Design Week 2023: the events not to be missed at the Brera Design District

Brera Design Week 2023: the events not to be missed

There are over 240 events that will make the Brera Design District one of the obligatory stops of the FuoriSalone 2023. Impossible to see everything, so here is our very personal choice (the list will be continuously updated).

Visionnaire with Studiopepe presents The Empire of the Senses

In its wunderkammer in Piazza Cavour 3, Visionnaire presents The empire of the senses by Studiopepe, a synesthetic tale made of tactile coverings and impalpable colors in the nuances of the leather to reveal the capsule of three pieces composed of the Shibari armchair, the Parade lighting system and the pair of Blanche. mirrors

The collection, like the immersive installation, is dedicated to the senses as tools for understanding the world. The visual experience of the installation will be enriched by a dance performance and visual contributions that will stimulate the five senses.

Visionnaire, piazza Cavour, 3

The secret garden of Cotto d'Este

A secret garden, a dreamlike and imaginary place. It is The Secret Garden, the naturalistic setting imagined by Cotto d'Este, to celebrate his thirtieth birthday and to narrate his creative process through the flagship collections.

The spotlights are on Pura, the porcelain stoneware that with its grain-like texture recalls the texture of limestone.

And Wonderwall, one of the brand's most eclectic series, which in the Kerlite Wonderwall version, the first ultra-thin ceramic wallpaper collection, will personalize the interior of the showroom with subjects of naturalistic inspiration with exotic atmospheres and decorations with oversized plants and flowers, which will capture the viewer's gaze.

Cotto d'Este, via Quintino Sella, 5

The Lumières exhibition of Saint-Louis

From 18 to 23 April, in the Cloister of Santa Maria del Carmine, Saint-Louis, the first crystal factory in continental Europe founded in 1586, invites you to discover Lumières, installations lights and sounds designed in collaboration with the Nonotak studio.

Five installations: pulsations, rotations, vibrations, projections and diffractions, which bring into dialogue the most historic collections of the maison, such as the classic chandelier, with contemporary lamps represented by the portable wireless novelties.

Cloister of Santa Maria del Carmine, piazza del Carmine, 2

Design Variations 2023 with studio Zaven

Design Variations 2023, the event curated by MoscaPartners, will present Breath, the site-specific work that will animate the facade of the Circolo Filologico Milanese.

It was conceived by the studio Zaven, which stages a work with extreme formal cleanliness made with a special silicone membrane.

The result is graphic figures, which act as a starting point for reflection on design no longer focused only on aesthetic research, but as a tool for a multidisciplinary approach.

Design Variations 2023, c/o Filologico Milanese, Via Clerici, 10 | Palazzo Visconti, via Cino del Duca, 8

Casa Mutina with the eagerly awaited couple Anastassiades+Urquiola

Mutina scores another master stroke and hires Michael Anastassiades to join his team of champions.

The Cypriot-born designer will team up with Patricia Urquiola, a consolidated presence in the Mutina team, and together they will present a project
of great experimentation on the ceramic surface.

The tandem Anastassiades+Urquiola will also create the setting inside Casa Mutina Milano, where the ceramic surfaces will dialogue with the rooms in a continuous exchange of suggestions.

Casa Mutina Milan, Via Cernaia, 1/A

Barber&Osgerby x Marsotto editions

Also highly anticipated are Barber&Osgerby, the pair of London designers who will present a collection of marble furniture for Marsotto editions.

For the occasion, a solo exhibition will be set up dedicated to the new family of products, essential, functional and not tied to fashions, just like in the pure and no-frills style of the British couple.

Marsotto Milano Showroom, Largo Treves, 2

Rethink! The design of services for social justice

Rethink! Service Design Stories is the first Italian festival dedicated to the themes of service design and innovation.

The festival, born in 2017, produced and promoted by POLI.design - Politecnico di Milan, is now in its seventh edition. Not to be missed, on April 20 from 12 to 21, at Spaces Porta Nuova (Archistar room), the meeting on service design as a tool to strengthen and improve social justice processes, through practices inclusive and participatory that aim at the redistribution of power and resources.

Rethink! Service Design Stories, c/o Spaces Porta Nuova, Bastioni di Porta Nuova, 21, Milan 

Poliform debuts in the outdoors

Among the big names that made their debut in the outdoor world, only she was missing: Poliform, an impressive production company that is still proudly led by the three founding cousins Alberto and Aldo Spinelli and Giovanni Anzani.

On the occasion of the launch of the first outdoor collection, the company presents the Perceptions installation in the fourteenth-century cloister of San Simpliciano, a journey dedicated to the senses, to the beauty of nature and the simplicity of matter.

Poliform, c/o Cloisters of San Simpliciano, Piazza San Simpliciano, 7, Milan 

Federico Peri for Cedit

Many designers are protagonists of the Brera Design Week. Fortunately, there is a strong presence of young and talented designers.

Among these, Federico Peri, who for Cedit Ceramiche d'Italia presents Compatta, large ceramic slabs with a rough and full-bodied, which take inspiration from the materiality of raw earth.

A proposal that is the synthesis between craftsmanship in working clay and technological innovation, together with balance and controlled disorder, in a narrative that mixes the expressiveness of Federico Peri and the experimental spirit of Cedit.

Spazio CEDIT, Foro Buonaparte 14/A

SolidNature by Sabine Marcelis and OMA

Winning team does not change. Thus, after the success at Alcova last year, SolidNature, the brand of natural stones, re-proposes the creative tandem of OMA and Sabine Marcelis.

And he does it with The future belongs to dreamers inside a dreamy private house in the heart of Brera.

In the basement and in the garden, visitors can immerse themselves in the dreamlike landscape designed by OMA, followed and completed by the installations designed by Sabine Marcelis and the Iranian artist Bita Fayyazi.

SolidNature, c/o Spazio Cernaia, Via Cernaia, 1, Milan

Benedetta Tagliabue x Ceramiche Ragno

On display in the Milan showroom of Ceramiche Ragno, designed by Benedetta Tagliabue – Miralles Tagliabue EMBT, the latest collections of brand.

It is forbidden not to touch, because the new surfaces express the infinite potential of ceramics in a mix & match of colours, textures and designs that tell the story and the technical and artisan skills of the brand.

Ragno ceramics, via Marco Polo, 9