Design

Milan Design Week: Form and Fascination

Officially, there is no "World Design Capital" for the year 2023. This week, however, Milan feels like just that - thanks to the "Milan Design Week", where numerous luxury brands, car manufacturers and interior design companies show their latest products and designs. Our highlights.

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Marko Knab

Bentley Home

Putting your own car in your appartment? Not exactly restrained and practical. British understatement and style consciousness are more likely to be demonstrated with the Bentley Home Collection recently presented in Milan. The claim of the luxury brand from Crewe: to reflect the most striking design features of Bentley with clearly defined lines, wooden elements, legendary curves and contoured shapes into the world of furnishings. To achieve this, they collaborated with the world's leading designers: In collaboration with Federico Peri, for example, a new table series was created, and together with Carlo Colombo a sofa and an armchair. Also on offer: a bed that Bentley Home developed itself. Another novelty in the British portfolio: a sustainable surface material made of raw paper and natural pigments. Created by architect Riccardo Cavaciocchi, founder of Paper Factor®, the look and feel is reminiscent of marble.

Credit: Bentley Home

KIA

Automobile design without a vehicle to convey it? Hard to imagine. But this is precisely the feat that KIA achieves. And it does so at the Museo della Permanente, where immersive media art installations are on display in seven exhibition rooms. They are designed to invite visitors to experience KIA's design vision for a new era of sustainable mobility, inspired by the opposites in nature and humanity, with the help of videos, sounds and sculptures. The "Opposites United" philosophy is based on five central pillars: "Bold for Nature", "Joy for Reason", "Tension for Serenity", "Technology for Life" and "Power to Progress". Each of these pillars is presented in a separate area in the exhibition.

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Foscarini

Last year, the renowned lamp manufacturer Foscarini made a name for itself when it acquired the brand and with it the designs of the Munich lighting design pioneer Ingo Maurer. At the Design Week in Milan, the manufacturer impressed with its own showroom designed by Ferruccio Laviani. A space in which a "natural" world seems to have gained the upper hand. Visitors are invited to actively participate in the experience by letting their imagination take them to an almost dreamlike context. An unexpected urban oasis amidst the hustle and bustle of Milan Design Week. A space where human craftsmanship and the beauty of nature merge.

Credit: Foscarini

Louis Vuitton

The Parisians pack their bags and take with them: three big highlights. Louis Vuitton is showing 11 new "Objets Nomades" from Atelier Oï, Raw Edges, Atelier Biagetti, Marcel Wanders, Zanellato/Bortotto, Studio Louis Vuitton and Campana. The brand is also reflecting on its own roots and the craftsmanship of the company's founder with the Cabinet of Curiosities, which Marc Newson designed. For Design Week, he reworked the classic Louis Vuitton suitcase in a particularly modern and colourful way. Walk-in and one of the big attractions at Palazzo Serbelloni: Marc Fornes's Pavilion Nomad. Abstractly structured and kept silver, the structure is to be the venue for a series of special events.

Credit: Louis Vuitton

Marko Knab

Journalist & Photographer

Life writes the best stories - and Marko Knab tells them in text and picture form. His focus: people & their very own stories and cars, motorsports and travel stories. He already worked for Motorsport-Total.com while completing his Bachelor's degree in German Language, followed by a brief stint at a local daily newspaper and a Master's degree in literature and cultural theory - and ramp.

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