The Dezeen team are reporting live from in the northern Italian metropolis (15-19 April) with updates throughout the day, including exclusive previews of products, installations and events.
4:30pm After her sandwich outside (see the 2pm entry below) Dezeen design editor reports on highlights from the .
Besides the (more on that shortly from Dezeen editor-at-large Amy Frearson), French designer has created a full-scale home interior inside the museum.
Sempé focuses her research on everyday household objects and their industrial production.
The installation at Triennale is called which invites visitors to “experience spaces with everyday gestures, filled with timeless objects, far from the rules of marketing”.
Elsewhere, British-Ghanaian designer is exhibiting a communal table made for making fufu – a West African food made by pounding cassava and plantain into a dough – as part of the class of 2024.
Also not to be missed is Walking Sticks and Canes, a small but mighty display of made by 18 designers for their future selves.
Particular favourites include a height-adjustable model with a corkscrew mechanism by , a cane for off-road walking by and a hollow version by that was designed for picking flowers on hikes.
3:30pm In a break from the persistence of newness at , writes Dezeen editorial director , architecture historian and researcher Adam Stěch has displayed thousands of his own celebrating unique details from 20th century architecture and interiors.
“If you want to find the beauty, you have to spend the time searching for it”
“I want to look at old things and bring them to life again through these photographs,” Stěch told Fraser.”The show aims to inspire practitioners and designers, not academics.”
The exhibition, in tunnel 56 of (see the 9am entry below), is themed according to ten categories: lighting, seating, storage spaces, tables, railings, doors, handles, windows, floors and walls.
The images are collected from more than 45 countries in the world.
Stěch has been touring for years to collate what he hopes will become the biggest database of one-of-a-kind designs from specific buildings and interiors captured by a single person.
“If you want to find the beauty, you have to spend the time searching for it,” he said. “It’s a lifetime of work.”
2:30pm Dezeen deputy editor reports that furniture brand ‘s stand at , designed from recycled materials by Belgian studio , features plenty of design classics.
Chairs by and were placed between glass cubicles filled with plants, creating a modernist greenhouse office aesthetic.
2:00pm Lunch! from the build-your-own sandwich shop outside , where the is on show.
1:30pm Pink light glows in the interior of Bar Unniko – Finnish lifestyle brand ‘s pop-up cafe, which has taken over ‘s Bar Stoppani for the week.
Dezeen’s reports that the traditional Milanese interior was left largely untouched with the exception of recognisable Marimekko poppies covering the umbrellas, awning, floor and petite .
12:30pm Following the preview in yesterday’s live coverage (see 10:30am entry from ) you can now read Jennifer Hahn’s full write-up of her conversation with about the Rude Arts Club exhibition at the showroom.
“Sexual energy is a big part of being human,” Toogood said, as she talked Hahn through the thinking behind her new collections. Read the rest below ›
12:00pm Dezeen editor-at-large paid a visit to an experimental pop-up shop, the New Store, installed by Rotterdam’s Nieuwe Instituut in Milan’s Isola area.
The store is offering free hair cuts, courtesy of local hairdresser Alberto Fucci, and using the harvested hair in different ways.
Textile producer Human Material Loop is turning the trimmings into yarns that can be used to make clothing, while textile artist Woo Jin Joo is creating a huge embroidered blanket with help from visitors.
Unfortunately for Frearson, Fucci was booked up for the day so she didn’t manage to get a trim.
11:45am Italian kitchen brand Elica’s Straordinaria installation, designed by Japanese studio and curated by Marcello Smarrelli of the Fondazione Ermanno Casoli, is shimmering in the courtyard of Palazzo Litta, reports Dezeen social editor .
The installation is one of many at this year’s Milan design week that focus on creating immersive, sensory experiences.
Straordinaria aims to mimic the lightness of clouds with colourful perspex poles that hang freely from the roof of the central pavilion, which visitors are invited to walk through and activate as they do so.
11:30am Dezeen’s has skipped from one fashion brand (see Days exhibition at JW Anderson, 10:45am below) to another and is now at Loewe Lamps in the Palazzo Citterio.
Spanish fashion brand is showing at Milan design week for the eighth time with an exhibition of lamps created by 24 international artists.
Birch twigs, horse hair, glass and leather are among the range of materials used to create the individual lamps, which illuminate a large room in the palazzo.
11:15am Johanna Seelemann, who was , is exhibiting a series of urban interventions designed to make cities better places to live for both humans and other species such as plants and animals.
reports that among the products is cladding that doubles up as an insect hotel.
vases that are buried beside urban plants so they can gradually release water through their porous shells to conserve resources.
Visitors are encouraged to take away small seed bombs made by mixing local clays with native plant species. Shaped like ‘s iconic Milanese Panettone bollards, the souvenirs hope to encourage visitors to have a hand in bringing nature back into the city.
10:45am Dezeen design and interiors reporter has been to see Days, an exhibition by Patrick Carroll presented in the Milan store.
Carroll has stretched textiles that he has knitted onto stretcher bars as if they are paintings, using yarn salvaged from remainder shops that liquidate the fashion industry’s leftovers.
Knitted into the works are bits of text, half the works bear a single word like: abnegation, pity and permanence.
10:30am Dezeen’s editorial director moderated a panel discussion at kitchen brand ‘s The Elevation of Gravity installation at Villa Necchi Campiglio this morning.
Fraser was joined by associate director Johannes Schafelner, interiors lead Francesca Portesine and founder Kim Colin to discuss how principles of reduction and essentialism in architecture and design can be employed to improve our lives.
The installation features an induction hob seamlessly integrated into a huge slab that juts dramatically from a piece of rock.
10:15am Commerce platform Artemest’s 2nd edition of L’Appartamento is taking place at Residenza Vignale on Via Enrico Toti.
There’s a very long line of people in the Milan sunshine waiting to get in but Dezeen social editor had an early doors appointment (watch this space for more on our later).
Inside six international interior design studios – Elicyon, , Rottet Studio, Studio Meshary, AINassar, Tamara Feldman and – have each curated a room, exclusively using furniture, lighting, décor and art from over 170 of Artemest’s artisans, brands and artists.
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9am Good morning! Day three is beginning at and Dezeen’s has been to new Milanese architecture and design centre .
Dropcity occupies previously abandoned, connected tunnels behind Milan Central Station and is due to open permanently in the autumn of this year.
Founded by architect Andrea Caputo, Dropcity will be showcasing its construction process taking place within the tunnels throughout the week, with one tunnel being reconstructed with and structures.
There are 15 variously numbered tunnels, and in tunnel 38 is an exhibition by Socii titled Socii Circus: Upholding cultural commons.
The space has been turned into part-workshop – with carpenters at work throughout the week– and part-display, with old and new creations showcased on a stage at the front of the tunnel, made from found materials and building waste.
Recycled wood and other materials were used for all designs within the collection.
On of the pieces is a handcrafted wooden daybed decorated with 11,000 seeds created by design collective , who make furniture in and Tallinn.
Catch up on everything that happened on and at Milan design week.
To keep you up to date, has created a highlighting the key events at the festival.
See Dezeen Events Guide for all the latest information you need to know to attend the event, as well as a list of other architecture and design events taking place around the world.
All times are London time.
The lead image is by Jane Englefield.