Made in Italy

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.

Jaime Hayón reflects on his Stockholm Furniture Fair pavilion and gives TLmag a taste of what he’s working on now.

Friedman Benda and Beatrice Trussardi will present Paul Cocksedge’s EXCAVATION: Evicted series in Milan from April 4 to 9.

A pioneer of 3D-woven textiles, Aleksandra Gaca will present her first solo exhibition in Milan as part of the Dutch pavilion, Masterly.

Ahead of Milan Design Week, catch a sneak peek of some of Kartell by Laufen’s newest releases at ISH from March 14 to 18.

Ventura is expanding into the Milan Central Station with site-specific installations, while Ventura Lambrate continues to curate the best in materials, lighting and design’s impact on the world.

In its third edition as of the most recent Salone del Mobile, 5VIE presented a new collection and on-site performance by design studio Raw Edges…. Read more

For the second edition of the “Across Chinese Cities” collateral event of the Venice Architecture Biennale, Beijing Design Week has organized CHINA HOUSE VISION at the Ca’ Tron palazzo.