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L’Appartamento by Artemest
WHERE: Palazzo Donizetti, Via Geatano Donizetti 48,
WHEN: April 21 – April 26, from 10 AM to 6 PM
Returning to Palazzo Donizetti, this year’s exhibition unveils a new chapter dedicated to Italian Grandeur, spanning the region’s artistic legacy, architectural language and exceptional craftsmanship.Inspired by spirit of the Grand Tour, this edition has invited five internationally renowned interior design studios to reinterpret the essence of Venice, Florence, Rome, Naples and Palermo through a contemporary lens.
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Responsive Nature: Molteni&c
WHERE: Via Senato 14
WHEN:
At Milan Design Week 2026, Molteni&C unveils its 2026 Outdoor Collection, curated by Vincent Van Duysen, through Responsive Nature, a site-specific installation by Elisa Ossino Studio. Conceived as a sequence of six immersive “botanical worlds,” the installation invites visitors on a layered journey through shifting landscapes. Each garden possesses its own botanical and spatial identity, yet all are connected by a system of partitions that filter views, frame perspectives, and encourage contemplation. Here, in each “world” a curation of furniture emerges organically within the vegetation, blurring the boundary between design and nature, all the while accompanied by a bespoke soundscape developed with Bang & Olufsen.
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Emmanuelle Luciani x Baccarat: Crystal Crypt
WHERE: Fondation Mondadori, Via Marco Formentini, 10
WHEN: April 21 – April 25
Crystal Crypt by Emmanuelle Luciani is a total artwork that reimagines the Baccarat Manufacture as a “temporal bubble” where craftsmanship becomes science fiction. Combining film, sound, scenography, and choreography, it creates an alternate mythology set in the year 5300, where crystal is a lost craft preserved by a few artisans at the edge of the galaxy. Inspired by Philip K. Dick and video game narratives, the work turns glassmaking gestures into choreography and builds an immersive environment with sculptural objects referencing artisanal tools. Drawing on sci-fi manga, space opera, and Gothic Revival aesthetics, it is unified by a violet atmosphere.
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ANIMALE SOCIALE – Nessuno mi può giudicare
Where: Via Conca del Naviglio 10
When: April 20 – April 26
Animale Sociale by Casaornella for Milan Design Week 2026 reimagines domestic space as a permeable organism where walls dissolve and thresholds guide relationships. Curated by Maria Vittoria Paggini, the apartment on Via Conca del Naviglio becomes an immersive environment in which materials, light, and perception shape a continuous landscape for encounter, turning distance and proximity into active design tools. Across living, dining, bathroom, and sleeping areas, the home unfolds as a fluid narrative populated by design pieces, artworks, and artisanal details that blur the line between object, architecture, and performance. Mirrors, ceramics, textiles, and sculptural furniture generate shifting atmospheres, while light and colour structure rhythm and mood. The space is further animated by curated artworks, crafted objects, scent, and hospitality rituals that transform living into a collective experience.
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Guatemala Diseña con las Manos
Where: Le Cavallerizze, Via Olona, 4
When: April 20 – April 26
A project that celebrates the fusion between artisanal tradition and contemporary design, inviting audiences to discover Guatemala’s cultural and creative richness through a lens that brings together millennia-old heritage, innovation, and sustainability. The exhibition originates from a national open call to design studios, artisans, and textile artists, from which an international jury selected the works of 17 Guatemalan design studios, reflecting the vitality of the country’s current creative landscape.
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Reference Library by Jil Sander
Where: Via Luca Beltrami 5
When: April 20 – April 24
Addressing the decline in reading for pleasure, Jil Sander joins forces with Apartamento bringing together sixty books from around the world, each chosen by someone whose perspective is admirable: writers, designers, artists, architects, filmmakers, thinkers,and makers, including Lykke Li, Faye Toogood and Rirkrit Tiravanija, creating a library of personal references that can be viewed by the public who will be given white gloves to explore the collection.
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Prada Frames
Where: Santa Maria delle Grazie, Via Giuseppe Antonio Sassi, 3
When: April 19 – April 21
Set inside Santa Maria delle Grazie, known for Leonardo da Vinci’s Last Supper, this exhibition by Prada will image-making as a defining force of contemporary culture, where representation often replaces fact and images function as cultural, political, and material systems rather than neutral reflections of reality. It explores how digital imagery blurs the line between human and machine authorship, undermining shared reference points and complicating the distinction between truth and fabrication. The symposium also highlights the physical infrastructures behind images, from resource extraction and energy use to data storage and invisible labour. Through lectures and discussions at Santa Maria delle Grazie in Milan, it addresses the history, politics, environmental impact, and attention economies of images, culminating in a public evening combining key ideas with a musical performance.
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Hermès la pelota
Where: Via Palermo 10
When: April 22 – April 26
During Milan Design Week 2026, Hermès unveils a new scenographic installation at La Pelota, conceived by Charlotte Macaux Perelman, architect and artistic director of the Hermès home collections, alongside Alexis Fabry. The latest creations are revealed through an urban-inspired setting, where a rhythm of voids and solids echoes throughout the space, inviting visitors to wander, explore and encounter each piece gradually. Repeated modular forms evoke the gestures of the artisan, engaging in a quiet dialogue with the rich interplay of textures, contrasts, colours and patterns that define the collection.
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Metamorphosis in Motion by Lina Ghotmeh
Where: Palazzo Litta, Corso Magenta, 24
When: April 21 – April 26
A pink labyrinth-like installation is coming to Palazzo Litta’s courtyard by the Lebanese-born architect. Transforming this area into a living stage for architecture, the work offers shifting pathways and perspectives for the audience to navigate.
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Polish Modernism. A Struggle for Beauty.
Where: Torre Velasca, Piazza Velasca 3/5, 16th Floor
When: April 20 – April 26
Offering storytelling about the movement of Polish Modernism, this show features contemporary objects to historic works across the 16th floor of Milan’s Torre Velasca, a landmark of post-war modernity. Curated by Federica Sala and Anna Maga working with Visteria Foundation, the display explores how Poland’s turbulent history gave rise to a sui generis modernism, and fiercely struggled for beauty understood not merely as aesthetic refinement.
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Rosewood: Objects That Speak, A Conversation Continued with Andrea Branzi
WHERE: Via Carlo de Cristoforis 1
WHEN: April 21- April 25
In April 2026, during Milan Design Week, Rosewood Hotels & Resorts presents Objects That Speak, an installation marking its debut in the Milan context and creating a dialogue with the legacy of Andrea Branzi. Curated in collaboration with Deyan Sudjic, the project begins from the idea of design as storytelling. At its center are fifteen of Branzi’s lamps, up to three meters high, made of rice paper, stone, and natural elements. Displayed together for the first time, they define a circular space, accompanied by two of the artist’s murals. Surrounding them, works by contemporary designers already involved in Rosewood projects, including Maarten Baas and Jaime Hayon, expand the narrative. The installation connects craftsmanship, limited production, and narrative dimension. Branzi’s work, rooted in “unrepeatable sequences,” becomes a starting point for interpreting a practice that spans eras and languages, keeping design as a space for dialogue.
