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Olivetti. Uomini, progetti e prodotti
14/ Jan
H. 6:00 pm
Opening
Where
ADI Design Museum
Piazza Compasso d'Oro 1

The exhibition, curated by Maurizio Navone, is a unique journey through the history of Olivetti design. It celebrates innovation with iconic projects such as the P101 - narrated by Gastone Garziera, the Divisumma 18, the Valentine, and the development of the Serie 45.
The setup, inspired by Hans von Klier's modular display concept, is enriched with interviews and insights from the original catalog.


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Show
Olivetti. Uomini, progetti e prodotti
Free entry
Dates
15/01/2025
08/02/2025
A night with Franca Helg
15/ Jan
H. 7:00 pm - 8:00 pm
Guided Tour
On reservation
Where
Fondazione Franco Albini
Via Telesio, 13

An in-depth look at the figure of Franca Helg, an extraordinary woman and example of emancipation. 
The visit includes an account of the exhibition ‘Franco Albini M1. Storie di una linea rossa lunga oltre 60 anni' (Franco Albini Foundation and Marco Marzini). A collaboration project between the two great architects, Albini and Helg, together with graphic designer Bob Noorda.


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2008-2025. Colore, segno, testo
16/ Jan
H. 6:00 pm
Opening
Free entry
Where
ADI Design Museum
Piazza Compasso d'Oro 1

Materials, cultural influences, and shared dialogues come together in an exhibition that celebrates the art of handcrafted design, innovation, and the inspiring power of the feminine figure.
Curated by Eliana Lorena and her Atelier.


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Show
2008-2025. Colore, segno, testo
Free entry
Dates
17/01/2025
02/02/2025
Unseen animals and their incredible homes
18/ Jan
Workshop
Paid admission Register
Where
ADI Design Museum
Piazza Compasso d'Oro 1

The workshop starts with the narration of an engaging story, introducing participants to 24 fantastic animals. The children will be invited to discover the characteristics of each animal and to design the perfect home for each one, combining imagination and creativity.

The aim of the workshop is to stimulate the children's imagination and raise their awareness of designing for ‘others’ through the creation of fantastic houses for real or imaginary creatures.


Unseen animals and their incredible homes (Day 4)
19/ Jan
Workshop
Paid admission Register
Where
ADI Design Museum
Piazza Compasso d'Oro 1

The workshop starts with the narration of an engaging story, introducing participants to 24 fantastic animals. The children will be invited to discover the characteristics of each animal and to design the perfect home for each one, combining imagination and creativity.

The aim of the workshop is to stimulate the children's imagination and raise their awareness of designing for ‘others’ through the creation of fantastic houses for real or imaginary creatures.


Mini Design Club
30/ Jan
H. 7:30 pm
Workshop
On reservation Paid admission Register
Where
MINI Spazio
Via Pietro Crespi, 17

MINI Spazio hosts a collective workshop where manual art and creative design are shared and valued as an expression and transformative ritual. The first meeting of the ‘Matter’ cycle begins with the *Dharana Pottery* course dedicated to meditative ceramics. In three meetings you will explore imperfection as a value, creating unique objects.

Each meeting includes a different working technique and a sensory experience with natural wines and plant-based snacks.


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Appartamento Milanese
31/ Jan
From 6:30 pm
Opening
Free entry Entrance upon registration Register
Where
MINI Spazio
Via Pietro Crespi, 17

From Mini Spazio comes a pop-up showroom that pays homage to the feminine design, art and architecture of the 1960s and 1970s.
Appartamento Milanese is a journey through the rooms of Mini Spazio that interweaves the memory of those glorious years with the talents of six contemporary female artists.


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Exhibition Flash sale
Appartamento Milanese
Free entry Entrance upon registration
Dates
31/01/2025
02/02/2025
Mini Design Club
6/ Feb
H. 7:30 pm
Workshop
On reservation Paid admission Register
Where
MINI Spazio
Via Pietro Crespi, 17

MINI Spazio hosts a collective workshop where manual art and creative design are shared and enhanced as an expression and transformative ritual. Each meeting in the ‘Materia’ cycle includes a different processing technique and a sensory experience with natural wines and plant-based snacks.


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Mini Design Club
13/ Feb
H. 7:30 pm
Workshop
On reservation Paid admission Register
Where
MINI Spazio
Via Pietro Crespi, 17

MINI Spazio hosts a collective workshop where manual art and creative design are shared and enhanced as an expression and transformative ritual. Each meeting in the ‘Materia’ cycle includes a different processing technique and a sensory experience with natural wines and plant-based snacks.


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Supponiamo un amore
13/11/2024
18/01/2025
Show
Free entry
Where
Fondazione Officine Saffi
Via Niccolini 35a

The exhibition is the first event in an exhibition cycle dedicated to promoting ceramics and its potential within the practice of emerging artists and designers.

Invited as guests in residence within the foundation's workshops and Officine Saffi Lab, each of the four exhibiting artists presented a project of a work to be realised in ceramics, freely drawing on the complex of tools, techniques, materials and knowledge offered by the working group and ceramics technicians.

 


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Opening
Supponiamo un amore
Free entry
12/ Nov
H. 6:30 pm - 9:30 pm
Drawing the action. The papers of Ico Migliore
28/11/2024
19/01/2025
Show
Free entry
Where
MEET Digital Culture Center
Viale Vittorio Veneto 2, Milano

The exhibition brings together a selection of Ico Migliore's drawings from the Red Light Architecture collection. The works show what is not normally found in architectural drawings - the movement of people, their sensory perceptions and their interactions within the space - accompanying the public on an immersive journey that recounts the evolution of design thinking, transforming intuition and matter into a concrete work.


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Lamps
07/11/2024
25/01/2025
Exhibition
Free entry
Where
Oxilia Gallery
Via Nino Oxilia, 9

For its latest exhibition in 2024, Oxilia Gallery brings together a group of international designers to present a celebration of light. The exhibition ‘Lamps’ presents a selection of floor, table and wall lamps made of various materials and techniques, exploring a diverse vision on the theme of lighting.


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Opening
Lamps
Free entry
7/ Nov
H. 6:00 pm - 9:00 pm
Showing the project. The paths of a publisher
18/12/2024
02/02/2025
Show
Free entry
Where
ADI Design Museum
Piazza Compasso d'Oro 1

A tribute to the person of Mario Mastropietro in his 50 years of activity.
The exhibition is a first-person account of a professional career that has seen the creation of editorial series, monographs, historical texts and magazines, distinguished by an innovative approach and, above all, by the inauguration of real strands of investigation, such as that of exhibition design.


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Alchimie nel Vuoto
28/11/2024
08/02/2025
Show
Free entry
Where
Galleria Antonio Colombo
Via Solferino, 44

Elena Salmistraro, one of the most eccentric and recognised voices of contemporary design, presents her first solo exhibition: a fascinating journey between design, art and material experimentation, where the concept of emptiness becomes a space of creative and alchemic transformation. 

The exhibition is divided into a path where materials such as ceramic, glass and metal are combined in unprecedented concrete alchemies, giving life to a symbolic and poetic universe that embraces the sinuous and organic forms typical of Salmistraro's expressive language.

Curated by Silvana Annicchiarico.


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Opening
Alchimie nel Vuoto
Free entry
28/ Nov
H. 6:30 pm
Architecture for Dogs
03/12/2024
16/02/2025
Show
Paid admission Register
Where
ADI Design Museum
Piazza Compasso d'Oro 1

An exhibition dedicated to the relationship between dogs and design, curated by Kenya Hara from Japan, explores how architecture and the built environment can strengthen the bond between living beings.

The exhibition features innovative works by internationally renowned architects, with kennels and shelters that meet the needs of dogs and encourage cohabitation. The project, accessible online with free instructions, invites the public to create spaces designed for their animals, promoting a global dialogue on inclusive and shared architecture.


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Opening
Architecture for Dogs
Entrance upon registration
2/ Dec
H. 6:30 pm
Andrea Branzi. Civilizations without jewels have never existed.
18/12/2024
16/02/2025
Show
Free entry
Where
10 Corso Como
Corso Como, 10

10 Corso Como dedicates an exhibition to the Italian architect, designer, historian and theorist Andrea Branzi one year after his death, celebrating his vision and radical works. The exhibition focuses on Branzi's forward-looking approach, which crossed applied arts, domestic and urban space with an unprecedented sensitivity. 


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Il Magistretti inglese
11/11/2024
27/02/2025
Show Guided Tour
On reservation Paid admission
Where
Fondazione studio museo Vico Magistretti
Via Bellini, 1

“I am connected, for several reasons, to the English tradition. (...) The English understood a secret of design: 'To look at usual things with unusual eyes'.” Vico Magistretti in Abitare, no. 314, January 1993.

The exhibition explores and deepens the relationship between Vico and the UK: the projects, correspondences, collaborations, conferences and awards, but also the works and memories of his students at the Royal College of Art in London.


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Metallica by Delvis Unlimited
12/11/2024
15/03/2025
Installation
Free entry
Where
Delvis Unlimited
Via Fatebenefratelli 9, Milano

Delvis Unlimited presents Metallica, an installation that develops new forms of dialogue and symbiosis with and between different talents: Derek Castiglioni, Duccio Maria Gambi, Stefano Del Vecchio, Matteo Cibic.

The Delvis Unlimited gallery entrusted the creative direction of Metallica to Matteo Cibic. The designers' gaze focused on the material, the metal that makes up the landscape built by man and in which man finds himself in his everyday life.

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Opening Party
Metallica by Delvis Unlimited
On reservation
12/ Nov
H. 6:00 pm - 9:00 pm
Elio Fiorucci
06/11/2024
16/03/2025
Show
Paid admission
Where
Triennale Milano
Via Alemagna, 6

The exhibition seeks to represent the creative interests of Elio Fiorucci, Italian designer, cool hunter and entrepreneur. From the 1960s on, the Fiorucci brand revolutionized lifestyle, fashion and the contemporary art scene in Italy. 
The exhibition includes Elio Fiorucci's voice—rendered through previously unpublished recordings—which traces some personal moments and is put in dialogue with the voices of other protagonists of the designer's life story.


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Inside the homes. Interiors in Milan 1928-1978
06/11/2024
16/03/2025
Show
Paid admission
Where
Villa Necchi Campiglio
Via Mozart, 14

Curated by Enrico Morteo and Orsina Simona Pierini, NELLE CASE - MILAN INTERIORS 1928-1978 is not a traditional exhibition, but an overview, a reflection and an unmissable opportunity to reread an extraordinary chapter in the history of Italian architecture, allowing oneself the pleasure of peeking inside famous houses to grasp their exceptionality and originality.

The initiative stems from the book NELLE CASE - MILAN INTERIORS 1928-1978, recently published by Hoepli, which recounts the history of living in Milan from the inside.

 


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Architetture Paesaggi Rovine - Ettore Sottass
04/10/2024
13/04/2025
Show
Paid admission
Where
Triennale Milano
Via Alemagna, 6

The new chapter dedicated to Ettore Sottsass celebrates his vision of architecture through a collection of previously unpublished drawings. The exhibition, housed in the atmospheric Sala Sottsass, brings together sketches on the theme of landscape and ruins, displaying works from the post-Memphis period

The enlargements of the drawings are accompanied by reflections, including excerpts from the text ‘Ruins’, which reveal Sottsass's focus on living as opposed to what is visible on the outside.


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Museo del Design Italiano. Forme mobili
25/10/2024
13/04/2025
Show
Paid admission
Where
Triennale Milano
Via Alemagna, 6

The exhibition Forme mobili explores movement as design action, linking body, silhouette, gesture and structure through ten sections of Triennale objects.

Three new areas of research are introduced: fashion, nautical and illustration, which relate works and materials. The path culminates in the Design Platform, dedicated to exhibitions by contemporary designers, with an exhibition by fashion designer Monica Bolzoni.


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Franco Albini M1: stories of a red line over 60 years long
15/11/2024
17/04/2025
Show Guided Tour
On reservation
Where
Fondazione Franco Albini
Via Telesio, 13

A celebration of the Line 1 (1964) and the storytelling of the path of the sign that Albini and Helg began to design in the 1950s. Also on show are the Tre Pezzi Metropolitana edition armchairs made by Cassina.


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Galtrucco. Fabrics Fashion Architecture
13/12/2024
15/06/2025
Show
Free entry
Where
Palazzo Morando
Via Sant'Andrea, 6

An exhibition that retraces the years of Galtrucco's commercial activity, told in a temporal narrative path that starts in the 1920s up to the beginning of the new millennium. The exhibition is divided into two sections: the first, curated by Alessandra Coppa, is dedicated to Galtrucco's communication through its shops, shop windows and advertising; the second, curated by Margherita Rosina and Enrica Morini, focuses on the fabrics sold in its spaces.


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Opening
Galtrucco. Fabrics Fashion Architecture
12/ Dec
H. 6:00 pm
Museo del Design Italiano
24/11/2023
11/11/2025
Show
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Where
Triennale Milano
Via Alemagna, 6

The Museum of Italian Design celebrates the centenary of Triennale Milano with a new path that starts from the foundation of the institution in 1923 and ends with the development of technological, material and social research that has transformed the identity, aesthetics and main features of design Italian. The exhibition itinerary presents over 300 objects from the permanent collection which, when related to the history of the institution, tell the story of Italian design through the reconstruction of some domestic interiors. A journey that culminates in the Design Platform, a space that hosts temporary exhibitions of young designers and new forms.

The Museum of Italian Design is a Permanent Exhibition of Triennale MIlano


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DesignUP – seamless solutions
22/06/2024
31/12/2025
Show
Paid admission
Where
ADI Design Museum
Piazza Compasso d'Oro 1

The exhibition DesignUP - seamless solutions is the new thematic in-depth exploration of the permanent collection of the Compasso d'Oro award that aims to represent each product as the result of a complex system, solutions of continuity in fact, that give iconic Italian design objects their uniqueness. The exhibition project highlights the most specific features of what we now call Made in Italy, and how design culture has permeated all the different stages of the country's development. 


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