"Design Variations" creates a collective exhibition featuring projects both from Italy and around the world. The exhibition becomes a path connecting Design and Project Culture to the city's social and architectural heritage.

A plurality of projects triggers a profound exchange between exhibitions, place identity, art, ingenuity, creativity, and design innovation. All of this takes place within two palaces: the Circolo Filologico Milanese (at Via Clerici, 10), which is the oldest association in the city, founded to spread culture and the study of foreign languages and civilizations; and the Palazzo Visconti (at Via Cino del Duca, 8), one of the most elaborate examples of Milanese rococo, characterized by richly decorated rooms and magnificent frescoes.

The exhibition is enriched by collaborations with Olimpia Zagnoli, a world-renowned artist, who illustrates the facades of the two palaces with an installation featuring contemporary and lively lines with abstract forms. Marialaura Rossiello/Studio Irvine, an architect and designer, presents a reworking of the Circolo Café; her intervention for the Circolo bar area will consist of enhancing, and at the same time respecting, the space through a timeless meltingpot of materials and objects.