Design Collections is the new space of Finestre sull'Arte dedicated to lovers of design and contemporary living. Insights dedicated to the forms and lines that have made the history of Italian style, but also many suggestions to discover how the world of design is evolving today. A space dedicated to home accessories, furniture, interior design and installations. Insights and articles edited always with the quality and rigor that distinguish the proposal of Finestre sull'Arte.
By Redazione | 13/01/2023
The 1950s as a period of economic and cultural rebirth: in Gorizia, from March 21 to August 27, the exhibition "Italia Cinquanta. Fashion and Design. Birth of a Style" traces the period when Italian Style and Made in Italy were born, from Roberto Capucci to Giò Ponti.
By Redazione | 20/01/2023
Triennale Milano is dedicating an exhibition to Ettore Sottsass from January 20 to April 2, 2023, focusing on the use of words in the production of the great architect and designer.
By Redazione | 24/01/2023
Greek-American design duo Objects of Common Interest created an installation for Piazza della Libertà in Bergamo: it is called "Lights on" and was unveiled at the opening of the events of the Italian Capital of Culture 2023.
By Redazione | 26/01/2023
From January 28 to April 30, MUST in Vimercate is dedicating an exhibition to the figure of Bruno Munari, a great artist and designer: it is titled "Munari, Art to the Future."
By Redazione | 26/01/2023
Triennale Milano pays tribute to Milanese architect and designer Angelo Mangiarotti with a retrospective from January 27 to April 23, 2023. The exhibition design features the participation of Renzo Piano.
By Redazione | 05/02/2023
February 9-12 Courmayeur Design Week is scheduled, featuring installations signed by leading national architectural firms, talks, installations, photos and events in the center and at the summit of Mont Blanc.
By Redazione | 14/02/2023
Unprecedented collaboration between well-known fashion house Longchamp and Dutch design brand Fatboy, who together are making an inflatable, eco-responsible pouf: it's called Glamping O and is already available.
By Redazione | 02/03/2023
Brera Design Week 2023, the widespread event in Italy's most important design promotion district now in its 14th edition, is scheduled from April 17 to 23. On the calendar 240 events to reflect on the challenges of contemporaneity.
By Redazione | 08/03/2023
From April 17 to 23, 2023, during the Milan Fuorisalone, in the context of Alcova, the exhibition "This is Denmark. A design playlist" will showcase the essence of Danish design. The immersive installation offers a journey of discovery of Denmark through the projects of the 15 participating companies.
By Redazione | 08/03/2023
From April 4 to May 2023, "The Age of Metals," an exhibition dedicated to the story of artist, poet, planner and designer Alessandro Mendini, opens to the public at M77 Gallery.
By Redazione | 17/03/2023
It is titled "Thinking Factories" the project that, with an exhibition from March 24 to June 4, 2023 and a series of meetings, will introduce Bergamo and Brescia through Design and their Compasso d'Oro awards, all on display at the Sala delle Capriate in the heart of Bergamo's Città Alta.
By Redazione | 16/04/2023
Galleries opening exhibitions during Design Week in Milan: here are 20 events to mark in your diary.
By Redazione | 17/04/2023
Which installations to see in Milan for Design Week 2023: here are 15 not to be missed.
By Redazione | 17/04/2023
For Design Week it will be possible to walk on water in Milan: in fact, The Sea Deck, the floating platform by Michele De Lucchi and AMDL for Azimut Yachts, arrives in Darsena. You will only be able to get on it barefoot. And it is all made of recyclable material.
By Redazione | 17/04/2023
From April 17 to 26, it will be possible to take a ride on SWING, the giant swing that Stefano Boeri designed for Milan Design Week. Just go to the Pharmacy Courtyard of the State University.
By Andrea Laratta | 18/04/2023
10 design places in Milan: here's what to see in an itinerary among must-see places.
By Redazione | 18/04/2023
From April 20 to 23, in conjunction with Design Week 2023, Pandolfini presents Design Spotlight in Milan: a selection of furniture and objects by some of the names that have made history in Italian and international design.
By Redazione | 18/04/2023
Fantini Mosaics has promoted a creative competition for young talents, in collaboration with the Brera Academy of Fine Arts. An exhibition with the selected and awarded works will be held from April 18 to 23 in the Magnolia Courtyard.
By Redazione | 18/04/2023
An installation by MR Digital and Stefano Boeri, presented for Milan Design Week 2023, imagines what the classrooms of the future will look like: healthy, safe environments that will foster concentration, inclusion, technology and sharing.
By Redazione | 27/04/2023
In Gorizia, Palazzo Attems Petzenstein is hosting until August 27, 2023 a major exhibition that aims to reread the myth of Italian Style in the light of fashion and design.
By Redazione | 02/05/2023
Nanda Vigo's first retrospective exhibition in Switzerland is on view at the Municipal Museum of Modern Art in Ascona until June 25, 2023. Through forty works, the exhibition aims to analyze the salient stages of the artist's entire creative journey.
By Redazione | 07/05/2023
In Veneto, a design studio founded the Iconoclastic project: a series of handmade and hand-painted designer ceramics that rework a cult object such as sneakers and mythological figures of muses.
By Redazione | 01/07/2023
From July 1 to August 2023, the IN'EI Gallery in Venice presents the exhibition "The Floating Realm," which invites all visitors to return to the play, dreams and feelings of the floating realm of childhood.
By Redazione | 11/07/2023
The rich documentary heritage of historic Murano glassmaker Seguso Vetri d'Arte is online, thanks to the Giorgio Cini Foundation's Center for Glass Studies. An archive of more than 30 thousand images.
By Redazione | 17/07/2023
Third edition of the Barcelona Prize, a residency program dedicated to sustainable design issues and aimed at two young designers specializing in the field, in collaboration with IED Barcelona. Call for applications launched.
By Redazione | 29/08/2023
Discover the history of design by playing. This is the goal of the exhibition-game 'Clocked. This is not an escape room. On the history of design,' scheduled at the ADI Design Museum in Milan from Oct. 4 to 29. It is played by teams: here's how it works.
By Redazione | 05/09/2023
From Sept. 8 to Sept. 19, the Renaissance cloister of Sant'Agostino in Cortona will display designer furniture from Giovanni Raspini's Animalist Design line: pieces inspired by the world of animals and nature.
By Redazione | 18/09/2023
The publishing house Johan & Levi, known for its quality production on art, today launches a new series dedicated to design: it is called 'The Amateur's Library' and will have titles devoted to the great figures of 20th-century design, architecture and decorative arts.
By Redazione | 28/09/2023
The ADI Design Museum in Milan is hosting the exhibition ART COLORS DESIGN / Salvati and Tresoldi x Saporiti Italia from October 7 to 22, 2023. Ten years of intense collaboration between Saporiti Italia, a historic Italian design company, and Studio Salvati and Tresoldi.
By Redazione | 29/09/2023
An exhibition dedicated to the relationship between the great architect and designer Ettore Sottsass and photography. It is titled Ettore Sottsass. Design Metaphors and is scheduled from September 29, 2023 to April 21, 2024 at the Milan Triennale.
By Redazione | 09/10/2023
Andrea Branzi, one of the fathers of Italian design, an internationally renowned architect and artist, passed away today at the age of 85.
By Redazione | 08/11/2023
From November 6 to 20, 2023, the spaces of the ADI Design Museum in Milan will host an exhibition on the... history of the bathroom, celebrating 50 years of the historic magazine il Bagno Oggi e Domani.
By Redazione | 10/11/2023
Through February 2024 at the ADI Design Museum in Milan, design is read through twentieth-century music: a series of themed evenings explore the relationship between music and design.
By Redazione | 22/11/2023
For sale in Milan at 595,000 euros is the... TOILETPAPER Living, the world's first apartment in which images signed by Maurizio Cattelan and Pierpaolo Ferrari entirely occupy the spaces. A 75-square-meter loft on Via Luigi Canonica.
By Redazione | 04/12/2023
Triennale Milano will dedicate monographic exhibitions in 2024 to Alessandro Mendini, Gae Aulenti, Roberto Sambonet, and Elio Fiorucci. And after more than 30 years it will reactivate the Study Center.
By Redazione | 06/12/2023
At Villa Necchi Campiglio in Milan, an exhibition tells the story of Gio Ponti's Trionfo da Tavola. The sculptural work has been exceptionally set up in the dining room of the house museum, until January 28, 2024.
By Redazione | 19/12/2023
The Magnani-Rocca Foundation in Mamiano di Traversetolo (Parma) is organizing the largest Italian exhibition on Bruno Munari after those in Milan in 2007 and Rome in 2008. 250 works in an exhibition that surveys all of MUnari, from March 16 to June 30, 2024.
By Redazione | 26/12/2023
From December 7, 2023, the Villa Reale in Monza will host one hundred works by leading contemporary art artists and Italian designers alongside furniture and paintings from the Savoy and Habsburg periods for the "Reggia Contemporanea" project.
By Redazione | 30/12/2023
In the heart of Anghiari, in a 16th-century palace, is home to a historic weaving mill that has been in continuous operation since 1842: this is Busatti Weaving, the success story of a family business that uses handcrafted products to create fine fabrics with designs inspired by the fabrics of the Renaissance and beyond.
By Redazione | 02/01/2024
The m.a.x. museum in Chiasso, Switzerland)presents, until Jan. 8, 2024, the dossier exhibition "The Artistic Graphics of the Baj Company," to document the artistic graphics of the Baj Company, a famous confectionery and panettone company known in both Italy and Switzerland.
By Redazione | 08/01/2024
One of Milan's symbols, the famous Milano 1928 streetcar, now becomes a museum object: car number 1565 in fact enters the collections of the National Museum of Science and Technology.
By Redazione | 17/01/2024
Coming up at the Superstudio space in Milan is the Designer's Dream exhibition: the display consisting of 16 sculptures by leading designers (such as Alessandro Mendini or Flavio Lucchini) from the SLIDE Art collection, will conclude with an auction held by Christie's.
By Redazione | 24/01/2024
Twelve resin sculptures in eight colors inspired by the protagonists of Giacomo Puccini's great operas: PucciniPop, a design collection for the centenary of the Maestro's death, is born.
By Redazione | 29/01/2024
Modenantiquaria is in its XXXVII edition this year. From Feb. 10-18, 2024, the international event dedicated to fine antiques returns to ModenaFiere. Petra and Sculptura will also be held at the same time.
By Redazione | 01/02/2024
The "Thinking Factories" project completes the journey with the release of a volume and podcast on the stories of the 32+1 Compasso d'Oro winners produced between Bergamo and Brescia.
By Redazione | 15/02/2024
Triennale Milano inaugurates Cuore - Center for Studies, Archives, Research, a new space dedicated to research, memory and innovation. A freely accessible 400-square-meter space designed to welcome visitors, the scientific community, scholars and researchers.
By Redazione | 20/02/2024
MIC International Museum of Ceramics in Faenza is dedicating its next exhibition, as part of its program to highlight the personalities who built ceramic Made in Italy, to Gio Ponti.
By Redazione | 23/02/2024
In Piacenza, in the Volumnia exhibition space located in the former church of Sant'Agostino in the heart of the Emilian city, an exhibition dedicated to one of Italy's greatest designers, Michele De Lucchi, is scheduled from April 6 to June 29, 2024, to mark his 40th anniversary.
By Redazione | 05/03/2024
In Milan from March 1 to 5, MuseoCity in Vetrina is back. Eleven Design and Fashion companies transform their storefronts into "ephemeral museums" with artworks and iconic pieces.
By Redazione | 05/03/2024
On the occasion of Fuorisalone 2024, two huge fantastic animals by Dario Ghibaudo will arrive in the courtyard of Ca' Granda, the State University of Milan, the heart of the event for years.
By Redazione | 09/03/2024
During Milan Design Week, April 15-21, 2024, the Superdesign Show event, curated by Gisella Borioli and Giulio Cappellini, arrives at Superstudio: the 2024 edition under the banner of science, technology and inclusiveness.
By Redazione | 15/03/2024
For Milan Design Week, the University of Milan will set up its Cortile d'Onore with Marco Nereo Rotelli's Door is Love, a golden portal with engraved doors and a blue tank.
By Redazione | 19/03/2024
From March 19 to June 16, 2024, the Manica Lunga Library of the Giorgio Cini Foundation celebrates Alessandro Mendini with an art capsule dedicated to the Italian designer's research.
By Redazione | 23/03/2024
From March 23 to June 9, ADI Design Museum presents an exhibition 150 works by Japanese designers. This is a cultural reading that aims to highlight the uniqueness of Japanese design between tradition and research.
By Redazione | 04/04/2024
The celebrated designer and architect Gaetano Pesce leaves us at the age of 84. Famous was his UP series for which he was awarded the prestigious Compasso d'Oro for his career in 2022.
By Redazione | 05/04/2024
Once again this year, American Express will actively participate in the Fuorisalone in Milan with a temporary lounge: the installation by Andrea Crespi will immerse the public in the world of digital art, transforming the space into a contemporary environment through innovative technology.
By Redazione | 08/04/2024
The "Design Economy 2024" report was presented today at the ADI Design Museum in Milan in order to raise awareness of the value of design for the competitiveness of the national production system. Here are the results that emerged.
By Redazione | 10/04/2024
An installation inspired by the lightness of clouds: it's called Extraordinary, is created by the Japanese duo we+, and is brought to Milan Design Week by Elica in collaboration with the Fondazione Ermanno Casoli in Rome.
By Redazione | 10/04/2024
There will also be two rooms of the great director David Lynch at the 2024 edition of the Milan Furniture Fair: it is the project Interiors by David Lynch. A Thinking Room. These are two rooms, identical, that stand as symbolic doors to be passed through before immersing oneself in the event.
By Redazione | 12/04/2024
Triennale Milano and Fondation Cartier pour l'art contemporain join forces to pay tribute to Alessandro Mendini, a great designer who influenced revolutions in thought and costume in the 20th century and the new millennium, with an exhibition scheduled from April 13 to October 13, 2024.
By Redazione | 16/04/2024
Opens the 62nd edition of the Salone del Mobile.Milan, April 16-21, 2024. The fair presents innovative and creative furniture designed to enrich the home environment. This year also features two rooms by David Lynch.
By Redazione | 30/04/2024
From May 2 to 25, 2024, the street art showcase of BENTIVOGLIO garage in Bologna will host a design piece from Palazzo Bentivoglio's permanent collection: the miniature Carlton bookcase by Ettore Sottsass.
By Redazione | 06/05/2024
At the Labirinto della Masone in Fontanellato, "EPHEMERA il bel bazar," the new thematic multi-brand store that houses some examples of contemporary design and craftsmanship, following Franco Maria Ricci's idea that the Labirinto would also offer refined souvenirs, was opened.
By Redazione | 14/05/2024
The White Carrara event returns from June 14 to September 29, 2024, and this year's edition is entirely devoted to Made in Italy design combined with local excellence.
By Redazione | 20/05/2024
Triennale Milano presents from May 22, 2024 to January 12, 2025 an extensive retrospective dedicated to Gae Aulenti, one of the most representative figures in contemporary architecture and design.
By Redazione | 22/05/2024
From June 14 to November 3, 2024, Castello Sforzesco opens the exhibition on Studio Ballo+Ballo. More than 100 Studio photographs dialogue with video installations by Studio Azzurro.
By Redazione | 21/06/2024
The Compasso d'Oro 2024 awards have been given out. Here are all the winners with reasons, including the Compasso d'Oro for Lifetime Achievement. A museum is also among the awardees.
By Redazione | 10/07/2024
Jim Carrey, one of the world's most popular actors, is auctioning off part of his art and design collection. Here are some of the items he has owned.
By Redazione | 12/07/2024
For some time now, artist and designer Stefano Russo has been pursuing his research on multi-sensory art that aims to invite the public to explore their inner and outer space. His most recent works are now on display in Pietrasanta, at the exhibition "The Space in Between: Evolution of Consciousness."
By Redazione | 19/07/2024
Connected Worlds is the theme of Fuorisalone 2025. This year's theme promotes and celebrates art through sharing installations in addition to design and forms of artificial intelligence.
By Redazione | 26/07/2024
From Oct. 1, 2024 to Feb. 4, 2025 at museum spaces in São Paulo and Santos, Brazil, a double exhibition will be held on the evolution of the design, history, and technology of coffee objects in Italy.
By Redazione | 27/07/2024
For the first time in the history of Casa Italia, the public will be able to access and immerse themselves in an exhibition, scenic and emotional journey: a total work of art, architecture and design entitled Ensemble.
By Redazione | 02/09/2024
From Sept. 14 to Nov. 3, Gallerie dell'Accademia is hosting the exhibition 'Convito di vetro.' It houses a table on which more than 200 artifacts made in Murano are displayed, and will dialogue with Veronese's Convito in the House of Levi.
By Redazione | 10/09/2024
From Sept. 14 to Oct. 6, 2024, the MIC in Faenza will showcase the work of five major ceramic companies presenting surfaces designed by internationally prominent designers.
By Redazione | 17/09/2024
Amazon donates the SWING swing, designed by studio Stefano Boeri Interiors and inspired by play and biodiversity, to the City of Buccinasco. The swing had been presented at Milan Design Week last year.
By Redazione | 05/10/2024
Triennale Milano presents an exhibition on Ettore Sottsass from October 4, 2024 to April 13, 2025. The exhibition brings together drawings and sketches by the designer related to the themes of architecture, landscape and ruins.
By Redazione | 08/10/2024
DcomeDesign presents the second edition of I am cup of tea! - 2nd edition with a mustache, featuring unique mugs made by women and men. The event, co-produced with CASVA will have two stages: the first in Milan from October 16 to 30, 2024, and the second in Lodi from December 14, 2024, to January 26, 2025.
By Redazione | 13/10/2024
From October 13, 2024, to March 2, 2025, at MA*GA in Gallarate, two exhibition routes tell the story of Italian design excellence from 1950 to 2000 and the projects of new generations from 2000 onward.
By Redazione | 16/10/2024
Eleven internationally renowned artists accepted the challenge to create, together with the masters of Murano, eleven splendid glass chandeliers that will be displayed under the vaults of the Procuratie Vecchie in St. Mark's Square from the end of November to the end of February.
By Redazione | 15/10/2024
The Italian Pavilion at the 2024 Frankfurt Book Fair was designed by Stefano Boeri: a 2,300-square-meter setup that evokes the idea of a piazza.
By Redazione | 15/10/2024
After the wave of controversy, irony and sneers, the people involved in the creation of Gaetano Pesce's work Tu si' 'na cosa grande in Naples speak out. Starting with his sons, according to whom the designer did not want to offer Naples an offensive or obvious work. Versions from the children, the curator, the artist's studio, the set designer.
By Redazione | 06/11/2024
Assembly launches Ceramiche Assemblea, a new collection inspired by Italian craftsmanship consisting of six elegant white earthenware services. The opening is Nov. 8 in Rome.
By Redazione | 09/11/2024
Introduced the Look of the Games, a dynamic graphic language that pays homage to Italian culture through an unforgettable experience at the 2026 Winter Olympics and Paralympics.
By Redazione | 09/01/2025
Barovier&Toso ARTE, a new gallery dedicated to contemporary artists who use glass as an artistic medium, will open in Murano. It will be based in the Palazzo Barovier&Toso, a building constructed in 1920 overlooking the picturesque Rio dei Vetrai.
By Redazione | 24/02/2025
MAN in Nuoro, in collaboration with the m.a.x. museum in Chiasso, celebrates Giovanni Pintori, a master of Italian and international graphic design, with an exhibition tracing his career and his connection with Olivetti. More than three hundred works including sketches, paintings and photographs.
By Redazione | 08/03/2025
From March 15 to April 6, 2025, the Design in Villa festival will be held on weekends: seven historic residences in the Veneto region will open their doors to offer the exclusive hospitality of those who have lived in them for generations and the creations of seven designers who will tell their design and creative journey.
By Redazione | 14/04/2025
Longchamp and Pierre Renart sign an exclusive collaboration to be unveiled at Milan Design Week, the world's largest event dedicated to design, scheduled for April 7-13, 2025.
By Redazione | 06/04/2025
The Ragghianti Foundation presents "Made in Italy. Destination America 1945-1954," a journey through postwar Italian artistic and industrial production, including design, fashion and crafts. From April 5 to June 29, 2025, in the halls of the Complesso di San Micheletto in Lucca.
By Redazione | 07/04/2025
From April 8-13, Salone del Mobile.Milano 2025 will welcome more than 2,100 exhibitors, including 168 new and 91 returning brands. A global event reflecting on sustainability, innovation and the future of design, enhanced by special projects, art installations and the return of Euroluce.
By Redazione | 15/04/2025
Presented simultaneously at the Milan Triennale and Osaka Expo, the Milan Cortina 2026 Olympic and Paralympic flashlights embody the values of the Games and Made in Italy. Made from recycled materials and powered by bio-LPG, they celebrate sport, the environment and inclusion.
By Noemi Capoccia | 25/04/2025
The Trentino winery renews the line born in 1988 with six wines of excellence and new labels signed by artist Margherita Paoletti. A project that combines viticulture, tradition and art, reaffirming the territorial identity of the Colline Avisiane.
By Redazione | 04/06/2025
In the heart of Venice, opposite the Basilica della Salute, Casa Sanlorenzo, a cultural laboratory of Sanlorenzo Arts, is born. A project that combines art, design and ethical reflection, transforming nautical aesthetics into contemporary vision and social engagement.
By Redazione | 30/06/2025
In Milan, the sartorial design space Casa Conte is transformed into an art gallery: spatial cuts by Lucio Fontana blend with fine antique works, creating an unprecedented encounter between eras and styles. Throughout 2025, the space presents a way of living under the banner of art and design.
By Redazione | 11/07/2025
Sold at Sotheby's for 8.6 million euros ($10.1 million) the first Birkin, which Hermès designed in 1984 for Jane Birkin: it is the most expensive handbag in history.
By Redazione | 15/07/2025
Unveiled in Venice the official medals of the Milan Cortina 2026 Olympic and Paralympic Winter Games. The design, signed by the Istituto Poligrafico e Zecca dello Stato, is a symbol of unity, commitment and sustainability. Federica Pellegrini and Francesca Porcellato are also present.
By Redazione | 28/08/2025
Rome's historic Ponte district is home to the Ponte Art and Design District, the capital's first permanent district dedicated to design, contemporary art, arts and crafts and antiques.