This year’s Salone del Mobile furniture fair, which took place this week in Milan, fell much earlier in April than usual. But that didn’t spare visitors from the sneezing fits the city’s springtime pollen shed can bring — or from the long lines and late nights that are now part …
This article is part of our Design special report previewing Milan Design Week. From furniture inspired by a dancing Muppet bird named Betsy to proposals for coping with a dystopian future, families of objects at Milan Design Week said more with more. Lara Bohinc turned her childhood love of Betsy …
This article is part of our Design special report previewing Milan Design Week. Where else but at Milan Design Week would you find bookcases made from books, a bar cabinet covered in hairy hide and a pavilion (and all its contents) fashioned from the stuff that stoppers wine bottles? The …
This article is part of our Design special report previewing Milan Design Week. Few gallerists in the contemporary design sphere have the singular vision of Nina Yashar, 67. Ms. Yashar, the founder of Milan’s Nilufar gallery, established in 1979, and Nilufar Depot, now marking its 10th anniversary, has long been …
This article is part of our Design special report previewing Milan Design Week. Ask nearly anyone with any kind of tenure in the design industry about Established & Sons, and their first response is likely to be the same: “I remember the parties.” For a brief but intense period following …
This article is part of our Design special report previewing Milan Design Week. Chairs are to design fairs what apple pies are to state fairs: comfortable fixtures with (at least) 10,000 variations. At Milan Design Week, the new introductions include some popular repeats, like Patricia Urquiola’s Tufty-Time sofa for B&B …
This article is part of our Design special report previewing Milan Design Week. Bouncing off glossy metal, being devoured by voluptuous fabrics or pouring out of lamp heads, light is always a design star. At Milan Design Week, it makes a conspicuous presence in the reflective surfaces of Michele De …