Salone del Mobile is back this year, a little later than usual but full of splendid ideas, inspiration, and collaborations. We have visited Milan for 24 hours and picked our favourite places to stop by and found everything from vintage fashion, artisanal craftmanship, modernist presentation and artful food…..
Like every year during Milan Design Week, Hermès takes over the spaces of Via Palermo’s La Pelota to stage what has become known as the best design presentation of the week. For 2022, the colourful set is inspired by brutalist water towers or giant paper lanterns with a strong wooden structure covered in translucent coloured paper. The four structures by Hervé Sauvage and Charlotte Macaux Perelman glow in the cavernous dark space, inside each tower you can see la Maison’s latest furniture and accessories.
Like every year during Milan Design Week, Hermès takes over the spaces of Via Palermo’s La Pelota to stage what has become known as the best design presentation of the week. For 2022, the colourful set is inspired by brutalist water towers or giant paper lanterns with a strong wooden structure covered in translucent coloured paper. The four structures by Hervé Sauvage and Charlotte Macaux Perelman glow in the cavernous dark space, inside each tower you can see la Maison’s latest furniture and accessories.
Weave, Restore, Renew,” this years project at Palazzo Isimbardi revolves around the idea of giving new life to things that would otherwise be forgotten. Focusing on craft-based repairs, the project explores traditional crafts from Spain, an ancient Galician woven-straw technique called coroza and beyond looking to use age-old techniques to create something new and unexpected, like the jar-shaped tote bags made by Young Soon Lee, a 2019 finalist for the prestigious Loewe Foundation Craft Prize.
The well-known vintage shop Madame Pauline Vintage collaborated for this year Salone des Mobile with Maison Valentino for representing selected vintage pieces from previous collections. All over the world vintage Valentino pieces are sold again, bringing new life to storied pieces.
The concept behind this joined venture is: «Vintage is synonymous of iconic pieces and continuous research, and in this the city of Milan is very receptive. Valentino Vintage is a contemporary project to raise awareness in this sense, emphasizing beauty, heritage and craftmanship that have always characterized the Maison».
Dimorestudio’s cinematic presentations at their Via Solferino headquarters have been a MUST SEE of Milan Design Week for more than a decade. This year, the Milanese studio changed things, perhaps to clarify the different limbs of their fast-growing and wide-ranging business. Starting their new museum-like, 7,500-square-foot space called Dimorecentrale near Centrale Station, they showed Orizzonti, a collection of vintage treasures by the likes of Pierre Chapo, Gio Ponti, and Raffaella Crespi.
Meanwhile, at the historic apartment on Via Solferino, in Brera, they showed furnishings from their own Dimoremilan line. They presented chandeliers, covered in sheets and wilted flower petals covered the floor, all in their signature muddy pastel colours.
Welcome to Aliitaland, the jewellery brand’s chic showroom in central Milan showed scaled-up reinterpretations of some of the iconic rings designed, like the Diaspro ring made with handmade tiles by MUTINA CERAMICS. The tiles had been reused from previous projects and objects like tiled chairs had been transformed to jewellery show cases by the creative director and founder Cynthia Vilchez Castiglioni.
A sandwich bar, creating placebo sandwiches with construction material by MUTINA tiles putting a focus on the design of the ring and a real catering experience by the one of the most talked about caterer in Milan @casalingheditokyo, made this presentation a colourful, joyful concept which stand for the brand.
