Downtown Design
redazione 5/04/2025

A city, a way of life

The Brera district, once infamous and then the center of the art scene in the 1960s, is transformed into the "place to be" for Milan Design Week. Between historical buildings and avant-garde projects

Seletti | Corso Garibaldi 117
The popular brand presents Superfurniture, a project dedicated to the world of furniture: a selection of unu­sual lamps, complements and accessories. That transform the ordinary into the extraordinary.

Italgraniti Group | Via Statuto 21
ew layout for the showroom of the company specializing in wall coverings, designed by Andrea Parisio and Giuseppe Pezzano. A space where light enhances the materials.

ITALGRANITI GROUP

Time & Style | Largo Treves 2, Via Balzan 4, Via San Marco 13
The Japanese brand’s new 2025 collection, a dialog between past and present, tradition and design, is presented in the calm (plastered with washi paper) and light-filled spaces.

TIME & STYLE

Nardi | Via Pontaccio 19
A few steps away from the Accademia di Brera, a space dedicated to professionals that communicates the com­pany’s idea of the outdoor lifestyle, where sustainability plays an important role.

NARDI

Glo | Palazzo Moscova 18
the installation designed by Michela Picchi for Glo.

Brera Design Apartment | Via Palermo 1
100 square meters in the heart of the Brera design district, a space designed as a meeting place for profes­sionals. This year’s installation, entitled Orizzonti, was curated by the Zanellato/Bortotto studio.

MUDAC | House of Switzerland Milano, Casa degli artisti, corso Garibaldi 897A
The Museum of Contemporary Design and Applied Arts in Lausanne presents Baddance with Thebadweeds, Rocio Berenguer’s installation in which people dance with a half-vegetable musical band.

Broot – Dialogues from within | Broot Pop Up, Via Borgonuovo 5
Assimagra’s project presents a collection born from the dialogue between Portuguese natural stone and materi­als from different industries in Portugal.

BROOT – DIALOGUES FROM WITHIN

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