Apart from assembling the panoply of merchandise, folks and shows that marks our annual celebration of Milan’s Salone del Cell – this 12 months happening 8-13 April – the Wallpaper* Design Problem underscores one of many key rules that has made Salone the world’s pre-eminent participant in its area for greater than 60 years: particularly, the necessity for making, and sustaining, connections.
Fortuitously, for our cowl, Prada Frames – the symposium launched by Andrea Trimarchi and Simone Farresin of Formafantasma as an antidote to the hustle and bustle of the world’s largest design truthful – displays the identical concern, this 12 months gathering a cohort of thinkers to look at ‘infrastructure by the lens of motion’ in a ready room at Milano Centrale station, and aboard Arlecchino, a Gio Ponti-designed prepare not too long ago resurrected by Fondazione FS Italiane. It’s to the latter we had been drawn when selecting our newsstand cowl, as a superbly realised precursor to what it means to actually journey, and due to this fact join, in model.
However it serves merely as a jumping-off level for a wider exploration of what connection means within the fingers of creatives: whether or not it’s within the hand-me-down type of heritage as established by 14 design firms celebrating a founding anniversary this 12 months (collectively representing a complete of 905 years of inspiration and resilience), or the multinational, multidisciplinary melting pot created by Shalini Misra within the Shakti Design Residency initiative, a free-flowing change of concepts feels extra pressing than ever.
The exchanges go on: we profile Faye Toogood’s collaboration with Japanese porcelain producer Noritake, and reveal a number of the work of the 25 artists, designers and designers commissioned by Loewe for a Salone venture that considers the cross-cultural and ritualistic nature of tea.
For good measure, we go to one other inventive heartland as soon as served by the Arlecchino – Venice – to profile three studios readying themselves for the opening of the Structure Biennale. All aboard!
Invoice Prince
Editor-in-Chief
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