Last year the Salone del Mobile recorded a record turnout, and this edition does not look out from less, not only in the Fiera area: The whole city of Milan comes to life with Fuorisalone. Five districts of design in the city: Tortona, Brera, 5vie, Durini, State, to which are added the youngest such as Isola, Porta Venezia and Paolo Sarpi. Some merge with each other for the extreme proximity, in fact the design week is a very rich moment of events and deciding what to see can be complicated. Recordings, queues, infinite expectations, where to go? Here are 6 events from which to start.
From the installations of Palazzo Litta to the talk organized by Prada with FormaFantasma in the Central Station, passing through the Pinacoteca di Brera and the lights of the Library of Light. And then outside Milan, a breath of air with Alcova in Varedo, to return to the city and rest in the splendid artemest apartment, set up by international designers. Finally, a journey between past, present and future to discover the unpublished works of women’s designers at the steam factory.
Moscapartners Variations presents Migrations To highlight the influences and the mix of different cultures. To welcome visitors in the courtyard of honor of Palazzo Litta, the installation Nobody Owns the Land: Earth, Forest, Mahk of the Korean architect byoung Soo Cho, for the first time in Italy.
The idea is to stage the dialogue between cultures, places but also generations and beyond. Through installation Wonder Ways The combination of crafts and innovation through the rugs is explored by Yasmin Naqvi, merging tradition and contemporary design. The work of Deltallightinspired by the modular sculptures of Charlotte Posesenske, re -elaborates the architectural elements as dynamic geometric forms that interact with space.
The Homer State Tactile Museum of Ancona el‘Institute of the Blind Francesco Cavazza of Bologna they made the path of the exhibition accessible to blind and partial people, With the organization of guided tours on the days of 9, 10 and 11 April, from 10 to 18, thanks also to the collaboration of some Italian companies: Adrenaline, Officine Tamborrino and Debonademeo.
Migrations
7-13 April 2025, from 10 to 20
Palazzo Litta
Magenta 24 course, Milan
Library of Light at the Pinacoteca di Brera
The British artist ES Devlinknown as The poet of light, He is famous for his light installations. The location chosen for his work is the courtyard of honor of the Pinacoteca di Brerawhere design, light and technology merge. To recreate a library, the artist used a circular structure (18 meters diameter) composed of Bright shelves happy 2000 volumesdonated by Feltrinelli. The structure rests on a floor that revolves just like a compass. The mirrors that close the library reflect the sunlight during the day, illuminating the columns and statues of the porch that are not usually touched by the sun’s rays. For those who choose to visit the bookshop at the evening drop, the lights of the structure create wonderful shadows on the walls of the courtyard.
It will be possible to visit it from 7 to 21 April And every day at 8 in the evening visitors will be able to listen to the reading of a book “recited” by the library itself. But not only that, throughout the day The installation will become a place of meetings and readings in which art, literature and crafts will be the tools with which to reflect on our time. Each book will be consulted by the public who in turn can choose to donate their volumes, helping to enrich the bookstore archive.
Library of Light
7 to 21 April, 9-21
Courtyard of honor, Pinacoteca di Brera
Via Brera 28
Arlecchino by Prada train
From 6 to 8 April, a train stopped in the station will host a series of conversations open to the public, from design, geopolitics, to reflect on the intrigued balances of our days. It is the fourth edition of the Symposium of Prada Frames in collaboration with the Formafantasma Studiowho have chosen the Arlecchino train, originally designed by Gio Ponti and Giulio Minoletti in the 1950s, as the location of some talk. The restoration was made possible thanks to the FS Italiane Foundation: the Arlecchino were luxurious trains, characterized by a well -kept design and bright colors, inaugurated for the first time in Rome on the occasion of the 1960 Olympics.
On the occasion of Design Week, the central station becomes a hub of fusion of knowledge, which will host philosophers, anthropologists, and artists. The title chosen for the event is In Transit: The train, as a symbol of mobility, regulates the flow of people, goods, data and energy, deeply influencing the interactions within a society. In addition to the train, it will be possible to attend some conversations also in Real pavilion, The historical structure once confidential as a waiting area for Italian royalty and heads of state within the Milan Central Station.
Prada Frames
6.7 and 8 April 2025
Royal Pavilion & Arlecchino Train – Milan’s Central Station
Piazza Luigi di Savoia 1
Design women: unpublished projects and prototypes
Reveal is the name of exhibition that celebrates the women of design. At the Vapor Factory from 8 to 13 April, it will be possible to admire projects never carried out or leaving the production, of historical designers such as Gae Aulenti, Cinzia Ruggeri, Nanda Vigo. The exhibition is curated by Antony Pansera and made by Insulera dei Rose and will range from furnishing elements to everyday objects, such as the hyperbole tap of Gae Aulenti. But the exhibition does not look only at the past because it will be divided into three moments: The past but also the present with artists and designers who will present their unpublished in search of producers and the future with the students Of the ISIA Design Schools of Faenza, Florence, Rome-Portenone and the Faculty of Architecture of Ljubljana.
Reveal
8-13 April 2025 (8-23 hours from 8 to 12-10-17 on 13)
Steam factory
Via Giulio Cesare Procaccini 24, Milan
Not only in Milan, Alcova in Varedo
For those wishing to get away from the city frenzy, Alcova has reserved four spaces in Varedo: The two historical houses of Villa Borsani and Villa Bagatti Valsecchi To which two new locations are added this year: L‘former Snia Factory and the Serre di Pasino. The event signed Valentina Ciuffi (Studio Vedèt) and Joseph Grima (Space Caviar) returns to Varedo for the second edition. Next to the Bagatti Valsecchi Villa, designed at the end of the 19th century and Villa Borsani, a modernist masterpiece of the 1940s designed by Osvaldo Borsani, you can visit the Pasino Serre, a metal and glass construction designed for the cultivation of white orchidsand the former Snia factory, a vast system now in a state of abandonment, with exhibitions arranged in the naves under the dilapidated sheds, where nature began to regain its space.
With the Suburban S2 ES4 railway lines from Milan Cadorna it will be possible to reach Varedo, in Brianza every 15 minutes. A journey that is definitely worth making.
Alcove
7-13 April 2025, 11-19 Villa Borsani: 10-19
Villa Borsani, Villa Bagatti Valsecchi, Serre di Pasino and former Snia factory, Varedo (MB)
To visit Villa Borsani the reservation.
The house of dreams, by Artemest
At the number of via Gaetano Donizetti 48 the doors of the Artemest house are open. The craft marketplace platform Artemest designed the apartment at Palazzo Donizetti, Historical residence of the 19th century. Six internationally renowned design studies have been chosen, each called to furnish a particular room in the building, to enhance the crafts, creativity and Italian design.
The Saudi interior designer Nebras Aljoaib rethought the reading room while Romanek Design Studioled by Brigette Romanek, furnished the dining room. The Studio 1508 London designed the entertainment room, while Champalimaud Design He created the bedroom. Meyer DavisWill Meyer and Gray Davis’s study signed the Grand Salon. Finally, the Australian Interior Stylist Simone Haag He edited the foyer. All in the frame of Palazzo Donizetti where Renaissance, Baroque and Liberty style create a perfect combination,
The apartment
8-13 April 2025, 10-19
Palazzo Donizetti
Via Gaetano Donizetti 48, Milan
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