Marmomac celebrated its 59th edition, transforming Verona into an international stage for natural stone. The Plus Theatre, the fair’s dedicated cultural hub, hosts talks, workshops, and screenings exploring Material, Technology, and Design & Vision. The Best Communicator Award honors Maurizio Cattelan, celebrated with a marble head sculpted by a robot, alongside Hannes Peer, Paolo Stella, and Yuri Ancarani, whose short film Il Capo is also screened daily.

Birkenstock opens its new flagship in the heart of Brera, at the intersection of Corso Garibaldi, Via Mercato, Via Pontaccio, and Via Tivoli. Spanning 120 square meters over two floors, the store offers an immersive experience that reflects the brand’s identity rooted in ergonomics, wellbeing, and craftsmanship. In dialogue with the architecture and the artistic character of the neighborhood, Birkenstock collaborated with artist Gianluca Brando on a series of site-specific sculptures that reinterpret the brand’s heritage through a contemporary vision of physical harmony. A tribute that weaves together design, culture, and place.

Scuola Piccola Zattere presented the Italian première of Basically, a performative work by artist-in-residence Nikima Jagudajev.
Conceived as a living ecosystem, Basically transforms Palazzo delle Zattere into an ever-shifting environment shaped by play, choreography, and shared time.
The work unfolds as a choreographic game, where performers and visitors coexist within a set of evolving rules.
It invites the public into a world of spontaneous interaction, subtle participation, and collective imagination.
At its core is the idea of “re-schooling” — a playful, subversive way of learning and being together.

Barbati Gallery presented twenty-seven works by Mimi Lauter, created between 2024 and 2025. Lauter’s practice is grounded in color as an autonomous and generative medium. Applied with soft pastels and oil pastels, color shapes both the architecture and the depth of her compositions, establishing a visual rhythm that oscillates between the perspectival and the paratactic. Faces, pictograms, and figures emerge from these dense chromatic layers, suspended between tenderness and the monstrous.

Temple of Love. Cœur was the title of the exhibition that concluded Gaëlle Choisne’s research and production residency at Scuola Piccola Zattere, where the artist presented a new chapter of her ongoing series inspired by A Lover’s Discourseby Roland Barthes. Through an approach that combined multiple media, techniques, and materials, Choisne built a progressive and ever-evolving narrative, giving shape to spaces of coexistence, hospitality, and care. In this chapter, the artist wove an intimate and generative dialogue between her own works and a selection of Haitian art pieces from the collection of French writer and documentarian Jean Marie Drot.

On the occasion of the opening week of the Architecture Biennale, Scuola Piccola Zattere presented Fosbury Architecture’s design for the new restaurant ABC Zattere. Conceived in dialogue with the identity and program of the cultural institution, Fosbury’s project for the restaurant established a sense of continuity between interior and exterior, between tradition and modernity, drawing inspiration from the context of the city of Venice. Particular emphasis was placed on the redesign of the courtyard, which has become a gathering place for cultural and social events.

On the occasion of Milan Design Week 2025, XL EXTRALIGHT® – the Italian ingredient brand born from the revolutionary technology developed by Finproject – presented BLOOM PLANTER: an innovative product launched through a site-specific installation conceived and curated by Sabine Marcelis. Set within Spazio Maiocchi as part of Capsule Plaza 2025,
and using XL EXTRALIGHT® technology to challenge the conventions of traditional garden pots, BLOOM PLANTER combined functionality, aesthetics, and a surprising tactile quality thanks to the use of an innovative and versatile blend.

SUPER LOOP, a design brand under the artistic direction of Joy Herro, unites diverse cultural aesthetics through a universal lens, combining traditional craftsmanship with contemporary elements. In a world where cultural boundaries were increasingly fluid, SUPER LOOP presented an innovative design vision rooted in the rich heritage of Middle Eastern craftsmanship, while embracing a universal and evolving narrative.

From the depths of the Mediterranean to Milan Design Week 2025, Monstruosus, the ceramics brand, reinterpreted the traditional Greek jug in an exclusive collaboration with designer Michael Anastassiades. Much like the ancient amphoras that once carried olive oil and wine across the Mediterranean, these elegant vases brought timeless beauty to domestic spaces. Inspired by the ceramic traditions of Cyprus, Anastassiades’ homeland, the collection featured three distinct forms that, while rooted in classical shapes, embraced a minimalist and contemporary aesthetic.

During Milan Design Week 2025, the brand celebrated its tenth anniversary with the exhibition Marta Sala Éditions: The Secret Soul of Useful Things, curated by Federica Sala at the Museo Bagatti Valsecchi in Milan. On this occasion, Marta Sala Éditions presented a new collection designed by Herzog & de Meuron, in dialogue with collections by Lazzarini & Pickering and Federico Peri.

LRNCE, the design studio based in Marrakech, known for its bold aesthetic and the fusion of traditional craftsmanship with a contemporary vision, presented Slow Roads, its first furniture collection, during Salone del Mobile Milano 2025. This new and striking collection of handmade pieces reaffirmed LRNCE’s identity in preserving traditional Moroccan craftsmanship through a contemporary lens.

During Milan Design Week 2025, JOV and REdDUO presented The Furry Network, a collaboration that redefined the boundaries of textile design. By merging REdDUO’s conceptual approach with JOV’s artisanal excellence in rug creation, the collection transformed an industrial inspiration into a statement of luxury and craftsmanship.

Giuseppe Porcelli presented his first furniture collection during Milan Design Week, creating an intimate space within a pied-à-terre in the heart of Milan’s Città Studi district. The Room of a Man was a place of introspection, reflecting on the dynamics of male love, ego, solitude, and hedonism.

Balmaceda Studio, the Mexican rug brand, made its debut at Milan Design Week 2025 with Jardines, a collection that reinterpreted the visionary legacy of Brazilian landscape architect Roberto Burle Marx. The collection explored the intersection of craftsmanship and innovation, featuring rugs adorned with thread and chaquira embroidery that evoked exotic botanical forms. Each piece celebrated the unpredictable beauty of the natural world and stood as a tribute to artisanal mastery.

For Milan Design Week 2025, Atelier de Troupe presented Intermezzo, an exhibition in collaboration with Studioutte that explored the interplay between presence and absence through a cinematic yet understated narrative. The collaboration highlighted the work of the Milan-based studio, introducing a new collection for Atelier de Troupe along with a rug designed by Studioutte in partnership with Atelier de Troupe and cc-tapis. The exhibition also featured a curated selection of artworks by Truls Blaasmo, in collaboration with an international network of galleries.

“Two-Fold Silence” by 6AM was the brand’s first solo exhibition, presented during Milan Design Week 2025. Hosted in the historic former public baths of Milan’s Piscina Cozzi, the show offered visitors a unique immersion into 6AM’s creative universe. The exhibition design gave physical form to the duality at the heart of the brand’s research—light and shadow, rationality and creative impulse.

Venetian Reflections is a unique installation by Venetian glass artist Massimo Micheluzzi in collaboration with Micheluzzi Glass, the collection designed by his daughters Elena and Margherita. Presented exclusively at the prestigious NOMAD St.Moritz 2025, the work explores the intriguing connections between traditional Murano glass and a contemporary artistic vision.

The Tapir Desk, designed by Geoerges Mohasseb from Studio Manda, participated in the exclusive exhibition ‘Des Histoires’, hosted by Amelie Maison d’Art in collaboration with Galerie Gosserez. Echoing the soft contours of the tapir unbounded in nature, this desk exudes a sense of calm fluidity. Its design is an ode to nature’s unspoken elegance, with every curve shaped by the rhythm of the wild. Golden Vengai wood glows with an upward gradient, a visual journey from earth to air. A single resin leg meets oxidized brass in a seamless fusion of strength and grace. Hidden within, a velvet-lined drawer completes this masterpiece of art and function.

Marta Sala unveiled a preview of some of the new pieces that will be presented at the upcoming MDW25, on the occasion of the brand’s 10th anniversary, in her apartment-studio on rue Jacob. Next April, the brand will celebrate its 10th anniversary with the exhibition Marta Sala Éditions: The Secret Soul of Useful Things, curated by Federica Sala at the Bagatti Valsecchi Museum in Milan. The event will feature the debut of a new collection designed by Herzog & de Meuron.

On the occasion of Paris Deco Off 2025, Fortuny launched its latest textile collection, created in collaboration with renowned interior designer Chahan Minassian. This highly anticipated collection represents the perfect fusion of Fortuny’s historical heritage and Minassian’s layered, multicultural approach to design. His unique vision, shaped by his multicultural background and deep connection to Venice, aligns perfectly with the global inspirations that have long been at the heart of Fortuny.

Brocades and damasks, taffetas and velvets, lace and burettes. Embellished with weaves and embroidery, they reveal complex textures while elaborate backgrounds mingle with stripes and floral bouquets. Like a sequence of rooms, Altèro is a series of 10 designs meticulously detailed until they recreate the sparkle of a thread running through the fabric, and then printed on hand-painted backgrounds that emphasize the craftsmanship preceding the printing.

Spotti Milano presented, inside its showroom, the installation of Interni Venosta, the new brand founded by Britt Moran and Emiliano Salci in collaboration with Fabbri Services, which pays homage to Italian design of the 1970s. The collection features pieces that are dissonant with each other in terms of their combinations of materials and use, but at the same time manage to fit into any space, harking back to the Italian, European and overseas elegance of times gone by, where culture and sobriety were symbols of a social status: the fusion of the avant-garde and the classic.

During the Milano Fashion Week 2025, DURAZZI MILANO presented its collection inspired by the water biological process of regeneration and by a continuous freeing of form. It invites one to listen to the sound of Nature, to melt into it and to conserve beauty by regenerating it and reinventing it in an interrupted cycle of creation.

During the Salone del Mobile 2024, District Eight presented a platform of international collaborations in a collective exploration of contemporary Vietnamese design, showcasing the new collections of French designer Jean Marie Massaud and Milan-based emerging talent Studioutte. The brand succeeded in creating an open dialogue on today’s Vietnam, whose roots have evolved through different historical periods and cultures, from French Indochina to the West. Drawing inspiration from this, each studio has created a new language based on its own research.

Studio Motta Architecture and Spotti Milano on the occasion of the Milan Design Week 2024 opened the doors of one of Milan’s historic early 20th century residences to give space to the Suite installation. The project comes as the second episode of the collaboration, which this time has combined its vision to be the spokesperson for an experimental and innovative language aimed at the world of hospitality. Suite proposes a path through the typical spaces of a Petit Hotel interpreting the theme through a series of design references from the two realities.

On the occasion of the Milan Design Week, XL Extralight® presented the history of its Made in Italy technology
in the spaces of Dropcity in collaboration with Andrea Caputo. The architect’s attempt is both hermeneutic and demiurgic, giving form and vision to the industrial and technological processes that make XL EXTRALIGHT® a unique ingredient capable of giving form and substance to ultra-light objects with surprising characteristics.

Casa Cipriani Milano, the exclusive members club opened in 2022 and located in the striking Palazzo Bernasconi on Via Palestro, opens its doors to an exciting journey through modern and contemporary art. Through this project, Casa Cipriani aspires to become a point of reference for the art community, offering an exhibition and cultural exchange space in a Milan that in recent years has seen the importance of art assert itself in the cultural and economic fabric of the city.

During Milan Design Week 2024 at Dropcity, 6:AM Glassworks unveiled FLOAT: a new
collection of furniture and glass coverings born from the study of trans-forming glass destined for disuse. FLOAT begins with the recovery of window fixtures from the historic Palazzo Missori, designed by architect Marcello Piacentini in the 1930s and currently undergoing renovation by Park Associati.

On the occasion of MDW 2024, Spotti Milano presented its Spotti Window project: a public exhibition space that connects companies with the city of Milan through Spotti’s unique point of view. The first installation, curated by David Lopez Quincoces together with Mario Tsai and Living Divani, is the result of a careful selection process combining prestigious brands and emerging talents in the world of design.

For the Milan Design Week 2024, Mutina presented a series of new collections entirely designed by
Ronan Bouroullec. The installation has involve, in addition to the spaces of Casa Mutina Milano, also the garden
and loft of the adjacent Spazio Cernaia, creating a true path through the creations of the French designer, who—
for the frst time in the history of Mutina—opens a dialogue between outdoor and indoor spaces.

Marsèll announced the collaboration with Berlin-based architecture studio Gonzalez Haase AAS on AAS:object:project, a solo exhibition to debut during Milan Design Week 2024 at Marsèll’s Via Paullo showroom. Renowned for their innovative approach to design, Gonzalez Haase AAS captivated audiences with their unique blend of architecture, scenography and lighting.

Mutina was part of the 50th edition of Arte Fiera with a special exhibition project dedicated to Maurizio Cattelan titled BECAUSE, a Mutina For Art project curated by Sarah Cosulich.The project is an unexpected dialogue between two of the artist’s works, Untitled (Zorro) from 1999 and It from 2023, which unleash a particular short-circuit, amplified by a monochromatic “stage” created with Fringe, Mutina’s collection designed by Michael Anastassiades.

With The Magic of Colour, Mutina celebrated ten years of collaboration with Edward Barber and Jay Osgerby. On this occasion, three new projects will be presented: a new edition of the historic Mews collection, enriched with three unprecedented colours, a new surface collection, Time, and a brand new Edition, Rivington Tables.

In contrast with Tara Walters’ works, London-based design duo Soft Baroque will present Inox Detox, a new series of objects inspired by their reflection on the quiet omnipresence of the standard stainless steel tubes.

On the occasion of the 18th Venice Architecture Biennale, Crash Baggage, the brand of
suitcases with a dented design, presents Lunar, a site-specific installation by Parasite 2.0

Marsèll and PIN–UP magazine present Emporium, an exhibition by the New York-based art
collective CFGNY (Concept Foreign Garments New York). CFGNY’s multimedia practice complicates
the art collective’s concept of “vaguely Asian”—the plurality and unfixity of global Asianness
and its aesthetic manifestations. Curated by PIN–UP magazine editorial and creative director Felix Burrichter, Emporium combines aspects of previous CFGNY exhibitions to create a new site-specific installation for Marsèll.

On the occasion of the upcoming Milan Design Week 2023 the belgian rug company JOV is glad to present their new collection: M-SHWY. A collection of artistic rugs designed by the Berlin based Studio Mary Lennox specialized in floral design Studio Mary Lennox drawn inspiration for the collection name from the collaborative qualities of mushrooms, and the way they connect to one another through an intelligent communications network (Mycorrhizal Network) which, through symbiosis with other species in their environment, can extend a collaboration between different living species in an ecosystem.

Constance Guisset throws her Surprise Party! The French Institute Milano invites the designer to unveil her work from April 18 to May 13, 2023. The exhibition has been designed as a colorful bubble, a break in the frenzy of Milan and its Design Week. On the occasion of this carte blanche, the visitor will discover the creations of Constance Guisset in a festive and evanescent scenography, evoking a show. Through a work of colored lights, the objects in shades of white will be revealed as they have never been seen, revealing their silhouettes and their materials.

On the occasion of Milano Design Week 2023, Campo Base presents: a manifesto for interiors, signed by six Italian architecture studios and curated by Federica Sala. A manifesto on contemporary interior design. It is
self-produced and self-managed by six Italian-based architecture studios: Massimo Adario (Rome), Giuliano Andrea dell’Uva (Naples), Eligostudio (Milan), Marcante-Testa (Turin), Hannes Peer (Milan) and Studiopepe (Milan).

On the occasion of Milan Design Week 2023, XL EXTRALIGHT® has asked Lausanne-based design studio Panter & Tourron to creatively interpret their innovative material Organix 3.0. In response, the duo has conceived SOFTSCOPE, an architectural urban installation in the courtyard of Capsule Plaza at Spazio Maiocchi. For the installation, Panter & Tourron, known for their work at the intersection of technology and society, have conceived a pseudo-domestic interior: part conversation pit, part public stage.

A historic Milanese building will be home to the new néolithique collection presented by SEM during Milano
Design Week 2023. The products showcased are customised and feature natural colour shades.
The idea behind Casa SEM was to find a home for all of the brand’s collections, which thus become the undisputed protagonists of an elegant and contemporary home. The concept of customisation has been one of SEM’s distinctive traits from the start. In its projects, the principles of craftsmanship go hand in hand with increasing demand for bespoke interiors in the residential and hospitality sector alike. A sequence of adjoining rooms is the perfect backdrop for the new néolithique collection designed by Motta Architecture,

Barbati Gallery is pleased to announce the opening of the new show Imperfect Paradise. The group show brings together artists from different generations and disciplines, allowing their works to speak to how they explore a space of hybridity or contradiction and engage with the realities of both Los Angeles and the world at large.

Silvia Fiorucci is pleased to announce the opening of 4Rooms, an international design project for the Società delle Api’s residency program at Porta Rossa, Kastellorizo. The project, curated by Annalisa Rosso, has been conceived to support the work of the designers and promote contemporary creativity in dialogue and exchange with Mediterranean culture and its unique heritage. For this reason, preference has been given to innovative projects that honor the characteristics of the location and its specific architecture, and which could be developed with a sustainable approach.The designers of 4Rooms are: Phanos Kyriacou (Cyprus), Julie Richoz (France), Studio Brynjar & Veronika (Iceland – Germany), UND.studio (Germany), while Superpoly was commissioned to design the common spaces located on the ground floor of Porta Rossa, having been previously awarded on the occasion of 5Rooms, a previous call issued by Silvia Fiorucci for Le Moulin des Ribes (Grasse) in partnership with Villa Noailles—Centre d’art d’Intérêt National, métropole Toulon Provence Méditerranée, that resulted in the creation of five rooms that later hosted Società delle Api’s residency program.

On the occasion of Milan Fashion Week in September 2022, Vernisse presented the Spring Summer 2023 collection inside the Maddalena Tabassi antiques shop in Via Saffi 7, joining for the first time the National Chamber of Italian Fashion calendar. The SS 23 Vernisse collection is characterized by a new essentiality of the lines of the garments capable of enhancing the richness of the fabrics and prints that have always distinguished the brand’s aesthetics with its precious envers-satin, silk jacquard and embossed silks.

On the occasion of the Milan Design Week 2022, Mutina presented inside Casa Mutina Milano: Landscapes by Nathalie Du Pasquier. The new collection offers a range of ceramic artefacts, made in Italy according to traditional craftsmanship. These are artistic objects designed for interior decoration, which come to life through compositions of forms with architectural lines, reflecting the artist’s research and creative approach: the observer is transported into an almost metaphysical dimension, suspended in space and time

URNE.RIP is founded to meet the need for an aesthetic-minded production of cinerary urns, ones made in limited editions and designed by artists, architects and designers, thus aiming to reappraise the concept of loss and absence. The first release of cinerary urns is created by a selection of artists: Stefania Carlotti, Haris Epaminonda, Diego Perrone and Andrea Sala (Ducati Monroe), Bojan Sarçevic and Bill Woodrow, previewed in the Alcova spaces, firmly supported by the concrete shelves “C_Zero” designed by the architect Luca Cipelletti and produced by Giustini/Stagetti Gallery.

Barbati Gallery is pleased to announce the gallery’s first exhibition, Life Forms, a solo presentation of new sculptures by Los Angeles native Kelly Akashi. Taking place at the Palazzo Lezze on Campo Santo Stefano in the heart of Venice, the exhibition will be on view from April 20 through July 4, 2022.

Marsèll presents the Spring Summer 22 collection with an original communication project inspired by nature, with photographs by Awoiska van der Molen.

Mutina renovates the collaboration with Nathalie Du Pasquier thanks to a new special project: Mind the gap, the installation designed by the artist for Vittoria subway station in Brescia, inaugurated on February 17th. The permanent artwork redefines the fruition of the space through original compositions of shapes and colours, created with the elements of Mattonelle Margherita.

Emil brand opens the doors of its very personal world of fashion creations and design objects live for the first time, through three days of launching its latest collection of clothing, jewelry and accessories. A special location, Casa Canvas: a place designed to stop and be together, investigating issues related to beauty, fashion and well-being in a minimal and sustainable key, which have always been Emil’s distinctive values.

Mutina for Art is pleased to present Ronan Bouroullec – The Sound of My Left Hand, the first solo exhibition in Italy of the French artist and designer. At Casa Mutina Milano Bouroullec makes his artistic practice coexist with the poetics of his objects without setting boundaries.  In the exhibition – curated by Sarah Cosulich – Ronan Bouroullec’s drawings weave sinuous and obsessive lines while intertwining with the solidity of their ceramic frames.

We call it avant-pop is a site-specific video installation by Nationhood inspired by the 20-year history of Club To Club, the festival recognized all over Europe as one of the greatest expressions of club culture and sound experimentation.The work created by Nationhood, set up on the premises of the Fondazione Sandretto Re Rebaudengo, is a visual hymn to the atmospheres characterizing this moment of transition.

Lake Como Design Festival unveils the agenda of the upcoming third edition. A widespread event to be held in Como in October 2021 from 6th to 10th. A moment of exhibition, reflection and research having History Repeating as the theme of this edition.

With Ensemble, Mutina celebrates ten years on collaboration with Ronan and Erwan Bouroullec. It’s a wide project featuring a new edition of Pico and Rombini, great classics of the company, two new ceramic collections, Punto and Bloc, and a venture with a new material: Pico Bois, where the pattern of the Pico collection is declined on a wooden floor

Plan C and Perimetro present Tokyo and its Contemporary Storytellers, a special project set up to celebrate beloved Tokyo featuring an exhibition, dedicated magazine and a number of experiences relating to contemporary Japan.

Agglomerati presents at ALCOVA 2021, MASS its first collection of functional art-objects made exclusively in stone, designed together with Australian furniture maker Fred Ganim.

Igea sofa design by Maddalena Casadei is characterized by a system of modular elements that give a high degree of freedom of combinations. The characterizing element is the slight overlap of the armrest and the backrest compared to the seat which causes the angle to assume a new importance, thanks also to its soft and cozy but at the same time sustained lines. A sofa halfway between home and contract.

Marsèll, together with Etage Projects and Quei Studio, is pleased to announce the opening of Fluid Crust Surgery, an organic, multi-media installation by Raquel Quevedo. The artist’s show at Marsèll Paradise will consist of sculptures, two dimensional art works, projections and Raquel Quevedo’s newly published book.

The first exhibition organized by Società delle Api at Le Quai will be L’Incontro, curated by Cristiano Raimondi. L’Incontro will feature a selection of works from Silvia Fiorucci Roman’s private collection, all of them relating to the notion of “encounter” in both conceptual and physical terms.

Mutina for Art is pleased to present the exhibition project Luigi Ghirri – Between the Lines conceived for the spaces of Casa Mutina Milano. The show – curated by Sarah Cosulich with works from the collection of Mutina’s CEO Massimo Orsini – has been developed in dialogue with the architecture of the showroom and its newly created ceramic display. Luigi Ghirri’s photographs offers evocative yet revolutionary ways to look at reality. They intertwine Ghirri’s personal visual vocabulary with his ability to represent the “external” and give shape to a symbolic and existential account of human topography.

Historic Italian design brand, Paradisoterrestre is pleased to present its collaboration with artist Paola Pivi and her solo show, Rock the art, at Paradisoterrestre Gallery (Via De’ Musei 4, Bologna – IT). The dialogue between art and design continues in pursuit of excellence, a cornerstone of the visionary and anticipatory experience of Paradisoterrestre’s founder Dino Gavina (1922-2007), in the new course of the brand’s relaunch by Gherardo Tonelli in 2017.

Leading artisan footwear brand Marsèll is pleased to announce SUN CITY, the first solo exhibition in Milan by London-based studio Soft Baroque, curated by New York-based architecture and design magazine PIN–UP. Inspired by the sun, both its life-giving and destructive potential, Saša Štucin and Nicholas Gardner of Soft Baroque created SUN CITY as an immersive exhibition space, transforming Marsèll’s multi-level headquarters in Milan, Italy. SUN CITY makes reference to how the sun has been revered as a deity for millennia, recognized for its role as the ultimate source of light and energy.

De-siderio is the name Studiopepe gave to their imagined constellation, a constellation made up by all their projects designed this year. It is an articulated and rich constellation that involved formal research and research on materials, analysis of signs and language, all aspects that are characteristic of our design vision.

Marsèll collaborates with Cabinet on the first accessories capsule collection of the independent brand, which aims to create an essential, timeless wardrobe characterized by monochrome and functionality. All fundamental values also for Marsèll.

With Mattonelle Margherita, Mutina has worked with colour, along with the artist Nathalie Du Pasquier, creating a complex project featuring a blend of different aesthetic and formal means of expression. The collection is characterised by a dual concept: on the one hand, a simple, minimalist style, evident in the plain-coloured elements, and on the other, a courageous, creative approach, characterised by a large variety of graphics.

As waiting for the end of the winter playing with a board game, Melampo has spent the last few weeks of this peculiar time reworking the photos of the FW20 Collection and iconic styles of the Permanent Collection. The result is a collage made of precious details that express a small piece of the creative world of Melampo, enriched again in this occasion by the collaboration of a young artist, Sissi del Vesco.

NERO design gallery is pleased to announce Lightness, the first chapter of a new annual exhibition format. Lightness opens in Arezzo on Thursday 28 November 2019. Lightness plays on the double meaning of the word itself. A double challenge that brings designers and artists to create new limited edition objects. All the objects will be exhibited inside the gallery spaces in a special set up designed by Michele Seppia, founder of NERO design gallery.

On 23 September 2019 Mutina for Art opens BRIC, a site-specific exhibition by Nathalie Du Pasquier, created by the artist for the MUT space. Inside Angelo Mangiarotti’s building, Nathalie Du Pasquier has imagined a large installation composed of seven sculptural parts. Seven structures of different shapes and sizes that give rise to an unexpected landscape, between sculpture and architecture, giant pawns and small towers.

Lake Como Design Fair pushes the boundaries between fair and exhibition and brings together design and architecture lovers by a unique event. Lake Como Design Fair returns for its second edition on September 20-22, 2019, and will occupy two sites. A curated selection of design will be presented  at Teatro Sociale Como and a new section – entirely dedicated to architecture – will be held at Palazzo del Broletto.

On the occasion of the Milan Design Week 2019, Arianna Lelli Mami and Chiara Di Pinto, Creative Directors of Studiopepe, investigate the strong bond of Matter with Symbols’ archetypal power in an unusual location full of charm. Studiopepe’s Manifesto Project for Milan Design Week 2019 will be held inside a large industrial space, a former gold manufacture dating back to the 1900s.

Mutina for Art presents a new project for the series Dialogue, dedicated to ceramics experimental productions of contemporary artists. The great site-specific installation Passaggio della Vittoria by artist Paul Thorel, commissioned by Madre Museum in Naples, will open on 22 June 2018. It is a large-scale mosaic of about 180 square meters made with 1,832,400 tiles, each one square centimeter, and decorated with digital machines, laid on the four walls of the passage that connects the central courtyard of the museum to the sculpture courtyard.

SIX TABLEUX is a series of marble tables designed by BINOCLE and built by ATZARA MARMI with the support of MARGRAF. Each table top has an irregular and unique shape obtained by retracing a detail or a portion of a work of a contemporary artist. By doing so each table becomes also the homage to the artist whose drawing has been sampled. BINOCLE is the office led by Italian architect Lorenzo Bini since 2011.

NERO design gallery is pleased to announce its participation, during Milano Design Week at Alcova Sassetti, to present “Unexpected Bunker”, showing in an unexpected space the latest project by Duccio Maria Gambi “Guerra Fredda” ‘, by the Danish designer duo Flensted Mouritzen and by the South African digital artist Alexis Christodoulou. Through their works the three artists dialogue in perfect harmony using a coherent, balanced language that enhances and emphasizes their being on the border between functional object and art object.

In conjunction with Milano Design Week 2018, Architetti Artigiani Anonimi presents Materia Mater, a new collection of furniture made of terracotta that emulate architectural systems on a smaller scale. Terracotta has been used to create objects and architectural works for centuries. With Materia Mater, Architetti Artigiani Anonimi aims to enhance the aesthetic and mechanical qualities of terracotta by producing works that emulate architectural systems on a smaller scale.