Design&Trends
In recent decades, design has contaminated a number of sectors of creative work. This series focuses on the scenarios of future trends, investigating their infinite expressive potential through issues of contemporary relevance and discussions with international designers. A window on the future, to understand and describe how much the world of design is changing, from techniques to new materials, from interiors to installations, from experimentation to contamination with art. In the final analysis, a section all about forecasting and trendsetting in design.
03-05-2023
The suspended time of Gianfranco Frattini
An exhibition in Cesano Maderno offers a retrospective showcasing the work of Gianfranco Frattini, an undisputed - and yet still insufficiently appreciated - master of Italian design. Furniture, upholstered furniture, lamps, accessories, glass and ceramic pieces, as well as examples of interior design: an extraordinary collection offering an insight into the architect’s rigorous and rather...
05-04-2023
Sally Gabori, return to the land
The work of the Australian Aboriginal artist is featured in an exhibition at the Triennale, as part of a series the Milanese institution has organised with Fondation Cartier pour l’art contemporain to give voice and visibility to indigenous cultures all over the world. From whom we have a lot to learn about respect for nature, the ability to listen to the land, and tenacity in preserving...
08-03-2023
The fifties in Madrid: design meets ceramics
An exhibition set up for the Madrid Design Festival, currently under way, focuses on a little-known period in Spanish creativity between the fifties and the late sixties, when a handful of designers decided to import the forms of modernity to a nation that was still anchored to the past. And used ceramics to do...
29-12-2022
Ceramics: Souraya Haddad’s enchanted table
An October evening in Paris: a special banquet is being held in a beautiful high-class apartment, featuring enamelled ceramic dishes and cups in the shapes and colours of clouds, containing foods put together like sculptures, little flowers, candles and crystals. Ceramic Banquet Act I was an event held by House of Today to honour Lebanese ceramist Souraya...