Milan Design Week

According to someone who wasn’t supposed to care this much.

I’ve never really been someone deeply across the design world or the type to know the name of every chair before it becomes popular. Milan Design Week always felt slightly intimidating to me. Like an event for people who own very expensive lamps and casually use words like “materiality” in conversation.

But over the past few weeks, I kept saving things from it. Then rewatching them. Then sending them to friends with zero context like “wait… look at this.”

I think what I’m drawn to isn’t necessarily “design” in the traditional sense, but the craftsmanship behind it all. The amount of thought, patience and collaboration that goes into making something beautiful out of glass, wood, fabric or metal. From the outside, Milan Design Week feels less about trends and more about people obsessing over their craft in the best possible way.

It also weirdly feels very human. Designers, studios and artists travelling from everywhere to show work, swap ideas, reconnect with friends and spend a week collectively caring deeply about objects and spaces.

Anyway, here’s what caught my eye:

01 - Natalia Criado x Laboratorio Paravicini

02 - Garden of Hope, Rive Roshan

03 - 6:AM OVER AND OVER AND OVER AND OVER

04 - Linde Freya Tangelder x Cassina

05 - Elisa Uberti

06 - Worn Studio by Natalia Ortega

07 - Bureau Parso

08 - In Clover, Bieke Casteleyn x JOV present

Anyway, I fear Milan Design Week may have converted me. At the very least, I now have 400 saved posts of extremely beautiful chairs and a dangerous desire to buy a sculptural lamp I absolutely cannot afford.