The international design community condescends to Milan every April for the world's leading and most noteworthy design event in the calendar, Milan Design Week. All through the week the city is lively with exhibitions, installations, discussions and parties. 



Considered the most important Design and Furniture show of the year, the Milan Design Week attracts over 300,000 visitors from over 165 different countries! 

The event acts as a guide for current and future trends in design. While most visitors are estimating the colors and variety of the moment, snapping and sharing them with passion, there is a growing eagerness amongst designers to question this never-ending invasion of new creations. 



It is at present the most imperative Design and Furniture show on global scale. This year's edition of Milan design week took place from 17 to 22 April. It saw lighting designs showcased all over the Italian city, with some presented at the Salone del Mobile furniture fair and others unveiled inside brand showrooms in Brera and elsewhere. 

It is at present the most imperative Design and Furniture show on global scale. This year's edition of Milan design week took place from 17 to 22 April. It saw lighting designs showcased all over the Italian city, with some presented at the Salone del Mobile furniture fair and others unveiled inside brand showrooms in Brera and elsewhere.




A wide range of lighting designs were unveiled during the extravagant Milan design week 2018, including light bulbs hanging from gloves and a moon-inspired mobile. 

This year even marked the tenth anniversary of the Salone del Mobile in Milan, and this year’s fair received a fairly different response i.e more detailed and a lot more launches. The showrooms were more crowded, the brands were more prolific and the trends felt less palpable. 

One key project launched at Milan Design Week was the Guiltless Plastic initiative led by design gallerist Rossana Orlandi. The designer has enlisted artists and designers such as Dirk Vander Kooj, a designer who uses robots to print furniture using recycled plastic, to champion her cause, and will soon launch an award recognizing those who conscientiously use plastic in their work. Sustainability was trending at Milan Design Week 2018. The annual Salone del Mobile in Milan, otherwise known as Milan Design Week, sets the tone for which direction the design world is headed for the year and in 2018; sustainable living trended for sure. 

Few key highlights of the Design Week are as below: 

• Israeli designer, Erez Nevi Pana, exhibited a collection of experimental vegan furniture made using a variety of plants and minerals at the design festival.
• Car brand Mini joined forces with London-based architecture studio Studiomama to build a series of tiny, modular living spaces in a joint project called Mini Living - Built By All
• This year's concept for Milan Design Week—from the mind of Charlotte Macaux Perelman, deputy artistic director of the French luxury brand—was a dazzling color-blocked environment at the Museo della Permanente. To lend a sense of intimacy to a new collection of furniture, tabletop, and textiles, she devised small, cavelike structures within the museum that were clad in 150,000 colorful zellige tiles, imported from Morocco.
• Rising design star Dozie Kanu—known for incorporating industrial materials such as plastic shower curtains, foam insulation, or plastic casters into functional design pieces—reclaimed yet another ubiquitous object for this year's design week: the Rimowa suitcase.
• The surprise star of this year’s Milan Design Week was the 86-year-old Danish créateur Bodil Kjær whose problem-solving industrial designs were specified by architects such as Marcel Breuer, Harry Weese, Jose Luis Sert, and Paul Rudolph. Thanks to Copenhagen- and Rhode Island–based licensing firm Form, which purchased the rights to many of Kjær's famous designs, this year 25 of her iconic creations—all designed between1955 and 1963—have been put back into production with seven different renowned manufacturers, including Fritz Hansen, Carl Hansen & Søn, and Karakter
• New interiors by patricia urquiola for the cassina milan showroom showcase new living environments together with new work-spaces for architects

Designers impressed and inspired attendees at this year’s Milan Design Week with brand new takes on contemporary design. From unexpected uses for wood and recycled materials to advanced lighting technology, countless incredible projects were seen throughout the event.

What started in Milan as the Salone del Mobile in 1961, a fair to promote the best in Italian furniture design and accessories, has now become the global event in the design industry calendar.

Addio Per Ora ! Shall connect with respect to the Milan Design Week in 2019 yet again!!!!!!

By HLK Group

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