A pop-up operation feeds new life and arouses interest in beautiful houses-museums in the area of Bergamo under the initiative of DimoreDesign. Within old walls, breakaway elements such as furniture by top Italian designers make an appearance. A temporary operation that, in addition to on site visits, deserves a book. In progress.

I always thought about the fascination of contrasts, about cultural richness of comparison, even how much antique feeds the new (yet the “old” are a fundamental support for the young), about the correspondences among creative thoughts originating from either close or distant countries, times and cultures. 
The great initiative “Designers for Bergamo” shows in a plastic and immediate way how beauty integrates with other beauty, even though according to orthodox thought it may seem not to match at all.  Of course, this is no longer true today. The most beautiful houses in the world gathers passionate pieces and leave pre-set “styles” combining antique to contemporary, memory to experimentation, personality-design to avant-garde art, in a sort of in-progress collecting that tells a lot about who chooses and uses it...

Even before the pandemic, an increasing demand for quality has been registered as regards both public and private spaces.  To stay outside, pleasantly, in places designed to live in, not missing the comforts of household spaces. A request that has been accelerated and that has found many new responses. The outdoor gets back to being a reference scenario for designers and companies. But there are brands born around this theme, many years ago, and designers that have been designing to give substance to new forms of conviviality for many years. This is the case of Pedrali and CMP Design, that for eight years has been designing outdoor furniture for the same company.

Multi-purpose spaces, outside and inside
“We realised we need more space, more distances and that we want to occupy also in a different and elegant way, outdoor spaces of our homes, taking care of gardens, balconies and terraces”, says Monica Pedrali, “For our company it is a matter of continuing on a long established pathway; roots of Pedrali lie right in the outdoor world. Our father Mario has in fact began his activity in 1963 producing garden furniture in wrought iron”...

Almost 40 years after the birth of its first hub, 20 years after the establishment of Superstudio Più and passing through a series of events, evolutions, innovations, regenerations of post-industrial spaces, presentations of ideas and works around photography, design and creativity, Superstudio Group presents a new creature in a new space: Superstudio MAXI. Superstudio MAXI, is the new family member of Superstudio Group’s venues: Superstudio 13 and Superstudio Più. Together the three spaces will present during the next Milan Design Week a complete panorama focused on the theme of design innovation. The shows will encompass over 30,000 square meters on three locations within walking distance.

Superstudio MAXI will host a brand-new exhibition format: "DNADesignNatureArchitecture. The world of tomorrow". The show is based on a farsighted concept which, as event organizers and design week experts, we urgently feel the need to offer to visitors and to a precise cluster of exhibitors.
The perfect space to host DNADesign Nature Architecture. Superstudio Maxi is going to be the first Milanese building for temporary events provided with Leed certification. Completely revamped, luminous, grand and open location, powered by solar panels and renewable energy to embrace the lifestyle of the future and it is located in an extremely promising area of the city...

Starting from the 70’s as founder of Studiodada Associati well-known for his Radical Design, Marco Piva has reached the peak of his career as architect, designer, town planner, professor, designer “at large” with projects for many big Italian and all over the world companies dealing with big and small projects, from architectures to tourist resorts to installations to illustrate a product of an idea. He has been at Superstudio various times bringing his elegant, emotional, fluent and functional mood.  

2000/2020 In twenty years what has changed and what will change?
In the past 20 years the ways of thinking, develop and communicate design has changed.  The formula launched by Superstudio, that integrates into the contemporaneity of the event entities different from one another, from the successful architect to the emerging designer, from long-established companies to new proposals, from tradition to the latest innovations in the technological field, creating synchrony, the winning circumstance to introduce a cross vision on Design state-of-the-art: Superstudio Più becomes a stage, a “laboratory” that opens itself to the city during the Fuorisalone. 

"My research on women dresses with generous volumes, was born a bit for fun during the lockdown period, when the word "physical distancing" was repeated over and over by every media. Researching inside beauty something able to exorcise the moment of both collective and of course personal anxiety has been a kind of therapy for me... "

As of today, the large LED screen of Superstudio (24x5,5m) becomes also interactive and touch. New amazing effects have been implemented in the GoLive project. Endless interaction possibilities with the screen enable to elaborate evocative and captivating sceneries. 
Would you like to know more? Come and visit us! info@superstudioevents.com 

A special thanks to Luca Rapis, One Thousand.

Real, virtual, nomad, shared: a new organisation of work and study. This is the concept of SuperCampus, the new project by Giulio Cappellini for Superdesign Show 2021 providing a time and space revolution where beauty, quality and social relations will be a possibile solution and concrete answer after covid.

The recent isolation period has emphasized a process already in progress: a new way of working and managing one’s own time. People used to work many hours at the office, investing then free time on hobbies, relaxing and living in their own home.
Later on, a less rigid behaviour began towards our own work: fewer hours spent in the office, working also from home, shorter meetings, less formal wear, relax in the work environment...

He is the most well-known Dutch designer leader of that neo-humanism of the 21st century that opens to all experiences and splendours. Among the first ones to arrive at Superstudio twenty years ago, in a little inconspicuous space where he soon drew attention. His spectacular installations for Moooi, of which he is co-founder, and for the most important Italian and International companies, soon became an unmissable appointment of the Design Week of Milan. 

In the past 20 years what do you think has changed in design?
I think that design has not changed. In the last years it has been influenced a lot by ecology and the communication has become very different, from media to ways of describing stories. Design has become more personal and technological, but its nature is always the same. 

With a pragmatic and against the tide vision and without being too seduced by the futuristic hypotheses of virtual stores entrusted to digital and distance, Beppe Angiolini, ambassador of beauty through his flagship store in Arezzo, takes stock of the fashion system today and tomorrow. Without forgetting the past. An authoritative point of view, in his role as Director of Communication of the Italian Chamber of Buyers. 

According to today’s opinions, on media, on webinars, the “fashion shop”, as we know it today, tomorrow will not work anymore. What do you think about this?
If the fashion shop will not work anymore it will certainly not be due to the introduction of multimedia systems and devices inside it. If this won’t work it will be due to the economical crisis that will not allow it and because anyone working for the shop itself, as sales assistant and/or buyer will not be able to interpret the emotional change that this moment has brought mainly to the final consumer’s choices...