With “Il Tornitore Matto” (The Mad Turner), Alessi reinvents sheet turning, an ancient technique at the heart of household objects.
Just as the Mad Hatter in the story Alice in Wonderland interprets the world in his own way, this project challenges industrial processes and technological limits, transforming artisanal skills into surprising contemporary objects, balancing creative freedom with technical rigor.
"Il Tornitore matto" is an experimental platform created by Alberto Alessi and Giulio Iacchetti that explores new forms of design between industry and craftsmanship.
Alessi's imaginative landscape is thus enriched with a new chapter that meets all desires and trends.
Art and design meet in an increasingly fluid dialogue, where the boundaries between disciplines blur to create a light and subtle balance. And it is precisely on this balance that Art Boulevard by Living Divani is built, where the large silver sofa island designed by Piero Lissoni for Living Divani becomes central: it organizes the space, dividing it in two. On one side rise the imposing burnished steel totems by Flavio Lucchini, on the other the sculptures by Maria Cristina Carlini which, made of wood, corten steel and ceramic, express a continuous search for natural, environmentally conscious and aesthetically appealing materials. The works—both the totems and the sculptures—fit harmoniously into the space, coexisting like mysterious inhabitants in the imaginary city envisioned by art director Giulio Cappellini.
SuperCity is an exhibition format that breathes like an open city. Its elements coexist within the same large, free-flowing space, like a vast, traversable gallery. The SuperCity concept was conceived by art director Giulio Cappellini, our longtime art director brings his ever-innovative vision to the most original presentations.
As in this case, the immense 7,500-square-meter space of Superstudio Maxi serves as a grand plaza showcasing iconic Made in Italy objects and the artworks that surround them, immersing them in emptiness, a precious and increasingly rare element that allows thoughts to emerge. Five small exhibitions of furnishings and accessories tell stories of art, design, and elegance.
The marathon between the three Superstudio Design venues easily invites visitors to a moment of relaxation.
Giulio Cappellini did not want to deprive his audience of this precious opportunity to reflect and admire while resting.
Here, a magical sofa appears like a happy island nestled in an ocean of art and furnishings that dialogue with art.
Living Divani thus participates in SuperCity's Art Boulevard with an extraordinary site-specific installation.
An immense, six-meter-wide silver sofa invites participation from the center of the route.
At Superstudio Maxi.
From the refined fabrics of a famous Italian brand that adorns the most elegant homes, to the ceramic marble surfaces that characterize the kitchen of Paola Navone's bistro, to the chairs revisited with an ultra-contemporary design, here we discuss furnishings for the spaces of tomorrow. Not to mention a glimpse of the moon with a virtual journey to the planet recently rediscovered thanks to the new Artemis mission, which orbited around it, revealing its never-before-seen underside.
In the Atelier of the FLA Museum, the exhibition “Skyscrapers” transforms architecture into narrative and metaphor, bringing into dialogue two complementary visions: that of the resident artist Flavio Lucchini and that of the photographer Giangiacomo Rocco di Torrepadula, known as GG.
The starting point is the skyscraper, an absolute icon of modernity. But while Lucchini sees it as a symbol of humanity’s visionary power, GG turns it into an intimate reflection on freedom.
From 9 to 11 April, the Milano Running Festival returns, transforming Superstudio Maxi into a vibrant village where sport, entertainment, adrenaline and pure fun blend into an open celebration for runners and for everyone else, too.
It’s not “just” a must-attend event for seasoned athletes and aspiring runners. The Milano Running Festival is, above all, a citywide gathering built around togetherness, an invitation, from this afternoon through Saturday 11 April, to soak up the atmosphere of marathon weekend long before the starting gun fires.
A successful designer, Franco Perrotti has created furniture and projects for some of the most prominent international design brands, while simultaneously pursuing a personal artistic research that has led him toward impactful installations and sculptures capable of addressing profound themes, including political and social issues.
In the exhibition curated by Fortunato D’Amico, “Franco Perrotti: From Object to Vision”, on view at MyOwnGallery, design, art, and craftsmanship intertwine to become a single expressive language—a continuous dialogue between function and perception, between artifice and nature. Surfaces, lights, and seating abandon their original function to become “vision.” They are no longer mere furnishings, but bridges between body and environment, compasses that guide our collective behavior.
Ross Lovegrove, Toyo Ito, Ankon Mitra. Three archistars for three visions of the future. Creative, courageous, free to think, design, and most importantly, dream and make others dream.
Together with them we explore different ways of thinking about living environments, perhaps influenced by their culture: Japan for Toyo Ito, India for Ankon Mitra, England for Ross Lovegrove.