Milan Design Week

From Broken Nature to mycelium architecture, from Magis’s flat-pack innovation to Starck’s whimsical mirror, and from Rossana Orlandi’s plastic rehab project to the rise of glass, Azure’s editors saw and loved a lot at this year’s Milan Design Week. Here are our 40 favourite moments.

In Milan, the singular “experience” was exalted with light and sound installations that spoke to design’s vaguer intimations of transcendence. But even these were eagerly consumed – Instagrammed as much…

Five fixtures from Euroluce scale up the magical effects of glass.

Judging by what Sé, De Castelli, Moroso, Seletti and others have planned, there will be a burst of vibrant colour and luxurious finishes at the Salone and beyond.

Architect-turned-light and land artist Phillip K. Smith III muses on the value of endless experimentation.

A healthy number of historic furniture pieces are being reissued anew, as seen at many Salone del Mobile booths in May. These three pieces, by Paolo Piva, Carlo Mollino and Frank Lloyd Wright, have us transfixed.

Tijs Gilde’s Gravel collection, a line of silica furnishings the designer unveiled at SaloneSatellite 2018, epitomize beauty in the rough.

Move over, quartz: As seen at Salone del Mobile 2018, marble – the OG stone – is back.

A-listers confronted their demons for Czech glass manufacturer Lasvit during Milan Design Week. At the Monster Cabaret, we asked them about their deepest fears – and their macabre art pieces.

Milan Design Week 2018 has come and gone and Azure’s editors were on the ground to take it all in. From the crowded booths at Salone del Mobile to the many Fuorisalone installations throughout the city, here’s a comprehensive wrap-up of what we saw and experienced.