La fabbrica dell’ombra.
Fim Umbrellas at Biblioteca Umanistica dell’Incoronata

On the occasion of Milano Design Week 2026, Fim Umbrellas transforms the Biblioteca Umanistica dell’Incoronata into a temporary manufactory. With La fabbrica dell’ombra, an installation designed by 967arch, Fim brings its identity to the forefront: work, material, and the technical gesture that for over 50 years has defined its approach to outdoor design.

The project interweaves product, process, and production identity, placing Fim’s industrial dimension in dialogue with its artisanal roots. This hybridisation represents one of the most distinctive traits of Made in Italy: the ability to combine production scale and craftsmanship culture, technology and manual skill, technical precision and material sensitivity.

“La fabbrica dell’ombra narrates the paradox of producing an immaterial, intangible, and at times poetic good. Designing shade, in fact, means intervening in light, transforming it into absence through a physical device. Shade thus becomes function, aesthetics, and environmental comfort: an element capable of combining technique and sensitivity, performance and perception. It is the symbolic narrative of a production deeply rooted in the material culture of our territory, grounded in craftsmanship and evolving into contemporary serial production, without losing its connection to constructive knowledge and to the identity of places.”  967arch

La fabbrica dell’ombra.
Fim Umbrellas alla Biblioteca Umanistica dell’Incoronata

Biblioteca Umanistica dell’Incoronata
Corso Garibaldi 116 - Brera Design District
21-26 April 2026
21 - 24 April: 9 AM - 7:30 PM, admission upon registration on site or on www.fim-umbrellas.com/en
25 - 26 April: 9 AM - 7:30 PM, free admission

Monday 20 April, Press Preview - 12 PM - 7 PM