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As per tradition, the courtyards of the State University of Milano, in Via Festa del Perdono (M3 Missori) host the INTERNI project. Milan design week usually happens in April, but the event has been pushed back for the second year in a row due to the coronavirus pandemic and now takes place from 7 to 12 June. Milan design week usually happens in April, but the event has been pushed back for the second year in a row due to the coronavirus pandemic and now takes place in Milan from 6 to 12 June 2022.
Bullfrog at Salone del Mobile 2024
On display from April 9th to May 1st, 2024, La Nascita marks JR’s inaugural venture into sculptural anamorphosis, departing from his traditional medium of paper and glue. In a conversation with designboom , JR discusses how the concept of anamorphosis, with its potential for distorted images and optical illusions, has long intrigued him and influenced his artistic practice. In complete contrast, Samuel Ross’s Terminal 02 captured the imagination for its ginormous scale as well as turning the surrealist lens on the humble toilet. Working with bathroom brand Kohler, the cutting-edge London artist and designer constructed a maze-like brutalist installation at Palazzo del Senato featuring a giant orange lavatory and twisting industrial pipes to mark the launch of his first product, Formation 02. Milan saw some wonderfully whimsical designs too, for a moment’s smile among the otherwise more serious discussions on machine intelligence and climate emergency.
BMW – FUTURE OF JOY
Over the past few years, Thom Browne has been quietly making steps into the world of homewares, collaborating with the likes of Baccarat, Christofle, and Haviland. For his first outing during Milan Design Week with Frette, however, the designer decided to make a bolder statement, channeling the theatrical energy of his runway shows into one of the week’s most memorable presentations. Within the opulent central hall of the Palazzina Appiani, a Neoclassical building nestled in a leafy corner of the city’s Parco Sempione, viewers were greeted by a series of six mid-century cots decked out in his new line of bed linens in fine cotton sateen, detailed with Browne’s signature four-bar insignia. Nilufar Gallery (find more here) presents the Time Traveler exhibition, weaving together the works of contemporary talents and timeless pieces from design legends of the past.
Delcourt Collection’s “Horses in My Dreams” Exhibition
The showcase will reflect the collection’s multifunctional approach, with a hybrid space granting access to visitors both physically and remotely through a metaverse activation enabling users to virtually wear total looks by MCM and interact with the objects. In another new turn, the collection will be see now, buy now, dropping both online and at the La DoubleJ store in Milan during the design week. The 2024 season is brimming with a record number of openings, activations, debuts, landmark collaborations and parties that will help set the tone for the future of design. Alberto Biagetti and Laura Baldassari of renowned Atelier Biagetti turn the clocks back to make us kids again with a project dedicated to our childhood companions and real “friends for life” – Pets! The collection explores the idea of a home without boundaries, where interior blurs into exterior and playfulness is a serious business that we just can’t do without. A large circular maze that uses recycled plastic, a colossal scaffolding that, through a path of illuminated ramps, leads to a panoramic wooden platform, and portals illuminated with neon.
Architect Guillermo Santomà designs the space to showcase these products, infusing his international perspective into the presentation. Following the event, the special edition items will be available for purchase on Gucci’s website, marking a fusion of tradition and modernity within the realm of design. Saint Laurent Rive Droite’s pavilion in the cloisters of San Simpliciano was a nod to Gio Ponti’s historic modernist architecture in Caracas. Curated by creative director Anthony Vaccarello for Milan Design Week 2024, the exhibition showcased a custom tableware collection originally conceived by the Italian architect and designer in 1953 for the Venezuelan Villa Planchart, alongside a collection of archives.
At Opificio 31 [Via Tortona 31, Map], discover the anamorphic street art installation combining art, design and innovation by Truly Design Crew, commissioned by the beyond-smoking company IQOS. British designer Lee Broom returns to Milan to present his first series of lamps in four years and celebrate the 15th anniversary of his eponymous studio. The Divine inspiration collection and exhibition in Brera [via Palermo 11, Map] takes inspiration from brutalist places of worship and that sense of awe and mysticism those buildings and their interiors convey. Dezeen Events Guide is our guide to the best architecture and design events taking place across the world each year.
Twelve key installations from Milan design week 2024 - Dezeen
Twelve key installations from Milan design week 2024.
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Fornasetti (find more here) extends its Harlequin’s Servant exhibition hosted in the foyer of the historic cinema Cineteca Arlecchino Milano until 6 May 2024. The show, composed of drawings and creations from Fornasetti’s historical archive, pays homage to Harlequin, the protagonist of the original works from the 1940s created by Piero Fornasetti for the foyer of the newly restored cinema. During the Milan Design Week 2024, the renowned brand also presents Ceci n’est pas une salle à manger, a new collection of furniture and accessories. Lexus (find more here) returns to Milan Design Week, showcasing Time, a pair of installations inspired by the LF-ZC (Lexus Future Zero-emission Catalyst), a concept model exploring the potential of next-generation Lexus battery electric vehicles.
The Time by Provasi
Influential architecture and design magazine INTERNI has invited international architects to create installations and exhibitions in the historic courtyards and halls of Statale University. Design Re-Generation, the show’s main theme, invites us to think about the role of design in creating sustainable solutions for the future. Get lost in a verdant labyrinth designed by Raffaello Galliotto for furniture brand Nardi, interact with the voice-responsive Hydra-fountain by Elena Salmistraro and keep fit at the Techno pavilion by Zaha Hadid Architects [Via Festa del Perdono 7, Map]. Grohe SPA returns to Milano, this time reimagining the courtyard of Palazzo Reale near the Duomo with an installation that pays homage to the historical building while incorporating the company’s “Health through Water” concept. Similarly, renowned French artist JR has been invited by Milano Centrale Railway Station to transform both the station’s facade and Piazza Duca d’Aosta into a rocky landscape with his latest installation, La Nascita.
Milan-based Japanese designer Keiji Takeuchi presents walking sticks & canes, an exhibition of 18 international designers in the Quadreria space at Triennale Milano during Milan Design Week 2024. As the title suggests it, the curator takes on the world of walking aids to unpack their history and relatively broad definition, which underwent unique evolutions in different eras. To do so, Takeuchi invites eighteen designers from around the globe to showcase a a variety of examples that question what walking sticks and canes represent in our lives.
Through her curated, abstract lens, Toogood envisaged the Squash collection, which she said is like “English folk with Italian horsepower and embodies her soft, sculptural approach.” The collection also includes a rug and a mirror. That might have been the thinking behind the collaboration between the German luxury luggage maker and La Marzocco, a Florence-based leader in handmade espresso machinery. From his large collection of yarns, nearly all scavenged from yarn remainder shops selling the fashion industry’s leftovers, Carroll forges compositions of varied textures, materials and colors in fabrics like wool, linen, silk and more. Each work is done by hand on a flatbed domestic knitting machine from the 1970s at his studio in Los Angeles. About half the works, available for purchase at the JW Anderson store, bear a single word evoking a concept like music, abnegation, pity, voices, or permanence. Others quote works of literature, some refer to already existing works of art, and some feature Carroll’s own phrases.
There’s still time to visit these, a supplement to designboom’s ultimate guide to Milan Design Week 2024. Like shopping for greeting cards, wandering through the Louvre, or scrolling Netflix, Milan Design Week offers an overwhelming number of things to see—and choices to make about what to see. The city-wide fair (which we ELLE DECOR editors like to refer to as “Design’s Super Bowl”) draws hundreds of exhibitors and hundreds of thousands of attendees.
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