Milan Design Weeks
April 2018

Exclusive opening of the very first Avant Toi Home Flagship Store.

Avant Toi engages his visitors in its creative universe, showing its true colors through a series of audio-visual and live performances.

Cocktail Party - April 19 from 6pm to 10pm

via Carlo Botta 8
Milan

Altered States by Snarkitecture

For the 6th time Caesarstone returns to Milan’s Fuorisalone, this year to unveil Altered States, the highlight event of their 2018 designer collaboration programme with New York-based collaborative practice Snarkitecture. Being this the year of Eurocucina, which takes place biennially, this year’s collaboration explores the core theme of the kitchen island.

Press Breakfast - April 17 at 9am

Palazzo dell’Ufficio Elettorale di Porta Romana
Corso di Porta Romana 10
Milan

Humanity in nature, nature in humanity. This is the theme of Design Week 2018 at the Cascina Cuccagna. The topic will be explored with a series of exhibitions, meetings and workshops.

Dealing with "things from nature" means using cultural tools to explore the relationship between humans and the environment, looking boldly at the stories we have invented to deny or celebrate this relationship.

The intention is to use the methodological tools of design to reconstruct the terms with which nature manifests itself outside and within human beings.

The idea or promise underlying the choice of theme is to construct a sort of secular outlook and vision in order to grasp new opportunities and perhaps to bring the urban dweller/urban nature dyad back to the forefront of a debate about creating a more serene co-existence free from a sense of guilt.

Cascina Cuccagna
via Cuccagna 2/4
Milan

Galleria Luisa Delle Piane, hosted at Marsèlleria in Via Paullo 12, presents a monographic exhibition dedicated to the architect Gianfranco Frattini.

Opening cocktail - April 14 from 6pm to 10pm

Marsèlleria
via Paullo 12A
Milan

ELEMENTI

During the 2018 edition of the International Design Week, Paola Lenti will present the new collections of furniture, fabrics and materials for the interiors and the exteriors in the industrial premises of Fabbrica Orobia 15.

The ongoing research activity of Paola Lenti through the many expressions of beauty is revealed, once again, by the careful and bold choice of materials. Coordinated systems, structured sets of harmonious signs and forms coexist in a vital exchange of aesthetic and technological experiences, which are respectful of the environment and nature and are always open to the astonishment and the fascination of the unexpected.

Press Preview - April 16 from 3pm to 7pm

Fabbrica Orobia
via Orobia 15
Milan