A resurgent Milan Design Week 2022 concluded with a bang, probably exceeding expectations given all the difficulties that pandemic, war and impossible journeys caused preventing a part of the world from travelling to the city. Milan is, as always, the undisputed capital of international design, with over 800 events. While the general numbers, those stated by Rho Fiera Salone, are only half of the miraculous year of 2019, so are the city events, communicated based on abstract restrictions.
Superstudio Più has for years been able to collect data and certificates for its Superdesign Show through mandatory registration, which, like at the Fiera...

A monumental pinocchio in the huge Event Square warns everybody's walking in front of it about the many lies of sustainability...

"Someone is Lying”, a perfect title for the project by Alcantara, a leading company in the industry and certified Carbon Neutral since 2009, to raise awareness among a cross-section of the public about the importance of engagement based on science and facts and not on the misleading communications circulating on the sustainability front...

Trees located at the entrance of the Superdesign Show mark the sections in which the “Looking Ahead” project is divided. Six stylized blue trees designed by Giulio Cappellini and treated by Sonja Quarone as "ad artem" stand out as unique pieces that signal and invite visitors to enter the show without getting lost along the rich path of this edition. Resin provided by Gobbetto is applied to the wood, which creates a surface with a multitude of shades and reliefs.

What about dedicating the garden, courtyard or terrace the same care as home or workplace?...

In the huge art garden by the entrance to Superstudio, amid the sculptures by Flavio Lucchini, the installation in the green displays the latest features in outdoor furniture, including the garden accessories by Paolelli Garden, the pieces by Piero Lissoni and Patricia Urquiola for Janus et Cie and the stone pavements by Nero Sicilia. A biophilic multifunctional and modular veranda by Massimiliano Mandarini with Gaviota Pergole Bioclimatiche illustrates the vision of a future that is friendly to nature by exploring new ideas regarding indoor and outdoor environments. This project is the result of a research related to the 2030...

Looking Ahead: this was the general theme conceived, months back, to indicate the direction of the next edition of Superstudio’s Superdesign Show during Design Week 2022. As if to distance us from the convictions of many: “Everything will return as before” and predicting that the future will actually be reformulated in all of its expressions, we’ve invited interesting designers and companies to attend our event and align with our glimpsing “beyond”. To be able to explore unknown territory, to anticipate needs and trends, translate the word “sustainability” – the common term connecting everything – into concrete proposals, and redesign our lives which have become unexpectedly more complicated... 

The occasion of Design Week 2022, assigned by the pandemic to this year’s anomalous date, rendered even more uncertain by the war in Ukraine, makes the date with design a moment of optimism which aims to repair the social, commercial and productive fabric in a positive manner. The latest edition of Superdesign confirms the creative direction of Gisella Borioli and the art direction of Giulio Cappellini, who have made the Superdesign Show prestigious and unmissable ever since the first edition in 2000, and all of its iterations in the years following...

Despite our gaze turning to the metaverse where we will discover the worlds of our dreams, there is still a strong desire for comfort, for a home-cocoon that, however small, should be reassuring and welcoming. Rooms with different styles and from different countries can be found in the Case Cozy Così section...

By combining soft shapes, minimal design and human technology, a stimulating exchange beyond borders can be generated to create environments that are characterized by high levels of living wellness, while introducing a sentimental design that draws on familiar memories to create innovative environments. Young designer Gaspar Bonta of Egyenes Labirintus Kör is inspired by his memories as a child and...

A focus on the world of architecture is offered through videos and talks in a dedicated environment, the Vision Room with double entrance, from the main door and from the next entrance on the forecourt. The schedule of in-depth, open and versatile, where videos, presentations, talks and meeting moments will alternate, will be communicated in Infopoint during the week...

Magnetti Building (recently acquired by the Gruppo Grigolin), in a stunning parametric room in which the lines come unpredictably alive, presents with a video installation the important restoration of the Donizetti Theater in Bergamo achieved with avant-garde techniques and prefabs. Magnetti Building is also the builder to whom we entrusted...

This year we return to the theme of women’s creativity: 12 + 21 authors present their “creative self-portrait” in the language that is most natural to them, the design and ideas that enrich our everyday environments...

For archistar Paola Navone is ‘Poetry House’, a house for imagination that is all to be imagined, on the ceramic rugs by ABK Ceramiche; for the award-winning Ilaria Marelli is the bench-fire pit for Steeles: minimalist and elegant design, with a surface perforated by endless holes to suggest an interplay between fullness and emptiness. For the 21 artists and artisans and the three curators Caterina Misuraca, Sandra Faggiano e Valentina Martin of the Food Design Stories group is the set table, both ethical concerning the materials and process, and aesthetical for the flowers and clouds fluctuating mid-air. Along them, in a sort of design mirror that confronts each author with her latest creation, Ana Marìa Gomez, Colombian designer, who with “Oruga” proposes furniture nomadism...

Woo, this was an unexpected participation, sparked by the personal recommendation of designer Kateryna Sokolova from NOOM. This collection was born under the shells, with its distinctive unusual lines and shapes making it appear endless, overcoming the object and its very function...

February 24. The war hits Ukraine: "Russian rockets struck our cities. We fled from explosions and anti-aircraft sirens, returning to the shelters in our neighbourhood that had been closed for decades. After a few weeks dominated by the only fear of not staying alive, we decided not to pause our lives. So our team gathered in the lab as usual, which fortunately was not damaged...

The Masai, Essenza, Duetto, Icone Luce trio designed by Marco Pagnoncelli illuminates the space thought by Giulio Cappellini within small corners of our homes, filling in the warm shades of beige...

There is Masai, a huge family of ceiling, wall, pavement, table lamps, which are precious objects with subtle and rounded shapes made of metals with gold and silver refinements, that fit well with the sophisticated paintings of the room. In an interplay of ancient and elegant shadows projected onto the walls...