MANIFESTO

#63

CHANGE OF SPACE

VENICE

A Belmond Train

The legendary Venice Simplon-Orient-Express, A Belmond Train, rewrites history with L’Observatoire. Designed by JR, it will be presented at the Venice Biennale.

NEWS

LOEWE LAMPS

LOEWE’s exhibition at the 2024 Salone del Mobile reflects the brand’s constant investment in craftsmanship and its dedication to collaborating with artists within and beyond its immediate production. Among these are Alvaro Barrington, Akiko Hirai, and Jennifer Lee.

SAINT LAURENT

GIO PONTI,
VILLA PLANCHART

Saint Laurent Rive Droite presents an exclusive collaboration with the Gio Ponti Archives and the Anala y Armando Planchart Foundation on the occasion of Milan Design Week.

The topography of matter

Playing on the ambiguity between what is past and what is present, the Hermès object has no age, transcends time. On the occasion of Milan Design Week 2024, the absolute concept of heritage and tradition is translated into the spaces of La Pelota.

LORO PIANA

A TRIBUTE TO
CINI BOERI

An installation honouring the work and vision of the Milanese architect and designer Cini Boeri on the centenary of her birth, coinciding with the 100th anniversary of the founding of Loro Piana.

DESIGN

BACK TO CABANON

From April 16th to April 20th, Bottega Veneta pays homage to the genius of Le Corbusier with a renewed version of the Tabouret LC14, originally designed in 1952 for the Cabanon: a cabin built by the architect in Roquebrune-Cap-Martin on the Côte d’Azur where, alongside numerous fixed furnishings, movable furnishings are all conceived as boxes.

INTERVIEW

FOLD&CREASE

During Design Week 2024, Issey Miyake presents installations made with everyday objects in collaboration with the Dutch collective WeMakeCarpets, which has spent the last decade transforming everyday objects and materials into site-specific installations.

EXHIBITION

IO SONO UN DRAGO

Triennale Milano and Fondation Cartier pour l’art contemporain present a double tribute to Alessandro Mendini, architect, designer, artist, and theorist who has marked the revolutions of thought and customs of the twentieth and twenty-first centuries.

NEWS

AN INVITATION TO DREAM

From April 15th to 21st, the black and white lithographic prints by Jack Davison will transform the spaces of Milan Central Station into an interactive dialogue, capable of lasting even after the departure of its spectators.

PHOTOGRAPHY

WOMEN!

WOMEN, Pirate Edition! 女性 is the fanzine version of the original volume dedicated to the work of Nadia Lee Cohen, a photographer of dreamlike, saturated, and surreal landscapes that capture the visceral pleasures and terrors of the urban environment.