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Gupica for Besana Carpet Lab: An-tropico

With An-tropico, Gupica presents an installation for Besana Carpet Lab as a neo-exotic microcosm where humans, nature, and space merge into a single sensorial environment.

The project revolves around the Traccia carpet and Gupica’s Bambù lighting collection, defined by diffused light, tactile surfaces, and abstract natural references.

Rather than literal exoticism, An-tropico constructs an abstract nature shaped by material and gesture. The Bambù lamps and Traccia carpet translate organic references into minimal, graphic forms. Together, the works reflect on design as a filtered encounter between human action and the natural world.

Besana Carpet Lab Gupica

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Elizabeth Lewis: Cosmic Meadow

With Cosmic Meadow, SWING Design Gallery presents a solo installation by Australian ceramic artist Elizabeth Lewis, curated by Angela da Silva.

The project explores surreal biomorphic forms inspired by ancient sculpture and architecture, drawing from animal imagery and mythological references. Through hand-built ceramics, Lewis develops vessels and wall pieces that embrace processes of transformation, where decay and calcification become part of their expressive language.

Colorful vases populated by hybrid, unrecognisable creatures and serpentine forms build a sculptural landscape, presented as an immersive installation that blurs the line between object, myth, and environment.

Elizabeth Lewis: Cosmic Meadow
Curated by Angela da Silva for SWING Design Gallery, produced by 5VIE
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David/Nicolas: La Boiserie

With La Boiserie, David/Nicolas opened for the first time its Milan studio space in the 5VIE district, presenting an immersive installation born from years of research into architectural surfaces, interiors, and material expression.

Conceived as a modular and highly customisable panel system, the project translated the studio’s architectural language into recurring geometric motifs that generated rhythm, depth, and material richness. The wall became a central architectural element, shaping the spatial experience from within.

Installed inside the studio, La Boiserie unfolded as an intimate yet immersive environment, reflecting the practice’s ongoing exploration of form, detail, and surface.



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Creative Hungary: Budapest Select - Patterns of Being

With Budapest Select – Patterns of Being, Creative Hungary returns to Milano Design Week for its fifth consecutive year, presenting a curated overview of contemporary Hungarian design.

Bringing together 26 designers and 65 works, the exhibition explores how individuals shape and respond to the world through design. Structured across five themes—Current, Aspiration, Fate, Circularity, and Responsibility—it reflects on human experience through material, process, and intention.

Rooted in craftsmanship and critical thinking, the project offers a layered perspective on the relationship between people, objects, and their environment.



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CASAORNELLA: Animale Sociale – Nessuno mi può giudicare

Curated by Maria Vittoria Paggini, Animale Sociale brought together designers and collaborators including Turati Cucine, Fratelli Boffi, Cerasarda, Softhouse, Serenissima (Gruppo Romani), Corpoluce, Fotone Design, Michele Chiocciolini, Gouache (Kerakoll), Rumore, Mamoli Milano, Ferruccio Laviani, Alessandro Florio, Giuseppe Palermo, Ludovica Lugli, Abreham Brioschi, Sébastien Nôtre, Narici Milano, Laboratorio Niko Romito, Armatore Cetara, Feudi di San Gregorio, Mastrojanni, Sartoria Latorre, and BTicino at Casaornella.

The apartment became a permeable domestic organism where thresholds replaced walls and space was designed for encounter. Living, dining, sleeping, and bathroom areas flowed into one another through materials, light, and objects that dissolved separation and encouraged proximity.

Across the interiors, bespoke furniture, ceramic systems, mirrored surfaces, textiles, and sculptural works created a continuous environment where design, art, and daily rituals overlapped. The house became a shared field of presence rather than a sequence of rooms.

CASAORNELLA: Animale Sociale – Nessuno mi può giudicare
Presented at Casaornella in Via Conca del Naviglio 10



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5VIE Design Week – QoT: Qualia of Things
20–26 April 2026

HoperAperta: Close-up

Close-up presented by HoperAperta at the Museo Mangini Bonomi, an exhibition that explored the temporal, symbolic, and formal value of “image-objects”—between appearance and essence.
A collection of unique art and design works unfolded in the museum courtyard as a poetic system of images and memories, where painting, photography, sculpture, design, and architecture merged through processes of transformation and métissage. Forms moved continuously from function to image, and from memory to invention, generating a layered narrative in which past, present, and future coexisted. Each object carried its own temporal sequence, activated by poetic imagination and spatial movement.
Works by Maurizio Barberis, Armando Bruno & Alberto Torres, Claesson Koivisto Rune, Alfonso Femia AF*Design, Duccio Grassi, Steve Piccolo, Carmelo Zappulla (External Reference)

HoperAperta: Close-up
Presented at Mangini Bonomi Museum in Via del Vecchio Politecnico 3, Milan



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5VIE Design Week – QoT: Qualia of Things
20–26 April 2026

Accademia di Belle Arti di Brera: RAKETOPIA – tool-being

With RAKETOPIA – tool-being, students from the Accademia di Belle Arti di Brera presented a research project developed within the courses of Progettazione Artistica per l’Impresa and Product Design, coordinated by Elisabetta Gonzo and Donata Paruccini.

The project took the rake as its starting point to explore the relationship between individual and space, gesture and transformation. Reinterpreted through new meanings and functions, the object became a tool for shaping both physical and conceptual landscapes, opening moments of reflection and new ways of inhabiting.

Set within Il Giardino Segreto Laura Peroni, the exhibition unfolded as a quiet environment where design and nature came into dialogue.

Accademia di Belle Arti di Brera: RAKETOPIA – tool-being

Presented at Il Giardino Segreto Laura Peroni, Via Terraggio 5



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5VIE Design Week – QoT: Qualia of Things
20–26 April 2026

Scatto Filatelico reimagines the postcard as a contemporary ritual during Milano Design Week 2026.

At Spazio Filatelia Milano, visitors were invited to transform their own images into printed postcards, combining digital tools, tactile materials, and the timeless gesture of handwriting. From image selection to printing, stamping, and sending, each step became part of a slow, intentional experience.

Blending technology, design, and tradition, the project brought together Poste Italiane – Filatelia, Canon Italia, Haltadefinizione, and IRCCS Ospedale San Raffaele, with the cultural contribution of the Pinacoteca di Brera.

Scatto Filatelico
Spazio Filatelia Milano in Via Cordusio 4



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5VIE Design Week – QoT: Qualia of Things
20–26 April 2026

NOKORI by Giopato & Coombes.
A new experience to be discovered in person.

Giopato & Coombes Gallery, Via San Maurilio 19, Milan
April 20–26, 2026 — Milano Design Week



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5VIE Design Week – QoT: Qualia of Things
20–26 April 2026

POSTE ITALIANE: Postal Savings – From the Piggy Bank to the Stamp

Postal Savings – From the Piggy Bank to the Stamp is an exhibition curated by Giulio Iacchetti for Poste Italiane during Milan Design Week 2026.

The project explores the design of piggy banks and stamps dedicated to postal savings, reflecting on their historical, functional, ethical, and aesthetic dimensions. At its core, the exhibition highlights the piggy bank as a cultural object that embodies saving as both a daily practice and a symbolic gesture toward the future.

Piggy Bank Exhibition Curator: Giulio Iacchetti
Philatelic Exhibition Curator: Stefano Ratto – Poste Italiane
Exhibition Design: STUDIO GIULIO IACCHETTI
Archive Projects by: Atelier Thirty Four, Luigi Colani, Martí Guixé, Giulio Iacchetti, Nendo, Domenico Orefice, Stefano Ratto, Tommaso Schiuma, Philippe Tabet.
Original Projects for Poste Italiane by: Federico Angi, Denise Bonapace, Davide Biancucci, Giulio Iacchetti, Luca Madonini, Martinelli-Venezia, Matteo Ragni, Mario Scairato.

POSTE ITALIANE: Postal Savings – From the Piggy Bank to the Stamp
Presented at Palazzo Poste Italiane in Piazza Tommaso Edison 4



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5VIE Design Week – QoT: Qualia of Things
20–26 April 2026