Can we embrace change without losing the essence of who we are? This is the question that “Mondi Connessi: Interactivity and Immersion in Design for a Connected World,” the theme of Fuorisalone 2025, invites us to answer.

At AXYHOTELS InnStyle in Milan, this year we will again welcome the multifaceted artist Alessia Dionisi from the Fornace77 Arts and Crafts Laboratory. With her work, “La piuma rubata”, Alessia will offer us a profound reflection on contamination and memory, hope and the ability of design to regenerate.

In perfect harmony with the theme of the Fuorisalone, Alessia will guide us into a truly relevant contemporary truth: the interactions between different worlds generate inevitable transformations. In this vein, the flamingos in her work are black, while the 1960s design armchair is covered in pink feathers. It represents the direct consequence of a contamination that occurs on multiple levels – cultural, environmental and technological – but which leads us to observe reality through new eyes.

Coming into contact with other elements, flamingos are no longer a symbol of purity and harmony, just as the papier-mâché they are made of stops being light and malleable to take on the appearance of lava stone. Everything changes and we must not only accept the change, but be its protagonists. "The Stolen Feather" piece is a warning reminding us that our actions have a direct impact on what surrounds us, and it is precisely with our actions that we can preserve beauty by becoming responsible towards our precious Planet.

With her surprising work, Alessia suggests that we ourselves are the ones who must reinterpret and preserve the essence of the past within a new context. Thus the armchair, an object that has always invited pause and reflection, is combined with black flamingos, which remind us that the natural world is a treasure to be protected, and is then enriched with pink feathers, symbols of fragility and strength.

Just like contemporary design, whose challenge is to create spaces and objects that can interact with a constantly evolving world without ever losing its core identity, we are responsible for our home, the Earth, which welcomes us all as its guests.

And if there is a place where design is at home, it is the AXYHOTELS InnStyle in Milan - the ideal stage for Alessia Dionisi's "The Stolen Feather" as well as being the perfect incarnation of those "Connected Worlds" that will be the main characters at Fuorisalone 2025. Art and hospitality will intertwine in what is already, by its very nature, a microcosm of influences and contaminations, of people, ideas, and visions.

Just as each and every experience leaves a mark, Alessia's armchair invites us to observe and participate in the metamorphosis that takes place in our world - where a flamingo turns black due to the pollution that threatens our ecosystems, but without ever losing its identity, nor the hope for a better world.