The designer, famous for her highly sophisticated custom-made furnishings - always poised between craftsmanship, research, industry and poetics - reveals in a quick Q&A her relationship with the city, her work and the desire for magic in design.
Name: ILARIA BIANCHI
Describe what you do:
I design narratives, interiors, furniture, objects for brands, for galleries, and for private clients. Moreover, I am a teacher at various design universities.
Where do you live and where is your studio?
I live in Milan and my studio is in via dei Transiti.
What are you designing today?
A kitchen, an armchair, the interior of a small gallery, a new collection of ceramics, a university course, a life that allows me to work less.
If you could build a secret passage in your house, where would it lead?
I recommend the Nightmare Homes column by @mangiapregasbatty - search under "the toilet closet".
Your first memory related to the Fuorisalone:
The Fénomena exhibition organised with my collective The Ladies' Room, in the spaces of SIAM 1838.
Your favorite corner of the city:
The Martesana Naviglio.
Bookshelf tema – ph. Caterina Valletta
Something you have at home that you designed yourself:
A crazy mirror, a unique piece in which none of the material it is made of is what it seems.
A design object that you would have liked to design yourself:
The one design object I wish would be invented before I die is the dream projector: you attach electrodes to your forehead and it projects your dreams.
Dinner at a friend's house: what do you bring?
Wine.
If you could only eat one food your entire life, what would it be?
The Bra sausage (I apologize to my vegan friends and I'm ashamed, but I can't help but give in to Bra sausage).
If you could only have one drink your entire life, what would it be?
Bloody Mary.
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