With the passing, at 86, of the entrepreneur who led Brionvega through its defining years, a chapter closes that spanned every dimension of Italian design, from objects to the urban scale, extending to the architectures of James Stirling and Carlo Scarpa.
With the Stromberger Residence in Pasadena, Henry Eggers introduced modernist touches into the ranch-style language, complemented by the landscaping of master Garrett Eckbo, blending polygonal pools with sweeping views of the Pacific Mountains.
Amid experimental galleries and radical objects, Collectible Brussels reveals a still-elusive collectible design, where the boundaries between art, craft, and research grow increasingly fluid and hard to define.
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At Triennale Milano, the exhibition “Lella and Massimo Vignelli. A language of clarity” reconstructs a “biography through projects” that goes beyond style: from visual systems for companies and institutions to the grids that now structure interfaces and information, their method continues to organize the way we read the world.
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At The Noguchi Museum in New York, a major exhibition explores the complex relationship between the Japanese-American sculptor and the city, through iconic works, unrealized projects, and urban visions left suspended.
At the Variety Arts Theater in Downtown Los Angeles, a temporary program has reactivated a historic venue that has moved through vaudeville, cinema, and civic culture, presenting works from the Julia Stoschek Foundation in the United States for the first time.
Entering the studio on Via Fondazza in Bologna, Joel Meyerowitz photographs each bottle, vase, and jar used by the painter in his iconic still lifes. The project becomes Morandi’s Objects, a book set for release in 2026.
Chains, charms and a price tag of nearly ninety euros: the Diesel 60458 Wired Earbuds look more like a punk jewel than an audio gadget. An aesthetic provocation, or is this the end of invisible tech?.
From Ferrari to Lamborghini all the way to Xiaomi, within the Vision Gran Turismo project car brands design without the constraints of real-world production: the result is a series of extreme objects, closer to an idea than to an actual car.
Located on the Atlantic coast of Benin in West Africa, the new cultural venue aims to engage with the landscape, which has been shaped by significant historical events.
From Pratone to Strum to the Piper-Pluriclub, a shared cultural matrix emerges: a Turin that functioned as a laboratory where design first took shape as experience rather than object.
Districts, exhibitions, installations and new digital platforms: the complete guide to Fuorisalone 2026, between confirmations, expansions beyond Milan and new tools to navigate the busiest design week in the world.
Skidmore, Owings & Merrill unveils the project for a multifunctional complex set to become the defining landmark of Alatau’s “new town,” blending place branding, engineering, and a strikingly cinematic aesthetic.
Beyond the Biennale, Venice becomes a labyrinth of international art. Here’s our guide to the must-see exhibitions unfolding across the city.
Balmuda introduces The Clock, an alarm without a screen or hands, developed with Jony Ive’s LoveFrom, replacing notifications and displays with light and soundscapes.
Designed in 1973 just a short walk from Piazza dei Miracoli, this villa by Gae Aulenti is back on the market for €975,000. Organized as a sequence of parallel walls that do not divide but connect, the house functions as a system of passages: each threshold reshapes space, light, and the relationship between inside and outside.
At Triennale Milano, Andrea Branzi by Toyo Ito. Continuous Present does not attempt to bring the author into the present, but makes visible the distance he comes from: a time when design could be theory, critique, and the construction of imaginaries.
Between stages, backdrops and hidden recesses, an interior project in Nantes turns everyday life into a performance, oscillating between the domestic and the theatrical, the historic and the contemporary.
At the Neue Nationalgalerie, the satirical series Regular Animals turns Silicon Valley’s protagonists into unsettling hybrid creatures, setting them in sharp contrast with Mies’s modernist temple.
At Milan’s Castello Sforzesco, an exhibition retraces the work of Gianfranco Frattini through iconic furniture, glass pieces, and new editions produced by companies such as Cassina, Gubi, and Poltrona Frau.
Inside Valletta’s Grandmaster’s Palace, a scaled replica of Michelangelo’s Sistine Chapel becomes a reflection on authorship, power, and the narratives of art at the Malta Biennale.
At MIA Photo Fair in Milan, Phillip Toledano presents his AI-generated images and advances a radical claim: in an age where anything can be false, documentary survives only by staging the collapse of truth.
On the occasion of the 61st Venice Art Biennale, the Olivetti Showroom in Piazza San Marco hosts the fantastic and surreal works of Leandro Erlich: an exhibition project we will be hearing a lot about.
The “Centro Direzionale” underground station designed by EMBT introduces a fluid, wood-clad structure that redefines the urban “journey” and re-establishes a dialogue with the neighbourhood: it's a "stroll through the woods"
Defying the reigning minimalism, the new Chief Design Officer tells Domus how to restore cultural density, a plurality of forms, and the centrality of the human being to technology.
In London, the artist turns the foundation’s apartment into a habitable sculpture and actually puts it on the real estate market, somewhere between fiction, desire, and urban critique.
A Brutalist bank, a mansion inspired by the color of a shirt, and other little-known architecture to visit this weekend during FAI Spring Days.
Near Lecce, the Margine studio has transformed the historic Masseria Caronte into a restaurant, carrying out a “subtractive” restoration that strips away later additions and restores the building’s original spatial and material clarity.
Nomadic by nature, Paris Internationale leaves the French capital and lands in Milan during Art Week and Design Week, taking over a long-hidden modernist gem now undergoing transformation.
Filipe Saraiva has reinterpreted the footprint of an existing building to create a compact house which establishes a dialogue with the landscape and its history through precise volumetric cut-outs.
The 2026 FAI Spring Days will open to the public for the first time the air-raid shelter of the Palazzo delle Agenzie delle Entrate on via Moscova, together with the vault and the “Loggia della Fortuna”.
Opening planned for 2028 for the Musée & École Giacometti, which will transform the former Gare des Invalides into a major center devoted to the work of the sculptor.
