Dezeen LIVE: Milan design week 2024
The Dezeen team are reporting live from Milan design week in the northern Italian metropolis (15-19 April) with updates throughout the day, including exclusive previews of products, installations and events.
11:15am Photographed by Dezeen's Jane Englefield, who writes: Jennifer Hahn has hit Alcova's Villa Borsani with the entirety of her Milan design week luggage as the team prepares to leave the city.
She's donning the dad-at-an-art-gallery front backpack look, after reports of a visitor smashing a handful of one of the exhibitor's glass flowers here yesterday.
Find out more about Alcova on Dezeen Events Guide ›
11:00am Dezeen's Jennifer Hahn reports: the design world congregated at the Biblioteca Ambrosiana last night to pay tribute to Italian design icon Gaetano Pesce, who died earlier this month aged 84.
The occasion was the newly opened "Nice to See You" exhibition, conceived before his death, which is showing Pesce's most recent works from 2023-2024, some completed just weeks before the exhibition was originally due to open.
Outside the historic library, there is a new monumental installation of a man crouching on all fours that was designed to reflect the "tiredness of the so-called stronger sex".
There were speeches and standing ovations in honour of the "maestro", with attendees including Pesce's family and team alongside designers including Fabio Novembre.
10:30am Carlo Ratti returns to Brera Botanical Garden with sunRICE, an installation of sculpture made of rice husk that demonstrate the potential of the material.
The biodegradable objects can be used as fertiliser after the exhibition concludes. Chef Niko Romito has also baked rice "cookies" for the occasion, available to try at the site – Jane Englefield
10:00am Those in need of some rest and recuperation from the frenzy of Milan design week, writes Dezeen's Max Fraser, have been enjoying the calm space of the Bocci apartment, a permanent showcase for the Canadian brand's lighting collections.
The space underwent a makeover for this year's event with walls hand painted by skilled artisans Pictalab to evoke velvet and parchment.
As well as impressive clusters of their pendants hanging in the various rooms, Bocci was also launching 14p, their first portable table light made from sepia-toned cast-glass.
Fans of the beautiful Bocci tote bag (launched last year as part of the company's rebrand by Studio Frith) could pick up a new red and blue colourway for 2024. The Dezeen team, already heavy users of the 2023 bag, are thrilled!
9:30am Morning! Welcome to the fifth and final day of Dezeen's reporting from Milan design week.
This week more than 20 of the Dezeen team have been out and about in Milan, soaking up all that Salone del Mobile and the wider Fuorisalone have to offer.
Among them, Dezeen's editorial director Max Fraser, editor-at-large Amy Frearson, digitial editor Rupert Bickersteth, deputy editor Cajsa Carlson, US editor Ben Dreith, design editor Jennifer Hahn, social editor Clara Finnigan, design and interiors reporter Jane Englefield and editorial assistant Starr Charles have been reporting from the 62nd edition of the world's biggest design fair.
Our live coverage from Milan wouldn't have been possible without all the work also going on from the dozens of Dezeeners in our London HQ, and in Shanghai and the US where we also have teams.
This week we have partnered with brands on exclusive video content, co-hosted parties, thrown a Dezeen Awards dinner at Villa Necchi, moderated panel discussions, interviewed designers and architects, attended exhibitions, installations, previews and product launches – and we've drunk a few negronis at Milan's legendary Bar Basso too!
There would be nothing to report if it weren't for the wonderful designers, artists, architects and multi-disciplinary practitioners who bring their creativity and their creations to Milan every year – so here's to them, and our final day covering all the goings-on across the city. Let's go!
Catch up on everything that has happened so far this week:
Day one from Milan design week 2024
Day two from Milan design week 2024
Day three from Milan design week 2024
Day four from Milan design week 2024
To keep you up to date, Dezeen Events Guide has created a Milan design week digital guide highlighting the key events at the festival.
See Dezeen Events Guide for all the latest information you need to know to attend the event, as well as a list of other architecture and design events taking place around the world.
All times are London time.
The lead image is by Cajsa Carlson.
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