Inspiring Events at Milan Design Week 2023 You Can’t Miss
Numerous exhibitions, immersive installations, groundbreaking collaborations, anniversary celebrations, product launches, pop-ups, and events that spill out onto courtyards, gardens, and plazas take place in historic palazzos, industrial buildings, and private residences throughout Milan’s Design Districts of Brera, Isola, Tortona, and 5VIE. These events address a variety of themes, including sustainable design, circular economy, innovative materials, urban regeneration, and more. Milan Design Week 2023 is here!
CASSINA X ONE BLOCK DOWN
Via Agnello 13, Autorimessa laRinascente
For its latest project, One Block Down collaborates with Cassina, the internationally renowned Italian brand characterized by ground-breaking furniture designs. The pair have joined to develop a unique interpretation of Gerrit T. Rietveld’s Zig Zag chair, creating a collection of just 30 pieces available at One Block Down that will be presented during Milan Design Week 2023.
Flos Six Acts – My Circuit
Corso Monforte 15
Site-specific installation and six-act narrative for the launch of the revolutionary and eclectic lighting system My Circuit. By Michael Anastassiades.
Fornasetti – The Syntax of Making
Corso Monforte 15
Fornasetti presents ‘The Syntax of Making’ exhibition, showcasing three new collections of furniture and home accessories, that respect the Atelier’s heritage while taking into account the needs of modern life. The new designs are complemented by original decors from the historical archive. Visitors to the Milan Design Week can exceptionally experience a fragment of the Atelier’s life by observing a live painting of the new collections.
Edward Barber & Jay Osgerby X Marsotto Edizioni
Largo Claudio Treves 2
During Milan Design Week 2023, from 18 to 23 April, at the showroom in Largo Claudio Treves 2, Marsotto editions presents a collection of marble furniture designed by Edward Barber and Jay Osgerby. For the occasion, only one exhibition will be set up dedicated to the new family of products with an essential and timeless style, which has always been a distinctive feature of the famous London studio.
Prada Frames 2023 – Symposium Curated by Formafantasma
Luigi Caccia Dominioni’s Teatro Filodrammatici
Prada Frames is a multidisciplinary symposium that delves into the complex relationship between the natural environment and design. The initiative is a moment of collective reflection that aims at examining and correlating innovative thoughts while offering a pioneering body of knowledge. The approach taken by Prada Frames is scientific and, at the same time, educational and informative. In line with the progressive and increasingly significant relationship between environmental studies and all fields of knowledge and culture, Prada Frames brings together the valuable contribution of scholars and professionals, such as scientists, architects, designers, artists, activists, anthropologists and law experts.
BD Barcelona – 50 years of Design
Piazza Belgioioso 2
The story of the founding of BD Barcelona is the stuff of legend: a group of architects, hanging out late one night in 1972 at iconic Barcelona club Boccaccio, decided to start a design brand involving their artist and designer friends. Producing work by the likes of Ettore Sottsass and Vittorio Gregotti (then relative newcomers), as well as reissues of works by surrealist artists Antoni Gaudí and Salvador Dalí, Boccaccio Design (later renamed BD Barcelona) became a creative sensation. Its extensive catalogue has seen some of the world’s most celebrated creatives populate its pages, from notable greats like Álvaro Siza Vieira and Alessandro Mendini to more contemporary designers like Konstantin Grcic, Doshi Levien and Jaime Hayon.
FENDI Casa
Piazza della Scala
During the Milan Design Week 2023, FENDI Casa unveils its new collection, including the Blown modular sofa by Controvento and the Ottavia chair by Christina Celestino.
Nendo Presents “Break to Make” Collaboration with Daniel Arsham
Pinamonte da Vimercate 4
During Milan Design Week 2023, nendo presents the Break to Make series in collaboration with Daniel Arsham, multidisciplinary artist and co-founder of Snarkitecture, an actual physical deconstruction of archetypal designs by Oki Sato. Break to Make – under the aegis of New York-based gallery Friedman Benda – represents the culmination of a creative dialogue that has lasted between the two for more than four years, resulting in a new body of work that will be presented during Milan Design Week 2023 through an installation staged at nendo’s Milan office at via Pinamonte da Vimercate, 4 that is open from 18th – 23rd April.
Armani/Casa a Palazzo
Via Borgonuovo 11, Palazzo Orsini
Continuing its dialogue with the city of Milan, Giorgio Armani opens the doors of Palazzo Orsini, the company’s historic headquarters, to the public for the first time at the Salone del Mobile to present the new Armani/Casa collection. On this occasion, guests will have the opportunity to discover, in the secret garden, the new outdoor collection and, continuing along the path inside the historic building, some precious furniture displayed in the prestigious frescoed rooms on the first floor. The atelier of the Giorgio Armani Privé haute couture collection thus gives way, in part, to the Armani/Casa design, in the sign of the continuity of a style that is as consistent in fashion as in furnishings, because the attention to materials, the artisan care in making them, the sense of a light, refined and therefore recognizable preciousness is identical.
Paola Lenti
Via Bovio 28
For the 2023 edition of the Milano Design Week, Paola Lenti will present, as always, new products, materials and finishes that will enhance her library of exclusive proposals. However, the piece they are most proud of is the re-edition of Wave, twenty years after its first introduction to the market and re-proposed today with new weaves, which are made strictly by hand, as usual, and are inspired by the complex knots of the Japanese tradition.
Dior with Philippe Starck – Monsieur Dior
Via Brera 12, Palazzo Citterio
For the Salone del Mobile 2023, the collaboration between Dior and Philippe Starck continues with the original Monsieur Dior chair and the most comprehensive furniture collection ever created for the House. The internationally renowned designer, known for his visionary, poetic objects, continues to reinvent the iconic Medallion chair. A major inspiration, a tribute to the emblematic figure of Monsieur Dior.
Grohe Spa Experience
Pinacoteca di Brera, Via Brera 28
German bathroom and sanitaryware brand Grohe presents a water surface installation at Pinacoteca di Brera, one of Milan’s main public galleries. The installation was created by the brand’s in-house design and branding team LIXIL Global Design and celebrates the cleansing quality of water and the museum’s architecture. Alongside the installation, Grohe displays a range of its bathroom collections, including 3D metal-printed products, the Atrio and Allure collections and shower products.
Walk The Walk – Moving Energy
Via Brera 28/Via Fiori Oscuri 4, Orto Botanico di Brera
Italo Rota and CRA-Carlo Ratti Associati for Eni Plenitude transform the Brera Botanical Garden into a large living game board. Hundreds of squares, including multimedia ones, trace a path that winds among trees and plants of the Garden, creating luminescence and sound effects that change the space during hours of the day. Developed with a game designers collective—Blob Factory Gaming Studio, Walk the Talk addresses issues such as the transformation of mobility in a sustainable way.
Artemest – L’Appartamento
Via Cesare Correnti 14
For Milan Design Week 2023, Artemest opens the doors of L’Appartamento, an elegant 1930s Milanese apartment curated by six prestigious international interior design firms. L’Appartamento rises in a historic Milanese building in Via Cesare Correnti 14, in the 5Vie district. The unique location provides the perfect backdrop for the six interior design studios to showcase their distinctive creative visions and celebrate Italian craftsmanship and design from their own perspective. Each interior design studio has designed a room of the apartment using exclusively furniture, lighting, home décor, and art by a selection of Artemest Italian artisans, brands, designers, and artists.
Dedar Fabrics
Via Fiori Chiari 18
From 17 to 23 April, Dedar will present its new collection of fabrics and wallcoverings in its showroom in Via Fiori Chiari, where it will be possible to discover all the novelties and the new layout.
Dimorestudio – WonderGlass
Dimorecentrale
Outside of the Milanese districts, Dimorestudio presents an immersive installation at Dimorecentrale, an expansive multi-purpose space near Milano Centrale Train Station that was inaugurated during 2022 Milan Design Week, WonderGlass brings together glass works by works by John Pawson, Tom Dixon, Elena Salmistraro, Elisa Ossino, Paul Cocksedge, and more in ABRAKADABRA at Istituto dei Ciechi.
Rossana Orlandi
Via Matteo Bandello, 14
Number 14, via Matteo Bandello is one of the best-known addresses among design addicts and those who come from all five continents to Milan, where the various Design Weeks are among the most important dates of the year. Rossana Orlandi literally works magic in this place. The courtyard, covered with the nearly centennial strawberry grape vines (“one of my dearest prides” she says), becomes the focal point on every Milanese map. The first floor is covered with the famous “cuvettes that we keep upside down if they are empty” which, from the early to the late 1900s, housed the fabrics and yarns of Prochnovnich, one of the most renowned tie factories of the period.
Vieni a Vedere by Gaetano Pesce
Bottega Veneta, Via Monte Napoleone, 27/A
The collaboration between maestro Gaetano Pesce and Bottega Veneta continues after the first two phases during Milan Fashion Week 2023 and the latest Design Miami/ event. Vieni a Vedere is an immersive installation inside the Bottega Veneta shop in Montenapoleone. A sort of cave that extends throughout the shop, employing resin and fabric to create a unique experience that accompanies the visitor and frames an edition of bags, made by Bottega Veneta based on Pesce’s drawings.
Moroso Cocktail Party
Via Pontaccio 8/10
Join Moroso to discover the 2023 novelties by Patricia Urquiola, Zanellato/Bortotto, Elena Sanguankeo and Front. The cocktail party happens on the 17th of April at Via Pontaccio 8/10.
MOOOI – Experience A Life Extraordinary
Via San Gregorio, 29
This year, during Salone del Mobile, MOOOI is exploring design, lifestyle, and technology even more extensively. They’re embracing physical and digital realities and creating technologically advanced experiences that are also deeply personal. MOOOI presents a bespoke interior fragrance experience powered by AI in collaboration with EveryHuman™. Together with LG we further explore the seamless integration of tech into our homes and lives. Besides focusing on tech, MOOOI showcases new product designs by IDEO and Nika Zupanc, as well as lifestyle collections, exciting new collaborations, and much more!
Boffi|DePadova
Via Solferino 11
The Boffi Solferino showroom introduces the novelties from Boffi|DePadova by utilizing an architectural language. Kitchens, bathrooms and wardrobe systems alternate with partitioning systems from ADL and the collections from De Padova, including the new outdoor proposal from the Paul Smith + De Padova EVERYDAY LIFE collection.
Superstudio Più
Via Tortona 27
From Tuesday 18 to Sunday 23 April 2023, on the occasion of the Milan Design Week 2023, the appointment with SuperDesign Show returns, the project by Gisella Borioli with the art direction of Giulio Cappellini set up in the Superstudio Più spaces, in the heart of Tortona Design District. The 2023 edition is dedicated to the Inspiration Innovation Imagination theme and stages some spectacular and demanding installations which, on the one hand, provide information on the novelties of a selected international production, on the other they anticipate questions and answers on the functions of the world to come.
IKEA Milan: Assembling the Future Together
Via Tortona 27
Assembling the future together and celebrating 80 years of innovation. This is the story that IKEA – which celebrates its 80th anniversary this year – will tell at Fuorisalone 2023. Hosted at Padiglione Visconti on Via Tortona in the heart of Milan’s design district, the brand’s exhibition will be a completely re-imagined space designed to spark curiosity and inspire visitors.
Triennale Milano
Viale Emilio Alemagna 6
Triennale Milano is an international cultural institution that brings together all forms of art related to contemporary culture: design, architecture, visual arts, and performing arts. It is a place where art and design, creativity and technology, tradition and innovation meet. The institution, chaired by Stefano Boeri, exhibits works by major Italian and international architects, designers and artists. Exhibitions, encounters, conferences and performances punctuate its programming and provoke reflection on the key problems of our society, which also occupy public debate.
Nilufar Depot
Viale Vincenzo Lancetti 34
Nina Yashar, the founder of Nilufar Gallery, is presenting her reflections and observations, shedding light on parallel and coherent paths to explore the art of collectable design. The exhibition, The Bright Side of Design, will take place in Nilufar Gallery located on Via della Spiga as well as in spaces of Nilufar Depot, connecting the centre and periphery, in search for masters of the past and discovery of contemporary makers.
Other Amazing Milan Design Week 2023 Events
Doppia Firma (Corso Magenta, 24 Palazzo Litta)
Visionnaire Design Gallery (Piazza Cavour 3)
Exhibition Gianfranco Frattini (Via Borromeo 41, Palazzo Arese Borromeo)
BUCCELLATI (Via Brisa, 5)
Plush Seating – Zaha Hadid Design for Sawaya & Moroni (Via Clerici 1)
Cocktail Party @ Diesel Living with Moroso Pop-up Showroom (Via della Spiga, 26)
Bontempi Flagship store in Milan (Via Filippo Turati, 6)
Devon&Devon (Via Fiori Chiari 18)
Liu Jo Living Flagship Store (Via Fiori Chiari 28 and Via Pontaccio 19)
Illulian (Via Manzoni 41 20121)
POLTRONA FRAU (Via Manzoni, 31)
Hermès (Via Palermo 10, La Pelota)
ZUCCHETTI AND KOS (Via Palermo, 8)
ANDRÉS REISINGER (Via San Gregorio, 29)
Exhibition Eileen Gray – Non-Conformist Artist (Via Solferino 44)
Molteni&C (Via Solferino angolo via Pontaccio)
ETRO HOME INTERIORS (Via Spartaco 6)
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