Milan Design Weeks
April 2023

Doppia Firma is a project by the Michelangelo Foundation and Fondazione Cologni dei Mestieri d’Arte, in collaboration with Living, that promotes the union between design innovation and traditional craftsmanship.

The 2023 edition of Doppia Firma focuses on the theme of playfulness, encouraging designers and master artisans to create works that express their vision through humor, irony, allusion, and more. The resulting objects are showcased at Palazzo Litta in Milan and made using materials such as ceramics, metal, mirror, wood, and paper. The exhibition coincides with the Salone del Mobile 2023, during which is set up a site-specific work by Milanese master Gianluca Pacchioni.

Palazzo Litta
corso Magenta 24
20121 Milan

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The Meta-Physical installation by Jcp Universe focuses on the confines between nature and artifice, reality and fiction. The project, devised by Oniro Lab, the creative laboratory of Oniro Group, signals the expansion of the revolutionary brand of design in the virtual world, through the construction of its first owned metaverse and the creation of furnishing products in the form of Nfts-non-fungible tokens.

Teatro Arsenale
via Cesare Correnti 11
20121 Milan

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Artemest presents L’Appartamento: an elegant 1930s apartment in a historic Milanese building in the heart of the vibrant 5Vie district. Six prestigious international interior design firms will confer their own unique artistic direction to a room of the apartment using exclusively furniture, décor, lighting, and art by a selection of Artemest artisans, brands and artists. Artemest reveals the world of luxury Italian craftsmanship and design through the creative vision of Anne-Sophie Pailleret, Kingston Lafferty Design, Moniomi Design, Nina Magon, Styled Habitat and T.Zed Architects.

Designers: Anne-Sophie Pailleret, Kingston Lafferty Design, Moniomi Design, Nina Magon, Styled Habitat, T.Zed Architects

L'Appartamento
via Cesare Correnti 14
20123 Milan

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It is an installation composed of different sizes of organic shaped mirrors, tables and wall mounted lights, altogether recreating an interstellar scenery or a celestial scenography, with an immersive three-dimensional vr experience transporting the viewer from a dramatic to an alternative mystic planetary landscape celebrating the journey through virtual sensations. The collection Silent Hollows designed by Richard Yasmine is 3D printed and handcrafted using foam, fibreglass, polyurethane and tinted mirrors.

SIAM 1838 - Società d’Incoraggiamento d’Arti e Mestieri
via Santa Marta 18
20123 Milan

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Roguiltlessplastic, conceived in 2019, founded and curated by Rossana Orlandi and Nicoletta Orlandi Brugnoni, is a project-manifesto that through design, art, planning, technological–scientific research, industry and communication, introduces and disseminates various cultures and concepts dedicated to proposing solutions that promote new lifestyles and responsible choices. It consists, among others, of three main events that are presented at each Milano Design Week. One of the most important of these is the Ro Plastic Prize.

The Ro Plastic Prize is the International Award that targets an increasingly broad public and challenges the worldwide communities of designers, innovators, entrepreneurs, startuppers, changemakers, creators, scientists, researchers, developers, schools, universities, industry and communication experts who are passionate about making an extraordinary impact to propose innovative projects in the field of re-Waste.

Spazio Rossana Orlandi
via Matteo Bandello 14/16
20123 Milan

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The exhibition celebrates the brand’s irreverent and rebellious 30 years of career, while illustrating its contemporary and newfound mainstream component. Since its debut in Milan in 1993, Droog has established itself as something other, rough with fascinating storytelling. Rebelling against the idea of form and function, it gave life to a new aesthetic, approach, and language, articulating the thoughts of an audience and industry that were bored with refinement and decoration.

An immersive and welcoming display, it showcases how the brand’s impertinent thinking and pioneering disobedience from traditional design has become during the years—to say, extremely appealing and a real milestone of the international history of design. From Tejo Remi’s Chest of Drawers, designed in 1991, elevating found drawers into what could be perceived as an art object, to Marijn van der Poll’s Do Hit Chair, which as in a performance, is shaped by its owner with a hammer making the object unique and also very much yours; from the embracing and artisanal-looking Knotted chair by Marcel Wanders, designed in 1996, to the more recent objects such as the 2013 Glass Lantern by Richard Hutten, who modernised and reshaped a typical Chinese paper lantern, Droog aims at making the ordinary extraordinary.

La Triennale
viale Alemagna 6
20121 Milan

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Architect, designer, sculptor and academic, Angelo Mangiarotti was an iconic figure in architecture and urban planning at the international level, and one of the few Italian masters able to export his own design philosophy abroad. One of the most complete and exhaustive retrospectives ever devoted to the Milanese architect, the exhibition covers over 60 years of his production through a wide selection of works, projects, documents and materials, many of which have never been on public display before, kindly made available by the Fondazione Angelo Mangiarotti.

La Triennale
viale Alemagna 6
20121 Milan

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Organized to coincide with Milano Art Week, the exhibition presents a selection of works by Lisa Ponti, an artist, editor, critic and writer for whom drawing, always on A4-size sheets, was the expressive medium of choice. In her works sign, drawing and word merge, taking on new, fairytale, dreamlike and ironic meanings. The itinerary also evokes Lisa Ponti’s critical work through texts and articles published in the magazines with which she collaborated.

Curated by Damiano Gullì and Salvatore Licitra

La Triennale
viale Alemagna 6
20121 Milan

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To mark the 50th year of The Original Timberland® Boot, Timberland presents the first iteration of Future73 Visions in partnership with Suzanne Oude Hengel through an immersive Artificial Intelligence installation, powered by new media creative studio Ouchhh. Oude Hengel, a knit researcher, technician and designer; is one of six future makers invited by Timberland to reimagine the brand’s iconic boot through their own lens of bold innovation.

Comprising three chapters, The Future73 Visions installation opens with a mosaic of data-gathered archival imagery and advertising of the Timberland® Premium 6-Inch Boot. The second chapter consists of an AI-created pattern informed by Oude Hengel’s knitting techniques. The final chapter uses AI to combine the Timberland and Oude Hengel data to create an original work from both inputs, a visual embodiment of the Future73 project.

La Triennale - Salone d'Onore
via Alemagna 6
20121 Milan

Press Contact: Luciano Cirelli
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