PREVIEW – MILAN DESIGN WEEK 2023
Ten Highlights

On the occasion of the return of the Biennale, a diverse programme of lectures on light and sustainability will be held in the large Aurore Arena of Euroluce, designed by Formafantasma, by personalities of the contemporary lighting design scene, such as Snohetta, Mad Architects, Nao Tamura or Shigeru Ban. The architect and designer Gaetano Pesce has been invited as a guest star for a talk aimed at young designers and architects and discussing the fundamental steps towards revitalising Italian design. The talks are curated by Annalisa Rosso.

The City of Lights – Euroluce, Salone del Mobile.Milano
"Aurore" by Formafantasma: Arena in Pavilion 13
Fiera Milano, Rho
18 - 23 April 2023

All times and info, as well as streams of the talks can be found at: www.salonemilano.it/en/events

The work of one of the most important contemporary photographers, Hélène Binet, is shown through an original selection of images that explore the relationship between natural light and architecture, nature and time. Curated by Massimo Curzi, the installation has been designed to provide an opportunity to pause and reflect while visiting the fair. The exterior of a double architectural volume is clad in brushed aluminium, while the interior is covered in midnight blue felt to create a stark contrast between "inside" and "outside".

The City of Lights – Euroluce, Salone del Mobile.Milano
Pavilion 11
Fiera Milano, Rho
18 to 23 April 2023
9:30 a.m. to 6:30 a.m.

The exhibition "Made by Fire" at the Moravian Gallery in Brno, organised in cooperation with the international Prague design festival "Designblok", presents more than fifty original projects from the Czech Republic as part of the Milan Design Week. By means of objects made of glass, porcelain and ceramics, social themes are taken up and accompanied on the part of the architecture of the designer Maxim Velčovský and the architectural office edit! Works by more than forty creative artists from the fields of design and applied arts are on display. It also offers a comprehensive look at contemporary art production. The Triennale is also showing "Droog30. Design or Non-design?", which celebrates the 30th anniversary of Droog, one of the boldest and most disruptive forces in the world of design and is curated by Maria Cristina Didero and Richard Hutten, and "Text", which highlights the collaborative approach of product designers, stylists and fashion designers in creating text, interfaces and fabrics.

Triennale Milan, Viale Alemagna 6, 20121 Milan
17 to 23 April 2023
11 a.m. to 8 p.m.

This year's exhibitions and installations by 5VIE deal with themes such as spirituality, closeness to nature, the relationship to one's own historical roots, the drama of incommunicability and the concept of connection. Faced with the complexity of the present and the challenges of the future, 5VIE wants to highlight that the strength of design lies in the poetic connection between the aesthetic dimension and the ethical dimension. One of the exhibitions within the framework of 5Vie is "Relazioni | Percorsi | Orizzonti": the Alberto Levi Gallery is showing three carpet collections created in collaboration with architect and interior designer Clara Bona. A selection of the latest collections by Jan Kath will also be presented. An exclusive insight into the world of contemporary carpet design and the opportunity to meet the designer Jan Kath will be offered at the opening evening on 19 April from 6 pm at the Alberto Levi Gallery (San Maurilio, 24, opening hours: 10 am to 7 pm).

5VIE Headquarters + Infopoint: via Cesare Correnti, 14, SIAM via Santa Marta, 18, 20123 Milan
17 to 23 April 2023
10:30 a.m. to 7:30 p.m.

"The Wrong Shop" makes its debut in Milan with a new collection and a pop-up store at the Salone del Mobile. On display will be exceptional prints and posters by contemporary designers from around the world, such as new works by Ronan Bouroullec, Jaime Hayon, Nathalie du Pasquier and Bethan Laura Wood. Founded in 2011 by Sebastian Wrong, The WrongShop offers unique, eclectic artworks and objects for a contemporary audience.

Spazio 44, Corso di Porta Nuova, 44, 20124 Milan.
(a former bank on the ground floor behind Sowden Studio).
18 to 23 April 2023
10 a.m. to 7 p.m.

"The future is NOW, giving it shape and meaning is a priority." This is the motto of the 14th edition of Brera Design Week, which will take place in Milan from 17 to 23 April. With over 240 events planned, this officially marks the event's full return to a live event. Under the theme "Future Lab" proposed by Fuorisalone, Brera Design Week 2023 encourages reflection on the challenges of the present and gives space to projects and practices that can bring about positive change – curated by the agency and creative studio Studiolabo.

Brera Design District
20121 Milan

Dropcity is a platform for open and public exchange, exhibitions and dialogue that aims to promote the culture of architecture and design. From 15 to 23 April, the Dropcity Centro di Architettura e Design, conceived by architect Andrea Caputo and developed in collaboration with Nhood, will offer a dense programme of exhibitions, installations, conferences and lectures involving international architects and designers at the Magazzini Raccordati in the Central Station. The Dropcity Convention 2023 offers a foretaste of the scope of the cultural apparatus that the Centre for Architecture and Design aims to produce in its final form in 2024: a place dedicated not only to design culture, experimentation with new technologies, didactics and debate, but above all a centre for the production of research projects. These should lead to international exhibitions and be destined to cross borders.

Via Sammartini 38-60, 20125 Milan
15 - 23 April 2023

In collaboration with the Shorefast Foundation of Fogo Island (Newfoundland, Canada) and the HEIG-VD/School of Engineering and Management, the École cantonale d'art de Lausanne presents "U.F.O.G.O.": eight wind turbine designs developed by Master Product Design students. With their works, the creatives respond both to the contexts of the island of Fogo and to international issues: "EVIND", for example, was developed to enable the charging of electric cars; "PNEUM", whose structure is actually a greenhouse, supports food production and self-sufficiency. "PYRE" offers an alternative to expensive imported building materials through 3D printing, "WINDSEED" is an offshore wind turbine with a structure that supports algae farming. "CLIFFHANGER" attempts to approximate the architecture of traditional stilt houses on the island.

Spazio Orso 16/ Via dell'Orso 16, 20121 Milan
18-22 April: 11 am to 8 pm
23 April: 11 a.m. to 4 p.m.

Tableau, multidisciplinary studio and concept store focusing on set design, art curation, floral installations, spatial and product design, presents "Funct Feast Immorale" at Milan Design Week, a curated exhibition of functional art whose overarching theme is the restaurant. A visual feast in which colour, texture, materiality, form and function come together in the restaurant Immorale in Milan and objects are shown whose designers know how to combine aesthetics and function.

Restaurant Immorale Osé
Osé via Tadino 43, 20124 Milan
17 - 21 April 2023

Following the success of SolidNature's 2022 installation in Alcova, the natural stone brand will temporarily reside at Spazio Cernaia in the heart of Brera to present an extensive and comprehensive stand-alone installation entitled Beyond The Surface. The immersive dreamscape was developed by Ellen Van Loon and Giulio Margheri of the internationally active architecture firm OMA. The work creates a parallel between the creation and degradation of stone and the process of dreaming. "This year's exhibition is about the power of nature; it gives a sense of the processes of compaction and solidification that led to the creation of natural stone as we know it today." Ellen Van Loon, Partner, OMA. The exhibition takes place in the basement and gardens of the neo-Romanesque Casa Maveri and covers 500 square metres of the property.

Via Cernaia 1, 20121 Milan
17 to 23 April 2023
10 a.m. to 7 p.m.