This issue explores Milan’s halo effect: the lustre that comes when crowds convene for Milan Design Week and Salone del Mobile.Milano, but also beyond the week and its borders.
Designer Giampiero Tagliaferri puts it perfectly on page 62: Milan lives and breathes “creative contamination”—between what has existed for centuries, its rich interior design tradition and the contemporary. This layering and tension, he adds, are at the heart of Italian design.
Private access to Milan’s homes and design studios, some for the first time, was where the most memorable presentations were held this year, making their way into the 25 highlights, and providing the setting for so many of our designer conversations in this issue.
A search for visceral impact leads us to Venice, among the first to see the inaugural exhibition at Fondazione Dries Van Noten in Palazzo Pisani Moretta, The Only True Protest is Beauty.
This search for visceral impact leads us to Venice, among the first to see the inaugural exhibition at Fondaz
