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Design Metaphors is the fourth exhibition that takes place in the space of Casa Lana - the interior of a private residence designed by Sottsass around the mid-1960s in Milan. The exhibition brings together a series of photographs taken by Sottsass between 1972 and 1978 on the subject of architecture, design and living.

On display are the participating and winning projects of the Compasso d'Oro 2024, which turns 70 this year.

"Brando nel microlocale" explores the potential of small space not as a limitation, but as an ingenious and functional solution for living. For the market launch of Brando, Small Small Space, a 7 m2 gallery, is transformed into a micro-house, where inventive solutions and essential objects are combined to explore the theme of living in small spaces.

Inside the ideal home we find Brando, the multifunctional bed designed by Giuseppe Arezzi for Campeggi.

In anticipation of Inga Sempé's exhibition La casa imperfetta (The Imperfect House), Triennale Milano presents a meeting with Inga Sempé and Paolo Ulian on the constants of the designer's profession: research, innovation, the study of materials, the relationship with clients and manufacturers, the logic of service, and the desire to respond to a rounded idea of function.
In dialogue with the designers there will also be Chiara Novello and Alessia Pessano, owners of the A/C studio, who will design the exhibition La casa imperfetta (The Imperfect House), curated by Marco Sammicheli, Director of the Triennale Milano Italian Design Museum and moderator of the meeting.
From 16 April, the exhibition will present Sempé's recent work to the public and will stage projects, objects and drawings in a domestic scenario designed by Studio A/C together with Inga Sempé.

On the occasion of the 150th anniversary of Guglielmo Marconi's birth, Adi Design Museum presents more than 50 models that bear witness to the revolution that has taken place in the world of radio, from the first valve equipment to the most modern devices.

The exhibition is guided by a number of major themes that have crossed society and that have also been interpreted by the world of radio, highlighting the contributions of designers such as the Castiglioni brothers, Zanuso and Sapper, Le Corbusier, Starck, Pantom and Loewy and important companies such as Braun, Ducati and Brionvega.

The exhibition is realised thanks to the private collection of curator Davide Vercelli.

Prendere Spazio (To take space), is an installation designed by Finemateria and hosted by Ditroit Dream: an intrusive occupation of the exhibition space conveyed by an outsized chair made of polyurethane foam peels.

The work takes a critical look at the social situation of life in Milan, highlighting a greater need for operating space on the part of young people.

On show will be more than one hundred works, small paintings of various shapes and sizes, together with the complete series of ‘Edipo Lamp’, the luminous sculpture conceived by Corrado Levi in 2003, already published on the cover of Abitare in 2004 and recently renewed and produced by the Fabbrica Eos gallery in a limited edition.

The opening on 12 September is part of ‘Benvenuti a Casa Feltrinelli, la notte dei libri’ (Welcome to Casa Feltrinelli, the night of books): an event organised in collaboration with the Maroncelli District association that will transform the city streets into Italy's largest open-air bookshop for one evening, with books, music, exhibitions and the involvement of authors, citizens and readers.

A wide-ranging retrospective—produced with Fondation Cartier pour l'art contemporain—on Alessandro Mendini’s work as an architect, designer, and artist. With over 400 works with different formats, materials and subjects from many private and public collections, the exhibition is structured in different thematic sections. The title of the show, Io sono un drago (I am a dragon), is inspired by one of his most emblematic self-portraits, to emphasize his uniqueness in the world of design, architecture and art.

The exhibition presents the works of the finalists of the 4th Edition of the biennial international art and design glass competition MilanoVetro-35, aimed at young creatives who present works in which the material glass is incorporated.
On the occasion of the inauguration, the prize-giving ceremony will take place, with the awarding of the ‘Aldo Bellini’ prize (the work will become part of the Castello Sforzesco Collections) and prizes in artist residencies and work materials.

The competition aims to valorise the innovative use of the material glass both in the artistic field and in contemporary design.

Carpenters Workshop Gallery presents the sculptural works of Vincenzo De Cotiis in Milan. 
The works on display are inspired by ancient arches and made of rare marble, recycled fiberglass and Murano glass.
In these works, the artist takes a perfectly conceived structure and reworks it in his own image and likeness, revolutionizing the ancient and unchallenged connotations of the arch. 

The exhibition includes more than a hundred photographs by the Ballo+Ballo studio, some design objects on loan from the ADI Design Museum and the Castello Sforzesco's Collections of Applied Art, and some original objects that belonged to the two photographers, as well as classic magazines with which the Ballo collaborated and volumes containing their photographs.

Thanks to the video installations by Studio Azzurro, which dialogue with the photographs and objects on show in the Sala Viscontea, everything that is memory and could not be archived - the photographic processes, the relationship with the design objects on show in the exhibition, the construction of the studio set-ups - becomes present and tangible.

An extensive retrospective dedicated to Gae Aulenti (1927 - 2012), one of the most representative figures of contemporary architecture and design. In a career spanning more than sixty years, the multifaceted designer has touched on numerous fields: from urban-scale design to exhibition design, from landscape architecture to interior design, from furniture design to graphic design and theatre set design.

The exhibition consists of 1:1 scale environments, thanks to the original materials preserved in the architect's Milanese archive, including drawings, photographs and maquettes.

The Museum of Italian Design celebrates the centenary of Triennale Milano with a new path that starts from the foundation of the institution in 1923 and ends with the development of technological, material and social research that has transformed the identity, aesthetics and main features of design Italian. The exhibition itinerary presents over 300 objects from the permanent collection which, when related to the history of the institution, tell the story of Italian design through the reconstruction of some domestic interiors. A journey that culminates in the Design Platform, a space that hosts temporary exhibitions of young designers and new forms.

The Museum of Italian Design is a Permanent Exhibition of Triennale MIlano

The exhibition DesignUP - seamless solutions is the new thematic in-depth exploration of the permanent collection of the Compasso d'Oro award that aims to represent each product as the result of a complex system, solutions of continuity in fact, that give iconic Italian design objects their uniqueness. The exhibition project highlights the most specific features of what we now call Made in Italy, and how design culture has permeated all the different stages of the country's development.