Focus on Milan

Experimental Dutch design collective Envisions teamed up with Spanish heritage wood manufacturer Finsa on a new series of wildly haptic, colourful, innovate and speculative forms; showcased at Palazzo Clerici during Milan Design Week.

Dispelling the notion that objects are inert, Danish textile artists Hanne G develops The Duet for Mindcraft 17 as both an object and sound-based interactive installation.

Translating age-old construction technology into the suggestion of a modular furniture, interdisciplinary Danish duo MBADV developed Bricks of Time for Mindcraft 17.

For Mindcraft 17, young talents Emil Krøyer and Mads Sætter-Lassen developed Plinth, a cantilevered table combining various noble materials including locally sourced Blue Rønne granite. Championing the material’s haptic qualities, the duo devised an architectonic construction with strategic contrast.

Celebrating IN Residence’s 10th anniversary, 45 designers have created a talisman to be exhibited and auctioned at Atelier Clerici during Milan Design Week.

A series of photographs by Laetitia Bica forms part of this year’s Belgium Is Design exhibition, showing at Palazzo Litta.

Marlene Huissoud, showing at Spazio Nobile in Brussels until April 15, talks about her creative process and materials, and tells us where we can see her newest work during Milan Design Week.

Shanghai architecture and design office Neri&Hu speak to TLmag about how they used design as a cultural force in the new Stellar Works collections to be launched in Milan.

Co-founder of 5VIE, Alessia Del Corona talks about its curated exhibition, Foyer Gorani, featuring Philipp Weber, Sigve Knutson, Sabine Marcelis and Matteo Cibic.

Surfacing the emotions embedded in industrial processes is what inspires Philipp Weber, showing at Spazio Nobile’s Crystallized and 5Vie’s Piazza Gorani.

For this year’s Mindcraft exhibition – Milan Design Week: 4 to 9 April – celebrated Danish duo, Eske Rex and Maria Mengel, debuts Day Bed; an exploration of the transition from sleep to activity, time spent traveling, and how both contemporary conditions can be expressed in the formal reference of the rising sun.

For Mindcraft 17, Japanese-Danish silversmith Yuki Ferdinandsen explores the concept of time in her meticulous and meditative mastery of the age-old arare hammering technique. The result is a series of monumentally curvaceous vessels with highly detailed surfaces.