Milan Design Week 2023 – Our top picks
Euroluce was back – after a 4 year break – so we made it our first port of call. Our favorites were the collections by Michael Anastassiades, Entrelacs and DCW Éditions. And we loved the ceramic wall lights, designed by Sabine Marcelis for Stylnove, which will soon be part of our new outdoor collection.
The Blue Skies lamp by Michael Anastassiades
TAK-2 and TAK-3 floor lamps by Michael Anastassiades
Pipe wall lights, designed by Sabine Marcelis for Stylnove
New Luna wall light designed by Felix Millory - an alabaster petal in a bronze cast shell
The Fuorisalone is the highlight of Milan Design Week with installations all across the city. We zigzagged between old industrial buildings requisitioned for the Fuorisalone, elegant palazzi in the city centre and hidden architectural gems like the Bagni Misteriosi…
Named after the famous work by Giorgio De Chirico, the Bagni Misteriosi (the Mysterious Baths), which date back to the 1930s, have been painstakingly restored, with the two large pools and surrounding spaces returned to their original spendour. Gubi curated a beautiful installation here showing their latest pieces, as well as their iconic Beetle chair.
After a former bakery factory, a cashmere factory and the buildings of a military hospital complex, this year sees Alcova – an itinerant platform for independent design – in the former Porta Vittoria abattoir on Viale Molise, an enormous disused space right in the centre of Milan.
Atelier Areti’s latest collections, Elements focus on specific colour concepts – for Elements – and on brass and silver – for Reflections.
The Planter designed by Axel Chay for the French brand 13Desserts
A beautiful historic Milanese building housed Casa SEM, the collection presented by SEM, with Giuseppina Motta, Hannes Peer, Valentina Cameranesi Sgroi, Mercante-Testa, Voor, Giacomo Moor, Elisa Ossino, Zaven and Maya Leroy.
The Rodolfo Ferrari foundation hosts the LABÒ project – a creative space set in the heart of an old pharmaceutical lab – which puts the emphasis on French design, showcasing designers such as Kira, Véronèse, Alexandre Labruyère, Julien Gorrias…
Six Italian architectural studios – Massimo Adaria, Giuliano Andrea dell’Uva, Eligo Studio, Marcante-Testa, Hannes Peer and Studiopepe – curated in Campo Base a series of tented rooms, from Eligo Studio’s twist on the Mongiardono designed living room of Palazzo Odescalchi to Studiopepe’s « Omphalos » or ancient centre of the world, a place to be protected and sheltered from the elements…
