Milan: Furniture Fair – 5 Vie area High Society
parties. The 5 Vie or 5 streets are in
the old part of Milan and comprise of ancient alleyways which are surrounded by Roman
ruins, museums and churches of great beauty like the Pinacoteca Ambrosiana, the
Archaeological Museum and the Basilica of Sant'Ambrogio. It is here that a new
art and design area was launched. It is
here where five beautiful, creative, elegant and chic women and a dog called
Secret showed their designs.
Above. Alberto Levi Gallery: Allegra
Hicks – Elements: A collection of rugs.
Inspired by the elements Allegra Hicks’ latest carpet collection, at the
Alberto Levi Gallery, reflects aspects
of Earth, Fire Air and Water. Her
creative process begins with her observation of nature. “Patterns are an elaboration of nature, a
microcosm that takes off from shapes in macrocosm.” She explains.
Above. Martina Mondadori
Sartogo and Allegra Hicks in front of the Pandora Flower rug.
Riccardo Sorani, Alberto Levi and Rafael Herman
Allegra Hicks – Elements: A
collection of rugs
Francesca Ballini Richards
The new magazine Cabana edited
by Francesco Bonami, Coco Brandolini d’Adda, Martina Mondadori Sartogo and
Christoph Radl with Stephan Janson as it’s editor at large.
Seen in the 5 Vie Giovanni
Gastel
Wait and See: Uros Mihic –
Folding Colors Rhythm and Variation. At
the Wait and See boutique, founder and director Uberta Zambeletti choose the
Serbian designer, Italian by adoption Uros Mihic to showcase during the Milan
Furniture Fair week. Since his origamist
childhood, the world of Uros has been rigorous, rhythmic, full of mathematical
precision and constructed of paper folds: rational consequential and meticulous movements giving new shape and
form to reality yet always pointing to its essence.
Uberta Zambeletti and Uros Mihic
Seen in the 5 Vie Mania Hruska and Francesca Marzotto Caotorta
Seen in the 5 Vie Eva and Giannino Malossi
Seen in the 5 Vie Silvia Giovanardi
Atelier Visconti di Modrone: Bronze and Ceramic by Osanna and Madina
Visconti di Modrone. The new Home Collection was presented in the
Atelier Visconti di Modrone, created by Osanna and her daughter Madina. Pieces
conceived as though they were sculptures, a continuation of her jewelry line,
the evolution of a designer who makes craft and style her strength.
Above. A child’s
chair in bronze.
Madina’s Ivy Leaf headband in silver metal
Seen at the Atelier Visconti di
Modrone, Giangaleazzo Visconti di Modrone and Giberto Arrivabene Valenti Gonzaga
with his daughter Viola.
Seen at the Atelier
Visconti di Modrone, Marta Brivio Sforza
Seen at the Atelier
Visconti di Modrone, Albertina Barbiano di Belgiojoso and Ilaria
d’Urso.
Seen at the Atelier
Visconti di Modrone, Antonia
Dell’Atte
Seen at the Atelier Visconti di Modrone, Gaia Chaillet Giusti and
Fabrizia Caracciolo di Castagneto
Arjumand: Fabrics and Wallpapers.
Arjumand’s designer Idarica Gazzoni Frascara
presented new fabrics and wallpapers. In a globalized world, with its globalized
greige, our fictional heroine, Arjumand continues traveling with her mind,
discovering places, atmospheres, styles, decorative items, history and passions
made by people for people.
Above. Ghiaccioli square cubes sit on a
table with a pillow covered in Arjumand fabric.
Daybed and pillows covered in Arjumand fabrics
Secret