Large installations at Milan Design Week are those projects that the public loves because they bring them a little closer to the world of design, which once aspired to be democratic but is ultimately a bit of a niche. Designed with the hope of becoming the most ‘Instagrammed’ of Milan Design Week, they also are those that designers and professionals sometimes hate because they distract attention from their work. Large installations are usually preferred by big brands to represent corporate values and visions, and are the ones that made Fuorisalone a truly pop event, and enabled the city to show off its best. Major installations at Milan Design Week are those for which people queue endlessly. They are spaces in which, for a few seconds, we can immerse ourselves and dream of fantastic worlds.
Milan Design Week’s unmissable large-scale installations
Immersive, scenic, spectacular, interactive, colourful, meaningful, majestic: a selection of projects that will surely engage the public during this year’s Fuorisalone.
Darsena — viale Gabriele D' Annunzio 20, Milan
Palazzo Durini 24 — via Durini 24, Milan
Alcova — via Simone Saint Bon 1, Milan
Photo Frank Stelitano
Palazzo Clerici — via Clerici 5, Milan
Superstudio Più — via Tortona 27 bis, Milan
Cortile della Farmacia – Università Statale
via Festa del Perdono 7, Milan
6-12 June 2022
Palazzo SenatoVia Senato, 10, Milan
Photo Marco Menghi
6-12 June
Palazzo SenatoVia Senato, 10, Milan
Photo Marco Menghi
6-12 June
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- Salvatore Peluso
- 01 June 2022
- Milano
Floating Forest is a green graft in the heart of Milan, besides being a place to meet and decompress from daily routine. The project will also be a legacy for the city of Milan, so we will donate the greenery to the Vettabbia Park, managed by Soulfood Forestfarms Hub Italia.
Germogli (Sprouts) is the installation of the Natuzzi showroom, on display in the courtyard spaces of Palazzo Durini Caproni di Taliedo, visible on Wednesday 8 June and Thursday 9 June. Marcantonio transforms the courtyard of the palace into a fairytale world in which giant golden olive shoots sprout from the ground.
Photo Frank Stelitano
In Alcova, architecture studio Parasite 2.0 stages five paradoxical machines for XL EXTRALIGHT®: giant material combinations detach themselves from the earth in an extreme balancing act and challenge observers.
A grand debut for Porsche at Milan Design Week. The company presents “The Art of Dreams” series, with an intervention by Australian-born floral artist and designer Ruby Barber from Studio Mary Lennox. An immersive, dreamlike installation is intended to explore the interaction between nature and technology.
The installation designed by Sara Ricciardi for glo™ combines botanical, animal and technological elements, creating a unitary element of great impact, capable of synthesising the singularity of the individual and the plurality of the reality that surrounds us.
via Festa del Perdono 7, Milan
6-12 June 2022
In the elegant context of the Cortile della Farmacia, at the State University of Milan, we find the spectacular installation by Lissoni Associati for Amazon, The A-maze Garden. It is an exhibition route inspired by labyrinthine Italian gardens. Inside the path we will find a selection of products available on Amazon.it, including furniture and home accessories, of which more information can be obtained by framing the associated QR code.
Photo Marco Menghi
6-12 June
Daniel Arsham is coming to Fuorisalone in collaboration with Kohler with an immersive experience, Divided Layers. The idea is for visitors to move through the form, layer by layer, as a metaphor for the additive construction process of 3D printing. Inside, a pond reflects the cavernous surface and obviously recalls the liquid element that the sink contains. “Visitors experience what it's like to be inside the sink, rather than using it as a functional object,” Arsham explains in recounting the meaning of his work.
Photo Marco Menghi
6-12 June