Focus on Milan

TLmag caught up with Guillaume Garnier and Florent Linker during Milan Design Week in June. The French creatives presented a beautiful, Japanese-inspired exhibition in 5VIE.

TLmag spoke with Roca Group’s Corporate Marketing and Design Director, Marc Viardot, in Milan, at the launch of Influence, a Mediterranean-inspired installation that features a new product line and embodies the Spanish brand’s renewed interest in heritage, while showing off their talent for innovation and accessibility.

TLmag caught up with last year’s La Triennale di Milano’s curator Paola Antonelli to learn more about her focus on restorative design, how she sees the future of human-made design and the inspirations behind the immense exhibition.

Offering a platform for designers, projects and academies to engage with a wide audience at Salone del Mobile, Ventura Future is announcing its final call for possible participants.

Drawing on tinkering techniques and her own hand-made textile artworks, British multidisciplinary artist Faye Toogood has materialised a vibrant, three-dimensional rug collection in collaboration with Italian rug manufacturer cc-tapis.

TLmag talks to celebrated French designer Patrick Jouin on using wood as an alternative to plastic and how his endless fascination with nature’s efficiency influences his prolific practice.

In this expansive interview, TLmag talks to co-curator Angela Rui on the (unseen) thoughts and ideas behind the Dutch contribution to the XXII Triennale di Milano.

TLmag highlights two installations, within Ventura Future’s Milan Design Week exhibition, that offered intimate stories and experiences about heritage, memory and using our primary senses.

TLmag talks to Fonderia Artistica Battaglia’s new Art Director Nicolas-Bellavance Lecompte about his multi-faceted practice, his new role and the concept behind his latest show ‘L’Ultima Cera’.

This Milan Design Week, Berlin Art Glass debuted ANALOG with their new Artistic Director Philip Weber. TLmag talks to him about his latest successes.

Celebrating the unique relationship between Finland and Japan, Artek unites traditional craftsmanship with contemporary and classic designs from both cultures in their new FIN/JPN Friendship Collection, launching at this year’s Milan Design Week.

TLmag talked to Italian glass artist Simone Crestani about his young beginnings, artistic philosophies and Asian inspirations for his personal exhibition ‘Poetry of Light’ – on view at the Adele-C showroom during Milano Design Week.