Milan Design Weeks
April 2019

Alcova is an experimental prototype for an itinerant cultural institution in development by Space Caviar and Studio Vedèt. Currently operating as a roving platform for art and design across multiple sites in and around Milan, it activates forgotten locations and spaces of historical significance, temporarily recasting them as venues for performative activities.

During Fuorisalone 2019 Alcova will occupy two sites, both of which will be open to visitors for the duration of Design Week. Both will be intensely programmed for the event's duration with performances, exhibitions and installations involving over a dozen partners from as many countries.

Alcova is located in the former panettone factory of Giovanni Cova & Co., north of Loreto, an ex-industrial space partly taken over by plants and vegetation, frozen in a state of poetic semi-abandonment.

Alcova Sassetti, organised in collaboration with Alice Stori Lichtenstein and Fondazione Kenta, will activate a former cashmere factory in Isola perfectly preserved in its original condition since the 1930s.

Partecipants Alcova Popoli Uniti:
1+1design gallery
alfa.brussels
Architetti Artigiani Anonimi
Atelier Avéus
Bananatex by Qwstion
BoardGrove Architects
Carpet Sign
CIAM + Arabeschi di Latte
Disegno
Dzek/Formafantasma
FAUST I Gianluigi Ricuperati
FRoM LIGHTING
HARU
Het Nieuwe lnstituut
KooZA/rch & (ab)normal
Lambert & Fils Luminaires x DWA Design Studio
Lukas Wegwerth +Atelier Luma
M-L-XL Studio
Manuel Coltri + DWA Design Studio
Matthew McCormick Studio
Nanban
ODDNESS
Opere varie
Optimismus
Panter&Tourron
REV 001 Group
Salvatori Lanteri
Secondome
Studio Makkink & Bey
Supaform
T SAKHI | Tessa & Tara Sakhi
UTIL

Partecipants Alcova Sassetti:
Aesthetics of Exclusion- Sjoerd ter Borg
Alissa Volchkova
Bloc Studios
Bohinc Studio
Crafting plastics! studio
Christophe Machet
Cookies x GHL
Flatwig Studio + Kristina Sipulova
Henzel Studio
Hans Maier-Aichen
Morph Collective
Nadja Zerunian
NERO Design Gallery
Philipp Weber x ANALOG
Selvaggia Alazraki
Studio Furthermore
Studio Joris de Groot
Studio Minale-Maeda


Press preview - April 8 from 9.30am to 5.30pm @ Alcova Popoli Uniti
Press preview - April 8 from 2.30pm to 5.30pm @ Alcova Sassetti

via Popoli Uniti 11-13 / via Sassetti 31
Milan

London-based fashion brand COS will present a large-scale 3D printed bioplastic installation, entitled 'Conifera', by architect Arthur Mamou-Mani and his eponymous studio.This project marks COS's eighth consecutive installation during Salone del Mobile, situated within Milan's Palazw Isimbardi.

picture credit : COS

Press Preview: April 8 From 12.00pm - 4.00pm

Palazw Isimbardi
Corso Monforte 35
20122 Milan