Milan Design Week news and archive

Milan Design Week: Five ‘icons of Italian design’ get Gucci Ancora update

Adapted iterations of five iconic Italian design pieces have been unveiled at Gucci’s flagship store on via Monte Napoleone, Milan, where this year’s design week is currently underway. From April 15, an exhibition at the location, conceived by Spanish architect Guillermo Santomà, will house the objects that “represent the golden age of Italian...

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From JW Anderson to Thom Browne: What to look out for at Milan Design Week

In what has been established to be an event that merges fashion and design, Milan Design Week returns to the Italian fashion capital alongside the Salone del Mobile, running from April 15 to 21, during which time a curation of home collections by fashion brands will be showcased. Over the course of the week, 33 brands with 44 appointments will...

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Salone del Mobile: This is what brands are presenting at the famous design week

Currently, the international design world is turning all its attention to Milan. At the 61st Salone del Mobile, the world's largest and most renowned furniture fair which comes as part of Milan Design Week, not only the latest designs for furniture, lighting, home textiles and ceramics are presented. More and more fashion houses are taking...

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How fashion infiltrated Milan Design Week

Milan Design Week is the world’s biggest design fair, where architecture, furniture, product and lighting designers, artists and fashion come together to showcase creativity for all the senses in the city’s annual design festival. Once a Mecca for furniture and interior design, Salone del Mobile has become known as the voice of the most...

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Academie Artemis presents Graduates 2017 during Milan Design Week

Academie Artemis will be exhibiting at Milan Design Week for the first time this year. Following a successful exhibition at Dutch Design Week 2017 in Eindhoven, the academy has been invited by the Italian organization behind DIN-Design In to give a presentation together with alumni, in an industrial hall located on Via Massimiano 6 in the...

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Cos teams up with Phillip K. Smith III for Salone Del Mobile 2018

London - London-based design label Cos has teamed up with American artist Phillip K. Smith III for its seventh consecutive installation at the Salone del Mobile during Milan Design Week. The move marks Cos first collaboration with Smith, who is set to present a large-scale sculptural installation. “My work is created in direct response to the...

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A new era for stores: Retail trends from Milan Design Week

Retail stores will no longer have merchandise in full view on hanging rails or on shelves, but concept stores will aim to offer the best possible shopping experience with the use of technological support and home delivery in order to realise ever greater integration between online and offline sales. These are the retail trends which emerged...