Binfaré defined by movement.
Writer Rosa Bertoli
Via Durini, 24, 20122 Milano MI, Italy
Dragons of Walton Street fiery new collection
Marking the launch of Dragons of Walton Street's first collection under the new creative director, Carlo Colombo, a presentation hosted in collaboration with Vitale Barberis Canonico, introduces a new chapter for the brand and showcases the brand's latest design collection: 'The Dragon’s House' . This includes the 'Twinkle Vanity Unit', 'Dragon Sofa', 'Little One Chair', miniature directors chairs, and a textured dragon stool.
Writer Olly Mason
Spazio Vitale Barberis Canonico, on Via Solferino 23A
Slow down and reflect in Italy's oldest bookshop
Milan Design Week this year was a paradise for book lovers. Among the literary pop-ups across the city was Davines' literary salon at legendary Libreria Bocca, Italy's oldest bookshop dating back to 1775. Twice daily during the week, the pop-up offered readings and sessions dedicated to poetry, literature and conversations based on caring for nature and humanity through culture. As the brand framed it, it was 'an opportunity to slow down, reflect and feel part of the harmony and wonder that the natural world offers us.'
Writer Rosa Bertoli
Galleria Vittorio Emanuele II