In Matteo Mauro’s studio, where art is made with AI
In his Milan studio, Matteo Mauro shows how Nvidia Studio is changing the way an artist works, produces and preserves his own work.
Design Week is over, but it lives on Vinted: gadgets up to 100 euro
From IKEA’s meatball-flavored lollipops to Gucci cans, the most popular Design Week giveaways are already on the second-hand market—and they don’t come cheap. What’s behind it?
At the Venice Biennale 2026 there will also be Marina Abramović
Among the most anticipated protagonists of the 61st Exhibition, the Serbian artist presents “Transforming Energy” at the Gallerie dell’Accademia, marking the first time a woman is invited to exhibit in this space.
Why we keep stacking things onto our things
Contemporary design no longer just shapes objects—it turns them into frameworks for other objects. From phone cases to book charms, pocket maximalism becomes a new architecture of identity.
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Ai Weiwei returns to Italy with an exhibition on earthquakes: from Sichuan to L’Aquila
At MAXXI L’Aquila, "Aftershock" brings the Sichuan and Abruzzo earthquakes into dialogue: around seventy works exploring how fractures—political, human, and material—continue to reverberate over time.
AIDS-related art in Italy didn't exist. This exhibition finds it, house by house
“Vivono” reconstructs what we have failed to tell: an emotional and visual archive born out of a door-to-door search among fragments, poetry, and removed memory.
A 15th-century hospital becomes a refuge for runners of the Rome Marathon
Over the weekend of the 2026 Rome Marathon, New Balance transformed the Corsie Sistine into a temple of running, turning it into a place of care, recovery, and community for participants.
Nestled in a Rhode Island woods is a blue-roofed house created by the people who live and pass by it
Designed by Workac, the Riverhouse is a model of sustainable and collaborative living. Friends, guests and collaborators helped to design and build the shared spaces and furnishings.
Xiaomi is now making ice cream. And selling it like a smartphone: Standard, Pro, and Max
It is not just another lifestyle extension: the point is how it is sold. Millet ice cream follows the same product logic as cars and phones, with three increasingly accessorized versions.
A new green district could reshape Milan’s largest park forever
In Vaiano Valle Nord, south of Milan between Viale Ortles, Via Quaranta and the Parco Agricolo Sud, a new neighborhood is taking shape—designed to reconnect city and countryside. But as the project enters a decisive phase, debate over the future of green space is intensifying.
Salone. A simple story
The Salone del Mobile has turned 64. An age when one stops making excuses and starts taking stock. And this year, the numbers are unforgiving.
In 1993, Sottsass designed his first tableware collection for Alessi: now La Bella Tavola is back
Alessi reissues Ettore Sottsass's La Bella Tavola, the tableware collection that is also a tribute to his beloved China.
V&A East: The museum that feels like a fair and is changing the rules of the game
With flexible spaces, mobile installations, and themed itineraries, the new London hub abandons the traditional model to embrace the logic of fairs and “on demand” culture.
David Bowie’s New York apartment is back on the market and still carries his presence
Overlooking Central Park, the apartment is listed at $4.59 million. It’s not the first time it’s been put up for sale, but it still holds traces of its past.
Milano Design Week. 8 things we recommend after seeing them, day 6
For this Design Week weekend, we suggest a tour with minimal lines: between historic brands and Fuorisalone newcomers, hidden buildings and design temples.
The best photos from Design Week 2026
The people and the too many people, the buildings never open to the public, the colorful installations and the rationalist Milan of the great architects of the 20th century. But also the details you may not have noticed: here are the best photos taken by Domus at this year's Design Week.
The most unlikely pairing of Design Week turns out to be the most effective: Alessi x C.P. Company
The two brands turn an apparently eccentric encounter into a coherent dialogue between industry, material, and process. More than a collaboration, it is a methodological convergence that puts making back at the center.
How to avoid the queue-filled Design Week: we’ll tell you where to go
Gio Ponti’s secret hotel, a medieval theatre, and installations where there’s finally no trace of bad AI: these are the places to go during Milan Design Week if, like you, by 2026 FOMO has gone out of fashion.
In the chaos of Design Week, the unexpected refuge exists: Humberto Campana’s “healing” rugs
At Teatro Arsenale, Estùdio Campana's installation for Art de Vivre transforms rugs into a contemplative experience far from the noise of Fuorisalone. The designer tells Domus why it is now urgent to look to nature as a form of healing.
Goodbye Milan Design Week: it is now Brand Week. But some know how to do it better than others
Nike and Gucci show in different ways what the Milanese week has really become: a device where design is on the verge of extinction. In between, many attempts and few truly convincing visions.
Fuorisalone 2026. 8 things we saw and recommend for day 5
During Design Week, you also need a map of places to pause. Between hidden gardens, inhabitable micro-hotels, oversized carousels, and installations that speak of a return to nature, here are the addresses we recommend.
At Design Week, there’s a bench that can become anything: Smarin’s experiment at Base Milano
Not just to look at: at Base Milano, design gets active. Studio Smarin's modular system transforms the Ground Hall on the ground floor into a collective space between experimentation, economic sustainability and new forms of sharing.
Design Week: a tea house on top of Torre Velasca—and a perfect reason to visit
For two days during Milan Design Week, a temporary tea house by Cromo opens the terrace of Torre Velasca to the public, transforming the BBPR-designed landmark into a space suspended between ritual, design, and a new urban perspective.
If you are an architect, this is your Design Week: Zaha Hadid Architects, Lina Ghotmeh, but also Gae Aulenti and Torre Velasca
Amid large-scale installations by star architects, Milanese studios, and design archives exceptionally open for just one night, here’s where to go during Design Week if architecture is what you do.
Milan Design Week. 8 things we recommend after seeing them, day 4
It’s entirely possible to reach Thursday of Design Week already feeling exhausted. That’s why the installations, events, and major exhibitions we’re recommending today work like a big, colorful shot of caffeine.
A radical mini-house designed by Jean-Benjamin Maneval in the 1960s is up for sale
In France, it's possible to purchase one of Jean-Benjamin Maneval's “bulles”, a manifesto of the radical ideals of the 1960s that blends technological utopia, industrial design and a yearning for freedom.
Milan Design Week 2026: an insider’s guide to what really matters this year
An insider’s guide to Milan Design Week 2026: what’s actually changing across new geographies, strategic returns, standout brands, and a Salone that has chosen to consolidate and redefine its role.
Only have 3 hours? Milan Design Week for when you’re short on time
After three days of seeing everything, here’s our tightly edited selection of what you shouldn’t miss if you want to experience the Fuorisalone but have very, very little time.
You can now adopt a designer kitten—just head to Toiletpaper during Milan Design Week
Toiletpaper’s “house for animals” is a small, joyful, hyper-colorful oasis within the chaos of the Fuorisalone. But it’s also a tribute to an extraordinary artist who, after working as a war photographer, unexpectedly became the world’s most famous cat photographer.
At Fuorisalone 2026, there are 10 unmissable large-scale installations transforming Milan
From monumental courtyards to cloisters, from historic swimming pools to university spaces: here are ten Fuorisalone 2026 installations transforming Milan during the days of Design Week.
Fuorisalone 2026. 8 things we saw and recommend for day 3
Wednesday is the perfect moment to discover Milan in ways you’ve never seen before. Have you ever been to the sixteenth floor of Torre Velasca? Or let yourself be captivated by the cloisters of San Simpliciano?
This former factory on Via Padova is open to the public for the first time during Fuorisalone
Leli Rolling Bearings reopens for Design Week 2026: more than 50 international designers and a sculptural sound system transform an unseen industrial space into one of this edition's most interesting revelations.