At Wallpaper*, there’s a determined buzz main as much as Salone del Cellular and Milan Design Week.
We focus on all of it 12 months lengthy, we plan our routes weeks upfront, we spend our days speaking to our Milanese and worldwide buddies about their plans, their tasks, and their installations.
To make issues simpler, now we have created this map of among the exhibitions we’re most enthusiastic about visiting, starting from celebrations of design historical past giants to inventive installations by new-guard pioneers. If you wish to discover out extra of our must-see moments, decide up a replica of the Wallpaper* Might concern, and observe us on Wallpaper.com, the place our staff will probably be sharing their findings in a reside weblog all through the week.
And our love for this metropolis is such that now we have devoted one in all our inaugural Journey Guides to Milan. Discover us through the star on the map, and be sure to come and say good day.
The Wallpaper* Kiosk. Through Rivoli, nook Through Tivoli
Wallpaper* Kiosk
(Picture credit score: DWA)
Wallpaper* takes over a standard Milanese kiosk to mark the return of our Journey Guides, the important companion for at this time’s design lover.
Drop by to choose up a replica of one in all our new collection overlaying Milan, Paris, New York Metropolis and London, and to take a look at our DWA-designed kiosk alongside new furnishings by NM3.
Through Rivoli, nook Through Tivoli
Nilufar Grand Lodge
(Picture credit score: Nilufar)
Gallerist Nina Yashar’s Nilufar Depot is Milan’s final treasure trove of contemporary and modern furnishings. This 12 months, this gigantic dollhouse-like house turns into the set for an immersive grand resort, with bedrooms by David/Nicolas, Filippo Carandini, Bethan Laura Wooden and Allegra Hicks.
Viale Vincenzo Lancetti 34
Salone del Cellular
(Picture credit score: Courtesy Salone del Cellular)
This 12 months, Salone embraces the world of collectible design with the launch of Salone Raritas. Going down in an area designed by Formafantasma, the exhibition will open the truthful as much as distinctive items, restricted editions and ‘outsider’ objects. Salone additionally debuts a brand new programme, led by OMA, devoted to contract furnishings.
Fiera Milano Rho
Triennale Milano
(Picture credit score: Miguel Medina / AFP through Getty Photos)
The town’s main cultural design establishment presents a line-up of inventive excellence, together with a solo exhibition of Barber Osgerby’s work, celebrations of Danish design by Fredericia and Kvadrat, Kettal’s Eames Pavilion System, and an outline of the work of Lella and Massimo Vignelli.
Viale Emilio Alemagna 6
Alcova
Design platform Alcova is exhibiting at two places: a former army hospital and a rationalist gem designed by Franco Albini. Initiatives embrace an initiative honouring the legacy of architect Luisa Castiglioni (at Pestarini) and works by main European structure and design faculties (at Baggio).
Villa Pestarini / Baggio Navy Hospital
Dropcity
Positioned within the arches of Milan’s Central Station, the Andrea Caputo-designed centre for design and structure analysis involves life throughout Milan Design Week when greater than ten studios, showcasing ceramics, textiles, woodworking, mannequin making, 3D manufacturing and extra, will probably be open to the general public.
Through Giovanni Battista Sammartini 60
Hermès
Don’t go away Milan with out popping into Hermès: the French maison’s takeover of La Pelota, a venue within the coronary heart of the Brera design district, repeatedly enchants and excites with larger-than-life installations whose inspirational ideas merge tradition and historical past with items from its house collections, outdated and new.
Rosewood
(Picture credit score: Rosewood)
Curated by Wallpaper* contributing editor Deyan Sudjic, ‘Rosewood: Objects that Communicate. A Dialog Continued with Andrea Branzi’ is an exhibition honouring the influential Italian designer’s legacy. On show are Branzi’s signature paper lamps, a results of his analysis into ‘unrepeatable sequences’.
Through Carlo de Cristoforis 1
Veuve Cliquot
(Picture credit score: Veuve Clicquot)
Artist Yinka Ilori has collaborated with Veuve Clicquot on a limited- version assortment, ‘Chasing the Solar’, on present at Mediateca Santa Teresa. It features a reinterpretation of the Clicquot arrow, in addition to a Champagne bucket and a collection of transportable ingesting vessels which are extra akin to sunlit sculptures.
Through della Moscova 28
Fiat
Be a part of the automotive model that continues to redefine city mobility for a glance again and a leap ahead. This exhibition traces how Fiat has developed design-wise whereas nonetheless remaining devoted to its roots. Additionally on present are a collection of latest visions for the longer term, shared by main Italian design faculties.
Through Vincenzo Forcella 6
Sima Glazed Bar
(Picture credit score: Giulio Ghirardi)
Our Milan Journey Information Insider Massimiliano Locatelli is the inventive behind this takeover of the Sima Townhouse, which is housed in a constructing relationship again to 1590.
That includes hand-painted ceramic tiles made in Vietnam utilizing conventional methods, the challenge contains mosaics of bottles and cocktails.
Corso di Porta Vigentina 12
Polish Modernism
The sixteenth flooring of the landmark Torre Velasca hosts this multilayered exhibition offered by the Visteria Basis. ‘Polish Modernism: A Wrestle for Magnificence’ explores the nation’s post-war legacy by way of a mixture of historic and modern works to spotlight the position of magnificence as cultural resistance.
Torre Velasca, Piazza Velasca 3-5
Marni
(Picture credit score: Marni)
One in every of Milan’s most trendy pasticceria, Cucchi gives a hanging setting for Marni’s distinctive celebration of town’s wealthy design tradition. Greater than a pop-up, the challenge was designed with inside design studio Crimson Duo to create a multisensory expertise lasting greater than three months.
Cucchi, Corso Genova 1
Lina Ghotmeh
(Picture credit score: Courtesy of Lina Ghotmeh)
Architect Lina Ghotmeh takes over the courtyard of Palazzo Litta, with ‘Metamorphosis in Movement’, a bold-hued labyrinthine set up primarily based on her ‘archaeology of the longer term’ philosophy and impressed by the historical past of the situation and the courtyard’s position as a public house of reception and illustration.
Palazzo Litta, Corso Magenta 24
Miu Miu
The fourth version of Miu Miu’s literary membership, ‘Politics of Need’, explores themes of sexuality, want and consent by way of the work of Nobel Prize-winning French writer Annie Ernaux and Ghanaian author, politician and tutorial Ama Ata Aidoo, alongside a programme of lectures and performances.
Circolo Filologico Milanese, Through Clerici 10
When Apricots Blossom
(Picture credit score: Courtesy of ACDF and Bethan Laura Wooden Studio)
Architect Kulapat Yantrasast curates this immersive present commissioned by the Uzbekistan Artwork and Tradition Growth Basis. Impressed by the nation’s intricate bread stamps, flora and suzani tapestries are modern interpretations by the likes of Nifemi Marcus-Bello, Marcin Rusak and Uncooked-Edges.
Palazzo Citterio, Through Brera 12
