Faded faded, crooked courtyard, serious and dreary clinker facade, three-dimensional sign with a sympathetically rounded font: the former headquarters of the firm "Leli rolling bearings," closed in 2025, has the vintage charm of the "fabbrichètta" that once was, to be pronounced strictly in the Lombard manner with the "is" open. The exterior overlooks the always crowded and noisy Padua Street, the last working-class neighborhood in the city center (for how long, though?). The interior lives up to its promise. The two very tall bays of the former establishment are emptied and restored, but they remain rough and spartan. Their longitudinal skylights cast a soft, diffuse light on the space below.

The building is being used as an event space for the first time for the Design Week 2026. Deoron, established in 2021 as a digital platform straddling research, design and lifestyle, discovers and opens it to the public. On this occasion, it brings together more than fifty international independent designers, brands and studios in a "democratic" display that cancels the differences between big names and newcomers. Objects differing in type, materiality, style, and size are positioned in the nodes of a virtual grid with regular links. The bulkier ones rest on the ground, while the smaller ones (the majority) are displayed on trolleys on wheels, at once a tribute to the site's productive past and a practical solution for being able to free up space.  

As in the best "salons," in fact, the exhibition is accompanied by a series of events, here related in particular to the world of sound and music. It is a vocation that explains the strategic positioning of the spectacular, sculptural Fidelity Sound System, which towers as the perspective backdrop of one of the two bays of the hall, ready to perform soundscapes day or night.