Material makes the scene - Interni Magazine

Materials, finishes, colors, transparencies, tactile sensations. Precious, refined details are the feature shared by the various installations presented in the ‘transverse’ Milan that extends from the center – passing through Foro Bonaparte, Corso Garibaldi, Porta Nuova – towards the northwest.

Projects of great impact, ancestral forms that reinterpret nature and material, alternated with presentations of ‘reassuring’ products staged in complete settings containing all the usual accessories. Surprising projects, lucid and luminous, between art and design, dressing up entire spaces (almost floating) with poetic language made of transparency, bright lights and refraction.

The installations encourage their own use: golden, enchanted suspended gardens through which to pass, caverns of light and luminescent fabric to penetrate. Then there is the story of a castle in Tuscany, an eclectic English designer and a space organized with furnishings, lighting, tableware and fabrics.

Italian and international crafts know-how, the encounter between different cultures, quotations from the great masters, the (very colorful) celebration of an iconic chair, the ‘theatrical’ interpretation of a multi-experience store. Art and food. A variegated itinerary with different design repercussions, sharing a focus on the senses: visual, tactile, gustatory…

by Claudia Foresti – photos by Paolo Veclani

Hanging Garden, the environmental installation by Kris Ruhs at Galleria Carla Sozzani. A suspended garden of porcelain flowers and very light leaves of brass wire, shaped by hand.

Installation made by the design studio Snarkitecture for COS. Daniel Arsham and Alex Mustonen, using hundreds of strips of white cloth, transformed Spazio Erbe into a deep translucent cavern (photo Noah Kahlina).

Kotan, one of two new collections of large ceramic sheets – inspired by the Japanese architectural tradition – with the patented Hydrotect treatment, in a co-branding initiative of Laminam and Toto. An encounter of cultures, innovative technologies and commercial strategies, in an installation by Alessandra Stefani (photo Laminam).

Vases by Mirta Morigi and Maria Cristina Hamel from the project “Ceramics, Food and Design” in collaboration with the International Museum of Ceramics of Faenza, at the Fabbrica del Vapore.

Chinese tea service, designed by Liao Hua, curated by Sichuan Fine Arts Institute, shown in “Utopia of Culture Makers”, at the Fabbrica del Vapore.

Restart Milano presents Voyeur: pieces from the new collection shown with wings made by Alcantara, a citation of the shaded walls of Carlo Mollino, whose Polaroids were also on display.

Series 7 by Fritz Hansen in two of the nine new colors chosen by the artist Tal R to celebrate the 60th anniversary of the famous chair.

DC 1508 applique in brass and colored glass from the new Progetto Domestico 2015 collection by Vincenzo De Cotiis, shown in the Gallery.

Float kitchen, designed by Andrea Bassanello for Modulnova. Bases and sides are in raw fumed oak; top made with a large sheet of Calacatta marble-effect stoneware, from the MaxFine collection by FMG Fabbrica Marmi e Graniti. Willy suspension lamps created by Enzo Panzeri for Panzeri.

The installation “Who are you?” was created by Fabio Novembre for the window of the Replay The Stage store on Piazza Gae Aulenti. A composition of Nemo armchairs, designed by Novembre for Driade, to interpret the central theme of the multi-experience store: the staged reality of cinema and theater, where everything changes, precisely as in the plot of a performance (photo Andrea Martiradonna).

Paracastello, installation by Nigel Coates, inspired by the Castello di Potentino in Tuscany. Furnishings from the new collection Potentino – designed by Nigel Coates, Gerry De Bastiano, Clare Frost and Jono Nussbaum – and products created by Nigel Coates for his brand and for companies like Fornasetti, Abate Zanetti, Slamp, Gebrüder Thonet Vienna and Nude.

Mirage collection of neon lamps – the name is a tribute to the famous hotel in Las Vegas – designed by Giorgia Zanellato and shown at Galleria Luisa Delle Piane. The collection is composed of 8 pieces, made in white metal and neon in different colors.

Works created for the installation Tempting Art, curated by Maurizio Galante and Tal Lancman for Valcucine. 22 architects, designers and creative talents interpreted the theme of emotions connected with food, producing 22 new recipes shown in the flagship store at Corso Garibaldi 99 for the six months of the Expo.

Genius Loci, designed by Gabriele Centazzo for Valcucine, the new kitchen based on the secretaire, the antique cabinet with secret drawers (photo Valcucine).