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May 8, 2023<\/p>\n\n\n

Words: <\/span>Mairi Beautyman<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n

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10 Show-Stopping Installations at Milan Design Week 2023<\/h1>\n\n\n\n

\u201cWhat have you seen that\u2019s really, really <\/em>fabulous?\u201d Each year, Interior Design<\/em> is asked this question during Milan Design Week, when countless design events coincide with Salone del Mobile<\/a>. The answer changes by the day but often involves an installation\u2014a temporary immersive experience that captures the senses and sends us into another realm of feeling: perhaps joy, perhaps excitement, or perhaps curiosity.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

At Alcova<\/a>, the offsite exhibition, an Italian cocktail emerged from a steampunk sculpture\u2014and that wasn\u2019t the only installation that grabbed us. In the Porta Romana district, a restored swimming complex with two large pools dominated Instagram for the week. In the Fashion district, towering trees and a secret garden at a Milanese villa made us wonder if we were still in the center of Milan. From a seemingly endless banquet spread on natural and semi-precious stone to an interactive scent laboratory and a plane made of denim, here are 10 of our favorite installations from Milan Design Week 2023.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Installations from Milan Design Week 2023<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

1. \u201cBeyond the Surface,\u201d by SolidNature<\/a><\/h3>\n\n\n\n

If we could give an award to this year\u2019s most breath-taking spread of food, it would go to SolidNature, also winner of the Fuorisalone Award for Best Installation<\/a> at Milan Design Week 2023. A star at Alcova last year<\/a>, the stone purveyor moved to its own venue, and filled the basement and garden of the neo-Romanesque Casa Maveri, a villa in the Brera District, with commissioned natural and semi-precious stone pieces.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Designed by Ellen Van Loon and Giulio Margheri of architectural firm OMA, the basement level was reached by a dramatic backlit stair, with each step highlighting a different colored onyx. Backlit massive stone blocks overtook the entire underground floor space, which explored more stone possibilities.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In the garden, a large communal table used blocks of travertine treated with olive oil to display a seemingly endless spread of food by culinary artist Laila Gohar, from wild strawberries to shaved parmesan, figs, and cured meats as espresso was served up from a travertine bar. Both the table and the bar were designed by Sabine Marcelis. \u201cI wanted to really celebrate the colors the travertine comes in\u2014I didn’t even know that you could get orange or red,\u201d Marcelis admits. \u201cThe surface of a table normally defines its function, but here I wanted to kind of blur those lines, so the feet are also places to rest food on.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Studio Ossidiana designed the stone stage and podium and a semi-precious sculpture bursting with crystals was by Ward Strootman. In the grass, stone animals by Iranian artist Bita Fayyazi lounged\u2014among them a sleeping cat and a rabbit.<\/p>\n\n\n\n