Alcova announces two new locations for 2025

Back from the summer holidays and on the eve of the start of the new school year, Alcova is already thinking about Fuorisalone 2025.
The next appointment for the independent, experimental or speculative design event, conceived by Valentina Ciuffi and Joseph Grima, will be in Miami, where Alcova will return for the second time in December during Miami / Basel.

Alcova Miami 2024

Alcova, born in 2018, started its journey in the milanese context occupying the spaces of the former Cova panettone factory in its first two editions, definitively baptizing Nolo as the emerging neighborhood of Milanese creativity of those years. It was an evocative industrial space, where the plants grown in the courtyard and between the cracks in the floor were alternated with old machinery and bags still full of flour.


Alcova 2024, Villa Borsani - Tom Fereday, ph. Piergiorgio Sorgetti

From there, hunting for abandoned spaces to let the Milanese community to discover them was one of the most distinctive features of the event: from the Ex-Macello in the Calvairate area to the military hospital in Baggio, up to Varedo, where we all ended up at the 2024 edition to discover Villa Bagatti Valsecchi and Villa Borsani.
This trip outside the city limits, or rather, even the provincial ones, worked very well and reinforced the idea of ​​Milan as a city that expands and grows. So much so that for the 2025 edition, these two jewels of residential architecture are joined by two other new locations.

Pasino Glasshouses, once home to one of the largest orchid farms in Europe.











ph. Piergiorgio Sorgetti

- Former SNIA factory, where artificial and synthetic fibers such as rayon, viscose, nylon and polyester were produced during the 20th century. The factory closed permanently in 2003 and the first demolition works began in 2023.








ph. Piergiorgio Sorgetti