Complete City Guide For Upcoming Milan Design Week – Milan, a seething metropolis, is the home of Italy’s stock exchange, an industrial powerhouse and the global capital of fashion and design. The majestic Gothic cathedral, the Duomo, lies at the geographical heart of this former Imperial Roman capital and expresses the love of beauty and power that still symbolises the city today. From 4th to 9th April 2017, Milan will be the stage for the 56th Edition of Milan Design Week, the most important event in the world related to the topic of design. Hosting more than 2,400 exhibitors, a display area of more than 270,000 square meters and thousands of new products premiered at the event, Salone del Mobile (once known as I Saloni) is the benchmark trade fair on an international level, attracting more than 372,000 visitors from as many as 165 countries.
Milan Design Week is defined by Salone del Mobile and Fuorisalone, announcing the ultimate trends for the forthcoming year and featuring a series of events, exhibitions and presentations. Fuorisalone is the set of events and exhibitions that animate the entire city of Milan, featuring longer opening hours.
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During Milan Design Week, many important brands located in the design districts introduce their new collections and host special events with live music and entertainment for a must-visit celebration.
Although the events happen throughout the entire city, the Fuorisalone implies three main districts: Brera, (Brera Design District), Tortona (Tortona Design) and Lambrate (Ventura Lambrate). Meet some of the most distinguishing exhibitors that you can find in each district.
Opened in 1998 as showroom dedicated only to bathrooms, Boffi Solferino is the symbol of Boffi brand extension, evolving and becoming a unique example of an international network of shops that offer a complete range of kitchen, bathroom and wardrobe furniture. Known for its original, professional approach and communication to design, Boffi Solferino creates a new Milan destination for all architects and designers.
Address: Boffi Trade srl – via Solferino, 11, 20121 Milan, Italy
Website: www.boffi-solferino.com/
For over 90 years, Calligaris has been the leader in quality furniture design from Italy. The combination of design, materials and workmanship makes Calligaris one of the most popular furniture manufacturers in the world.
Address: Via Flavio Baracchini, 9, 20123 Milan, Italy
Website: www.calligaris.it
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Poltrona Frau, backed by a great history and tradition, lives in the present. Interpreters of timeless beauty, the company believes in the designs and materials that guarantee wellbeing.
Address: Via Manzoni, 30, 20121 Milan, Italy
Website: www.poltronafrau.com
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Dedar Milano is all about design for interiors since 1976. Dedar Milano blends an intimate knowledge of artisan craftsmanship with constant style exploration and a passion for fine fabrics with a touch of chromatic intensity. Patterns, embroideries, basket weaves and colours enrich fine materials to create fabrics, curtains, drapery, trimmings, wallpaper and unique upholstery fabrics.
Address: Via Fiori Chiari, 18, 20121 Milan, Italy
Website: www.dedar.com
Ducati is proud to represent Italian industry and the essence of Italian style through the design of each bike. Ducati features sinuous, seductive and flexible lines with a permanent, timeless quality that sets an unsurpassable standard. Ducati Bikes dominate the dreams of the most ardent motorcycle enthusiasts in over 60 nations throughout the entire world.
Address: Via Gallarate, 222, 20151 Milan, Italy
Website: www.ducati.com
Foscarini is an innovative Italian lighting company that views each lamp as a passion project, fueled by an appreciation for and strong understanding of timeless design. Creating unique products that boast a strong personality, Foscarini holds a deep knowledge of the lighting industry and maintains a steadfast reputation.
Address: Via Fiori Chiari, 28, 20121 Milan, Italy
Website: www.foscarini.com
Lexus is the luxury vehicle division of Japanese Toyota. Lexus is the true passion for brave design, imaginative technology, and exhilarating performance that enables the luxury lifestyle brand to create amazing experiences for its customers. Lexus is committed to being a visionary brand that anticipates the future for luxury customers.
Address:
LEXUS MILANO SUD
Via dei Missaglia, 89, 20142, Milan, Italy
LEXUS MILANO NORD
Viale Fulvio Testi, 6, 20099 Sesto San Giovanni
Website: www.lexus.com
Living Divani is an Italian company leader in the manufacturing of sofas and upholstered armchairs. Perfect, harmonious proportions and a feeling of understated luxury: these are the distinguishing features of the brand.
Address: Brera Store – Via Fatebenefratelli, 10, 20121 Milan, Italy
Website: www.livingdivani.it
The Molteni group is one of Italy’s leading international furnishings companies. It consists of four companies: Molteni&C SpA (home furnishings), Unifor SpA (office furnishings), Dada SpA (kitchens) and Citterio SpA (office furnishings and partitions). Molteni offers global furnishing in Italy and in over eighty countries all over the world.
Address: Via Borgonuovo 23, 20121 Milan, Italy
Website: www.molteni.it/en
Moroso has been working with some of the world’s most talented designers to produce luxury sofas and seating since 1952. The brand offers unique products due to the combined talents of 70 master artisans, a network of trusted suppliers, the use of high-quality materials and a true attention to detail.
Address: Via Pontaccio, 8, 20121 Milan, Italy
Website: www.moroso.it
The Republic of Fritz Hansen is an exclusive, international design brand whose timeless collection unites world-famous classic and contemporary furniture, lighting and accessories.
Address: Piazza S. Simpliciano, 20121 Milano, Italy
Website: www.fritzhansen.com
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he story of the brand Moooi is a story of love. Moooi develops its own fresh approach to product and style and presents creative luxury for a well-curated life. Exclusive, daring, playful, exquisite and based on the belief that design is a question of love.
Address: Via Savona, 56, 20144 Milano, Italy
Website: http://www.moooi.com/
Preciosa Lighting is an innovative company which creates complex lighting design solutions for luxury interiors worldwide.
Address: Via Statuto 16, Brera, Milan, Italy
Website: www.preciosalighting.com
Studio Piet Boon creates bespoke contemporary architecture, interiors and product designs. Renowned worldwide for its exceptional craftsmanship, quality and vision, Studio Piet Boon creates a distinguished design.
Address: Via Tortona 37 20144 Milan
Website: www.pietboon.com
Superstudio Più is a modern, multifunctional and versatile multi-location, a huge space available to the city of Milan and important international events. It was created to meet the needs of the most relevant operators and creative people working in the projecting fields of fashion, art, design, communication, culture and entertainment. Wide, flexible, obscured or daylight spaces, which can be divided or combined, with heating and air-conditioning, perfectly suitable for great events, exhibitions, conventions, fairs, fashion shows, performances, dances, covering a total area of 10000 square meters.
The spaces with several different sizes are also perfect for studios for furniture, car, advertisement photo-shooting, for cinema/television sets, for any use of wide and comfortable surfaces, easy to set up, to reach and accessible to trucks.
On demand, it’s possible to have customised services including communication strategies, design, setting up, videos, lighting, sound system, organisation, casting, hostess, production, security, catering etc. Central location, private parking area and subway MM Porta Genova stop close by.
Address: Via Tortona, 27, 20144 Milano, Italy
Website: www.superstudioevents.com
Situated in Tortona area, Tortona 37 is a multi-purpose complex of five white buildings created by the architect Matteo Thun, set around a landscaped garden to form a large courtyard, creating a building project which redevelops the neighbourhood and restores it to the city. It is an independent ‘district’, where the offices of Armani, Diesel, Della Valle, Zegna, Fendi, Moncler are based, together with countless showrooms of prestigious fashion brands. The open spaces consist of showrooms, laboratories, professional offices, shops and ‘made to measure’ office spaces. The estate complex of Tortona 37 is the headquarters of the Gianfranco Ferré Foundation and hosts multinational communication and advertising agency Young & Rubicam, Burson – Masteller; Liu Jo fashion house, the Agnona showrooms; the Janet & Janet fashion shoe factory, Harmount & Blaine and Antony Morato and the renowned Dutch designer LINTELOO. In Tortona 37, creative agencies and professional offices will find truly tailor-made solutions.
Address: via Tortona, 37, Milano
Website: www.tortona37.it
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In Italy, where the kitchen is the heart of the home, cooking is a passion and meals bring friends and family together, Bialetti is found in nine of ten households. Alfonso Bialetti invented the Moka Express machine which is now the world famous coffee maker. Bialetti will present their new product line at Bialetti began in Italy, but has become a worldwide leading brand for their high-quality products that bring simplicity, functionality and beauty to the kitchen.
Address: Corso Buenos Aires, 36, 20124 Milano, Italy
Website: www.bialetti.com
VIA Design of Denmark: students of the academy will kick off with an explorative research phase on a quest to challenge existing designs for healthcare aids/furniture.
Address: via Massimiano 25, Milano, 20134 Milano, Italy
Website: www.via.dk/uddannelser/design
Studio Bleijh designs products that allow their clients to stand out. They highly value the synergy between professionals, which creates an inspiring co-operation between their clients and the studio. The brand will present his project ‘How are you?’ addressing the dialogue between products and people as if they can read minds.
Address: Ventura Design District: via Massimiano 25, Milano, 20134 Milano, Italy
Website: www.bleijh.com
Studio Plott will use their own 3D printer as a tool to print a rug, designing different patterns for each rug while making use of their own small-scale production method. At Ventura Lambrate this Dutch studio will exhibit their first product results.
Address: Ventura Design District: via Massimiano 25, Milano, 20134 Milano, Italy
Website: www.studioplott.com
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