Milan Design Weeks
June 2022

Triennale Milano presents two events dedicated to Ettore Sottsass.

Ettore Sottsass. Struttura e colore
Curated by: Marco Sammicheli
Exhibition design and graphics: Christoph Radl
Highlighting various aspects of Ettore Sottsass’s works and ideas, a series of exhibitions and events are being put on around the permanent display of Casa Lana. The first of these shows takes its title from a 1954 article by Sottsass. The paintings, drawings, photographs and objects on display bring out the special attention that this master of architecture and design always paid to the relationship between man, with his needs and rituals, and his habitat.

Casa Lana by Ettore Sottsass
Reinstallation design: Luca Cipelletti
Art direction: Christoph Radl
In collaboration with: Studio Sottsass
The central area of Ettore Sottsass’s Casa Lana has been rebuilt and is on permanent display in the Sala Sottsass: this interior of a private residence, which the great architect and designer created in the mid-1960s in Milan, is now open to all thanks to the donation by Barbara Radice Sottsass. Imagining “a small square where one can move and meet” (Domus, 1967), Sottsass created a protected space for people to chat or listen to music, while the space around it was organized for a variety of activities and functions.

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20121 Milan
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Triennale Milano and Memphis Milano present Memphis Again, an exhibition directed and curated by Christoph Radl.

The exhibition presents more than two-hundred pieces of furniture and objects (bookshelves, dividers, vetrines, toilette furniture, dining tables, countertop tables, coffee tables, desks, chairs, couches, sofa beds, table lamps, appliques, floor lamps, chandeliers, ashtrays, flower pots, fruit bowls, fabric accessories, rugs) in the most diverse selection of materials (wood, plastic, laminate, glass, ceramic, porcelain, silver, steel, fabric) produced between 1981 and 1986 for the Memphis collection.

The objects will be displayed in chronological order, just like a fashion show in which the observer will be the one moving along the catwalk in a space that, thanks to the furniture and the music by Seth Troxler, feels like a nightclub. Quotes by critics, architects and designers will be projected on the walls.

viale Emilio Alemagna 6
20121 Milan
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To celebrate the 100th anniversary of Gilberto Colombo's birth, the idea was born to design a road bike using Colombo's latest innovation in tubing. The result is Fabrice Domercq and Jasper Morrison's creation, which experiments with innovative technical solutions. Equipped with internal tie-rods to complete the tubular reinforcements, it has been built following a glued frame construction system to leave nothing visible other than the Colombo tubes. The bicycle is completed by a Campagnolo Record groupset and a Super Leggera saddle by Selle Italia from the same era in which the tubes were designed.

Photo credits: Jasper Morrison Studio

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Driade is "On Stage" in the Triennale Milano at the theater, the perfect place to host an operation of contamination between the world of design, entertainment and art. Driade is an aesthetic laboratory in the continuous search for beauty beyond the boundaries of architecture and design which, from the very beginning, is based on a dialogue between different languages, united by the constant search for the highest aesthetic values.

The designer Marcelo Burlon, the trapper Sfera Ebbasta, the artist Omar Hassan and the gamer and content creator Pow3r, led by the artistic direction of the brand, the architect Fabio Novembre, are the authors of 4 unpublished projects by Driade:

For Driade, Marcelo Burlon designs Edaird, a mirror with a tribal flavor between Argentine earth and sky.

Sfera Ebbasta personalizes Cocky, an over-the-top chaise longue that can only fly high.

Omar Hassan designs the PiùDiUno tapestry, the perfect synthesis between research and action as a tribute to street art.

Pow3r designs the Arcad3 pouf, the celebration of gaming, its evolution from arcades to the home environment.

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20121 Milan
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Mathieu Lehanneur, renowned French designer, presents Inventory of Life, a series of four installations based on the collection of scientific data and statistics documenting the state of the world's population and the consequences of its behaviour on Earth. Touching on topics such as the evolution of the populations of over 150 countries (State of the World), the current state of our planet's waters (50 Seas and How Deep is Time) and the connection between our desire to live and to act (Live/Leave), Lehanneur captures a still image of contemporary society and draws a portrait of humanity through the use of scientific data for aesthetic purposes. The project is in fact based on UN and WHO reports and satellite photos obtained specifically for this exhibition. Events of great social and political significance such as wars and birth rate increases can now be read and analysed through a different lens, offering a tangible image of phenomena seemingly beyond our ability to comprehend, reminding us that the future is instead all in our hands.

Triennale Milano
via Alemagna 6
20121 Milan
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The Museum of Italian Design presents a permanent exhibition of the most iconic pieces of Italian design, selected from the 1,600 pieces in the Triennale Milano Collection. The works are accompanied by in-depth information on their history and the context in which they were designed. The chronological span of the Museum goes from 1946 to 1981, thirty years of radical experimentation in which new materials, techniques and aesthetic codes revolutionized the domestic sphere and Italian society. Since July, the Museum has had a new look, with new paths and in-depth information.

Triennale Milano
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20121 Milan
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A collection of design objects conceived during the pandemic and made from three sustainable hardwoods from American forests. The question of a change of perspective is integral to both the form and content of the installation: Forest Tales is not just a showcase of creativity, but a manifesto against waste in design, a plea for a more considered choice of materials and a challenge to the status quo. The exhibition, staged by Studio Swine, features works by contemporary designers, both established and emerging, including Thomas Heatherwick, Jaime Hayon, Maria Jeglinska-Adamczewska, Maria Bruun and Mac Collins, in an installation that encourages visitors to explore these sustainable materials and to reflect on the relationship between forests and our everyday objects. Also on display will be four solid wood tables that won the A seat at a table competition, promoted by Ahec and Riva 1920, with the aim of offering emerging Italian design talents a platform to showcase their ideas.

Triennale Milano
via Alemagna 6
20121 Milan
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The 6th Edition of Masterly - The Dutch in Milano, curated by Nicole Uniquole, is the event dedicated to Dutch design, artisan craftsmanship and art. In the historic spaces of the Palazzo, historic and contemporary design melt into breath taking presentations. At the contemporary spaces of the Palazzo, Dutch companies and top designers who hold high the banner of artisan craftsmanship and fine design are represented.

Photo: Studio Stefan Scholten for BN International, The Marker Wallpaper Collection

Palazzo Francesco Turati
via Meravigli 7
Milan

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With the participation of: Jean-Michel Alberola
Scenography by: Théa Alberola
From the partnership between Triennale Milano and Fondation Cartier pour l’art contemporain.
La vita moderna – modern life through the work of the French artist, photographer and director Raymond Depardon. A member of the Magnum agency, he is one of the greatest names in contemporary photography. The exhibition, the third in the partnership between Triennale Milano and the Fondation Cartier, shows how, through his art, Depardon explores very different worlds and settings: from rural French communities to the suburbs of Glasgow, to life in New York in the 1980s and psychiatric hospitals in a number of Italian cities in the 1970s. The 300 photographic works on display are accompanied by due films.

Triennale Milano
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20121 Milan
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Doppia Firma, now on its sixth edition, is a project of Fondazione Cologni dei Mestieri d'Arte developed with Living, the interiors, design and lifestyle magazine of Corriere della Sera. The project enhances the union between design innovation and the tradition of the great European masters of art. The aim is to showcase a unique collection, composed of original works or small collections, the result of the creative exchange between a designer/artist and an artisan, or manufacture of excellence: works that arise from the mutual fertilization between design culture and a know-how that is an authentic expression of the territory.

Among the designers on display: Patricia Urquiola, India Madhavi, Ugo La Pietra, Ferruccio Laviani, atelier oï, Sara Ricciardi, Philippe Nigro.

Palazzo Litta
corso Magenta 24
Milan

On the occasion of Design Week 2022, the the Alberto Levi Gallery presents Masterworks, a selection of the most significant works of textile art among the current collections of Jan Kath, quite possibly the most famous carpet designer in the world. For over two decades, his rugs have represented the forefront of the contemporary carpet avant-garde and one of the spearheads of the gallery.

Alberto Levi Gallery
via San Maurilio 24
Milan

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