Lengthy earlier than St. Moritz hosted the 1928 Olympic Video games, this idyllic alpine village in Switzerland’s Engadine Valley was already a winter retreat. Properly-to-do holidaymakers have been flocking right here for the reason that late-1800s, across the time the historic Kulm Lodge first opened its doorways. Greater than a century later, the custom continues, with guests arriving in droves from December to March.
Synonymous with wealth and exclusivity, St. Moritz naturally turned a hub for artwork and tradition. Immediately, the city—residence to fewer than 6,000 residents—boasts worldwide galleries like Hauser & Wirth, Vito Schnabel, and Monica De Cardenas within the close by hamlet of Zuoz. Given its deep ties to the artwork and design world, it was a becoming alternative for Nomad, the roving showcase of artwork, jewelry, and collectable design, which launched its inaugural version right here in 2017.
For the primary time, the Winter 2025 version of Nomad occurred in Klinik Intestine, a former orthopaedic hospital within the city centre. The stripped-down inside—uncooked concrete flooring and stark white partitions—offered a dramatic distinction to the works on show. Greater than 40 exhibitors participated, starting from famend artwork galleries to luxurious manufacturers and rising collectable design studios. On opening day, the house buzzed with guests and St. Moritz locals, many hoping to search out the right portray or sculptural chair to furnish their chalets—or just to absorb the extraordinary items on show.
Listed here are Wallpaper’s picks for greatest in present.
Buccellati
(Picture credit score: Silvia Rivoltella)
(Picture credit score: Silvia Rivoltella)
The Milan-based excessive jewelry and silverware home Buccellati drew inspiration from the Engadine mountains for its set up. Conceived by design duo david/nicholas, the house took the type of an intimate eating room. “What was fascinating for us is that whenever you’re out all day in St. Moritz, you’re surrounded by the mountains,” mentioned David Raffoul, one half of the pair. “So we took the chance of closing the window.” The partitions had been lined with silk and wool textile panels designed to evoke the shifting colors of the encompassing panorama—icy whites, deep blues, and the wealthy browns of dense woods. On the centre of the room stood a custom-designed, dark-stained picket desk, additionally customized by david/nicholas, showcasing a number of of Buccellati’s newest collections. Amongst them had been the Cervino cutlery, crafted from deciduous stag horn, Murano-made Caviar wine glasses first designed within the Nineteen Thirties, and exquisitely detailed woodland collectible figurines from the Furry Animals assortment, whose lifelike fur was handcrafted by artisans utilizing hundreds of delicate silver threads.
Rossana Orlandi
(Picture credit score: Yukiko Nagai)
The famed Milanese design gallery Rossana Orlandi took over a collection of rooms on the previous clinic’s floor ground, showcasing an eclectic combine of up to date items. Among the many standouts had been an intricately crafted bench by artist and mosaic designer Yukiko Nagai. Inlaid with items of Biancone marble, Venetian glass, and ceramic, the bench’s carved components resemble the intricate patterns of delicately woven lace. Born within the Japanese metropolis of Niigata, Nagai studied mosaic design on the Academy of Fantastic Arts in Ravenna—the house of Italy’s Byzantine-era mosaic-filled church buildings—right here she developed her apply of mimicking supplies like wooden and textile utilizing stone and glass, making a dizzying trompe-l’œil impact in particular person.
Galleria Antonella Villanova
Nora Arrieta, Automobile Gossip, 2021
(Picture credit score: Villanova)
Nora Arrieta, Pink Dino, 2024
(Picture credit score: Villanova)
Amongst the array of wonderful items in Florence-based Galleria Antonella Villanova’s Nomad exhibiting, had been the otherworldly vessels by Germany-based artist Nora Arrieta. In line with Villanova, Arrieta’s work blends historic references with popular culture iconography, leading to items that really feel as if they need to be characters in a dystopian fairy story: misshapen automobiles rendered in pastel colors piled atop each other; tech-infused botanical figures sprouting QR codes; and surreal vessels with gold-plated branches rising from their lids, a fantastical chimaera of inanimate objects and residing types.
Spazio Nobile
(Picture credit score: Spazio Nobile)
The theme for Spazio Nobile’s Nomad exhibition was ‘Shining Peaks’ and the Brussels-based gallery confirmed up in Switzerland with a veritable mountain of recent work. Amongst new items by Pierre Charrié, Florence Coenraets, and Marie Corbin, the ‘Fauteuil Romain’ seating by Benoît Maire—a multi-disciplinary artist who studied philosophy earlier than embarking on an artwork apply—was a spotlight. The picket chair possessed a hanging combine of colors and textures: the backrest and seat painted with washes of pink and blue; perpendicular gouged oak panels that finish in lifelike ft; and a curved oak physique that calls to thoughts a cocoon.
Micheluzzi Glass
(Picture credit score: BB Studio, Micheluzzi Glass)
(Picture credit score: BB Studio, Micheluzzi Glass)
Along with their sales space, the multi-generation glass home Micheluzzi based by the artist Massimo Micheluzzi and run by his daughters, Elena and Margherita—offered bespoke lighting for Klinik Intestine’s grand entrance staircase. Impressed by the pure wonders of the Venetian lagoon, lengthy tendrils emerged from the sculptural chandelier, resembling a placid squid floating alongside the ebbing tides. Additionally current had been the “Ghiaccio” (Ice) lamps, hanging pendant lights that look as in the event that they had been encrusted with morning frost, a nod to the frozen panorama simply outdoors the door.
Sofia Zevi
(Picture credit score: Karrer)
(Picture credit score: Karrer)
Milan’s Sofia Zevi Gallery introduced a preview of its upcoming Salone del Cell exhibition to the alpine truthful. Titled ‘Pink in Italian Design’, the showcase zeroed in on using the oft-maligned color in mid-century design. Zevi notably focussed on the work of the architect and designer Ico Parisi, for whom the exploration of color was central to his apply. Highlights of the exhibition included a uncommon piece sourced from one among his remaining inside tasks, a villa on the shores of Lake Como. The spherical, mirrored espresso desk sits atop an oak base painted with a curving sprint of pink across the backside. Items by different designers included an Artwork Deco Nineteen Thirties suspension lamp by Paolo Buffa, a desk lamp with a pink glass shade by Tito Agnoli and a set of Venini glass image frames whose squiggly edges look as if they may have been designed yesterday — underlining the outstanding contemporaneity of those mid-century masters’ work.
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