Design Variations
It’s been a ride! But we are almost done. If you missed “Design Variations” today is the last day to see the group exhibition with projects from Italy and around the world: a path connecting design and project culture to the social and architectural heritage of the city. A plurality of projects trigger a profound exchange between art, ingenuity, creativity and design innovation. All this within two palazzos: the Circolo Filologico Milanese (Via Clerici 10), the oldest association in the city, founded to spread culture and the study of foreign languages and civilizations; and Palazzo Visconti (Via Cino del Duca 8), one of the most elaborate examples of Milanese rococo.
Salone del Mobile Fair
After the forced hiatus due to the pandemic, and the special edition of the Supersalone last September, Salone del Mobile returns to Rho Fiera-at last in its original formula to celebrate its 60th edition. There are about 2,200 exhibitors, 27 percent of whom are foreign, mainly Europeans and from North America. The potential and responsibilities of design, inclusion and environmental responsibility, demand for and the culture of design have all been woven into this edition. It will be a showcase for the achievements of artists, designers, brands, and businesses. By signing the United Nations Global Compact this year, the Salone del Mobile.Milano took a significant step toward environmental, social, and economic sustainability. This is the world’s largest corporate sustainability project, with over 15,000 companies from 160 countries participating. The program calls on businesses around the world to adopt and uphold long-term sustainability values, support human rights protection, encourage greater environmental responsibility, and fight corruption in all forms.
Day 7: Parties & Fun Stuff
June 12, 2022
11AM CEST
Editors
Flos Orobia 15
from 10am
Fabbrica Orobia
Via Orobia 15
Polifonic
from 4pm
Parco Esposizioni Novegro
Via Novegro, Viale Esposizioni
Day 6: Parties & Fun Stuff
June 11, 2022
11AM CEST
Editors
Design Dancing
from 5pm
SAM- SAMPLING MOODS
Via Mecenate 84
Closing Party
from 6pm
DOPO?
Via Boncompagni 51
Closing Party
from 6pm
Cattedrale Industriale Abbandonata
An Exhibition by Matylda Krzykowski at Marsèll Paradise
For Milan Design Week 2022, Marsèll presents “You Don’t Want Space, YouWant To Fill It,” the latest site-specific project by curator, designer and artist Matylda Krzykowski, at Marsèll Paradise (Via Privata Rezia 2). Matylda’s project investigates the idea and perception of space in contemporary culture. Unsurprisingly, this is the first project to occupy the entirety of Marsèll Paradise, Marsèll’s multisciplinary space in Milan, which continues to forge an experimental path between art and design. The exhibition by Matylda, includes works by contemporary, transdisciplinary artists, designers, performers and musicians, who shift between visual and performative, natural and artificial, human and animal, touch and sound. These include Phillip Schueller, Collo Awata & Delfiné, Lisa Ertel & Jannis Zell, and Mirka Laura Severa with the support of Miriam Wierzchoslawska. The space, designed by Krzykowski, also includes her own works and objects from her home in Berlin. In light of this, Marsèll Paradise takes on a welcoming and domestic dimension, which expands and investigates the idea of an exhibition space, inviting visitors to observe, interact, and relate to each other and their surroundings.
Nathalie Du Pasquier at Casa Mutina
The new Mutina collection, designed by Nathalie Du Pasquier, features a range of manufactured ceramic items, realised in Italy according to the artisanal tradition. They are artistic objects designed for interior decoration, that come to life through compositions of architectural shapes: a reflection of the artists’s research and creative approach, transporting the observer into an almost metaphysical dimension, suspended in space and time. Each piece is realised in white glazed ceramic, following the manual casting technique. Subsequently, they are sponged to smooth and refine surfaces and edges and, lastly, enameled with the method of “tuffatura”. Paesaggi belongs to Mutina Editions, the new ceramic project of the brand. It features collection of ceramic objects linked to the world of auteur interiors, developed by the designers and artists of the Mutina team and entirely handcrafted in Italy by skillful master potters. Each piece is stamped and signed in a sequential manner to enhance its exclusivity: they are unique creations meant to last and to reach every corner of the world, but only one by one. On this occasion, Casa Mutina inaugurated “Elementi per paesaggi,” the new exhibition especially developed by Nathalie Du Pasquier for the showroom in Milan. The French artist gave birth to a lively and dynamic installation by using the elements of Mattonelle Margherita, creating a display where to discover the new Mutina project and experiencing the ceramic material through its possible forms: a surface and a three-dimensional element, enhancing its great decorative power. “The landscapes I created are slightly metaphysical, like those kind of places where someone seeks rest and looks at the sky,” Ms. Du Pasquier said.
Singing Enzo Mari The Function of Esthetic Research Listening Sessions
Playing on the duality of the Italian word opera, as the term for a work of art and an opera in the musical sense, the listening sessions transform Mari’s words into a sensorial performance in which the audience is able to hear his utopia through an unusual voice. Read more about the project here.
Day 5: Parties & Fun Stuff
June 10, 2022
12PM CEST
Editors
POLIFONIC
from 5.30pm
SCALO FARINI
Via Valtellina
IAAD. Party
from 6pm
BRA Very Bar
Piazza del Cannone
Marble Bar Party
Arci Bellezza
from 6pm
Via Bellezza 16
TOILETPAPER Street Party
TOILETPAPER magazine, the image-only editorial project by artist Maurizio Cattelan and photographer Pierpaolo Ferrari, transformed Via Giuseppe Balzaretti, in the Città Studi area, into a permanent public art installation. The creative duo invaded the now-famous street where TOILETPAPER is based with its typical dreamlike and surreal imagery. The façade decoration is curated by architecture studio All Out Lab and decorators Maura Boldi, Alessandra Didone, Federica Ghio, Angelo Pennocchio, and Alberto Pennocchio. To emphasize the pop identity of the project, a street party curated by ORGANICS by Red Bull, celebrates Milan Design Week with performances and dj sets.
Spazio Maiocchi: Art, Fashion, Design and a New Magazine
For Milan Design Week 2022, Spazio Maiocchi presents a constellation of projects which speak to its unique position at the intersection of art, fashion, and design. In the installation “Re-Cut,” giant puppets herald the launch of the Toogood x Carhartt WIP clothing collaboration. Tacchini introduces a re-edition of Mario Bellini’s iconic modular sofa Le Mura within the frame of “Cinema Tacchini,” an exhibition project by designer duo Formafantasma featuring a screening program curated by Cristiana Perrella. “Art & Residence,” a group exhibition presented by Daniel Arsham and StockX, explores the crossover of traditional design and hype culture. And “As Seen By,” a touring exhibition curated by Rimowa in partnership with art collective The Community, invites a diverse collection of young talents to reimagine travel pieces into intricately customised sculptures. Spazio Maiocchi’s storefront space, Artifact, hosts the launch of Capsule, Kaleidoscope’s new sibling publication delving into the world of design in its broader definition. Coming with a set of three covers, the inaugural issue premieres alongside the first release of the Capsule Home collection—a lounge chair designed by Los Angeles-based design firm Nuova.
ADI Design Museum Conquers Design Week
This year’s Design Week, ADI Design Museum is playing a key role. The museum is hosting a rich calendar of unmissable events and installations that explore the world of contemporary design starting from its history. The primary focus is on the relationship between design and different forms of art such as music, dance, and sculpture.
An extraordinarily important figure in the world of design who won the Compasso d’Oro for his career in 2008, Dino Gavina was not only one of the most revolutionary entrepreneurs in the sector, but also a great visionary. To mark the centenary of his birth, Paradisoterrestre — the brand he founded — is paying a tribute to the great designer with an exhibition project entitled “La casa nella casa” (A house within the house), a 1:1 scale reproduction of the “refuge” created by Gavina inside his own home. “Conversations with Emotional Journeys,” a retrospective of the young Swiss artist Giacomo Braglia gives life to an unprecedented exploration of the contemporary world through photography and sculpture. Circularity and ecology are the focus of attention for the new generation of packaging in an installation curated by Francesco Dondina; Elica presents the present and the future of design from the point of view of the producer and the user, through three of its most iconic products, by Fabrizio Crisà; and the innovative light by the Repower, designed by two-time Compasso d’Oro winner Denis Santachiara, is a tribute to Nikola Tesla. Chateau d’Ax chose the museum to unveil D’Ax Design, a new snappy collection of furniture signed by Michele De Lucchi, Cini Boeri, Bestetti Associati, for a greener future. In the courtyard, YAAZ presents four trees inspired by Bruno Munari and the Turkish popular tradition. Plus, don’t miss the last days of the exhibition “Marco Zanuso e Alessandro Mendini. Design e Architettura.”
Day 4: Parties & Fun Stuff
June 9, 2022
7AM CEST
Editors
Yoga session with Ciaomondo
from 9am
Palazzo Clerici
via Clerici 5
Le Cannibale meets Santeria party
from 6pm
Bosco Verticale
Via Gaetano de Castillia, 11
TOILETPAPER STREET party with ORGANICS by Red Bull
from 6.30pm
Via Balzaretti
Celebrating Design with a Parade
After a two-year hiatus, the DESIGN PRIDE parade, one of Milano Design Week’s most popular and engaging events, is back. The entire city is invited to join the original street parade, which, like every edition, starts from Piazza Castello (corner via Minghetti) and invades the 5VIE district with giant floats, performances, and music. The procession will end in Piazza Affari for the final party.
La Manufacture at the Poldi Pezzoli Museum
June 8, 2022
4PM CEST
Editors
La Manufacture is a brand that combines design and fashion to produce objects that embody the best of Italian workmanship and the attractiveness of France. Luca Nichetto, the art director, created a collection of 50 iconic objects in a specific shade of orange inspired by the safety bibs worn on construction sites for this year’s Milan Design Week. These pieces spark an interesting dialogue with the Poldi Pezzoli Museum’s nineteenth-century rooms.
Day 3: Parties & Fun Stuff
June 8, 2022
9PM CEST
Editors
The Ecal Manual of Style
from 11am
Orso 16
Via dell’Orso 16
Aperitivo Design by Campari Soda
from 6.30pm
Showroom Alessi
via Manzoni 14
Design Pride 2022
from 6.30pm
Piazza Castello
Talk with Architectural Review
7pm
DOPO?
Via Boncompagni 51
Certosa Initiative Party
from 8pm
Certosa Initiative
via Barnaba Oriani 27
Spotted: Martha Stewart at Alcova
Alcova is the most interesting parallel fair of Milan Design Week. Among the various guests from the world of design and culture, Martha Stewart, the iconic queen of American television also visited the event today. At Milan’s Centro Ospedaliero Militare di Milano, a historic military hospital, independent design platform Alcova features numerous exhibitors. Alcova also launched ‘Curated by Alcova,’ a new platform for international designers. This year, visitors to Alcova will find even more food and beverage experiences in the huge exhibition site, which spans 20 hectares and includes both indoor and outdoor areas.
Circular Economy, Biodiversity, Co-design at Base Milano
From 6–12 June, BASE presents the second edition of “We Will Design” — an experimental workshop with designers from around the world, schools, universities, international institutions and young students to imagine, through design, new tools, practices and experiences as an answer to the many contradictions of the present. Circular economy, biodiversity, co-design processes, new approaches to learning and individual devices will be the focus of three macro-projects curated by BASE for the Design Week.
The project intends to rethink the falling apart, the dichotomies that create conflict, to understand how the space where things make friction can become fertile ground to generate creativity. And again, to ask: What is the role of design in this contested contemporary scenario? In a historical moment of great uncertainty, even small visionary, radical and sometimes crazy ideas can become the starting point for tomorrow. Micro-utopia becomes a “device” to move the ideal from the abstract and materialize in politics, in our social and daily lives.
Day 2: Parties & Fun Stuff
June 7, 2022
10AM CEST
Editors
MISSCHIEFS
from 10am
Fabbrica Bini
via G. Da Cermenate 18
Party @ Vita Lenta
from 5pm
Piazza Città di Lombardia
DROPCITY Book Launches
from 6pm
Via Sammartini 38-60
Ape al Parco Sempione
from 6pm
Piazza Castello
Omaggio a Paulo Mendes Da Rocha
6.30pm
Triennale Milano
Concert: MACE
from 7.30pm
Triennale Milano
Lightshow Beyond Space X Boris Acket
from 8.30pm
Certosa Initiative
via Barnaba Oriani 27
Tama Sumo – Le Cannibale party
from 10.30pm
BASE Milano
Via Bergognone 34
Artist Chiara Passa Explores Design With Virtual Reality
An app for smartphones and tablets designed by artist Chiara Passa creates magical worlds inside Fornasetti’s universe. Read more.
A ‘Magic Box’ Kicks Off Milano Design Week
The Salone del Mobile week opened its calendar of parallel events with “La Scatola Magica” (Magic Box), a site-specific audiovisual installation curated by Davide Rampello. Set in the hall of the caryatids of the Palazzo Reale, a box with reproductions of paintings from the collection of the Pinacoteca di Brera hanging on the walls hosts the narrative of 11 Italian directors: Francesca Archibugi, Pappi Corsicato, Davide Rampello, Wilma Labate, Bruno Bozzetto, Luca Lucini, Claudio Giovannesi, Gianni Canova, Donato Carrisi, Daniele Ciprì, and Stefano Mordini. “I thought the best way was to entrust each word to a film director because no art tells a story better than cinema,” Rampello told Milano Art Guide. “I wanted to build everything around a box with the idea of containing more wonders.” Their storytelling through sounds and images is tied to the 11 founding principles of this event: Emotion, Enterprise, Quality, Project, System, Communication, Culture, Youth, Ingenuity, Milan, and Know-How. Each of the directors interpreted a word from the Manifesto of the Salone del Mobile.Milano according to his or her own personal stylistic style and transformed it into an author’s short film. The installation features a monumental ‘camera obscura’ — a parallelepiped 6m high by 24m deep — that draws inspiration from the visionary and imaginative world of pre-cinema optical devices. Rampello insists “people must go back to listening to themselves, and not be projected holes and become pure emotional surface.” (Through June 17, free admission)
Day 1: Parties & Fun Stuff
June 6, 2022
8AM CEST
Editors
Prada Frames
from 11.30am
Biblioteca Braidense
Via Brera 28
Open Aperitivo by Peroni
from 5pm
Certosa Initiative
via Barnaba Oriani 27
Camparino in Galleria
from 6pm
Piazza Duomo 21
We Will Design Music w/ Giardino dei Visionari
from 7pm
BASE Milano
Via Bergognone 34
Padiglione Brera Opening Night
from 7pm
Via Cavalieri del Santo Sepolcro 3
Party: You Don’t Want Space, You Want To Fill It
from 8pm
Marsell Paradise
Via privata Rezia 12
What to See and Explore Live at Milano Design Week
June 6, 2022
7AM CEST
Editors
We rounded up this year’s must-see displays and installations, from a symposium by Prada to an installation by an Academy Award-nominated director, as Milan Design Week returns for its first full-scale event since the coronavirus outbreak. Here’s our pick of the crop.
